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South Side sports program brings back beep ball for visually impaired

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:27 GMT

CHICAGO — An adaptive sports program on the Southwest side features athletes who are blind or visually impaired and are preparing for their upcoming season.Beep baseball is in full swing for the Chicago Comets and team captain Bill Landram has been playing for 12 years after a Google search promoted him to call head coach JT Herzog. Working on Womanhood: How a non-profit is giving young women tools to boost their mental health and academic success "I always wanted to be a pitcher for the Cubs and dedicated myself to it. When I went blind and that was taken from me, finding this. This is my major league baseball," Landram said.Herzog can't get enough of it either."I have a blast. I love the sport the athletes and the team we have in Chicago," Herzog said.Herzog started with the Comets more than 20 years ago after his son joined the team. Read more: Latest Chicago news headlines"It’s the camaraderie, it’s the learning from each other, it’s the self-discipline, it’s the self-confiden...

Teen dead after being trapped under sand at Outer Banks beach

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:27 GMT

FRISCO, N.C. (WNCT) -- A 17-year-old boy died Saturday after being trapped under several feet of sand at a beach in Frisco, North Carolina, according to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.Officials said law enforcement rangers responded at around 2 p.m. to a 911 call of a male teen trapped in a hole. The hole was dug in a back-dune area behind the primary dune and could not be seen from the beachfront, a press release from the park explained.Family and friends were looking for the teen, who was only identified as being from Chesapeake, Virginia, and found him buried under several feet of sand.Officials said the teen became buried after part of the adjacent dune collapsed into the hole. More than 200 people died in national parks last year: These were the deadliest Rangers worked with family members to get the teen out while also performing CPR. Dare County Emergency Medical Services personnel and Hatteras Island Ocean Rescue staff assisted but the teen died at the scene.“Cape Hat...

Texas mall shooting suspect identified, investigators examining ideology: AP sources

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:27 GMT

ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Federal officials are looking into whether the gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall expressed an interest in white supremacist ideology as they work to try to discern a motive for the attack, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official cautioned the investigation is in its early stages.Federal agents have been reviewing social media accounts they believe Mauricio Garcia, 33, used and posts that expressed interest in white supremacist and neo-Nazi views, said the official, who could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.Garcia also had a patch on his chest when he was killed by police that read “RWDS,” an acronym for the phrase “Right Wing Death Squad,” which is popular among right-wing extremists and white supremacy groups, the official said.In addition to reviewing social media posts, federal agents have interviewed family members and associates of Garcia to ask abou...

Saints’ doubleheader split with Sounds features drama outside the lines

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:27 GMT

There were 14 innings of baseball played at CHS Field on Sunday, with the Saints splitting a doubleheader with the Nashville Sounds, but the most compelling events took place outside the white lines.The original lineup handed out for Game 2 had outfielder Trevor Larnach, sent down to the Saints by the Twins on Saturday, hitting third as the designated hitter in Game 2. He was not in the lineup when the game started and wasn’t even at the ballpark.Players have 72 hours to report after being sent down, and Larnach has elected to use that time. Saints manager Toby Gardenhire said he expects Larnach to be available when the Saints open another series at home on Tuesday.“He was playing pretty good up there,” Gardenhire said, “so maybe a little disappointed. But it’s all part of it.”In addition, Saints outfielder Matt Wallner sat out both games. Gardenhire said Wallner stumbled a bit when making a throw home earlier in the series and came up a little sore.“It’s more precautionary as anyth...

Report: Nuggets assistant David Adelman set to interview for Toronto job

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:27 GMT

As the Nuggets attempt to get past Phoenix and into the Western Conference Finals, coaching search season is heating up among non-playoff teams.According to a report from The Athletic, Denver assistant coach David Adelman is set to interview for Toronto’s head coaching vacancy at some point this week. Adelman, who has been on Michael Malone’s staff for the past six seasons, is an Oregon native and the son of longtime NBA head coach Rick Adelman.Asked about the report before Sunday’s Game 4 in Phoenix, Malone only said, “We’re getting ready to play the Phoenix Suns in Game 4.”David Adelman, 41, spent two years as an assistant in Orlando before coming to Denver.In January, he got a strong endorsement from two-time MVP Nikola Jokic, after Adelman served as Denver’s acting head coach while Malone was in health and safety protocols.“I really think that DA’s a guy who’s gonna be next head coach because he has that, I’m gonna say ‘head’ for a head ...

