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Athletics’ Brent Rooker among baseball’s top sluggers in early going

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:41:40 GMT

OAKLAND — Brent Rooker has been hitting home runs at a rate that matches or exceeds that of some of the greatest sluggers in Oakland franchise history.Not that he’s spending a lot of time overanalyzing it. Where Rooker is concerned, that’s not part of the process. And process, to Rooker, is everything.“Right now I’m trying to keep the same routine I’ve had going,” Rooker said Tuesday night before the Athletics hosted the Seattle Mariners at the Coliseum. “I’ll keep riding with that. I’ll go back and watch each at-bat for checkpoints I make sure I hit. As long as those things are in place, and I’m in the positions I want, then I think I’ll continue to feel comfortable.”Whether Rooker is simply riding a hot streak and due to fall back to earth or if he’s suddenly blossomed as a major league hitter at age 28 remains to be seen.But it’s been one of the few bright spots in the Athletics 6-23 start.C...

NBA playoffs live updates: Warriors, Steph kick off series vs. Lakers, LeBron

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:41:40 GMT

To view the live updates on your mobile device click here.GAME 1: Lakers at Warriors at Chase Center, at 7 p.m. TV: TNT. Announcers: Brian Anderson (play-by-play), Stan Van Gundy (color commentary), Chris Haynes (sideline reporting).ODDS: Kings -1. OVER/UNDER: 230. (Both from Caesars Sportsbook.)SEASON SERIES: Lakers went 3-1 against the Warriors in the regular season. PRIOR PLAYOFF HISTORY: Lakers have won 5-of-6 postseason series, including the last one in 1991.Ever since Steve Kerr joined the Warriors’ core of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green as head coach, they’ve faced 11 of the other 14 Western Conference foes and vanquished them all. Some multiple times.But for many Warriors fans, there is one opponent they’ve been waiting for this group to face. And now, finally, we’re getting that matchup.It’s the Warriors and the Lakers.Oh, and for good measure, that means we get a fifth head-to-head showdown between Curry and LeBron James, too.Re...

Texas massacre suspect arrested after extensive manhunt

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:41:40 GMT

By Josh Campbell, Ed Lavandera and Elizabeth Wolfe | CNNThe man accused of fatally shooting five people, including a mother and her 9-year-old son, in a Texas home has been taken into custody after a dayslong manhunt, two law enforcement sources told CNN.The arrest was made in the town of Cut and Shoot, Texas, according to a federal law enforcement source. Cut and Shoot is roughly 17 miles west of Cleveland, Texas, where the killings took place.Francisco Oropesa, 38, is accused of carrying out the massacre Friday night after neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle so close to their home, officials have said. Investigators had initially started tracking Oropesa using his cellphone but said that trail went cold Saturday evening and they had no information about his whereabouts since then.Authorities for days urged the public to come forward with any information and devoted substantial resources to tracking down the suspect, including more than 250 law enforcement officers and a $...

Brentwood teen reported missing

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:41:40 GMT

(KRON) -- The Brentwood Police Department is asking for the public's help with finding a missing teen. Caden Collazo, 16, was last seen on Monday at about 2 p.m. Caden has been diagnosed with autism and is considered at-risk. Man who allegedly cut someone’s face with box cutter on BART arrested He is 6'1" and weighs 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white t-shirt with a barracuda on it -- the logo of a minor league hockey team. He was also wearing a black sweatshirt and blue athletic pants and was carrying a green camouflage backpack. Caden was last seen leaving his house and is known to visit trails and parks in the area. There are no indications that there is foul play involved in his disappearance.Anyone who sees Caden or knows where he might be is asked to call 9-1-1.

Elder shuts down Marlins, outpitches Alcantara in Braves win

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:41:40 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Bryce Elder outpitched NL Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcantara by throwing seven innings of three-hit ball and the Atlanta Braves beat the Miami Marlins 6-0 on Tuesday night.Ozzie Albies homered and doubled, while Ronald Acuña Jr. doubled, drove in a run and stole his NL-leading 14th base for the Braves. Acuña played a day after sustaining a bruised left shoulder when he was plunked by a 93 mph fastball in the second game of a doubleheader against the New York Mets.Elder (3-0) struck out six and induced 10 groundouts in his longest start of the season.Alcantara (1-3) has a 7.40 ERA and lost three of his four starts since throwing a complete game shutout against Minnesota on April 4.The Braves chased Alcantara after five innings and 103 pitches. Alcantara gave up three runs, six hits, walked three, struck out five and hit two batters.Albies gave the Braves an early lead with his solo shot in the second. He drove Alcantara’s fastball over the wall in right for his eighth...

