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Padres’ Machado ejected after being called out on violation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:29:52 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego Padres slugger Manny Machado was ejected by plate umpire Ron Kulpa after being called out on strikes on a pitch clock violation to end the first inning of Tuesday’s game against Arizona. Machado was adjusting his batting gloves and appeared to be calling time as the clock wound down to 8 seconds, by which time a batter must be facing the pitcher under new rules adopted for this season to speed the pace of play. Kulpa didn’t grant time, apparently because the clock had already hit 8 seconds, and called him out. Machado stood at the plate arguing with Kulpa as manager Bob Melvin came out. Machado said something to Kulpa and was ejected.Machado, who was the designated hitter, was eventually escorted toward the dugout by another umpire.It was the 10th ejection of Machado’s career.Machado committed the first pitch clock violation during spring training and shrugged it off after getting two hits that day.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB an...

Which Colorado cities have the longest and shortest summers?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:29:52 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Freezing temperatures can seem like a year-round thing to any Coloradan, but in many places across the state there are a few months out of the year when you can safely stow your sweaters in favor of a pair of shorts.This year, the summer season is officially from June 21, the summer solstice, to Sept. 23. When could Denver see its final snow of the season? In this way, regardless of where you spend your time, we all have the same amount of time to enjoy summer. However, if you define "summer" as the warmest time of the year, it can be longer — or shorter — depending on where you are.FOX31 looked at metro areas and mountain cities across the state to see where you can find the longest and shortest summer season in Colorado.What city has the longest warm season?You have to look to the state's Western Slope to find the city with the longest time between its last spring freeze and its first fall freeze according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini...

Family receives year of free groceries as father battles cancer 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:29:52 GMT

As a Taunton father battles cancer, his family won’t have to worry about putting food on the table thanks to the Joe Andruzzi Foundation and its partners. The family was surprised on Tuesday in Mansfield with a year’s worth of free groceries from Stop & Shop and a year’s supply of bottled water from Poland Spring. “We won’t want a cancer patient to have to choose between putting food on their table or paying an electric bill,” Andruzzi Foundation CEO Jen Andruzzi told 7NEWS.Mark, 38, has been unable to work as he fights cancer for a second time. His wife, Jessica, has also needed to stay at home full time to care for their children, who live with special needs. After Tuesday’s generous gesture, the family was overwhelmed with gratitude. “It was a huge surprise and it was an amazing thing to be chosen for,” Jessica Rivers said. “It really was.”“It makes me feel great,” Jessica continued. “It just fills my heart to be able to see this happening and knowing...

Stoughton students get to see MassDOT snow plow they helped name through state contest

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:29:52 GMT

A local kindergarten class recently got to see a state Department of Transportation snowplow they helped name a matter of months after they were among the winners of a naming contest for new MassDOT plows. Mrs. Jacqueline Faria’s kindergarten class at Wilkins Elementary School in Stoughton was selected out of more than 900 submissions as one of twelve winning classes that suggested a name. On Tuesday, they got to see their name, “Snow Drop,” on the truck.“They’re very excited,” Wilkins Elementary School Teacher Jacqueline Faria said. “They think that they’ll see Snow Drop in Stoughton, but we’ll definitely be keeping a look out on the news for Snow Drop.”The newly named snow plow is set to hit the streets whenever the state needs its help. In addition to seeing their name on the plow, Faria’s class will also receive a $100 gift card from MassDOT for school supplies. That, Faria said, will give the school a boost. “We always want to provide our students with all ...

A look at Juan Merchan, the Manhattan jurist overseeing Trump’s business records case: ‘A very serious judge’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:29:52 GMT

Tim Balk | New York Daily NewsEx-president Donald Trump’s hush money case is being overseen by a veteran Manhattan Supreme Court jurist who also heard the Trump Organization tax fraud trial that in January ended in a jail term for Trump confidant and aide Allen Weisselberg.Justice Juan Merchan, a 60-year-old former prosecutor who was born in Colombia and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, carries a reputation as a thorough and even-handed judge, and has spent more than a decade on the bench in New York.He attended Baruch College and Hofstra University School of Law and worked as an assistant attorney in the Manhattan district attorney’s office in the 1990s. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as a family court judge. He has served as an acting justice of the state Supreme Court since 2009.Brendan Tracy, a criminal defense lawyer who has appeared before Merchan as a prosecutor, said the judge is well-suited for a high-wattage case like the one against Trump.“He truly strikes me as probably ...

