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Rays star a no-show with Dominican authorities amid investigation

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:45:58 GMT

Wander Franco’s legal troubles continue to mount.The Tampa Bay Rays shortstop, who is currently under investigation for alleged relationships with multiple underaged girls, did not present himself to the Dominican Republic’s Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Children Adolescents in Santo Domingo for questioning.Agency director Olga Diná Llaverías confirmed to reporters that Franco was a no-show, and that the investigation will continue. “There are a few options in the investigative process,” she said.Franco and his legal team were issued the mandatory summons for 11 a.m. Thursday on Wednesday, after authorities in the Dominican Republic conducted failed raids on his and his mother’s homes in Baní, in search of him. According to the Associated Press, Franco has also dismissed his counsel.On Aug. 13, Franco was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with an underage girl. Major League Baseball opened an investigation that night, and the R...

SJP wins Frates Classic over Pope Francis

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:45:58 GMT

MIDDLETON – One of the first goals the St. John’s Prep boys hockey team sets for the season is winning the Pete Frates Winter Classic in honor of their legendary late alum.For the first time since 2015 and just the second time ever, the Eagles finally delivered Thursday evening – on Frates’ birthday.Senior Jake Vana gathered the puck by his own blue line and out-skated the last defender on a breakaway, went to his backhand, and flipped in the game-winning goal in overtime to propel No. 7 St. John’s Prep (4-1) to a 1-0 win over No. 3 Pope Francis (3-3).Junior AJ Farese won tournament MVP with consecutive shutouts, posting 11 of his 21 saves in the final period as fatigue started to wear down the Eagles.With the win, St. John’s Prep gets revenge from the loss to Pope Francis in last year’s Div. 1 state semifinal.“Winning it on Pete’s birthday in the Frates tournament is probably about as special as it gets,” said Eagles head coach Kristian Hanson. “That’s one of the goals we set at th...

One person stabbed in group fight on MTS bus

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:45:58 GMT

IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. -- One person was stabbed Thursday on a San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) bus in Imperial Beach, authorities said.The stabbing occurred around 4:55 p.m. at 700 Seacoast Drive, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department confirmed to FOX 5. San Ysidro couple found dead at casino identified; woman died of strangulation About 15 juveniles were fighting on a bus when another juvenile was stabbed in the stomach, according to law enforcement. The victim was taken to the hospital, where their status is unknown.There is no suspect in custody at this time.Check back for updates on this developing story.

Two men suspected of vehicle burglaries, credit card fraud

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:45:58 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- San Diego authorities are offering a $1,000 reward anyone with information that leads to an arrest in a case involving two suspects connected to vehicle burglaries and fraudulent purchases amounting to approximately $3,500.The vehicle burglaries occurred on Nov. 11 around 2:20 p.m. at 5795 Noble Drive in Miramar, San Diego County Crime Stoppers and the San Diego Police Department said in a news release Thursday. The suspects stole various items and purses from inside three vehicles, which were parked at the Veteran's Cemetery. Both suspects then made their way to Encinitas, where they used the stolen credit cards to make multiple fraudulent purchases at a Walmart located at 1550 Leucadia Blvd. and a Shell gas station at 1580 Leucadia Blvd., according to authorities. San Ysidro couple found dead at casino identified; woman died of strangulation A white 2013 Lexus ES model was captured on surveillance video in the area, which also showed an unknown man inside of the Wa...

New Mexico proposes regulations to reuse fracking wastewater

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:45:58 GMT

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico environmental officials have proposed a new regulatory framework for reusing wastewater with a focus on the used, salty byproducts of oil and natural gas drilling in a major U.S. production zone.The Environment Department announced Thursday its petition to the Water Quality Control Commission to begin formal deliberations on the proposed rules. Public hearings could begin as soon as April.New Mexico, the No. 2 state for oil production behind Texas, is looking to its energy sector and water-intensive fracking as a potential source of treated water for industrial applications — and to offset water demands that are depleting freshwater aquifers amid drought.“We need to protect our fresh groundwater supplies not only from degradation or contamination but from overuse,” said John Rhoderick, director of the water protection division at the Environment Department. “We need to do everything we can to maintain those supplies because they’re not being replenis...

