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Waiting for Shohei: MLB free-agent market slow as Ohtani mulls big money

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:31 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Baseball is waiting for Shohei.Big-name free agents appear in no hurry to strike deals at the winter meetings, biding time until Shohei Ohtani potentially breaks the record for richest contract set 4 1/2 years ago by Mike Trout.And Japanese free agent Yoshinobu Yamamoto could be holding up the starting pitching market.“It’s probably a little slower from a conversation standpoint at a winter meetings than it normally would,” New York Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns said Monday. “A possibility is that, yeah, the top of the free-agent market hasn’t moved yet, and often it takes the top of the free-agent market moving for the rest of the dominoes to fall.”Ohtani, the two-way unicorn who has won two of the last three AL MVP awards for the Los Angeles Angels, is expected to get a deal topping $500 million — even though he won’t pitch again until 2025 following elbow surgery.Trout’s contract was for $426.5 million over 12 ...

House explodes in Arlington after police warn of man setting off flare gun

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:31 GMT

A house in Arlington, Virginia, exploded Monday night only minutes after police posted on social media about a suspect setting off a flare gun inside a home.In a post on X just after 8:15 p.m., the Arlington County Police Department said officers were on the scene in the 800 block of North Burlington Street investigating a suspect who had discharged a flare gun from his home.Residents in the area are being asked to shelter in place until further notice.Others took to social media to share they had heard the loud explosion around 8:30 p.m. Later, county police confirmed in a post that as officers were entering the house, the suspect discharged several rounds inside the home before the explosion occurred.Arlington Fire & EMS posted on X that their units were on the scene of a “structure fire” at the same address, and to expect a large police and fire response.A listener confirmed to WTOP that she lives in the area and saw police and other armed officials surround the s...

Texas Rangers’ Rich Rice wins Fishel Award for MLB public relations excellence

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:31 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Rich Rice of the Texas Rangers has won the Robert O. Fishel Award for Public Relations Excellence.Major League Baseball made the announcement Monday at the winter meetings.The Fishel Award is named for the former executive with Cleveland, the St. Louis Browns, the New York Yankees and the American League office. Former Fishel winners and MLB officials vote on the award.Rice has spent 23 full-time seasons in Major League Baseball and is in his 21st season with the Texas Rangers. He is the team’s vice president of baseball communications.A Kansas City area native, Rice was a clubhouse attendant with the Royals from 1994-99 and interned with the Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Chicago Cubs in 2000. He left the Rangers to work for the Colorado Rockies from 2006-07. Rice is the second Texas executive to win the honor after John Blake in 1993.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/mlbSource

Florida State beats Stanford for its fourth women’s soccer national championship — all since 2014

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:31 GMT

CARY, N.C. (AP) — Freshman Jordynn Dudley and Jody Brown scored 26 seconds apart in the first half and Florida State beat Stanford 5-1 on Monday night for the program’s fourth national championship — all coming since 2014.Florida State (22-0-1) became the first undefeated champion in over a decade, joining the 2011 Stanford squad that went 23-0. The Seminoles and Cardinal (20-1-4) made history as the first NCAA Division I women’s national championship game pitting two undefeated teams.Stanford had a 36-match streak of allowing one or fewer goals snapped in its quest for a fourth championship. The Cardinal had allowed just 10 goals all season — with no multiple-score games. Florida State had just one shot in the first 28 minutes but then scored two goals in the 29th. Dudley scored her 14th goal of the season on a penalty kick in the 29th after being taken down in the box. Brown ran past the defense for a give-and-go and sent a shot that deflected off the crossbar and landed in ...

Bernardo Arévalo convoca a una marcha pacífica este jueves para defender la democracia de Guatemala

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:31 GMT

(CNN Español) –– El presidente electo de Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, convocó a una marcha pacífica en la capital del país el próximo jueves para la defensa de la democracia frente a quienes llamó “los corruptos de siempre”, sin mencionar a nadie.“Ha llegado la hora de ponerles un alto y unirnos en la defensa de la verdad, de la justicia y de la democracia”, dijo este lunes en un mensaje en video publicado en la red social X, antes Twitter.Casi de forma simultánea, organizaciones indígenas y sociales convocaron a la población a marchar para demostrar su “compromiso inquebrantable con la democracia, la justicia y el respeto por los derechos y libertades de todos y todas”. Plantearon una concentración frente a la Corte Suprema a las 8 a.m. (hora local) y luego un recorrido hacia la Corte de Constitucionalidad y a instalaciones del Ministerio Público.Movimiento Semilla, el partido que postuló al binomio electo en las elecciones de este año, también dijo a CNN que la movilización partir...

