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Walker’s 12-game hitting streak ends in 5-0 loss to Pirates

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:31 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis rookie Jordan Walker’s hitting streak ended at 12 games when he went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in the Cardinals’ 5-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday night.The 20-year-old tied the record for longest hitting streak at the start of a career by a player 20 or younger, set by Eddie Murphy, who hit in 12 straight games with the Philadelphia Athletics from Aug. 26, 1912, to Sept. 5, 1912. The longest streak at the start of a career, regardless of age, is 17 by Chuck Aleno of the 1941 Cincinnati Reds and David Dahl of the 2016 Colorado Rockies.“He’s done a nice job and played in every game,” St. Louis manger Oliver Marmol said. “When you’re going through a streak like that, the last thing you want to do is give the guy a day off. He did a nice job of handling everything that came with this debut and carrying it on to today. He should be proud of what he’s accomplished.”Carlos Santana doubled twice, and Connor Joe and Rod...

Toews, Blackhawks lose 5-4 to Flyers in finale

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:31 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Jonathan Toews scored in his final game with the Chicago Blackhawks, but Ivan Provorov scored 3:09 into overtime to lift the Philadelphia Flyers to a 5-4 victory Thursday night in the season finale for each team.Toews won three Stanley Cup titles in 15 seasons with Chicago, but general manager Kyle Davidson announced earlier in the day that the team would not re-sign its longtime captain. Toews turns 35 on April 29, and the lowly Blackhawks are rebuilding.Toews had a chance to win the game in overtime, but he was denied by Felix Sandstrom on a breakaway with about 2:15 remaining. Provorov then closed it out for Philadelphia, beating Alex Stalock for his sixth goal of the season.Toews’ last game with Chicago (26-49-7) added some electricity to a matchup of teams long eliminated from the playoff race. And Philadelphia (31-38-13) played up to the challenge, earning a second straight win behind two goals and an assist from Travis Konecny.When it was over, Toews and ...

Bruins close out record regular season, beat Canadiens 5-4

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:31 GMT

MONTREAL (AP) — David Pastrnak’s goal midway through the third period was the winner and the Boston Bruins closed out their record-setting regular season with a 5-4 comeback win over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night.Dmitry Orlov had a goal and an assist. Trent Frederic, Jake DeBrusk and Charlie Coyle also scored for Boston (65-12-5). Jeremy Swayman made 30 saves.The Bruins closed their Presidents Trophy-winning season by establishing records for wins (65) and points (135) in a season. “We took five minutes and celebrated it and we moved on,” said Jeremy Swayman, who was awarded the William Jennings trophy along with teammate Linus Ullmark. “We know that there’s a bigger goal in mind. … And we’re going to take that confidence into the playoffs.”Boston broke the NHL points record with a 5-2 victory over Washington on Tuesday. With that win, the Bruins pushed their points total to 133, one more than the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens and added to it on Thursday. Those Canadie...

Aurora superintendent candidate Andre Wright avoids questions on embezzlement report

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:31 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Andre Wright's meet and greet with Aurora Public School teachers probably didn't go the way he hoped Wednesday night.He's one of three finalists to be the new superintendent for Aurora Public Schools. The public forum for teachers was a chance for educators to ask questions of the candidate but the Problem Solvers estimate not even 10 teachers showed up from the entire district, and one teacher who did have questions was not given an answer by Wright. "So I'm curious to know how you feel like your name should still be in the running for superintendent when your name is riddled throughout that police report against Ron Fay and Jill Watkins," was the question posed by Jill Cullis. Cullis taught at Gateway High School for 30 years but retired in 2021, after she says she was forced out by her principal Ronald Fay. Fay himself would retire in July of 2021 after he became the target of an embezzlement investigation.Alleged embezzlement and grade fixingA 338-page Aur...

