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Acuña hits 2 of Braves’ 5 homers, Olson hits 47th in 8-5 win over Cardinals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:42 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr. hit two of Atlanta’s five home runs, Matt Olson increased his major league-leading total to 47 and the Braves beat slumping Adam Wainwright and the St. Louis Cardinals 8-5 on Thursday night.Acuña raised his season total to 34 homers with his third multihomer game this season and the 12th of his big league career. Olson homered for his fourth straight game, and Michael Harris II and Travis d’Arnaud also went deep for major league-best Atlanta (91-48), which leads second-place Philadelphia by 14 games in the NL East.“A great teammate, has all the intangibles,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said of Olson. “Everything is off the charts.”Max Fried (7-1) allowed three runs and six hits in six innings, improving to 5-0 in his last seven starts. He is 5-0 in his career against the Cardinals.“I was a little surprised after the first two innings I got through six,” Fried said. “It is never ideal when your offense gives you a 3-0 lead to give it right...

Colombia gana por la mínima a Venezuela y comienza con buen pie su camino al Mundial

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:42 GMT

(CNN Español) –– El partido que disputaron Colombia y Venezuela este jueves en Barranquilla, por la primera fecha de las eliminatorias sudamericanas al Mundial de 2026, tuvo todos los ingredientes de las primeras citas: mucho nerviosismo, poca claridad (en el caso de Colombia, para encontrar la forma de plasmar en el terreno la idea de juego del seleccionador Néstor Lorenzo), escasa compenetración y varias equivocaciones que se pudieron pagar caro. Pero los cafeteros tenían enfrente a Venezuela, la única selección de Conmebol que todavía no ha podido asistir a un Mundial y que demostró que aún le falta mucho para dar ese paso.Colombia tenía una deuda consigo misma. La selección quedó afuera de la última Copa del Mundo por errores propios. La falta de gol ––encadenó siete partidos sin anotar en el camino a Qatar 2022–– condenó a sus muy buenos futbolistas a mirar el Mundial por televisión. Quizás por eso Lorenzo no quiso perder tiempo. Después de una primera parte en la que Venezuela...

Denver mom pushes for answers 5 years after teen son's homicide

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:42 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Thursday marked five years since 18-year-old Khobi Eiland was shot and killed near his home in North Park Hill.The Denver teen had been walking to a friend's house when police say someone shot him and left him for dead. Five years later, his mother, LaWanda, says no one has been arrested."We have no answers," she said. "The wheels of justice have spun very slowly for my family, and I’m very concerned about the case going cold." Parent group demands removal of 3 Denver Public Schools administrators LaWanda said she believes her son was targeted, but she doesn't know why or by whom.Despite the crime being one of the top cases on the Metro Denver Crime Stoppers website, she said the tips have all but dried up.“It should have been solved," she said. "I just feel like it could have been solved, should have been solved by now.”Khobi Eiland (Courtesy of family)She hopes the Denver Police Department continues searching for answers and hopes someone in the community will co...

Polis signs executive order to bolster state's workforce

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:42 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order Thursday with the goal of boosting the state’s workforce. He wants to provide more apprenticeships and work-study programs for students.The plan will take a couple of years to play out, but the governor is hoping students and the state will benefit from the action in the end. If you live in Denver, you may be working longer for retirement Polis met with students from the Community College of Denver on Thursday. He listened to their stories about how Colorado work-based learning programs and apprenticeships have helped them earn degrees and certificates and chart their paths in life."It was great to hear from students of all ages who face a lot of adversity in their lives. They’re going back to school, getting credentials, some of them are just finishing. There’s a lot of jobs out there waiting for them, and it's really made it possible, the fact that through Care Forward Colorado, degrees in the healthcare fields are now f...

‘Sitting in Bars with Cake’ falls flat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:42 GMT

Based on a book by Audrey Shulman and adapted by Shulman, the mediocre effort “Sitting in Bars with Cake” memorializes a pastime known as “cake-barring.” That is, going to bars with a cake for fellow bar-goers to sample, especially men. I did not know it was a thing. But according to “Sitting in Bars with Cake,” a Prime Video effort featuring Yara Shahidi of TV’s “Black-ish,” Odessa A’zion (“Hellraiser”), Bette Midler and Ron Livingston, it is.In the film, Shahidi and A’zion are Los Angeles best friends Jane and Corinne, respectively. Jane bakes delicious cakes while avoiding applying to UCLA or USC law school as her lawyer parents (Navid Negahban and Adina Porter) desperately want. Corinne works in a music agency across from the iconic Capitol Records building as an assistant to the powerful, legendary and seemingly terrifying agent Benita (Midler). Corinne longs to be promoted to junior agent and keeps pitching ideas to Betina, who shoots down Corinne’s lat...