”Iba como un misil”: aterrador video capta cómo auto fuera de control por poco mata a policía

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:41:40 GMT

Un dramático video captó cómo un auto fuera de control casi impactó a un agente de policía del condado Fairfax, en Virginia, mientras llevaba a cabo una parada de tránsito el lunes.  Las imágenes aterradoras, publicadas por el Departamento de la Policía del Condado Fairfax, muestran como un auto fuera de control se derrapa desde el carril opuesto y se estrella con el vehículo que había parado el policía. La colisión podía haber terminado en tragedia, pero el uniformado vio el vehículo y logró salvarse. Los hechos ocurrieron alrededor de las 11:40 a.m., después de que el policía paró a un conductor de un sedán gris que se dirigía hacia el sur en Fairfax County Parkway cerca de Braddock Road. En el video se puede ver como el agente habla con el conductor por la ventana mientras están estacionados en el arcén al costado derecho de la carretera.Pero de repente, el video capta cómo un sedán negro, que iba a alta velocidad, se salta la curva, pierde el control y se estrella con ...

AUTO RACING: NASCAR heads to Kansas; Formula One in Miami

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:41:40 GMT

All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES AdventHealth 400Site: Kansas City, Kansas.Schedule: Saturday, practice, 5:05 p.m., and qualifying, 5:50 p.m.; Sunday, race, 3 p.m. (FS1).Track: Kansas Speedway.Race distance: 267 laps, 400 miles. Last year: Chase Elliott won after starting fourth.Last race: 2017 series champion Martin Truex Jr. of Joe Gibbs Racing ended a 54-race winless drought and won at Dover for the third time in his career.Fast facts: Truex became the third different Toyota driver to win. Chevrolet has won seven times and Ford once. … Truex climbed to fourth in points, 40 behind new leader Ross Chastain. Christopher Bell is three back and Kevin Harvick is 38 behind. … Bell still leads with eight top-10 finishes, two more than Ryan Blaney (fifth in points) and 100 more than Alex Bowman (15th). … Bell leads in top-fives with five through 11 races. … There are three two-time winners, and the highest in the points is Kyle Busch in eighth. He and fellow two...

Hong Kong to cut elected council seats in blow to democracy

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:41:40 GMT

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday stepped up a campaign to shut down further democratic challenges by unveiling plans to eliminate most directly elected seats on local district councils, the last major political representative bodies chosen by the public.Chief Executive John Lee said the proposed overhaul will reduce the proportion of directly elected seats in the municipal-level organization to about 20% — from some 90% currently. That is even lower than the level when these bodies were first set up in the 1980s, when Hong Kong was ruled by Britain. He said the rest of the 470 seats will be filled by government appointees, rural committee chairpersons and others elected by local committees that are staffed by many pro-establishment figures.“I do not agree that pure counting (of) election votes mean democracy,” he said. “Different places have their own systems that must take into consideration all the characteristics and all the elements of that place.” The planned elec...

Homegrown Live returns with over 100 local music performances

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:41:40 GMT

Homegrown Live Music Festival is back for its 15th anniversary on May 6. The one-day music festival will take place in over 10 locations across Kingston, with over 100 local music acts performing throughout the day.The festival raises funds for the Joe Chithalen Memorial Musical Instrument Lending Library (Joe’s M.I.L.L), a registered charity that loans out musical instruments to community members to make music education and appreciation accessible. The festival has been scaled back or held virtually since the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning this year is its return to a fully live and in person festival.Chris Morris, festival director, spoke with CFRC about the format of Homegrown, adding that it is not like other music festivals that start with smaller artists in the afternoon and have big headliners in the evening; it is a mix of smaller and bigger musicians in town that play after one another. Each venue has a broad musical genre picked so people can choose where to go for the da...

Coloradan creates first commercial smart gun with facial, fingerprint recognition

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:41:40 GMT

BROOMFIELD, Colo. (KDVR) — A Colorado native created the first commercial biometric gun with fingerprint and facial recognition.Biofire Technologies founder and CEO Kai Kloepfer started working on smart guns nearly 11 years ago, in the wake of the Aurora theater shooting. “I had been to that movie theater, and so that's really for me what prompted me to start thinking about, you know, rather than building a robot or some other piece of technology, would it make sense to think about some piece of technology on a gun?" Kloepfer said. Gun owners group suing Polis, state over new laws Kloepfer started working on the idea for a science fair project. Over a decade later, the Biofire Smart Gun has been crafted with home defense in mind."I've never talked to a gun owner that wanted their kid to find their gun," Kloepfer said. "If we can provide them better tools that ensure that there's no possibility for mistakes, that their kid will never have access to that firearm, I think that's real...