US military space plane blasts off on another secretive mission expected to last years

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:45:58 GMT

The U.S. military’s X-37B space plane blasted off Thursday on another secretive mission that’s expected to last at least a couple of years.Like previous missions, the reusable plane resembling a mini space shuttle carried classified experiments. There’s no one on board. The space plane took off aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at night, more than two weeks late because of technical issues.It marked the seventh flight of an X-37B, which has logged more than 10 years in orbit since its debut in 2010.The last flight, the longest one yet, lasted 2 1/2 years before ending on a runway at Kennedy a year ago. Space Force officials would not say how long this orbital test vehicle would remain aloft or what’s on board other than a NASA experiment to gauge the effects of radiation on materials. Built by Boeing, the X-37B resembles NASA’s retired space shuttles. But they’re just one-fourth the size at 29 feet (9 meters) long. No ...

Pedestrian seriously injured after being hit by vehicle in Toronto’s Little Portgual

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:45:58 GMT

A 65-year-old pedestrian has been seriously injured after a collision involving a vehicle Thursday evening, Toronto emergency officials said.According to a Toronto Police Service social media post, the incident happened near the intersection of Dufferin Street and Dundas Street West just after 7:10 p.m.A Toronto Paramedic Services spokesperson told CityNews 680 the man was taken to a hospital in serious, but non-life-threatening condition.The circumstances leading up to the collision weren’t immediately clear. Officers said the driver of the vehicle involved stayed at the scene.Dufferin Street between Dundas Street West and College Street was closed as officers gathered evidence.Collision:7: 11 p.m.Dufferin St & Dundas St WROAD CLOSURE-Dufferin St closed between College St & Dundas St W-Consider using alternate routes#GO2971145^av— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) December 29, 2023

Arizona man seeks dismissal of charge over online post after deadly attack in Australia

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:45:58 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man is asking a U.S. court to dismiss a charge of making threatening online comments toward law enforcement days after participating in an online exchange with people who had carried out a deadly attack in Australia. A lawyer for Donald Day Jr. of Heber, Arizona, said in a filing Tuesday that the two counts of interstate threats against his client should be thrown out because the indictment doesn’t allege that Day made statements of intent to harm any specific person.Mark Rumold, who represents Day, also said Day’s online comments were not serious expressions of an intent to carry out violence and instead were protected speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix, which is prosecuting Day, declined to comment Thursday on the dismissal request.Six people were killed in the attack in Australia in the rural community of Wieambilla on Dec. 12, 2022, investigators said. Two Queensland state police officers and ...

Man fatally shot his mother then led Las Vegas police on chase as he carjacked bystanders, killing 1

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:45:58 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who authorities say fatally shot his mother near his childhood home two days after Christmas led police officers on a chase through the suburbs of Las Vegas and, along the way, stole a police vehicle and carjacked bystanders at gunpoint, shooting and killing one of them.The victim killed in what Las Vegas police say was the final carjacking was 39-year-old Jerry Lopez, a married father of seven children between the ages of 3 and 11.Karen Lopez told The Associated Press that her husband had just left for work around 4 a.m. and was minutes away from their home in southwestern Las Vegas when he unknowingly entered the suspect’s path and was killed.According to police, the deadly crime spree began before dawn Wednesday, when the suspect shot his mother near their home in southeastern Las Vegas. When officers arrived to investigate that shooting, they heard more gunfire and took cover.At the same time, police said, the suspect stole an unoccupied patrol car a...

Maine bars Trump from ballot as US Supreme Court weighs states’ authority to block former president

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:45:58 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Trump remains eligible to return to the White House.The decision by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows follows a ruling earlier this month by the Colorado Supreme Court that booted Trump from the ballot there under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That decision has been stayed until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether Trump is barred by the Civil War-era provision, which prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office.The Trump campaign said it would appeal Bellows’ decision to Maine’s state courts, and Bellows suspended her ruling until that court system rules on the case. In the end, it is likely that the nation’s highest court ...