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Yoenis Céspedes leaves Cuban team for personal reasons

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:48 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Former major leaguer Yoenis Céspedes has left the Cuban team at the World Baseball Classic for unspecified personal reasons.The Cuban Baseball Federation, in a statement from Havana, gave few details about his departure for the United States but said he might rejoin the team if Cuba reaches the semifinals in Miami.Cuba faced Australia on Wednesday in a quarterfinal game in Tokyo with the winner going to Miami.Cuba won its last two games in Group A playing in Taiwan to advance. Cuba lost its first two games in Group A, but won its last two. Céspedes did not play in the last two games and was hitless in the first two.This is the the first World Baseball Classic in which the Cuban team has been comprised of players residing in Cuba, and others playing abroad in the United States and other countries.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Beard declines to discuss Texas exit at Ole Miss intro

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:48 GMT

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi on Tuesday introduced new basketball coach Chris Beard, who repeatedly declined to discuss specifics regarding his December domestic violence arrest that led to his eventual firing at Texas.“Respectfully, Randi (Trew) and I have agreed not to talk about the details of what happened, not only that night, but in the nights we went through during this process,” Beard said. “But what I can tell you is that much of what was reported is not accurate, and that has been proven with the case being dismissed and the charges being dropped, and also Randi’s statement on December 23. I think that statement speaks for itself.”Beard’s two-year tenure at alma mater Texas ended abruptly in January, though felony domestic charges were ultimately dismissed on Feb. 15. A prosecutor said his office determined that the charge of assault by strangulation/suffocation-family violence could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.Texas suspended Beard after his Dec. 12 ...

Pearl launches Virginia high school tutoring partnership with four HBCUs

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:48 GMT

Pearl, a Richmond company behind an all-in-one tutor management platform, is partnering with the Urban League chapters of Greater Richmond and Hampton Roads on a program that will employ hundreds of students at four historically Black colleges and universities as tutors and mentors to middle and high school students. Pearl said it will initially support tutoring for nearly 1,500 students in the Hampton City School District and Petersburg City Public Schools over the next two years with plans to expand the program to schools in Richmond and “other districts in underserved communities.”The participating HBCUs include Norfolk State University, Hampton University, Virginia State University and Virginia Union University. The program has earned the endorsement of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who said in a statement the initiative is “the kind of collaborative, inventive partnership we want to see across the commonwealth to support our students.” Last year, Pearl closed a seed…Read the fu...

Haaland hits 5, Pep reveals Julia Roberts disappointment

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:48 GMT

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — On a night when Erling Haaland set new standards in the Champions League, Pep Guardiola was preoccupied with Hollywood star Julia Roberts.Never mind a record equalling five goals in one match – or the Manchester City striker becoming the fastest and youngest player to score 30 in European club soccer’s elite competition. Guardiola had other things on his mind after the 7-0 rout of Leipzig on Tuesday as City advanced to the quarterfinals with an 8-1 aggregate win.Oscar winner Roberts, the City manager explained, is one of his three idols, along with Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.But on a visit to the U.K. she chose to watch Manchester United, rather than Guardiola’s City team, which has won four Premier League titles in five years.“She came in the period where we were better than United, in these four or five years,” he said. “And she went to visit Man United. She didn’t come to see us. That’s why this is… even if I win the Champions League (it) will not b...

Hasta $3,600 por hijo: Biden propone nueva ronda de cheques para padres de familia. ¿Calificas?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:48 GMT

Tras presentar su proyecto de presupuesto para el 2024 a principios de Marzo, el presidente Biden reintrodujo una propuesta para expandir el conocido Crédito Tributario por Hijos (CTC por sus siglas en inglés), el cual le daría pagos de hasta $3,600 a las familias con hijos menores de edad. Si bien la nueva propuesta de Biden contiene varios proyectos de infraestructura y reducción de precios de medicamentos, esta también buscará restaurar el popular CTC a $3,600 por hijo, una medida muy popular entre los estadounidenses y que ahora se sitúa en $2,000 por hijo.Esta no es la primera vez que el CTC proporciona pagos de hasta $3,600 por menor a las familias estadounidenses, pues durante la pandemia, este beneficio fue expandido a ese monto antes de regresar a los $3,000 de la prepandemia en el 2021.Bajo el plan propuesto por Biden, el crédito regresaría de los $2,000 a $3,000 por cada niño de seis años o mayor y a $3,600 por cada dependiente menor de seis años. La propuesta de Biden ta...

