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Today in Sports – Usain Bolt becomes the 1st to capture 3 straight 100-meter titles at the Olympics

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:23:24 GMT

Aug. 141903 — Jim Jeffries knocks out Jim Corbett in the 10th round to retain his world heavyweight title in San Francisco.1936 — In Berlin, the U.S. wins the first Olympic basketball gold medal with a 19-8 win over Canada. The game is played outdoors on a dirt court in a driving rain. Joe Fortenberry leads the U.S. with seven points. James Naismith, the inventor of the game, presents the medals.1959 — The formation of the American Football League is announced in Chicago. Play will begin in 1960 with franchises in six cities with the probability of adding two more teams.1977 — Lanny Wadkins beats Gene Littler on the third hole of sudden death to take the PGA Championship.1977 — The Cosmos, led by Pele, play before a Meadowlands crowd of 77,961 in East Rutherford, N.J., the most to see a soccer game in the U.S. The Cosmos beat the Fort Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 in an NASL quarterfinal playoff game.1994 — Nick Price wins the PGA Championship, finishing at 11-under 269 for 72 holes, six ...

DC man charged with attempted murder in Silver Spring shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:23:24 GMT

A D.C. man has been arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder for allegedly shooting a man in Silver Spring, Maryland, according to Montgomery County police.The police said 37-year-old Anthony L. Green was arguing with an individual on July 15 in the 8100 block of Georgia Avenue when the victim intervened. Green reportedly shot the victim twice in the torso.The adult male victim walked into a fire station at around 1:54 p.m. on the same block where the shooting took place, according to police, suffering from life-threatening injuries. He was taken to a hospital to be treated.Green was arrested in D.C. on July 31 for unrelated charges and is being held there.Source

Real Madrid defender Militão to undergo knee surgery after damaging ligament in league opener

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:23:24 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid defender Éder Militão will need to undergo surgery after injuring his left knee in the team’s Spanish league opener, the club said Sunday.Madrid said Militão has been diagnosed with a torn anterior cruciate ligament and will undergo surgery in the coming days. The club did not specify how long it expects the defender to be sidelined, though such injuries usually require several months of recovery.The 25-year-old Brazil defender got hurt early in the second half of Madrid’s 2-0 win at Athletic Bilbao on Saturday. He went down in pain when his left knee appeared to twist awkwardly and had to be helped to walk off the field by two team doctors.Madrid had already lost starting goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois because of a knee ligament injury last week. Newly signed midfielder Arda Güler also won’t be available for some time — reportedly several weeks — because of a knee problem that will also likely require surgery.Madrid’s next game it at Almeria...

Former Santee USPS mail carrier sentenced for stealing mail

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:23:24 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A former U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was sentenced in federal court Friday for stealing mail from customers on her Santee postal route.According to U.S. attorney Andrew Haden's office, 44-year-old Tracy Rumley of El Cajon was ordered to five years of probation and 200 hours of community service.This follows an incident on Nov. 21, 2022 when an off-duty San Diego Police detective saw a woman in a hooded sweatshirt open a communal mailbox at his apartment complex in Santee. According to court documents, the woman was seen removing multiple pieces of mail. Jet aborts landing to avoid Southwest Airlines plane at San Diego International Airport: FAA As the detective approached the woman, she closed the mailbox and fled in a White Nissan, said the attorney's office. After getting the license plate of the vehicle, the detective determined that Rumley resided at the same address as listed for the vehicle registration and referred the matter to the USPS.Rumley -- who had...

Extortion of small businesses pervades Tijuana, prompting pleas for police help

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:23:24 GMT

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- Small business owners in Tijuana are urging the city to allow them to link their security cameras to the police department's command center for police to provide them with panic buttons as a way to combat a rash of robberies and extortion attempts.Gina Villalobos, director of the Small Business Chamber of Commerce in Tijuana, said such crimes continue to rise and small business owners are forced to take matters into their own hands. Baja California Attorney General suddenly resigns amid crime wave in state "Businesses are also putting up security bars as a preventive measure. It's just a sign of the alarming security needs we're all experiencing," she said. "Organized crime asking small businesses to pay fees, as a way to remain in business, just keeps going and there's no environment of confidence to file formal complaints with authorities."Even though business owners seek better surveillance and quicker response times, Villalobos said there is a "cl...

