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NBA’s Jimmy Butler and singer Sebastián Yatra play tennis at a US Open charity event for Ukraine

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:55:26 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — NBA star Jimmy Butler took a swing at another sport Wednesday night, dressing just like a member of the ball crew at the U.S. Open to perform those duties and picking up a racket to play with Frances Tiafoe, Carlos Alcaraz and Sebastián Yatra at a charity event that raised $320,000 for humanitarian relief in Ukraine.Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the war there continues.Butler, who led the Miami Heat to the NBA Finals last season before losing to the Denver Nuggets, is not new to tennis and is friends with 2022 French Open runner-up Coco Gauff.He teamed with Tiafoe, a semifinalist at last year’s U.S. Open, in doubles against defending champion Alcaraz and Grammy winner Yatra.Other just-for-fun exhibitions at Stars of the Open in Louis Armstrong Stadium included John McEnroe, Gabriela Sabatini, Jessica Pegula, Matteo Berrettini, Elena Svitolina, Gael Monfils, Chris Eubanks and Jennifer Brady. The U.S. Open begins Monday.___AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hu...

Reportan tiroteo en bar de motociclistas en California

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:55:26 GMT

Las autoridades respondieron a reportes de un tiroteo el miércoles por la noche.El tiroteo ocurrió en el bar llamado Cook’s Corner en Trabuco Canyon. No estuvo claro de inmediato cuántas personas recibieron disparos ni cuáles eran sus condiciones.Trabuco Canyon es una comunidad ubicada en el sur del condado de Orange.Esta es una historia en desarrollo. Regresa para más actualizaciones.Gracias por preferir Telemundo 52.Source

Nationals’ Stone Garrett hurts lower left leg, taken off field

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:55:26 GMT

A trainer comforts Washington Nationals left fielder Stone Garrett, who is carted off the field after being injured during the seventh inning of the team's baseball game against the New York Yankees on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)(AP/Frank Franklin II) A trainer comforts Washington Nationals left fielder Stone Garrett, who is carted off the field after being injured during the seventh inning of the team's baseball game against the New York Yankees on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)(AP/Frank Franklin II) NEW YORK (AP) — Washington Nationals right fielder Stone Garrett injured his left leg trying to rob a home run from the New York Yankees...

LGBTQ book ban rejected in Douglas County

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:55:26 GMT

PARKER, Colo. (KDVR) — Four books with LGBTQ+ themes were at the center of controversy Wednesday night when Douglas County considered banning them in public libraries.The books included "The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish," "All Boys Aren't Blue," "This Book is Gay" and "Jack of Hearts." Colorado households have some of the nation’s highest debt The Board of Trustees for Douglas County Libraries ultimately voted to keep those books on library shelves, but not before a standing-room-only debate in Parker.Debate over LGBTQ books in ParkerFOX31 spoke with Aaron Wood. He filed four appeals with the Board of Trustees for Douglas County Libraries."I’m not out to demonize a particular community and, honestly, I believe this has a disadvantage for the LGBT community, because I would be opposed to heterosexual content that would put sexual perversion or sexual acts in front of children," Wood said.LGBTQ advocacy organization One Colorado was monitoring the outcome."One Color...

Colorado households have some of the nation's highest debt

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:55:26 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Coloradans have good credit, but they pay for it. Economic and social disruptions aside, there were some benefits U.S. households reaped from the COVID-19 pandemic. Stimulus checks and other financial relief racked up in 2020 and 2021, increasing the level of household savings and debt repayment. A new study of financial data by Upgraded Points shows that delinquencies on loans decreased during the pandemic. Only in one state — North Dakota — did credit scores not increase between 2019 and 2022. In Colorado, the average credit score rose from 718 in 2019 to 730 in 2022, the nation's 14th-highest credit score. How common is your name in Colorado? However, Coloradans also have more debt than most states. Upgraded Points' study also examined the average household's debt-to-income ratio in 2022. This measures how much of a household's income goes toward debt repayment. Higher scores mean households pay a greater share of their income. Colorado has the nation's sixth-...

