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Homeless World Cup makes United States debut in California 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:24 GMT

The Homeless World Cup was staged in the United States for the first time in the tournament’s history this week. The five-day tournament, which comprises of teams from around the world whose players were once homeless, took place at California State University, Sacramento and featured 300 players from 40 different national teams. Among the participating nations was Ukraine, whose players include refugees displaced by the ongoing conflict with Russia. According to the participants themselves, the tournament does more than just get them off the street.  Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw says sore left shoulder will likely keep him sidelined until August “I feel happy for something,” said Pedro Vega, who was playing for the United States. “It’s a blessing to be here right now spending time with my team and meeting new people from different countries. It’s amazing.” The first Homeless World Cup took place in Graz, Austria in July 2003. This was the first time th...

Antioch: Three shootings leave one dead and at least three wounded

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:24 GMT

One person was killed and at least three others wounded in three unrelated shootings in Antioch overnight Friday, police said.At around 2:11 a.m. Saturday morning, officers were downtown when they heard gunshots and a crowd of people running near a bar and restaurant on I Street. One man was shot multiple times and killed, and at least two others, including a woman found shot on West First Street, were wounded but expected to survive, police said. A total of 60 shell casings were found in the area.While officers were at the homicide scene, another shooting happened around 2:51 a.m. in the 2100 block of Lemontree Way. About an hour later, a victim arrived at Sutter Delta Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds.No arrests were announced for either shooting.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Brentwood: Altercation ends in two males shooting each other Crime and Public Safety | One man killed, another injured in Pittsburg shooting Crime and Pub...

US Southwest swelters under dangerous heat wave, with new records on track

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:24 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — A dangerous heat wave threatened a wide swath of the Southwest with potentially deadly temperatures in the triple digits on Saturday as some cooling centers planned to extend their hours and emergency rooms prepared to treat more people will heat-related illnesses. “Near record temperatures are expected this weekend!” the National Weather Service in Phoenix warned in a tweet, advising people to follow its heat safety tips such as drinking plenty of water and checking on family members and neighbors. “Don’t be a statistic!” the weather service in Tucson advised, noting that extreme heat can be deadly. “It CAN happen to YOU!”About 200 hydration stations distributing bottles of water and cooling centers where thousands of people can rest in air conditioned spaces opened Saturday morning in public spaces like libraries, churches and businesses around the Phoenix metro area. Charles Sanders spent Friday afternoon with his Chihuahua mix Babygirl at the air-condi...

Rodriguez wins big Alpine stage as Pogacar and Vingegaard lock horns again for Tour stalemate

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:24 GMT

MORZINE LES PORTES DU SOLEIL, France (AP) — Could the Tour de France be decided by time bonuses? Even on the toughest battleground, defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and two-time winner Tadej Pogacar could not separate themselves Saturday after a dramatic day in the Alps.Again in a class of their own, Pogacar and Vingegaard finished second and third respectively at the ski station of Morzine after another fierce fight that concluded a day of attrition in the 14th stage.The pair was well ahead of their struggling overall challengers at some point in the final ascent, the daunting Col of Joux Plane, but allowed stage winner Carlos Rodriguez to come back as the duo watched each other like track cyclists in a velodrome, waiting for an opening to get the biggest bonus at the top of the steep ascent. Vingegaard won this duel.Rodriguez, a Tour debutant from Spain riding for Ineos-Grenadiers, then moved away from the pair in the downhill leading to Morzine.Vingegaard kept the yellow jerse...

Skupski and Koolhof beat Granollers and Zeballos to win men’s doubles final at Wimbledon

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:24 GMT

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Neal Skupski became the second British player in the Open era to win the men’s doubles title at Wimbledon after teaming up with Wesley Koolhof on Saturday to beat Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-4, 6-4 in the final.It’s a first Grand Slam title for both Skupski and Koolhof, who lost in last year’s U.S. Open final.“To hold this beauty is very, very special,” said Koolhof, who is from the Netherlands, as he cradled the trophy on Centre Court.The top-seeded pair only faced one break point in the final, which they saved, and broke for a decisive 3-2 lead in the second set.Skupski joined Jonathan Marray as the only British players to win the men’s doubles title at Wimbledon in the professional era, which began in 1968. Marray did so in 2012.“This feeling at the moment, doesn’t get better,” Skupski said.He is also the first British man to win both the mixed doubles and men’s doubles at the All England Club since Leslie Godfr...

