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Report: Better Chesapeake Bay water quality ‘remains in the distant future’

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:15:21 GMT

Efforts to improve the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay have fallen far short of goals set 40 years ago, and a new report by researchers suggests that achieving those goals remains elusive in the short term.Members of the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, or STAC, concluded in a report that while there has been progress since goals to reduce pollution were designed 40 years ago, it has been incremental.For example, the report showed that bay water quality standards were reached in 27% of the bay in 1985 but that by 2020, those goals were reached in just the mid-30% range.The report also found “response gaps,” goals set using strategies that failed to get the expected results.Despite the shortcomings of efforts to cut pollution and improve water quality, Kurt Stephenson, a professor at Virginia Tech, said there is encouraging news.“Water quality is trending up in the Bay, which is a great sign,” Stephenson said. ...

Bieber strikes out 9, Guardians blank Tigers 2-0

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:15:21 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Shane Bieber struck out a season-high nine over six innings, Amed Rosario had an RBI triple among his four hits, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Detroit Tigers 2-0 on Tuesday night.Bieber (3-1) scattered seven hits and walked one before relievers James Karinchak, Sam Hentges, Trevor Stephan and Emmanuel Clase completed Cleveland’s third shutout of the season. Clase leads the majors with 13 saves in 16 chances.Rosario singled in each of his three at-bats against Detroit starter Michael Lorenzen (1-2), then tripled home Will Brennan in the ninth against José Cisnero. His drive soared over the head of right fielder Matt Vierling and off the wall.José Ramírez had a sacrifice fly in the first inning that scored Steven Kwan, who had doubled for his AL-leading 14th leadoff hit.Spencer Torkelson and Akil Baddoo each had three hits for Detroit, which went 1 for 15, struck out 10 times with runners in scoring position and was shut out for the first time since opening day...

Rutschman’s homer lifts Orioles to 4-2 win over Tampa Bay

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:15:21 GMT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Adley Rutschman homered, Grayson Rodriguez pitched into the sixth inning and Baltimore’s bullpen was solid again to help the Orioles top the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2 on Tuesday night.The Orioles snapped a three-game losing streak, their longest mini-slump of the season, and pulled within 5 1/2 games of the major league-leading Rays. Tampa Bay won the opener Monday in a three-game series between the American League’s top teams.Wander Franco and Taylor Walls homered for the Rays, who lost for only the third time in 22 games in which the team hit multiple homers.Rodriguez (2-0) allowed seven hits in a career-high 5 2/3 innings. It was a nice rebound for the rookie right-hander after he allowed six runs against Kansas City in his previous start.With a 4-2 lead, Rodriguez got the first two outs of the sixth before allowing a single by Isaac Paredes. Mike Baumann came on and, after a walk and a wild pitch left men on second and third, retired Christian Bethancourt o...

Airbnb posts $117 million profit, but 2Q outlook disappoints

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:15:21 GMT

Airbnb said Tuesday that it earned $117 million in the first quarter as revenue rose during the ongoing recovery in travel, but the company’s outlook for late spring and early summer disappointed investors.The San Francisco-based company’s shares fell nearly 12% in extended trading hours after Airbnb posted the forecast.The weak outlook overshadowed Airbnb’s first profit in the first three months of the year, a seasonally slow period for travel. The company’s profit compared with a loss of $19 million a year earlier and worked out to 18 cents per share. Revenue climbed 20% to $1.82 billion, beating Wall Street’s forecast of $1.79 billion, according to a FactSet survey.Nights and experiences booked, a closely watched measurement for Airbnb, increased 19% to 121 million, and the company valued the bookings made in the quarter at $20.4 billion, a 19% increase.“We have seen our highest number of active bookers ever despite continued macroeconomic uncerainty...

Photos: Hail hits the Front Range

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:15:21 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Hail hit the Front Range on Tuesday ahead of another day of severe weather chances.A severe thunderstorm warning was in effect Tuesday evening for parts of northeast Colorado, including Adams, Denver, Weld and Larimer counties, according to the National Weather Service. Denver weather: Severe storms likely Wednesday, Pinpoint Weather Alert Day FOX31 viewers sent photos and videos of the hail, some pea-sized and some bigger.Denver’s weather will be stormy late Tuesday into Wednesday with severe weather on both days. There is a risk for possible large hail on the Front Range and plains on Wednesday, as well as strong winds and isolated tornadoes. Make sure you have a way to get severe weather updates and alerts on Wednesday.If a severe weather alert is issued for your area, whether it is a thunderstorm watch or warning, tornado watch or tornado warning, it will always show up at the top of the FOX31 website. 