Newsom blasts Texas Gov. Abbott in wake of Allen shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:27 GMT

In the wake of another deadly mass shooting in the United States, California Governor Gavin Newsom took to social media this weekend to call out Republicans who he believes have stood idly by as lives continue be lost at the hands of armed gunmen."This is freedom?? To be shot at a mall? Shot at school? Shot at church? Shot at the movies? We have become a nation that is more focused on the right to kill than the right to live," Gov. Newsom wrote on Twitter.The comments were made in the hours following a mass shooting at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, in which a gunman opened fire at shoppers, killing eight and wounding seven more. The gunman, 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, was killed by an officer who was at the mall on an unrelated call. SUV driver hits crowd at Texas bus stop near border; 7 dead, 10 hurt Investigators said Garcia used an AR-style rifle in the Dallas suburb shooting and was also believed to have interacted with neo-Nazi and white supremacist posts on social media.T...

Ventura County man gets 34 years to life for child molestation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:27 GMT

A 27-year-old man from Santa Paula has been sentenced to 34 years to life in prison for child molestation, authorities with the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced late last week.  Rodolfo Duran pled guilty in April to sodomy of a child 10 years old or younger, as well as forcible sodomy of a child under the age of 14, related to crimes against two separate victims. “Duran also admitted to the special allegations that the crimes involved great violence, he took advantage of a position of trust, and the victims were vulnerable,” a DA’s Office news release stated. When one of the victims reported the crimes to her Santa Paula schoolteacher in 2018, detectives quickly identified a second victim and learned that Duran had been assaulting the victims for years.  “While being interviewed by detectives from the Santa Paula Police Department, Duran confessed to the allegations,” the release noted.  Deputy District Attorney Benjamin Moreno, a member of the DA’s...

Man fatally shot at North Oakland hotel

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:27 GMT

OAKLAND — A man died Sunday after a shooting at a North Oakland motel, authorities said.Just before noon, police responded to reports of a possible shooting in the 700 block of West MacArthur Boulevard in the city’s Longfellow neighborhood.When officers arrived minutes later at the Capri Motel, at 722 West MacArthur Blvd., they learned that a man had been shot.His identity was not available, pending next-of-kin notification by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office coroner’s bureau.Other officers responded to the scene, blocking off traffic along West MacArthur and working to recover evidence.Police did not share word of any arrests, or any descriptions of associated suspects or vehicles in the incident.The killing is the 35th homicide investigated by Oakland police this year.Police had investigated 40 homicides within the city at this same point in 2022.Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $10,000 in reward money for information leading to th...

Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run in San Jose

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:27 GMT

An adult man was struck by a car and killed Friday night in the 1900 block of San Jose’s Monterey Road – the 11th pedestrian to die this year, according to the San Jose Police Department.At 11 p.m. on Friday, an unknown vehicle hit the man, whose identity has not been released, and fled from the scene, police said. A second vehicle may also have struck the pedestrian after he fell. Medical personnel pronounced him dead on the scene.The identity of the pedestrian will be released by the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office once they confirm his identity and notify his next of kin.According to police, the fatality is San Jose’s 14th traffic death of 2023.The San Jose Police Department is investigating the incident and asking anyone with information to contact Detective Malvido by calling 408-277-4654 or emailing [email protected].

Meneses’ homer in 9th lifts Nationals to 9-8 win over Dbacks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:27 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Joey Meneses hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning off Miguel Castro and had four RBIs, lifting the Washington Nationals to a 9-8 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.The Nationals rallied from a four-run deficit to take the lead in the ninth inning Saturday night, only to lose 8-7 when the Diamondbacks rallied in the bottom half.Arizona took an 8-6 lead into the ninth inning on Sunday behind Lourdes Gurriel Jr.’s two homers and four RBIs.Luis Garcia opened the ninth inning with a double off Castro (1-1) and Keibert Ruiz followed with a single. Meneses turned quickly on a pitch by Castro and sent it into the seats in left to put the Nationals ahead.Erasmo Ramírez (2-1) didn’t allow a baserunner in 1 1/3 innings and Hunter Harvey worked around a walk in ninth for his first save since 2019 at Double-A Bowie to prevent Arizona’s first sweep of the Nationals since 2009.Washington trailed by four runs after six innings, cutting the lead to 7-5 ...