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Boston City Council president calls out council colleagues, condemns ‘troubling ethical and legal lapses’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:50 GMT

Boston City Council President Ed Flynn was among city officials speaking out Wednesday, condemning a string of what he described as “troubling ethical and legal lapses” after a series of controversies involving city council colleagues.Flynn shared his thoughts in a statement. Elsewhere, Mayor Michelle Wu also weighed in as one city council member faces charges in connection with a concerning crash and after another councilor was fined several thousand dollars over ethics violations. “As elected officials, we are held to high standards,” Wu said. Flynn described the alleged actions as “troubling ethical and legal lapses” and said “The people of Boston deserve the highest standards of strong and ethical leadership.”“Moreover, they want elected officials who show maturity, take responsibility as adults, and demonstrate the ability to follow the same basic rules and norms as the people they serve when placing us in positions of public trust,” Flynn said. City Counc...

Orioles’ game vs. Yankees resumes after being delayed in fifth inning when errant throw strikes YES Network cameraman

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:50 GMT

The Orioles’ game Wednesday night against the New York Yankees was delayed for about 17 minutes in the bottom of the fifth inning after an errant throw to first base sailed into the camera well and struck a YES Network cameraman.With one out and a runner on first, Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe hit a ground ball to second base, where Baltimore’s Adam Frazier bobbled the ball and flipped it to shortstop Gunnar Henderson for the out at second. Hurrying in an effort to get Volpe, Henderson sailed his throw to first, going above first baseman Ryan O’Hearn and striking Pete Stendel in the head. The game was paused as medical professionals tended to Stendel, with players eventually returning to the dugout as he was placed on a backboard and carted off the field.While being driven off the field, Stendel raised an arm to the crowd, giving the peace sign and other gestures as fans cheered.“Sending YES Network camera operator Pete Stendel all the best and wish him a s...

Tonight’s Chicago White Sox game is postponed because of rain, with a doubleheader set for Thursday

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:50 GMT

Wednesday’s Chicago White Sox game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Guaranteed Rate Field was postponed because of rain.It will be made up as part of a straight doubleheader starting at 4:10 p.m. Thursday.The second game will begin about 30 to 45 minutes after Game 1 ends but not before 7:10. Parking lots and gates will open at 3:10.The Game 1 pitchers will be José Berríos for the Blue Jays and Lance Lynn for the Sox. The Blue Jays will start Yusei Kikuchi in Game 2 with the Sox starter to be determined. ()

Mets’ slumping slugger Pete Alonso heads to 2nd-career All-Star game

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:50 GMT

PHOENIX — Pete Alonso knows the numbers: His expected batting average is .264 and his current average is .217.“I’ve looked at my expected batting average and based on the numbers, the discrepancy is probably one of the largest in all of Major League Baseball,” Alonso told the Daily News on Wednesday at Chase Field. “I think it’s in the .260s and that’s kind of on par with who I’ve been in the past, but this year it’s not that. Now I’m hitting in the high .210s, but that’s like a 50-point discrepancy and that’s got to be the largest margin in the big leagues. That’s tough.”Coming into Wednesday, his math wasn’t far off. It’s a 47-point discrepancy. Alonso made the All-Star team largely based on his 25 home runs, which currently rank third in the league, tied with Luis Robert of the Chicago White Sox. Earlier this season, Alonso emerged as an NL MVP candidate, but this recent skid has coole...

Brayan Bello stellar again as Red Sox top Rangers 4-2

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:50 GMT

Where would the Red Sox be without Brayan Bello?With the starting rotation decimated by injuries the 24-year-old righty has put the team on his back and given the Red Sox a chance to win every time he takes the mound. Wednesday was no exception as he delivered yet another gem to help Boston top the AL West-leading Texas Rangers 4-2.Though not as sharp as in some of his recent outings, Bello continued to show impressive poise as he worked his way out of a number of early jams unscathed. In the first inning he stranded a pair of runners after Texas got men on second and third with one out, and in the second he shook off a pair of should-have-been-errors that extended the inning and kept the Rangers off the board.From there he retired eight straight Rangers batters into the sixth inning, and Texas’ only damage all day came on a two-run home run by Adolis Garcia, his 22nd of the season, in the top of the sixth. Bello ultimately went seven innings, allowing the two runs on eight hi...

