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Star pitcher linked to Red Sox officially posted by Japanese team

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:15 GMT

The Orix Buffaloes officially posted Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Monday, kicking off a negotiation period that’s expected to culminate in the largest contract ever for a Nippon Professional Baseball player coming to Major League Baseball.The 25-year-old starting pitcher already has seven dominant NPB seasons under his belt and a well-stocked trophy case. He owns a 1.82 ERA over 897 innings, a solid 26.43% strikeout rate, and minuscule 5.9% walk and 1.03% home run rates. He’s coming off three consecutive Japanese Triple Crowns and Eiji Sawamura Awards (akin to MLB’s Cy Young Award) and won back-to-back Pacific League MVP in ‘21 and ‘22. As members of Team Japan, he and Red Sox outfielder Masataka Yoshida took home the gold at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.Major League clubs have until Jan. 4, 2024 to lock him down. If he doesn’t sign by that time – which seems highly unlikely – he’ll return to the Buffaloes for the 2024 season.Though the Buffaloes are almost certain to lose their ace by th...

Callahan: Let Malik Cunningham compete for the Patriots’ starting QB job

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:15 GMT

Bill Belichick allowed his assistants roughly 36 hours of vacation over the bye week.Maybe a little more time could have helped clear their heads.Offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien indicated Monday that Belichick has yet to decide on a starting quarterback. You’ll remember Belichick pulled Mac Jones near the end of the Patriots’ last loss, a 10-6 international embarrassment that Jones’ replacement, Bailey Zappe, capped with a mind-numbing interception. O’Brien hinted this week’s starter may not be named until the staff sees who performs best in practice. But, be honest: how much do you care?What more tired topic is there than the Patriots’ quarterback situation, a morass of bad passers handcuffed to one of the NFL’s least talented rosters?Jones has been benched three times. Zappe is the least accurate quarterback in the league this season, per Pro Football Focus. Third-stringer Will Grier might have less game than the 40-year-old virgi...

Thanksgiving in San Diego: Where to find free Thanksgiving meals

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:15 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Thanksgiving is just around the corner and families are busy gearing up for the big day. But, those in need this time of year may not have the means to have a Thanksgiving dinner. That's where local organizations come in. Anyone in need this Thanksgiving can get a free meal at several service providers and local events. Record-breaking number of people expected to travel in SoCal for Thanksgiving Below is a list of free Thanksgiving meals around San Diego compiled by 211: Thanksgiving Food Distribution"Provides a food distribution box of non-perishables and other items."First come, first serve basis.10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 18The Bayview Baptist Church6134 Pastor Timothy J Winters St., San DiegoArea served -- San Diego County Cost of a Thanksgiving meal drops, but it’s still expensive in these areas Thanksgiving Day Meal"Thanksgiving lunch provided to seniors."Eligibility: Seniors 60 years and olderDoors open at 10:00 a.m., arrive early to line up11:00 ...

Man linked to Arizona teen Alicia Navarro pleads not guilty to possessing child sexual abuse images

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:15 GMT

A Montana man who had been living with a teenager who disappeared from her home in Arizona four years ago pleaded not guilty Monday to child sexual abuse charges lodged against him based on images that authorities said they found on his cellphone.Since his Oct. 23 arrest, Edmund Davis, 36, has been held on $1 million bail on two felony counts of the sexual abuse of children. His public defender, Casey Moore, said he would file a motion for a bail reduction hearing after speaking with Davis’ father and the prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General Dan Guzynski.No further hearings were immediately scheduled.Authorities have not said whether Davis is considered a suspect in the disappearance of Alicia Navarro in September 2019. Navarro left a note behind when she vanished from her home days before her 15th birthday, sparking a massive search that included the FBI. She was almost 19 when she walked into the Havre, Montana, police station in July and said she wanted to be removed from...

Officials in Liberia formally declare Boakai the president-elect days after incumbent Weah conceded

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:15 GMT

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Election officials in Liberia on Monday formally declared Joseph Boakai the president-elect, three days after incumbent George Weah conceded defeat based on the runoff vote’s provisional results.According to the National Elections Commission, Boakai won with 50.64% of the second round balloting while Weah took 49.36%.“We are at the point where we will prepare for transition, begin the plan for inauguration, as we jump-start the activities of governance,” Boakai, 78, a former vice president, said moments after he was officially pronounced the winner.Weah, a former international soccer star, has earned praise in the West African country and abroad for his decision to concede defeat rather than challenge the outcome in court.“This is a time for graciousness in defeat, a time to place our country above party, and patriotism above personal interest,” Weah said in his concession speech late Friday. He has said his political career is not yet over. In 2...