Fort Lauderdale Police officer who responded to July 4th diving accident that left swimmer paralyzed speaks out

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:55:26 GMT

Officer-worn body camera video captured the heart-stopping moments when first responders came to the rescue of a swimmer who became paralyzed after diving off the coast of South Florida. Now one of the responding police officers is sharing her story.Speaking with 7News, Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Dianna Rose described the moment she first heard about the incident at the Fort Lauderdale sandbar on the busy Fourth of July holiday.“While we were headed out there, there was another call that came in through dispatch that somebody had a neck and head injury,” she said. “To me, I thought this might be somebody who’s paralyzed.”“Is he intoxicated and possibly drunk, or did he actually dive in?” Rose asked a witness.“I don’t know. What I heard, he jumped off the front of the boat, and he dove in head first,” said the witness.“A lot of people didn’t actually know who he was,” said Rose. “They pulled him o...

Masks, lockdowns, social distancing: ‘Unequivocal’ evidence that measures reduced COVID-19 spread

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:55:26 GMT

Speedy implementation of a combination of measures such as face masks, lockdowns and international border controls, “unequivocally” reduced COVID-19 infections, a major review has shown.The report published Thursday by the Royal Society looked at findings from six evidence reviews that analyzed thousands of studies to assess the effect of masks, social distancing and lockdowns, test trace and isolate systems, border controls, environmental controls and communications. It found evidence that each of these measures — which are called “non-pharmaceutical interventions” — were effective, albeit to varying degrees, when looked at individually. However, the evidence in favor of using these tools was stronger when countries combined several measures. The report could have significant implications for decision-making in future outbreaks, with Mark Walport, chair of the report’s expert working group and foreign secretary of the Royal Society, saying that “having protocols in adv...

‘Gran Turismo’ kicks racing saga into high gear

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:55:26 GMT

Are you ready for the “Top Gun” wannabe of race-car movies? Based on the true story of Cardiff, Wales-raised Jann Mardenborough, winningly played by actor Archie Madekwe in the film, “Gran Turismo” is a fictionalized account of Jann’s rise from obscure player of the popular video-game “Gran Turismo” to the winner of the legendary 24-hour race at Le Mans, France.. OK, the real-life Jann did not win the Le Mans race. But he did win a race, which is pretty wild when you think about it: Table jockey drives a real race car under the checkered flag.This guy went from being an underemployed loser, college-dropout and nerd virtually locked in his room in his parents’ house obsessively playing a video-game designed by an employee of car manufacturer Nissan (Takehiro Hira) to being a winning race car driver on the Nissan/NISMO team. When Nissan dealer and promoter Danny Moore (a solid Orlando Bloom) makes a pitch to skeptical Nissan executives in Tokyo to create a program to turn ...

Savor the season with summer treats & pop-ups

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:55:26 GMT

With the end of summer drawing close, it’s time to seize the pleasures of the season while you still can. So if you haven’t yet stuck your toes in the sand at Carson Beach, sipped a martini on the roof atop The Colonnade Hotel (www.colonnadehotel.com), or dug into a carton of fried clams at Kelly’s Roast Beef (https://kellysroastbeef.com), then you’d better get on those season bucket-list items, and pronto.The good news is there’s still time to hop on the many summer retail, food, and bevvie pop-ups and special delivery services — most of them centered around the Cape and Islands, but some around the cityFor starters: The late-night goodies at Loretta’s Last Call at 1 Landsdowne St., courtesy of a summer-long pop-up from Martha-Vineyard-based Back Door Donuts (www.backdoordonuts.com). From 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. nightly, it serves fresh donuts to customers at its temporary summer-only Boston location, with flavors like buttercrunch, chocolate coconut, cinnamon sugar, double chocolat...

Lucas: Stephen Lynch delivers for district – what’s wrong with that?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:55:26 GMT

Residents of South Boston should be happy with hometown working-class U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch.The one-time iron worker is at least bringing home the bacon, as they used to say, despite taking some heat for it.He takes care of his 8th Congressional district that, while centered in Southie, rambles south to Quincy, Brockton and 18 other southeast communities.If Massachusetts had more political leaders like Lynch in Congress the two federally owned aged bridges across Cape Cod, the Sagamore and the Bourne, would have been replaced by now.However, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Eddie Markey, as well as the rest of the state’s congressional delegation, have been unable to secure federal funding to replace the functionally obsolete bridges.Which is why Gov, Maura Healey has been forced to seek federal money from President Joe Biden on her own. And they are all Democrats.Lynch, 68, who was born and bred in Southie and who still lives there, has come under scrutiny from progressives (th...