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Red Sox notebook: Garrett Whitlock dominates in brief Triple-A Opening Day start

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:36 GMT

WORCESTER –– It was Minor League Opening Day in Worcester on Friday afternoon, but the Triple-A WooSox game was more major than minor.Six of the nine hitters in Friday’s lineup have already made their major league debuts: Jarren Duran, Bobby Dalbec, Jorge Alfaro, Daniel Palka, Niko Goodrum and Greg Allen.Palka and Allen each had two-hit games, and each contributed a home run; Allen’s fourth-inning grand slam opened the floodgates. By game’s end, the WooSox had beaten the Syracuse Mets, 11-2, despite both teams collecting 10 hits.Garrett Whitlock headlined the show.A Rule 5 steal from the Yankees, Whitlock went four innings, and allowed one run (earned) on six hits, walked one, and struck out six. His velocity sat in the mid- 90s, but dropped a few mph lower as the outing went on.He’d thrown 63 pitches over four innings in his last outing in Florida, so the Red Sox were hoping for five on Friday. Pitch count, 75 to be exact (50 for strikes), limited him to fou...

Jazz coach Will Hardy cherishes experience, friendships from lone season with Celtics

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:36 GMT

Will Hardy only spent one season in Boston as the Celtics’ top assistant coach, but he admitted how unusual his return to TD Garden on Friday night was.It was only about nine months ago that Hardy – who’s now a first-time head coach with the Jazz – was in the trenches with the Celtics in their run to the NBA Finals. Now, for the second time in the matter of two weeks, he found himself coaching against them.“I far much enjoy playing in this building when you’re wearing a Celtics uniform than the other way around,” Hardy said prior to Friday’s matchup. “Tonight’s going to be weird.”And not only because of the setting. Hardy took away many things from his short stint in Boston. Among them were the long-lasting relationships he made inside the Celtics organization and the coaching staff, especially Joe Mazzulla. After sharing the same bench together last season, the two found themselves coaching against each other as the two youngest head coaches in the NBA.Hardy acknowledged ther...

30 riders rescued from SeaWorld rollercoaster: SDFD

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:36 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- First responders on Friday rescued 30 people from a rollercoaster that stopped working at SeaWorld San Diego, fire officials said.The incident occurred in the 500 block of Sea World Drive, where crews removed the riders and were clearing the scene as of 5:05 p.m., San Diego Fire-Rescue Department tweeted. Multi-vehicle crash delays traffic on I-805 SDFD confirmed there were no injuries.Check back for updates on this developing story.

Mourners gather for 1st Nashville school shooting funeral

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:36 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Family and friends of Evelyn Dieckhaus, one of three children who were killed in a school shooting in Nashville this week, remembered her Friday as a “shining light” and said farewell to a girl who loved art, music, animals and snuggling with her older sister on the couch.The funeral at the Woodmont Christian Church in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood was closed to the media. Before the service, the church’s senior minister, the Rev. Clay Stauffer, echoed what Evelyn’s family has shared about her.“She was a shining light. She was radiant,” Stauffer told The Associated Press. “I think our challenge is to take her light and keep spreading it to a world that has so much darkness and pain.”Evelyn’s was the first funeral held for the victims of Monday’s mass shooting at The Covenant School, where authorities say a 28-year-old former student killed six people before being shot and killed by police. The church is a couple of miles from th...

3 face charges in death of Alaska man after Facebook post

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:36 GMT

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two men and a teenager have been indicted on murder, manslaughter and burglary charges in the death of a southeast Alaska man who one of them said was attacked because of a social media post, according to court documents.Moses Blanchard, 22; Blaise Dilts, 21; and Gonzalo Sanchez, 17, were indicted by a grand jury in Ketchikan on Thursday, the Alaska Department of Law announced Friday. They face charges in the death last week of 80-year-old Lincoln Peratrovich, of Klawock. Sanchez is being charged as an adult, department spokesperson Patty Sullivan said.An attorney for Blanchard and Dilts did not return a message seeking comment Friday. The state’s online court records system did not show an attorney for Sanchez.The Department of Law, citing the investigation, said comments on a Facebook post about Peratrovich appeared to encourage violence against him. According to an affidavit from Adam Hawkins, an investigator with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation, Alaska S...