Group speaks out against alcohol sales extension at Rockies games

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:31 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- An Anti-drinking-and-driving group is speaking out after the Colorado Rockies announced they are extending alcohol sales at home games.On Thursday, the team announced they are extending alcohol sales from the seventh inning to the end of the eighth inning.The move is being made to adjust to Major League Baseball-mandated quicker games.Among those paying attention to the announcement was Fran Lazer. Will Coors Fields’ 8th-inning beers cause more crime? Lazer is the State Executive Director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).“Here in Colorado, last year,” said Lazer, “281 people died in suspected impairment fatalities, on our roads.”He said MADD, as of yet, has not been contacted by the Rockies for any sort of input or collaboration.Lazer hopes that changes.The alcohol extension begins April 17, when the Rockies return home to face the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Florida Legislature passes 6-week abortion ban; DeSantis signs it into law

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:31 GMT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Republican-dominated Florida Legislature on Thursday approved a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, a proposal supported by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis as he prepares for an expected presidential run.DeSantis signed the bill into law late Thursday night. Florida currently prohibits abortions after 15 weeks.https://twitter.com/MBurgosNews/status/1646717841754685440?s=20A six-week ban gives DeSantis a key political victory among Republican primary voters as he prepares to launch a presidential candidacy built on his national brand as a conservative standard bearer.The policy would also have wider implications for abortion access throughout the South in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year overturning Roe v. Wade and leaving decisions about abortion access to states. Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi have banned abortion at all stages of pregnancy, while Georgia forbids the procedure after...

Silly comedy ‘Mafia Mamma’ mobbed with cliches

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:31 GMT

MOVIE REVIEW“Mafia Mamma”Rated R. At the AMC Boston Common and suburban theaters.Grade: C+Director Catherine Hardwicke is not known for making comedies, unless you count “Twilight” (2008), the first of several laughable films in the “Twilight” series of teen-vampire romance films. She’s not Italian, either. For the most part, the director has been of a keen observer of the quirks and travails of millennial teens. In “Mafia Mamma,” Hardwicke reunites with the great Toni Collette, one of the two protagonists in her 2015 weepie buddy movie “Miss You Already” co-starring Collette and Drew Barrymore.In “Mafia Mamma,” Collette plays a mother named Kristin unhappily sending her son off to college and dealing with a sexist boss and coworkers. To add to her troubles, Kristin catches her feckless musician husband Paul (Tim Daish) in flagrante delicto with a younger woman in his home studio. At the same time, Kristin, whose maiden name is Balbano, learns that her grandfather, whom she di...

McCown: Climate lawsuits threaten national security

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:31 GMT

Climate lawsuits might play well in the press, but they make for lousy policy regarding everything else. Since 2017, cities and states across the United States have filed more than two dozen lawsuits against major energy companies, alleging they sold oil and gas to Americans despite the known environmental effects of fossil fuel consumption.An untold implication of these lawsuits is the potential for jeopardizing U.S. national security. Energy security is national security, and one needs only to look at Europe to see the disastrous consequences of ideologically driven policy decisions that have devastated parts of the economy despite some trying to downplay the significance.After food, fuel represents the greatest operational sustainment demand for the military and national security. As a result, the Department of Defense is by far the largest energy consumer in the United States and one of the largest electricity consumers in the world. Unlike oil-producing countries like Saudi Ara...

Franks: Tenn. reps wrongly removed while fighting wrong fight

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:31 GMT

The two Black state Representatives from Tennessee – let’s call them the Tennessee Duo – who were kicked out of the state Legislature earlier this month for breaking rules of order (while protesting in the chamber during a debate on gun legislation) brought back memories.Protesting wrongs is truly what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders did in the 1960s. But, they would have not protested the elimination of ropes and the cutting down of trees to stop the lynching of Black folks by the Ku Klux Klan. They knew that it was due to the hate in the hearts of those bad people. The rope nor the trees were to blame.Today with the senseless, often random, taking of lives via gun violence, removing any style of gun would not solve the problem. There are 400 million guns in America. Deranged individuals on suicide missions crying for help are severely mentally ill. Last century we built prisons and hired more officers to help address crime. Today we need more individual i...

Editorial: UMass votes to raise costs – where’s the outrage?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:31 GMT

Those who lucked out with administrative jobs at the University of Massachusetts can rest easy – UMass has has agreed to increase tuition, room and board next academic year,.As the State House News Service reported,  the UMass Board of Trustees voted during their quarterly meeting on Wednesday to increase tuition for in-state undergraduates by 2.5%, and increase room and board on the Amherst campus by 4.5% and on the Dartmouth and Lowell campuses by 2.7%.Tuition for graduate students is also going up — 2.5% for in-state graduate students at the Amherst, Boston and Lowell campuses, 3.5% for medical students at the T.H. Chan School of Medicine, Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing and Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and 2% at UMass Law.Of course UMass is raising prices – because they can. And while corporations who raise prices on goods and services are called out by progressive politicians for “price gouging,” you’ll find no ...