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A home run by Mookie Betts prompts fan to give his new daughter the middle name of the Dodgers star

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:42:28 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — There’s a new baby girl in the world named for Mookie Betts.The Los Angeles Dodgers slugger was in the on-deck circle awaiting his at-bat at home on Aug. 2 against Oakland. A fan told Betts that if he hit a home run the man would give his soon-to-be born daughter the middle name of “Mookie.”“I heard this and I laughed, and he said he was serious,” Betts recounted Tuesday in a video on his social media accounts. “I turned around and told him, ‘No, don’t do that bro. Don’t do that.’”Betts again urged the man not to do it, saying, “Your wife wouldn’t like that.”Betts walked up to the plate and hit a 436-foot blast to left field, his longest home run as a Dodger. After circling the bases, he fist-bumped with Giuseppe Mancuso.“A couple weeks later, I see on Twitter the birth certificate for Francesca Mookie Mancuso,” Betts said. “I can’t wait to meet Francesca. That’s going to be my girl, that’s going to be my girl. I thought that wa...

1 hurt in shooting in Ruby Hill neighborhood

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:42:28 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Police responded to the Ruby Hill neighborhood Tuesday night, where they said one person was hurt in a shooting.It happened in the 1600 block of South Vallejo Street, according to the Denver Police Department. The victim was transported to a hospital.Police said investigators were working to identify the shooter.FOX31 has a crew headed to the scene. This story will be updated when more information is received.

Southwest flight attendants sue for rights under Colorado sick leave law

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:42:28 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — In their fight to use state-mandated sick leave protections, unionized Southwest flight attendants are taking their employer and the state of Colorado to court.In a lawsuit filed on Monday, the Transport Workers Union of America's Local 556 claims Colorado reached a backdoor agreement that exempts Southwest from the law — all without any airline employees present. Colorado’s paid sick leave law has expanded as of Aug. 7, 2023 "Colorado's hard-fought legislative protections for workers, consumers, tenants, the environment and the general public are worthless if powerful corporations can extract from the executive branch sweeping backroom settlements that exempt those corporations from Colorado law," the union claims in the lawsuit.The lawsuit filed Monday names Gov. Jared Polis and Southwest Airlines as defendants, along with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment and its Division of Labor Standards and Statistics.Southwest accused of 'retaliatory' sick lea...

Car crashes into driveway of a Miami home, no injuries reported

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:42:28 GMT

No people were reported to be injured after a driver hit a home.A red Honda CRV slammed into the front of the house along Southwest 62nd Avenue and 2nd Street in Miami.Just before that, the driver crashed through a fence and took out a mailbox.Details on why that driver lost control have not been released yet.

Police search for biker accused of assaulting man in Miami Beach

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:42:28 GMT

A South Florida man was just blocks away from his home when he crossed paths with a group of bikers, who then left him a victim of a brutal beating.It was an Ocean Drive ATV and dirt bike takeover that went from really noisy to really violent.“There was a good amount of blood,” said a witness. The man was beaten so badly that he had to be rushed to Ryder Trauma Center. Police are now searching for a rider that was seen on an internal Miami Beach Police flyer, which was obtained exclusively by 7News.A tourist from Texas, who’s back home, witnessed the brutal beat down. He provided 7News with a description of what he saw Sunday at 13th and Ocean where non-street legal bikes tore through the heart of South Beach’s marquee street as they ripped it up on sidewalks, among cafe diners and crowds of pedestrians.“One of the guys was walking across the street, and it looked like he told the guy to kind of maybe slow down,” the witness said.He said the confr...

Russia’s ‘elections’ in occupied Ukraine are a charade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:42:28 GMT

Harald Hartvig Jepsen is senior international advisor at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). Peter Erben is principal advisor at IFES and senior country director at IFES Ukraine.On September 10, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) plans to stage four regional “elections,” 79 municipality “elections” and a “by-election” to the State Duma for “new subjects of the Russian Federation.” But this is yet another of the Kremlin’s faux “elections” running roughshod over the very principle of democracy.Do not be deceived. There will be nothing free or fair about them — they are being conducted purely for propaganda purposes. The outcomes are preordained as any “election” or “plebiscite” organized by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin: The “election” officers, as well as Russian soldiers, will see to that.In Putin’s Orwellian doublespeak, “new subjects” refers to Ukrainian territories illegally occupied by Russian forces. Some of these territories have bee...