Illinois governor signs ban on firearms advertising allegedly marketed to kids and militants

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:23:24 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law banning firearms advertising that officials determine produces a public safety threat or appeals to children, militants or others who might later use the weapons illegally — opening the door for lawsuits against firearms manufacturers or distributors.Pritzker on Saturday signed the Firearm Industry Responsibility Act, making Illinois the eighth state to approve legislation that rolls back legal protections for firearms manufacturers or distributors. The legislation comes after the deadliest six months of mass killings recorded in the United States since at least 2006 — all but one of which involved guns.Pritzker signed the bill alongside lawmakers and gun control advocates at Gun Sense University, an annual training conference of more than 2,000 Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers and survivors, hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety.“We hold opioid manufacturers accountable. Vaping companies accountable. P...

Rally planned against Greenbelt development in Durham

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:23:24 GMT

A rally is planned for Sunday afternoon in Pickering calling on the Ford government to stop the development of farmland and other areas of the Greenbelt. Demonstrators are set to gather outside the office of provincial finance minister Peter Bethlenfalvy on Kingston Road at 1 p.m.‘Stop Sprawl Durham’ rally organizers say the province’s plan will bankrupt communities by building high-density housing where it doesn’t belong and single-family homes that don’t make the best use of the space. The rally comes days after a scathing report from auditor general Bonnie Lysyk which concluded the process favoured developers with ties to the housing minister’s chief of staff and that the selection of lands removed from the Greenbelt was “biased,” “seriously flawed,” and was “dismissive of effective land-use planning.”Following the report, Premier Doug Ford admitted that the process of selecting which lands would be removed from the Greenbelt for development was flaw...

Elderly woman dead after semi crash in Volo: Police

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:23:24 GMT

VOLO, Ill. -- An elderly woman is dead after a semi-truck crash in Volo Saturday morning.According to police, the 84-year-old woman driving a Chevrolet exited a parking lot on the east side of Route 12 and travelled west towards southbound lanes as the driver of a semi-truck came northbound.Police said the woman made an abrupt U-turn and the semi-truck drove into the grassy media to avoid direct collision. 5-year-old pedestrian hospitalized after Irving Park car crash, driver in custody The Chevrolet struck the rear end of the semi-truck causing major damage. The 84-year-old woman sustained major injuries and was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. An autopsy is scheduled for the driver. The semi-truck driver was uninjured and cooperated with the investigation.

Pool have a 'chlorine smell'? Don't swim in it

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:23:24 GMT

(NEXSTAR) – If you thought those post-swim red eyes and that "chlorine" smell were due to pool chemicals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has some nauseating news.The odor and those irritated eyes are instead due to chlorine mixing with the pee, poop, sweat, dirt, skin cells, makeup and deodorant that swimmers bring into the pool, according to the CDC. In fact, a health pool with chlorinated water doesn't have a strong chemical at all.In fact, a CDC study that tested public pools found that 58 percent of samples came back positive for E. coli, bacteria found in the human gut and feces. Experts warn about ‘bed rotting’ trend When combined with pool chemicals, those substances people carry into the pool with them can form chloramines, chemical irritants that can also cause skin irritation, nasal irritation, coughing, asthma attacks and wheezing.Pool chemicals effectively kill most germs, but some are more persistent. Chlorine also becomes less effective the more it ha...

Map: These counties are home to the most excessive drinkers, study finds

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:23:24 GMT

(NEXSTAR) — You may have an idea of how much alcohol your community drinks. There may even be a certain sense of pride regarding how much or how little that is. But recently released data helps illustrate which areas in the U.S. are prone to excessive drinking and those that aren’t. Earlier this year, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released its 2023 County Health Rankings and Roadmaps report, which is meant to raise awareness about factors that can impact health outcomes and disparities nationwide.Researchers use numerous data points to determine the length and quality of life on a state-by-state basis. Among those factors is alcohol use, including reported excessive drinking. To determine the rates of excessive drinking per state, researchers used self-reported data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance system. For the 2023 report, the University of Wisconsin used data from 2020 — the first year ...