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RJ Barrett emerges as impactful No. 2 option in playoffs

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:43 GMT

Give RJ Barrett his flowers. He deserves the bouquet.No Knick this season has been more scrutinized and dissected than Barrett, who was burdened by higher expectations in his fourth year and largely floated under them.On the team hierarchy, Barrett’s shooting struggles left him, without question, a third and unreliable option behind Jalen Brunson and Julius Randle. After Barrett missed 19 of his 25 shots in the first two games against Cleveland, Stephen A. Smith told his immense audience on ESPN’s First Take, “RJ Barrett, you might need to sit him down. He might need to sit down for this series.“Every series ain’t for everybody,” Smith added. “The great ones, the really, really good ones, they can play in any series. But there are others – you just don’t have that kind of game. And RJ for this series, he don’t need to be seeing the floor. He ain’t made for this series. He just don’t have that kind of game.”...

Pennsylvania State Police issue warrant for ‘Jackass’ star Bam Margera after alleged assault

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:43 GMT

Pennsylvania State Police are asking for the public’s assistance in searching for former “Jackass” star and skateboarding legend Brandon “Bam” Margera after an altercation at his home in Pocopson, Chester County.State police at Avondale on Sunday issued a news release saying that an arrest warrant was issued for Margera from the District Court in Kennett Square, charging him with terroristic threats and simple assault.According to his mother, April Margera, the target of Margera’s ire was his younger brother, Jess.“We don’t know where he is,” April Margera said Monday morning in a telephone interview, referring to Bam. “He is just struggling with so many layers of issues.” She said his brother had gone to the property on Hickory Hill Road — known in the past as “Castle Bam” — because of a recent “episode.”April Margera said the “Viva La Bam” reality television star had dealt for years with alcohol abuse and mental health issues, and had been living in Florida and California before r...

I-805 closure: Man with knife shot by officer, CHP says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:43 GMT

SAN DIEGO — All lanes of northbound Interstate 805 south of Imperial Avenue were closed Monday following a shooting involving a California Highway Patrol officer.The closure began around 8 a.m. and drivers were detoured to the Imperial Avenue off-ramp, according to Caltrans.Lt. Adam Sharki with San Diego Police Department confirmed to FOX 5 shortly before 9 a.m. that the police activity was prompted after a CHP officer was involved in a shooting. 2 hospitalized after City Heights shooting Around 7:48 a.m., a CHP officer was conducting a traffic stop on the right shoulder of northbound I-805 at Imperial Avenue, Sgt. Brian Pennings said at a news conference. While the officer was walking back to his patrol car, he saw that a man had pulled a vehicle up behind him. "The officer made contact with this individual while he was still seated inside of his car," Pennings said. "The officer observed immediately that he was brandishing a weapon, which was a knife."The officer retreated to hi...

York police join GTA officers warning of pizza delivery scam

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:43 GMT

A message from another Ontario police force: be wary of the pizza delivery scam taking hold across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).York Regional Police are warning of an increase in the ongoing crime after investigators in Toronto recently issued a similar plea to residents to be extra vigilant if approached by suspects claiming to need cash to pay for pizza.Typically, a suspect approaches a victim posing as someone who ordered a pizza delivered by a second suspect posing as the delivery person.It’s alleged that two suspects tell the victim that the delivery person only accepts debit cards and won’t take cash, convincing the victim to use their debit card.The victim will then receive a fake but similar-looking card, and the suspects use the real one to withdraw money or make purchases.Police say legitimate delivery services accept cash, so it’s likely a scam if someone suspicious tries to convince you otherwise.Toronto police said recently if you’re asked to i...

1 dead in Oklahoma college shooting, suspect in custody

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:43 GMT

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. (AP) — One person was shot and killed Monday at a small Oklahoma college and police said a suspect was in custody after school officials told students to stay inside. No other injuries were reported. Midwest City Police Chief Sid Porter said the shooting on the campus of Rose State College appeared to be “domestic-related.” He told reporters at the scene that both the suspect and victim were male. He did not provide additional details about what led to the shooting on the campus in suburban Oklahoma City, which has about 13,000 students.Porter said that weeks before the shooting, students and staff at Rose State College had completed an exercise about what to do in the event of an active shooter.“Thing got locked down real quick,” Porter said. “I just think they did a fantastic job listening to the school and everybody staying down and not panicking because we didn’t know what was going on.”The Associated Press