DPD officer arrested, accused of stealing over $8K for not showing up to off-duty job

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A Denver Police officer was arrested and accused of stealing thousands by billing time he did not work to a private employer he was working for while off-duty.According to the Denver Police Department, Ryan Roybal was arrested for an investigation of felony theft. He has been placed on unpaid administrative leave while the case makes its way through the justice system.An internal affairs investigation was launched after DPD found that Roybal had not been present for several shifts at an off-duty job between April and August 2022. Retired teacher and daughter lose almost $200,000 in wire fraud After investigators reviewed surveillance video given by the employer, they found several differences between what Roybal said he worked and what he actually worked.Specifically, a probable cause affidavit said Roybal only worked 37 hours and 50 minutes but was paid for 156 hours. The estimated amount he received for work he did not do was $8,860, DPD said.Specific charges a...

Cleanup underway in Worcester after nor’easter

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:48 GMT

Crews were busy in Worcester Tuesday evening, working to remove snow that accumulated in their area throughout a long day of winter weather. Though snow totals were lower than others seen in communities such as Ashby or Hubbardston, the 11.7 inches measured at Worcester Regional Airport still had many digging out within Worcester.“It’s a lot of work,” one person said. “Not easy.”Worcester Department of Public Works officials said this storm was a mild one for the city. Still, officials said wind remained a concern on Tuesday afternoon.“We’re expecting the wind to pick up,” Public Works and Parks Commissioner Jay Fink said. So far, Fink said the city had seen just one tree and a few branches come down during this storm. “[B]ut we do expect that it’s going to come back with a vengeance,” Fink added.As temperatures dropped, crews were preparing for an even busier night Tuesday as they work to clear roads in hopes of getting children back to school on Wednesday. “The...

Franz Wagner available for Magic at Spurs to kick off road trip

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:48 GMT

Second-year forward Franz Wagner started in Tuesday’s road game against the San Antonio Spurs despite spraining his right ankle in Saturday’s home win over the Miami Heat.Heat guard Kyle Lowry fell on Wagner’s ankle as both were trying to get up the floor after a Miami missed basket with around nine minutes remaining in the game.Play continued for about 20 seconds, with Wagner hobbling on the ankle until Magic coach Jamahl Mosley was able to call a timeout.Wagner went back into the locker room to get checked out by the trainer. The team later announced he wouldn’t return.The Magic said X-rays on Wagner’s ankle were negative, meaning no damage was shown, before adding the diagnosis was a sprain.His status entering Saturday was questionable before being upgraded to available 1 1/2 hours ahead of tipoff.Wagner’s missed just three games because of injury since being the No. 8 pick in the 2021 draft, all of which came at the end of last season because ...

San Francisco board receptive to ambitious reparations plan

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:48 GMT

By JANIE HAR (Associated Press)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years and homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family.These were some of the more than 100 recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee tasked with the thorny question of how to atone for centuries of slavery and systemic racism. And the San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing the report for the first time Tuesday voiced enthusiastic support for the ideas listed, with some saying money should not stop the city from doing the right thing. Several supervisors said they were surprised to hear pushback from politically liberal San Franciscans apparently unaware that the legacy of slavery and racist policies continues to keep Black Americans on the bottom rungs of health, education and economic prosperity, and overrepresented in prisons and homeless popul...

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred at core of Orioles’ and Nationals’ MASN arguments in New York’s highest court

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:48 GMT

The nearest baseball field to the New York Court of Appeals is a sandlot that will soon host a youth league, ages 4 to 6. But inside the Albany, New York, courthouse on Tuesday, Big Baseball was taking place.Attorneys for two Major League Baseball franchises pleaded their cases in a dispute that has gone on for more than a decade and is worth roughly $100 million in television revenue.The Orioles and Nationals have disagreed for several years as to how much money each should have received from the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network — the regional television network the teams own, with the Orioles as the majority owner — from 2012-2016. Twice, arbitration committees of MLB executives ruled in the matter, but the Orioles appealed both times.Over the course of 30 minutes Tuesday, the Orioles asked the highest court in New York to throw out the most recent decision and rule for the case to be reheard in a different forum. The Nationals, in turn, requested the court affirm the arbit...