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Athletics tie it on Ryan Noda’s grand slam in 11th, win it in 12th against Diamondbacks

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:37 GMT

OAKLAND — The Athletics tied it in the seventh inning on a two-out grand slam from Ryan Noda and Esteury Ruiz singled home a run in the 12th in a 9-8 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks t the Coliseum before what was left of a crowd of 3,261.Austin Pruitt (1-1) was the winning pitcher with three scoreless innings of relief despite the presence of a free lead runner. Scott McGough (1-1) took the loss for Arizona.Ruiz lined a one-hopper off Nick Ahmed with one out, bringing in Ramon Laureano with the winning run.Nick Allen andLaureano also had solo home runs for the A’s, the first for Allen and the fourth for Laureano. For Arizona, Christian Walker hit a two-run shot in the first (his 10th) and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had his seventh, a two-run shot in the fifth.The Athletics improved to 10-35 and evened the series at 1-1 with an opportunity to win their second series of the season in Wednesday’s getaway game against Arizona (24-19). The A’s came in having lost three straight an...

Oakland: Deputy injured, patrol vehicles damaged after traffic stop, pursuit

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:37 GMT

OAKLAND — A 27-year city resident was in county jail Tuesday after his arrest on suspicion of multiple charges in connection with a pursuit and ramming of multiple vehicles that injured an Alameda County sheriff’s deputy, authorities said.According to a statement posted to an Alameda County Sheriff’s Office social-media account, deputies found a vehicle that had been reported stolen traveling westbound along Interstate 580 near Estudillo Avenue in San Leandro around 2 p.m.Additional deputies followed the vehicle, coordinating with others to carry out a traffic stop, and approached it with several patrol vehicles after it stopped in a parking lot near 35th Avenue and East 12th Street in Oakland.Moments later, the vehicle’s driver responded by intentionally ramming three of the patrol vehicles, leaving a deputy with minor injuries and disabling two vehicles. The vehicle then fled, but a sheriff’s air unit followed it to the 700 block of High Street, where...

Reports say 39 missing after Chinese fishing boat capsizes in Indian Ocean

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:37 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Reports Wednesday said 39 people are missing more than 24 hours after a Chinese fishing boat operating in the Indian Ocean capsized. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said the accident happened around 3 a.m. Tuesday. The report said the crew includes 17 from China, 17 from Indonesia and five from the Philippines. Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Qiang have ordered Chinese diplomats abroad, as well as the agriculture and transportation ministries, to assist in the search for survivors. “All-out efforts” must be made in the rescue operation, Xi was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua News Agency. Li ordered unspecified measures to “reduce casualties and strengthen safety management of fishing vessels at sea to ensure safe maritime transport and production,” Xinhua said. No word was given on the cause of the capsizing. Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines have also expressed their willingness to join in the search. Indonesia’s National Search an...

Singapore hangs 2nd citizen in 3 weeks for trafficking cannabis despite calls to halt executions

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:37 GMT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore on Wednesday hanged another citizen for trafficking cannabis, the second in three weeks, as it clung firmly to the death penalty despite growing calls for the city-state to halt drug-related executions.The 37-year-old man was executed after his last-ditch bid to reopen his case was dismissed by the court Tuesday without a hearing, said activist Kokila Annamalai of the Transformative Justice Collective, which advocates for abolishing the death penalty in Singapore.The man, who was not named as his family has asked for privacy, had been imprisoned for seven years and convicted in 2019 for trafficking around 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds) of cannabis, she said. His bid to reopen his case was based on DNA evidence and fingerprints that tied him to a much smaller amount, which he admitted to possessing, but the court rejected it, she added. Under Singapore laws, trafficking more than 500 grams (1.1 pounds) of cannabis may result in the death penalty.“I...

Nepal’s Sherpa guide regains title for most climbs of Mount Everest after 27th trip

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:37 GMT

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the greatest mountain guides regained his title for the most climbs of Mount Everest after scaling the peak for the 27th time on Wednesday, just three days after a fellow Sherpa climber had equalled his previous record. Kami Rita, 53, reached the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit guiding a group of climbers on the world’s highest mountain, and was safe and in good health, said Mingma Sherpa of the Kathmandu-based Seven Summit Treks.A fellow Nepali Sherpa guide Pasang Dawa scaled the peak on Sunday for the 26th time, equalling Kami Rita’s record last year. The season’s first wave of climbers reached the summit over the weekend as Sherpa guides fixed ropes and made paths for the hundreds who will attempt to scale the peak over the remaining days of May. May is the best month to climb Everest since it has the best weather conditions. There are generally only a couple of windows with good weather on the highest section of the mountain in May tha...