Robot brainstorm: Seaport incubator home to 74 companies in growing field

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:29:52 GMT

Robotics across Massachusetts is expanding, MassRobotics told city officials on a tour of their Seaport facility Tuesday — developing for defense, hospitals, manufacturing and occasionally the Macarena.“Can you dance, Pepper?” MassRobotics Business Development Vice President Micaelah Morrill said to a shiny white, semi-humanoid form at the entrance of a classroom full of children operating rolling bots.“We reprogrammed it,” she explained of Pepper. “She’s very useful. A lot of the applications for robots are in hospitals — she’s typically a concierge robot in hospitals. We reprogrammed it to like do the Macarena and fist bumps.”The 50,000 square feet MassRobotics facility, toured by Mayor Michelle Wu and others Tuesday afternoon, is full of a range of robots moving in their own ways — from flying around, to lifting and placing objects, to building things.The nonprofit hosts 74 companies in the field and worked with ov...

Trump charges a political ploy or justice being done, depending on the source

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:29:52 GMT

The reaction to former President Donald Trump’s 34-count indictment broke along party lines, as expected.“The prosecution and … arraignment appear to be little more than a way for this DA, who campaigned on prosecuting the former president, to advance his own career,” MassGOP Chairwoman Amy Carnevale said.The 45th president left the Criminal Courts Building in Manhattan Tuesday and departed for his home in Florida, not long after Assistant District Attorney Christopher Conroy told a New York judge the president had falsified records regarding his business dealings in the lead up to the 2016 campaign in such a way that misdemeanor charges should be elevated to felonies.The falsifications, prosecutors allege, are rooted in hush-money payments made to people with whom Trump allegedly had extramarital sexual encounters and paid for silence in the days leading up to his first election and which amount to high-level crimes in New York.In a press conference following Trump’s un...

Kansas passes trans bathroom bill; Arkansas OKs own version

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:29:52 GMT

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill to impose some of the nation’s broadest bathroom restrictions and ban transgender people from changing the name or gender on their driver’s licenses cleared the Legislature by margins Tuesday that suggest backers could override the Democratic governor’s expected veto.Kansas Senate voted 28-12 with one vote more than a two-thirds majority needed to overturn any veto, giving final passage to an earlier House-passed version and sending it to Gov. Laura Kelly. Both chambers have Republican supermajorities.The measure deals with bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities, and defines “sex” as “either male or female, at birth,” a move LGBTQ+-rights advocates said would legally erase transgender people and deny recognition to non-binary, gender fluid and gender non-conforming people.The final vote came less than two hours after Arkansas lawmakers sent Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders a bathroom bill after scaling it back following...

Darius Miles pleads not guilty to capital murder charge

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:29:52 GMT

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former University of Alabama basketball player has pleaded not guilty to a capital murder charge filed against him after he was accused of providing the gun used in a fatal shooting near campus. Darius Miles, 21, of Washington, D.C., entered the plea on Monday, according to court documents.Miles, a former junior reserve forward for the Crimson Tide, and Michael Lynn Davis, 21, of Charles County, Maryland, are charged with capital murder in the January shooting death of 23-year-old Jamea Harris. The shooting occurred on the Strip, a student-oriented business district of bars and restaurants near the Tuscaloosa campus. Investigators said Harris was sitting in the passenger seat of a car when she was struck by a bullet, which brings a capital murder charge in Alabama. Miles was removed from the university’s team following his arrest.Davis is accused of firing the gun that killed the young woman, according to court documents filed in Tuscaloosa. Investigators w...

Mexico power plant purchases touted as ‘new nationalization’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:29:52 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president announced a deal Tuesday to buy 13 of the power plants operated by the Spanish company Iberdrola in the country for an estimated $5.94 billion, calling it a “new nationalization” of the Mexican electericity sector. The deal could put an end to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s years of verbally sparring with the company, along with fines and limits on its plants in Mexico. López Obrador has long admired former President Adolfo López Mateos, who nationalized Mexico’s electrical industry in 1960. By the 2000s, decades of corruption, high domestic electricity rates and under-investment led López Obrador’s predecessors to invite foreign companies in to build new, cleaner power plants.On Tuesday, López Obrador said the deal will give Mexico’s state-owned power company a 55.5% share of the electricity market. The utility, the Federal Electricity Commission, now produces just under 40% of Mexico’s electricity.“This i...