BRITISH OPEN ’23: Back to Royal Liverpool with all eyes on McIlroy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:24 GMT

HOYLAKE, England (AP) — So many players showed up at Augusta National with high hopes for the major championship season. In the 105 days between the opening rounds of the Masters and the British Open, so much hope has given way to a small measure of desperation.The British Open, which returns to Royal Liverpool for the third time in the last 17 years, is the last chance this year to win a major.“This is the last major for eight or nine months, and you don’t know what’s happening in 12 months’ time,” Adam Scott said with a wry smile, referring in part to so much chaos in golf with the battle-turned-partnership with Saudi-funded LIV Golf.“It does go quickly, especially the way our schedule has shifted,” Scott said. “Now this one is ‘Glory’s Last Shot,’ although you can’t use that punch line for The Open Championship. But it is.”No need reminding Rory McIlroy of that.Still fresh is the sting from the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club last month, when h...

Ben Wallace to step down as UK defense chief, The Times reports

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:24 GMT

U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace plans to leave the government at the next Cabinet reshuffle and will not stand in the next general election, he told The Times newspaper.  Wallace informed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of his plans on June 16 but had hoped to make the announcement later in the summer, the newspaper reported late Saturday. A Cabinet reshuffle is expected by September. “I’m not standing next time,” Wallace was quoted as saying. But he ruled out going “prematurely” and forcing another by-election, the newspaper said.  “I went into politics in the Scottish parliament in 1999. That’s 24 years,” Wallace, who has been defense chief since July 2019, told the paper.  The development comes days after Wallace controversially said Ukraine should put more emphasis on showing “gratitude” to “doubting politicians” in the U.S. and other allied countries who might not be completely convinced of the need to maintain military and economic support to Kyiv as it defen...

‘Grim Reaper’: Harvard Medical School faces 2 more lawsuits over alleged human body parts trafficking ring

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:24 GMT

One of two new lawsuits filed against Harvard in the wake of bombshell allegations a morgue employee was stealing and selling body parts donated to the university’s medical school reveals the employee may have identified as the “Grim Reaper.”The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced on June 14 an alleged “nationwide network of individuals bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary,” which implicated HMS morgue employee Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, N.H., and four others, including his wife, Denise Lodge, 63.“This ghoulish black market was allowed to flourish in plain sight by an HMS morgue employee whose lack of respect for the dead was obvious to anyone who scrutinized his behavior; it is alleged that he drove to work each day and presumably parked in the HMS parking lot with a license plate identifying him as the ‘GRIM-R’ — as in, the grim reaper,” a new lawsuit targeting the university filed at th...

Apartment fire displaces 10 in South Bay

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:24 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A Saturday morning apartment fire in the Nestor neighborhood has left 10 people displaced, fire officials confirmed to FOX 5.The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department says crews responded to reports of a structure fire on the 2000 block of Iris Avenue shortly before 7 a.m. Man struck by vehicle in Midtown The blaze was located at a residential four-unit apartment building, and SDFD says crews have since extinguished the fire.According to fire officials, no one was home in the unit where the fire started. There were no injuries reported in connection to this incident.A total of 10 residents were displaced due to fire and smoke damage. They are being assisted by the Red Cross. SDFD says the cause of the fire is unknown at this time, but arson isn't suspected.

Lionel Messi makes it official by signing with Inter Miami and Major League Soccer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:24 GMT

Lionel Messi has finalized his deal to join Major League Soccer, and after years of planning and pursuing, Inter Miami has landed a global icon.Messi’s contract became official Saturday, a little more than five weeks after he declared that he would be coming to Inter Miami. The team will introduce him Sunday night at its stadium in Fort Lauderdale, and the first home match of the Messi era could be as early as Friday in a Leagues Cup match against Cruz Azul.A formal news conference is scheduled for Monday, and his first training session with his new club is expected on Tuesday. The club previously announced that Messi’s deal will be for 2 1/2 seasons and will pay him between $50 million and $60 million annually — putting the total contract value between $125 million and $150 million in cash alone.“BIENVENIDO 10,” the team posted Saturday on Twitter.Welcome, Messi, indeed.“We are overjoyed that the greatest player in the world chose Inter Miami CF and Major League S...