ESPN announces ‘Pat McAfee Show’ will join afternoon lineup

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:37 GMT

Pat McAfee’s show is moving to ESPN as part of a new multiyear deal announced Tuesday.McAfee first joined ESPN as a college football analyst for its Thursday night games in 2019. He returned to the network last year and became part of the “College GameDay” crew as well as hosting some alternate presentations of ESPN games, including the CFP National Championship.That will continue, but it is McAfee’s show that has created the most buzz. It began on satellite radio in 2016 and picked up steam when it began streaming in 2019. The show has been mainly on YouTube the past three years, but will move to ESPN, the ESPN YouTube Channel and ESPN+ as part of the network’s afternoon lineup beginning in the fall. It will likely air after “First Take” and start at 12 p.m. ET.McAfee is exiting a four-year deal with FanDuel that the New York Post reported was worth $120 million.The McAfee show is known for weekly appearances by Aaron Rodgers during the football season, including ...

Perez has 2-run double in Kansas City’s 5-run 2nd, Royals beat Padres 5-4

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:37 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Salvador Perez hit a two-run double in Kansas City’s five-run second, Brady Singer pitched six solid innings and the Royals beat the San Diego Padres 5-4 on Tuesday night to snap a four-game losing streak.The Royals jumped on starter Seth Lugo (3-3) in the second, with Bobby Witt Jr., Nate Eaton and Matt Duffy also driving in runs. Lugo gave up five runs on four hits in his two innings. The Padres have lost eight of 10.“That was really good for us tonight. That is a great win, you know, against a team like the Padres. They are a really good team,” Perez said. “We scored five runs, and we got the game.” Singer (3-4) lasted six innings, giving up seven hits and four runs, two of which were earned. Scott Barlow got his fifth save with a scoreless ninth.“The fastball had really good late movement on it. I was able to move that around the zone. The slider helped me a lot tonight,” Singer said. “I think I attacked the zone pretty well tonight.”San Diego ...

Ober, Farmer lead Twins to 5-1 victory over Kershaw, Dodgers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:37 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bailey Ober allowed one run in six innings, Kyle Farmer homered and drove in three runs, and the Minnesota Twins defeated Los Angeles 5-1 Tuesday night as Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw took the mound three days after the death of his mother.Marianne Tombaugh died Saturday, according to Ellen Kershaw. The pitcher’s wife made the announcement that day during the dedication of a refurbished youth baseball field supported by his charity foundation.Kershaw (6-3) struck out seven in four innings, but faced constant traffic. The left-hander allowed seven hits, one walk and hit a batter.Ober (3-0) allowed one run on six hits and struck out six. The Twins got their leadoff batter aboard four times and converted that into runs three times.Farmer extended his hitting streak to nine games with an RBI single in the first inning. The third baseman then extended the lead to four runs in the ninth with a two-run shot to left-center.Willi Castro had two hits, including an RBI single...

Ban Wagner Group, demands Russian lawmaker

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:37 GMT

A veteran Russian politician and former army commander called for a crackdown on the country’s notorious private military company, Wagner Group, as tensions rise over its role in the invasion of Ukraine.Viktor Sobolev, a former lieutenant general in the armed forces who now sits as a Communist Party MP, branded the mercenary outfit “an illegal armed formation” in a statement on Tuesday. “It is not clear where [the Wagner Group] is registered and what it does,” Sobolev said. He warned regular soldiers defecting into its ranks could face up to 15 years in prison.Moscow outsourced much of the fighting around the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to Wagner in recent weeks. The group’s founder, oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, accused top generals of failing to supply his troops in a series of furious attacks on the top brass.The Washington Post reported on Monday leaked documents revealed Prigozhin may have offered to give information on Russian army positions to ...

Russia’s threat to exit Ukraine grain deal adds risk to global food security

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:37 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations is racing to extend a deal that has allowed shipments of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger, helping ease a global food crisis exacerbated by the war Russia launched more than a year ago.The breakthrough accord that the U.N. and Turkey brokered with the warring sides last summer came with a separate agreement to ease shipments of Russian food and fertilizer that Moscow insists hasn’t been applied. Russia set a Thursday deadline for its concerns to be ironed out or it’s bowing out. Such brinkmanship isn’t new: With a similar extension in the balance in March, Russia unilaterally decided to renew the deal for just 60 days instead of the 120 days outlined in the agreement. U.N. officials and analysts warn that a failure to extend the Black Sea Grain Initiative could hurt countries in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia that rely on Ukrainian wheat, barley, vegetable oil and other af...