David Ross is in the spotlight again after the Chicago Cubs manager’s umpiring rant goes viral

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:50 GMT

David Ross’ parents called him around 9 p.m. Tuesday after his profane postgame rant went viral.“‘Are you OK?’” he said his mom asked. “My dad was like, ‘Hey, buddy, everything all right?’”It was a reasonable question, and the Chicago Cubs manager assured them he was OK, even if that wasn’t obvious to anyone watching the video of him going off on umpires after a 7-6, 11-inning win over the Milwaukee Brewers in which he was ejected.“Just checking on me,” he said. “The league will check on me too. Make sure I’m OK.”If Ross seems a little more animated of late, it’s for good reason.The Cubs are at a critical juncture of their season and could fall out of contention if they don’t get back on a prolonged hot streak.All-Star left-hander Justin Steele, who faced the Brewers on Wednesday, said Tuesday he believes the Cubs’ luck is about to change.“We’ve just got to keep do...

Celtics to send Grant Williams to Mavericks in three-team trade, per reports

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:50 GMT

The writing has long been on the wall that Grant Williams’ time in Boston was over. On Wednesday, the Celtics said goodbye to their fourth-year forward.Williams has been traded to the Dallas Mavericks in a three-team deal that also includes the San Antonio Spurs, according to multiple reports on Wednesday night. The Celtics will receive multiple second-round picks, the Spurs will get Reggie Bullock and a draft pick, while the Mavs will acquire Williams – who was a restricted free agent – on a four-year, $54 million deal via sign and trade, per reports.More to come…

Toxic gas leak in South Africa has killed 16 people, including 3 children, police say

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:50 GMT

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY (Associated Press)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 16 people, including three children, were killed by a leak of a toxic nitrate gas being used by illegal miners to process gold in an informal settlement, police and local government authorities said Wednesday.Emergency services initially announced that as many as 24 people might be dead in the Angelo settlement in Boksburg, a city on the eastern outskirts of Johannesburg. But police and Gauteng Province Premier Panyaza Lesufi later said the number of deaths had been confirmed as 16 after a recount of the bodies.Teams were still searching the area looking for other casualties. The bodies of the victims remained lying on the ground hours after the leak was reported as emergency services waited for forensic investigators and pathologists to arrive.“We can’t move anybody. The bodies are still where they are on the ground,” said emergency services spokesman William Ntladi.An offici...

Crime Briefs: Girl, 13, shot in Dorchester, Boston Police Department says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:50 GMT

A young teenage girl was shot in her ankle on the Fourth of July while walking down Bowdoin Street in Dorchester.Police responded at 7:55 a.m. Wednesday to Boston Children’s Hospital in Roxbury, where a girl who was shot the night before in Dorchester was being treated.The girl told officers that she was walking in the 200-block of Bowdoin when, the police report summarizes, “she felt a sharp pain to her right ankle … she looked down and saw blood coming.” She said she was unable to walk from the pain.At first, the child and her friend believed that the injury was from a stray firework, according to the report, but police noted it was an apparent gunshot that fractured her fibula. Police canvassed the area “to no avail.”3 men arrested in connection to Mattapan shootingPolice started Wednesday morning very early with a response to the area of Edgewater Drive and River Street in Mattapan for reports of multiple people shot.At the scene shortly after 2 a.m., police found five shooting ...

LA County sheriff calls video of deputy tackling woman ‘disturbing,’ opens inquiry

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:50 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff says a bystander’s cellphone footage showing a deputy violently tackling a woman while she filmed a man being handcuffed, then pepper-spraying her in the face, is “disturbing,” and community groups on Wednesday called for the department’s new chief to hold his agency accountable.The June 24 incident in the city of Lancaster follows several cases that have drawn scrutiny to the department amid allegations of excessive use of force by its deputies. It’s also testing the reform efforts of the new sheriff, Robert Luna, a former Long Beach police chief who has vowed to overhaul the nation’s largest sheriff’s department since taking it over in December after defeating incumbent Alex Villanueva.Both officers were pulled off field duty, Luna said during an afternoon news conference, and could face discipline ranging from letters of reprimand all the way up to dismissal if misconduct is found. He didn’t identify ...