Mississippi closer to more state police in mostly Black city

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:36 GMT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Tensions erupted Friday as the majority-white and Republican-controlled Mississippi House passed the final version of a bill to expand the territory of a state-run police department inside the capital city of Jackson, which is majority-Black and governed by Democrats.Supporters say the proposal is intended to increase safety in the city of nearly 150,000 residents, which has had more than 100 homicides each of the past three years. Opponents say the plan, which also would create a new court with an appointed judge, would stomp on local governance and create unequal systems of justice. About 83% of Jackson residents are Black — the largest percentage of Black residents of any major U.S. city.Officers from the state-run Capitol Police have been patrolling around state government buildings in and near downtown, while the Jackson Police Department patrols the entire city. Critics say Capitol Police are aggressive and expanding the territory could endanger lives.Dur...

GLAAD Media Awards honor Bad Bunny, Christina Aguilera

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:36 GMT

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The 34th GLAAD Media Awards featured a surprise Jennifer Coolidge appearance, honors for Bad Bunny and Christina Aguilera and, of course, jokes about Donald Trump’s indictment — the news of which broke just hours before Thursday’s show.Coolidge was greeted with a standing ovation as she opened the show at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. The star of “The White Lotus” was later surprised herself when her “Best in Show” co-star Jane Lynch appeared onstage beside her. The GLAAD Media Awards show, intended to honor “fair, accurate and inclusive representation of LGBTQ individuals and issues,” will land on Hulu on April 12. The host, comedian Margaret Cho, cheered the former president’s indictment.“What a wonderful way to celebrate that,” Cho said on the red carpet before the event. “I think it’s just so incredible. I never thought I would see it happen. I’m so glad, too. And I can’t wait to see how it goes ...

Israeli police fatally shoot man at Jerusalem’s holy site

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:36 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police shot and killed a man who allegedly tried to steal an officer’s weapons at a flashpoint Jerusalem site late Friday, police said.The police said the slain man was 26 years old and from an Arab village in southern Israel. Authorities said the incident in Jerusalem’s Old City happened when officers stopped the man for questioning outside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which is the third holiest shrine in Islam.Footage shared widely on social media showed Israeli police deploying heavily in the alleys and gates leading to the compound after the shooting. Scuffles broke out between police and Palestinian vendors and worshipers who spend the night praying at the mosque during the holy month of Ramadan.More than 200,000 Palestinians had gathered earlier for Friday’s noon prayers at the compound and the ceremony ended without the usual frictions with Israeli police.The hilltop compound is revered also by Jews as the Temple Mount, and incidents in previo...

Live Chicago severe weather: latest tornado watches, warnings and storm timeline

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:36 GMT

The Chicagoland area is under a tornado watch until 10 p.m. Friday. Tom Skilling says a second round of strong storms will move through the Chicagoland area from 7 to 10 p.m."We're likely to see more warnings issued as this moves eastward," WGN Meteorologist Morgan Kolkmeyer said just after 8 p.m. Friday.A tornado warning has been issued for parts of McHenry County until 8:30 p.m.Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Jasper, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, McHenry and Will County in Illinois and Lake, Newton, Jasper and Porter counties in Indiana are all under a tornado watch until 10 p.m. Friday, as of 6:46 p.m. on Friday.A tornado watch has been issued for La Porte County, Indiana, until 3 a.m. Saturday. Flash Flood Warnings have also been issued for Cook and DuPage county until 9:30 p.m. Friday. Interactive Radar: Track showers and storm here Two rounds of storms were forecasted between the hours of 3 to 10 p.m. Friday.The first round was set to move into...

TEA plans to implement conservator team for Austin ISD special education department

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:36 GMT

Editor’s Note: The video above shows KXAN News Today’s top headlines for March 31, 2023.AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The Texas Education Agency outlined plans to implement a conservator management team to improve Austin ISD's special education services, according to a 31-page TEA report obtained by KXAN. It comes after a years-long TEA investigation into the school district backlog of special education evaluations. The agency report stated it reviewed 43 investigations of the districts special education department since 2020 and found a "repetitive and pervasive pattern of violations." MORE: AISD Special Education Dept. under TEA investigation for more than a year In a statement to KXAN, TEA said Austin ISD's special education department had a lack of support for students and "significantly hampered their ability to achieve academic success and negatively impacted their school experience.""The continued systemic noncompliance in special education demonstrates that AISD has failed to create a...