Passenger describes close call as pilot told to abort takeoff at Logan Airport

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:42:28 GMT

An investigation got underway Monday after a close call involving two planes at Logan Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration in a statement said the incident happened shortly before 1 p.m. At the time, the FAA said, an air traffic controller told an American Airlines pilot to cancel a takeoff because a Spirit Airlines flight was close to a line on the runway where planes are supposed to stop. The FAA said the controller made the decision “out of an abundance of caution” and said an investigation was ongoing as of Tuesday afternoon. American Airlines in a separate statement said its flight was scheduled to travel from Boston to Chicago and returned to its gate after its takeoff clearance was canceled.American Airlines said the flight took off later in the afternoon around 2:30 p.m.  “The safety of our customers and team members is our top priority and we apologize for the delay in our customer’s travel plans,” American Airlines said. 7NEWS spoke wi...

Alex Verdugo hits leadoff homer, Red Sox beat Nationals 5-4 in series opener

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:42:28 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Verdugo led off the game with a homer and the Boston Red Sox beat the Washington Nationals 5-4 on Tuesday night in the opener of a three-game series.Boston, which remained three games behind Toronto for the American League’s last wild-card spot, has won six of eight. The Red Sox improved to 9-1 at Nationals Park.Stone Garrett and Keibert Ruiz each drove in two runs for the Nationals, who had won 12 of their last 14 at home.After Verdugo’s ninth home run and second career leadoff blast, Triston Casas made it 3-0 with a two-run single in the third off Josiah Gray (7-10). Washington responded in the bottom of the inning as Ruiz and Garrett delivered two-run doubles.The Red Sox chased Gray after Jarren Duran led off the fourth with a single and Pablo Reyes followed with a double. Duran scored on Verdugo’s sacrifice fly, and Reyes came in on reliever Robert Garcia’s wild pitch.John Schreiber (2-1) pitched a scoreless sixth inning. He was the secon...

Jose Butto gives up 3 runs after getting call to make spot start, Mets lose to Pirates, 7-4

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:42:28 GMT

The Mets called up Jose Butto from Triple-A Syracuse on Tuesday knowing that they might need a pitcher to provide length out of the bullpen. This has often been the case for the Mets this season and it’s one of the factors that led them to sell at the trade deadline two weeks ago.Their premonition proved correct. Left-hander David Peterson lasted only 3 2/3 innings and Butto, a spot starter, took over from there, taking the loss (0-2) after a seventh-inning blowup in the Mets’ 7-4 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Citi Field.The series is now tied at 1-1.Peterson held the Pirates (54-66) to only one run but struggled with his command right away. He walked six hitters and hit one, exiting in the fourth with one on and two outs. Butto was mostly effective until the seventh, when suddenly no one could find the strike zone.With the game tied 1-1, the right-hander loaded the bases with one out. He walked leadoff hitter Andrew McCutchen, gave up a double to Co...

Bryce Elder, Braves one-hit Yankees as Bombers drop to .500

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:42:28 GMT

ATLANTA — Luis Severino found himself an out away from escaping a jam that he created, but the pitcher’s first-inning woes continued on Tuesday against the Braves.Severino’s night began with a single off the bat of Ronald Acuña Jr. The Yankees’ right-hander then tried to pick the speedster off of first base. Acuña Jr. had been leaning, but Severino delivered an errant throw that put the runner on third.Severino was able to record two straight outs after that, but a walk to Matt Olson set Marcell Ozuna up for a three-run homer to straightaway center field. That gave the Braves, baseball’s best team, an early lead that they never relinquished in a 5-0, series-securing win over the Yankees.Severino, one of the worst starters in the majors this season, settled in for a few innings after that, but a fourth-inning error by third baseman Isiah Kiner-Falefa preceded another dinger to center. Acuña Jr. produced the second blow for his 27th home ru...