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Red Sox waste another gem from Crawford, fall to Orioles in penultimate game

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:17 GMT

Because the record books will suggest otherwise, it’s worth stating for posterity:The 2023 Red Sox are a not good-enough team with quite a few good players.They’ll be remembered for their lackluster, last-place sum, but many of the individual parts weren’t all that terrible. Some were even excellent.Kutter Crawford is the perfect example of a player who deserves more credit than he’ll get. He spent the season contributing in every way asked of him, making 23 starts and eight relief appearances, including five games finished. He capped off his season with an excellent final start, shutting out the Orioles for six nearly perfect innings in Baltimore. He gave up one hit, but the Red Sox still fell to the Orioles 5-2.Entering Saturday night’s contest, he ranked second in the Majors in batting average allowed on four-seam fastballs. Though his velocity was down across the board, that particular pitch worked to his advantage on Saturday night. Of the 76 pitches he needed to get through hi...

Saturday’s high school roundup/scores: Bo MacCormack scores 3 more TD’s in BB&N rout

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:17 GMT

Bo MacCormack finished with three touchdowns and 182 yards on the ground to boost BB&N past Thayer Academy, 34-6.In other ISL action, Huge Djeumenis rushed for 239 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries, while adding a 53-yard TD reception as Tabor (2-0) defeated St. George’s, 41-7. … Marcus Griffin ran for a pair of scores as Belmont Hill (1-1) blanked Roxbury Latin, 31-0.Hudson Weidman threw three touchdown passes and ran for a fourth as Pingree (2-0) held off Proctor Academy, 28-26.Matt O’Donnell’s 20-yard TD run with 5:39 left gave Cardinal Spellman (4-0) an 18-12 win over Cathedral in the Catholic Central League.Gustavo Varela ran for 210 yards and a touchdown as Greater Lawrence (2-2) beat Greater Lowell 14-7 in the Commonwealth Athletic Conference.Angel Cabrera’s six-yard TD run late in the third quarter broke a 6-6 tie and Nantucket (1-3) went on to defeat Tech Boston 19-6 in a nonleague contest. … Jimmy Nardone ran for a pair of scores and tacked on three successful 2-poin...

Revolution extend home unbeaten streak with 2-1 win over Charlotte FC

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:17 GMT

The New England Revolution extended their home unbeaten streak to 15 games and moved into third place in the Eastern Conference standings with a 2-1 victory over Charlotte FC on Saturday night at Gillette Stadium.The Revolution improved to 14-6-10 overall and 11-0-4 at the Razor. The match was the first of three games in eight days for the Revolution and first win for interim head coach Clint Peay. The Revolution resume conference play against the Columbus Crew on Wednesday night (7:30) at Gillette. The Revolution are battling for home field advantage in the MLS playoffs with four games remaining.The Revolution took a 1-0 lead in the 64th minute on a brilliant collaboration between Noel Buck and Mark-Anthony Kaye.Kaye got the ball at the top of the box and spied Buck unattended in the left side of the penalty area. Kaye fed Buck, who pivoted and fired a hard shot that beat Charlotte keeper Kristijan Kahlina to the far post for his third of the season.Charlotte tied the game in the 8...

Everett newspaper editor admits to fabrications in Everett mayor defamation suit

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:17 GMT

The editor and publisher of a newspaper at the center of a defamation lawsuit filed by Everett’s mayor said under oath that he had invented stories to attack the mayor.“The factual allegations you’ve just leveled at me, okay, for printing or making statements about the Mayor, I regret. I regret, I’m embarrassed by some of it, and I apologize to the mayor for it,” Joshua Resnek, the editor of the Everett Leader Herald, said during the fifth day of his deposition in the lawsuit, on Sept. 21.DeMaria’s attorneys filed suit in October of 2021, claiming that the Everett Leader Herald and three senior members of its staff — including Resnek and owner Matthew Philbin — issued “malicious and outrageous publications of defamatory falsehoods concerning the plaintiff … in the weeks leading up to the Sept. 21, 2021 primary for Everett’s mayoral election,” falsely accusing him of various crimes.The lawsuit cites a series of articles published in the newspaper focused on a purpor...