BSO detective behind bars after extortion, falsifying documents

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:15:21 GMT

A Broward Sheriff’s Office detective is in jail after being accused of betraying the badge.On Tuesday, 48-year-old Demetrious Cambell of the Special Victims unit was charged with falsifying documents and extortion.Investigators said he closed out numerous sex crime cases without properly investigating them and in one case, they said he even threatened a victim with deportation.The 20-year veteran has been suspended without pay.

Small business tenants struggle after plaza owner does not renew leases

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:15:21 GMT

After putting in blood, sweat and tears into their stores, a group of small business owners are worried their years of hard work were for nothing. Seven’s Kevin Ozebek investigates.For nearly ten years, Corlette Anderson has been turning hair into art at Corlette’s Eden Salon.Corlette Anderson/salon owner: “I can’t believe I started a business in America.” Kevin Ozebek: “Where are you originally from? Corlette Anderson: “Jamaica.”But after nine years of styling, developing products, and growing her business, Corlette’s lease at this Pembroke Pines shopping center is not being renewed.Corlette Anderson: “It’s gone. It’s gone.”Kevin Ozebek: “That idea of the American dream is gone now?” Corlette Anderson: “Yeah. It feels like I failed. It doesn’t feel like something happened to me. It just feels like being grossly unprepared.”Several other store owners at the Palm Square Plaza t...

Body Camera footage shows multi-city chase ending at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:15:21 GMT

A Miami Beach Police post-chase and takedown, after a city sanitation truck was stolen, ends in one of the most unlikely places, Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and it was all caught on camera.Body camera footage obtained exclusively by 7News shows the moment the stolen city of Miami Beach sanitation truck and its driver, came to a stop at the jail in West Miami-Dade.According to cops a City of Miami Beach Sanitation employee approached officers and stated that he had left his assigned work vehicle unattended at the 300 block of Lincoln Road and Collins Avenue to collect trash from the city garbage cans.According to the victim, the suspect entered the work truck and fled the scene. Cops in cruisers and on all-terrain vehicles found themselves in a scramble to catch one of their city’s own vehicles. The search took for the suspect took them down streets like Washington Avenue and others.The driver had left the City of Miami Beach and was heading westbound on the MacA...

UK Labour Party spent 3 years investigating sexual harassment case

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:15:21 GMT

LONDON — The U.K. Labour Party took three years to investigate a complaint of sexual harassment against a senior party aide, by a woman 20 years his junior. The man has been allowed to keep his job advising a Labour frontbencher, despite the groping complaint being upheld by two separate investigations.The woman told POLITICO she felt “let down” by the process, and hit out at the party for its inaction.A Labour spokesperson insisted the party “treats all complaints of sexual misconduct very seriously,” and that all complaints are “fully investigated.” The man is alleged to have groped the woman, a former intern, when she was in her early 20s — a complaint which was judged proven twice, by parliamentary investigators and, separately, by the Labour Party. The woman first launched a complaint using the internal process available to parliamentary staff at the time. The complaint was upheld. The man was instructed to write a letter of apology, and no ...

The need for European ‘strategic reconciliation’

Published Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:15:21 GMT

Mathieu Droin is a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. James Joye Townsend Jr. is an adjunct senior fellow in the CNAS Transatlantic Security Program and a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy.y.French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments to POLITICO on his way back from China recently prompted outrage across the transatlantic community. And the fiercest backlash came from Central and Eastern Europe.The uproar was a symptom of nervousness. Most European governments fear doing any harm to the relationship with the United States, as its commitment to the defense of Europe has proved more vital than ever with the war in Ukraine. But there may be some delusion in thinking that this American commitment can be relied on indefinitely.So, to make sure this relationship stays strong, there’s now an urgent need for “strategic reconciliation” among Europeans, which requires putting away toxic conceptual debates and ac...