Massachusetts to let homeless families stay overnight in state’s transportation building

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:15 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts announced plans Monday to let homeless families stay overnight in the state transportation building in Boston as officials scramble to find shelter for newly arriving families after hitting a state-imposed limit of 7,500 families in the state’s emergency homeless shelter system.The space located in the office building is large enough to provide overnight shelter for up to 25 families with cots and limited amenities and will only be used in the evening and overnight hours, officials said.“To ensure that families eligible for Emergency Assistance shelter have a safe and warm place to sleep at night when there is not a shelter unit immediately available, the administration is utilizing space at 10 Park Plaza as a temporary, overnight facility,” the state’s Emergency Assistance Director General Scott Rice said in a statement.As of Friday, there were 92 families on the state’s waiting list for emergency shelter.The transportation building inc...

Colman Domingo’s time is now

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:15 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Colman Domingo has a commanding physical presence, an expressive face and soulful eyes. But his most limber and powerful tool is his voice.It can go low in a bone-rattling baritone, like in his Nigerian-accented pimp in Janicza Bravo’s “Zola.” Or it can rise to the warm, erudite rhythm of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, in “Rustin.” In Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” Domingo’s voice, as a union soldier, is the first thing you hear.Domingo, himself, isn’t sure when his voice became so resonate. Tracing it sends him back to his childhood, growing up a self-described outsider — gay, awkward, unsure of himself — in west Philadelphia. That voice, he says, wasn’t there 20 years ago.“At some point, as I grew into this person, comfortable in my own skin, sexuality, my mind, my intentions, who I am in the world, I think my voice developed more,” Domingo says. “I don’t know that I had this voice before. All the resonance in my voice, I can hear it. There’s confidence. There’s...

A French bishop is accused of attempted rape in latest scandal to hit Catholic Church in France

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:15 GMT

PARIS (AP) — A French bishop has been given a preliminary charge of attempting to rape an adult man a decade ago, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday. It is the latest of a growing number of accusations of sexual abuse by clergy in France.The Bishops’ Conference of France said the accused bishop, Georges Colomb, contests the charge and deserves the presumption of innocence. He has asked the Vatican to step aside from his duties as bishop of La Rochelle and Saintes in western France to prepare his defense.French investigative website Mediapart reported that senior figures in the Catholic Church were aware of the accusations for years.The allegations didn’t reach prosecutors until May of this year. That’s when lawyers for the Archdiocese of Paris and a Catholic group called the Foreign Missions of Paris, shortened to MEP in French, submitted a report of a rape attempt by Colomb in 2013, according to the prosecutor’s office.Colomb headed the MEP from 2010 to 201...

US auto safety regulators reviewing some Hyundai, Kia recalls

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:15 GMT

U.S. regulators are reviewing some Hyundai and Kia recalls related to brake-safety units to determine if they should have been done sooner.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation is reviewing 16 Hyundai and Kia recalls conducted since 2016 that involve more than 6 million vehicles for potential antilock braking system module fires.The recalls all involve the antilock braking system modules or hydraulic electronic control units made by the equipment supplier Mando. The office said that the purpose of the review was “to evaluate the timeliness and scoping of Hyundai and Kia’s defect decision making and adherence with reporting requirements; and understand the varying defect descriptions and remedies between these recalls.”The Associated Press

Attentive Energy investing $10.6M in supply chain, startups to help New Jersey offshore wind

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:15 GMT

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (AP) — A company proposing an offshore wind farm in New Jersey is investing $10.6 million in projects to help grow the industry’s supply chain and support ocean-based technology startup businesses in the state.Attentive Energy is one of four projects proposed in New Jersey’s most recent round of solicitations for offshore wind projects. It is a collaboration between Houston-based Total Energies, and Corio Generation, with offices in Boston and London.During an event at Brookdale Community College, Damian Bednarz, the company’s president, said Attentive Energy will invest $6.6 million in SeaAhead. That is a company that supports ocean-related technology firms; it will establish a business incubator program in New Jersey.Attentive Energy will invest another $4 million in technical support for small businesses at 11 regional small business development centers across the state.A key goal of the company is to localize and diversify the supply chain for ...