Editorial: Herald endorses Jerome King, John FitzGerald for City Council

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:42 GMT

Call it coincidence or karma, but the trio of Boston City Councilors embroiled in recent scandals are all up for re-election this fall. We’ve weighed in on the races for District 5 (Ricardo Arroyo, incumbent), and District 6 (Kendra Lara, incumbent), and we complete the hat trick with Tania Fernandes Anderson, running for her District 7 seat.Fernandes Anderson made her mark by admitting to violating the state’s conflict of interest law by hiring her sister and son to paid positions on her staff. She agreed to pay a $5,000 fine.The State Ethics Commission said in July that Fernandes Anderson appointed her sister and son to full-time positions in 2022, her first year on the City Council. She also chose to increase their salaries, and in the case of her sister, award a $7,000 bonus.Her oops-apology came in a tweet: “I messed up and should have paid attention to those training videos.”The ethical edict of not hiring relatives and giving them raises should be a moral given.It...

Millard: ‘Flash mob’ retail theft closes stores, funds cartels

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:42 GMT

“This is crazy,” said Noel Escobar as he pulled out his mobile phone and started filming thieves ransacking the Nordstrom store at Topanga Mall in Los Angeles.His video showed a gang in masks and hoodies breaking open glass displays and grabbing clothes, purses and luxury goods. The band of thieves barged out of mall doors while a security guard watched nearby.“This is nuts,” Escobar muttered as they fled.The scene is hardly unique in America in 2023. Near Charlotte, N.C., hammer-wielding thugs recently bashed in a Kohl’s jewelry display in broad daylight. In Glendale, Calif., 30 robbers committed a “flash mob burglary” at a Yves Saint Laurent store, stealing $300,000 in merchandise.All told, shoplifting mobs and smash-and-grab robbers are costing retailers $100 billion in losses in what law enforcement calls organized retail crime (ORC). Shoplifting today isn’t teenagers sticking a few beers in their jackets or stealing party supplies at the Food King. Instead, many robberies are e...

Hurricane Lee charges over Atlantic waters as a Category 5 storm, approaching the Caribbean

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:42 GMT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Lee whirled through open waters toward the northeast Caribbean late Thursday becoming the first Category 5 storm of the Atlantic season.Lee was not expected to make landfall although forecasters said tropical storm conditions are possible on some islands. Meteorologists said it was too early to provide details on potential rainfall and wind gusts.The Category 5 hurricane was located about 705 miles (1,135 kilometers) east of the northern Leeward Islands. It had winds of up to 160 miles per hour (260 kilometers per hour) and was moving west-northwest at 14 mph (22 kph).The storm was expected to remain a major hurricane into next week.“Lee continues to strengthen at an exceptional rate,” the National Hurricane Center said.U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday was given the hurricane’s latest trajectory and details of preparations underway by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, which deployed unidentified assets to...

“Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” well-acted winner

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:42 GMT

A tender and well-acted romance-cum-coming-of-age story, “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” is the tale of two young men facing daunting challenges growing up in El Paso, Texas in the late 1980s. Aristotle Mendoza (tall newcomer Max Pelayo) is a lanky loner with anger issues. His parents Liliana (Mexican acting royalty Veronica Falcon) and Jaime (ditto for Eugenio Derbez, “Instructions Not Included”) are humble, hard-working folk. They do not want to discuss Ari’s older brother Bernardo, who is in jail for something we will learn about later. Ari likes Batman, the Hulk and Spider-Man. In other words, he’s into “the dark.” The more sensitive, cheerful and outgoing Dante Quintero (Reese Gonzalez) has been raised by a father named Sam (Kevin Alejandro), who is a professor of literature, and a glamorous and expressive mother named Soledad (Eva Longoria).Aristotle aka Ari and Dante meet at a public pool, where the less beefy Dante teaches the long and ...

Hankinson: FEMA $$ is for disaster-stricken Americans

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:42 GMT

Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times, but the Biden administration is highly adept at hiding how they fund their open-borders agenda. In a cynical budget negotiation tactic, the White house is now trying to push through a $40 billion “supplemental” funding bill that holds bailout money for FEMA hostage to sending billions more to Ukraine with insufficient accountability.It gets worse. If the White House tactic works, and Congress coughs up enough aid to Ukraine that rescue money for FEMA can get through, hundreds of millions of that funding won’t go to disaster-afflicted Americans, but to providing housing, food, health care and transportation for illegal immigrants through grants to activist NGOs and “sanctuary” cities.That’s right. Even though FEMA grants are meant to help taxpaying Americans prepare for and cope with hurricanes, fires and floods, the Biden administration has used these same funds to pay activist NGOs to settle migrants illegally i...