Guaidó travels to Colombia ahead of conference on Venezuela

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:43 GMT

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Monday said he crossed the border into Colombia “on foot” to seek a meeting with international delegations gathering there for a conference focused on his country’s political crisis.Guaidó, one of the most recognizable figures of Venezuela’s opposition and a presidential hopeful, announced his trip to Colombia in a statement. His campaign told The Associated Press he crossed the border through one of the bridges connecting the neighboring South American countries.After the re-election of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2018 was deemed a sham by dozens of countries, Guaidó declared himself Venezuela’s interim president in 2019. However, his popularity has waned since then and opposition lawmakers voted in January to strip him of that role and instead appoint a committee to run what they call their “interim government.”Tuesday’s international conference organized by Colombian President Gustavo Petro is meant ...

Speaker McCarthy faces big test as debt bill heads for vote

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:43 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is hurtling toward one of the most consequential weeks of the new House Republican majority as he labors to pass a partisan package that would raise the nation’s debt limit by $1.5 trillion in exchange for steep cuts that some in his own party oppose.McCarthy has almost no room for error with his slim five-seat majority hold on power in the House, but has scoffed at the drama bearing down on him, mocking public interest at the will-he-or-won’t-he anticipation of the embattled Republican speaker’s ability to bring his fellow Republicans in line. But the political stakes are sky-high for McCarthy, who is trying to entice President Joe Biden to the negotiating table. The nation is teetering toward a debt default crisis, needing to lift the borrowing cap to keep fully paying the bills in a matter of weeks. “We will hold a vote this week, and we will pass it,” McCarthy vowed in a Sunday interview on Fox News.Even if M...

German plane airlifts 58 Canadians from Sudan, as Canadian plane readies for more

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:43 GMT

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Canadian military will aim to airlift Canadians out of Sudan using a C-17 transport plane that is in the region. He says he heard earlier today that a German plane lifted off from the capital, Khartoum, carrying 58 Canadian citizens and one German citizen.Trudeau made the comments at a photo-op with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Ottawa today, adding that the recent airlift is an example of great co-operation between Canada and Germany.Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said earlier today that Canada is working with “like-minded countries” to help citizens who remain in Sudan flee the country as an armed conflict there escalates.Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured in just 10 days after power-sharing negotiations between the country’s armed forces and its paramilitary troops rapidly deteriorated.Joly says Global Affairs Canada is trying to contact all Canadians in Sudan who have registered w...

Canada’s financial support for clean energy compares favourably to U.S: TD Bank

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:43 GMT

CALGARY — The financial support Canada is offering for the clean energy transition is competitive with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) south of the border, a new report from TD Economics says.The report Monday essentially refutes the arguments made in recent months by Canadian business leaders, who have held up the U.S. IRA as the gold standard in the global race for energy transition investment.TD said it has crunched the numbers and the government of Canada has spent $139 billion since budget 2021, or five per cent of the country’s nominal GDP, on supports for clean energy development.The bank said this compares favourably to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act’s estimated US$393 billion in spending, or 1.5 per cent of that country’s nominal GDP.“Despite criticism, Canada’s financial support for the clean energy transition is yielding positive results and has established a competitive position relative to the U.S,” the report’s author, TD managing dire...

Boy, 16, facing slew of charges in Toronto carjacking investigation

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:48:43 GMT

A 16-year-old boy is among three people arrested in connection with carjackings that occurred in various areas of the city in mid-April.Toronto police say four carjackings took place between April 17 and April 19 in the neighbourhoods of Parkwoods and Wexford/Maryvale, both near Hwy. 401 and Don Valley Parkway, and Humber Summit near Jane Street and Finch Avenue West.According to investigators, in each incident, a male would approach a driver with a handgun and demand their vehicle. In three of the incidents, the male allegedly drove away with the victim’s vehicle. He left the area empty-handed in the fourth vehicle.Police identified three suspects and spotted two of them — a man and a woman — with the alleged stolen vehicles on April 20, and they were both arrested.At some point in the investigation, police located the third vehicle.Investigators searched all three vehicles and recovered evidence related to the investigation, including an airsoft handgun with an e...