VDOT cierra permanentemente la peligrosa rampa de salida de la I-395 cerca del Pentágono

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:31 GMT

El Departamento de Transporte de Virginia (VDOT, por sus siglas en inglés) cerró permanentemente una rampa de la Interestatal 395 hacia el sur cerca del Pentágono para eliminar la conducción peligrosa que ocasionaba la salida. La rampa en Boundary Channel Drive junto a indicaciones erróneas proporcionadas por sistemas de navegación frecuentemente provocaba que los conductores cruzaran bruscamente por los carriles de tráfico rápido en la I-395, llevando a choques. Ahora, el tráfico será desviado a una rampa de salida nueva hacia I-395 hacia el sur, dando a los conductores más tiempo para incorporarse a la autopista. Se trata de una distancia adicional de aproximadamente tres campos de fútbol para hacer las maniobras necesarias en la I-395.“Ha tomado tiempo acostumbrarse, pero no es muy difícil”, dijo un conductor, Xavier Craig. “Se ve mucho mejor que antes”. El GPS le instruyó a muchos conductores a atravesar el tráfico, por lo que VDOT también trabajó con empresas como Goo...

Jeffco parents claim 11-year-old assigned trans roommate on school trip

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:31 GMT

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- On Monday, Joe and Serena Wailes sent a letter to Jeffco Public Schools demanding action after they say their 11-year-old daughter was assigned a transgender roommate on an overnight school trip."For me, it was really frustrating," Joe Wailes said. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox The trip to Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia happened over the summer. Serena Wailes said her daughter was assigned a hotel room with three other girls."Her bedmate informed her that he was a boy who identifies as transgender," Serena recalled.The mother was also on the trip and said her daughter called her from the bathroom."She actually got along really well with the other student, but just felt uncomfortable with the idea of being in bed with a biological boy," she said.After multiple discussions with the chaperone, Serena said the other student was moved to another room with one of the other girls.ADF sends letter on behalf of Jeff...

'Absolutely senseless': Horse euthanized after driver runs stop sign in Arvada

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:31 GMT

ARVADA Colo. (KDVR) — Slow down and watch your surroundings: That's the message some neighbors in Arvada want to send after a driver ran a stop sign, striking a horse and the rider.The impact from that crash was so hard that the horse had to be put down. When will you get your next TABOR check? It's not surprising to neighbors. They said drivers blow past the stop sign in the area of West 52nd Avenue and Eldridge Street all the time, and they told FOX31 it was a matter of time before something tragic like this happened.If you travel in the area, you're bound to see the sight of riders on their horses. Kristen Canelli owns and operates Sundance Stables.“We have about 40 horses here," she said. “You don’t go into the boarding business to make money. It's for the passion and love of the horses."It's that love for the horses that brought her to tears when she learned what happened Saturday around 2:30 p.m.“It was absolutely senseless," Canelli said. "It did not have to happen."Fast dr...

Pigs and chickens in the neighborhood

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:31 GMT

Your neighbor has pigs in his yard. Another is overrun with chickens. Is it legal to have farm animals in the neighborhood? Let’s find out. It’s tonight’s Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.Chickens in the backyard. Pigs in the next yard. Welcome to the neighborhood.Sumintra Ahyee: “I wouldn’t got there. I think the smell is horrible.”Adele Marquez: And at five in the morning, 5:30 in the morning, the rooster starts singing or whatever they do.”Lets start with Adele in Miami where she lives in a beautiful house her father left her.Adele Marquez: “I’m very proud of my home and I like taking care of it.”She likes her property. About 15 chickens love it..Adele Marquez: “I have tried to catch them and then I’m outside with a broom, shushing them away. But they come back. They do not leave me.”They wont leave her yard, but they do leave chicken manure everywhere.Adele Marquez: “So, I, in the morning, I...

Newly released bodycam footage shows Miami man arrested for threatening to bomb Jewish school in Miami Beach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:31 GMT

Newly released police body camera footage, exclusively obtained by 7News, showed a man being hauled away in handcuffs, accused of making troubling threats outside a Jewish school in Miami Beach.On Oct. 17, 42-year-old Alier Ojeda Salas was arrested and is facing a handful of felonies after, police said, he went to Shalom Montessori School and told an armed security guard “I am Hamas.”According to the arrest report, he then “pointed to a plastic bag that he was holding in his hand,” and “the defendant went on to state it’s C-4, a known explosive.”Miami Beach Police said the security guard asked him to repeat what he said, and he did.Before Salas walked off and away from the school, police were promptly called. The report goes on to say that “Students were then moved to a safe space,” and “a lock down of the school was initiated.”The chilling encounter happened 10 days after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, and it came i...