One year after deadly fan crush at Indonesia soccer stadium, families still seek justice

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:17 GMT

MALANG, Indonesia (AP) — A year has passed slowly for Devi Athok, an Indonesian man whose two teenage daughters died in a crush of fans at a soccer stadium in East Java in October 2022 after police fired tear gas, setting off a panicked run for the exits that left 135 people dead.The crowd surge in Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang city was among the world’s worst sporting tragedies. Some 43 children died and around 580 people were injured in the incident.Chaos broke out after Persebaya Surabaya defeated Arema Malang 3-2 in the Oct. 1 match in front of some 42,000 spectators, prompting police to fire tear gas, including toward the stadium’s stands, causing panic among the crowd.Athok had bought four tickets for the Saturday night match for his two daughters, his ex-wife and her new husband. His 13-year-old daughter, Naila Debi Anggraini, decided to join her family at the last minute. She died in the crush along with her older sister, 16-year-old Natasya Debi Ramadani, and their mother, G...

California governor rejects bill to give unemployment checks to striking workers

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:17 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California won’t be giving unemployment checks to workers on strike, with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoing a bill Saturday that had been inspired by high-profile work stoppages in Hollywood and the hotel industry.Newsom, a Democrat, says he supports workers and often benefits from campaign contributions from labor unions. But he said he vetoed this bill because the fund the state uses to pay unemployment benefits will be nearly $20 billion in debt by the end of the year.“Now is not the time to increase costs or incur this sizable debt,” Newsom wrote in a veto message.The fund the state uses to pay unemployment benefits is already more than $18 billion in debt. That’s because the fund ran out of money and had to borrow from the federal government during the pandemic, when Newsom ordered most businesses to close and caused a massive spike in unemployment. The fund was also beset by massive amounts of fraud that cost the state billions of dollars.Plu...

California governor signs law to bolster eviction protections for renters

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:17 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Saturday to bolster eviction protections for renters and close a loophole in an existing law that has allowed landlords to circumvent the state’s rent cap.The move updates a 2019 landmark law that created rules around evictions and establishing a rent cap at 5% plus the inflation rate, with a 10% maximum.Under the 2019 law, landlords can evict tenants for “at fault” or “no fault” reasons. “At fault” reasons include failure to pay rent on time. Under “no fault” rules, landlords can terminate leases by saying they need to move into units, make repairs or take the units off the rental market.Renters’ advocates said some landlords have exploited the “no fault” evictions to get around the state’s rent cap. They pointed to a case in Santa Clara County in which a landlord evicted tenants, citing the need to move in relatives, but then re-listed the units at nearly double the price.Under the new law, land...

A populist, pro-Russia ex-premier looks headed for victory in Slovakia’s parliamentary elections

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:17 GMT

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A populist former prime minister who campaigned on a pro-Russian and anti-American message looked to be heading for victory in early parliamentary elections in Slovakia, according to preliminary results early Sunday.With results from almost 88% of about 6,000 polling stations counted by the Slovak Statistics Office, former Prime Minister Robert Fico and his leftist Smer, or Direction, party led with 23.7 % of the vote.A liberal, pro-West newcomer, the Progressive Slovakia party, was a distant second with 15.6% of the votes cast Saturday.With no party likely to win a majority of seats, a coalition government would need to be formed. The left-wing Hlas (Voice) party, led by Fico’s former deputy in Smer, Peter Pellegrini, was in third with 15.4%. Pellegrini parted ways with Fico after Smer lost the previous election in 2020, but their possible reunion would boost Fico’s chances to form a government.“It’s important for me that the new coalition would be forme...

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s body returns to San Francisco on military flight

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:17 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein returned Saturday to her hometown for the final time when a military jet carrying the late Democratic senator’s body landed at San Francisco International Airport.The long-serving senator and political trailblazer died Thursday at her home in Washington, D.C., after a series of illnesses. At 90, she was the oldest member of Congress after first being elected to the Senate in 1992. The arrival of her body was not open to the public. No details have been shared about services.The former San Francisco mayor was a passionate advocate for priorities important to her state, including environmental protection, reproductive rights and gun control. But she also was known as a pragmatic, centrist lawmaker who reached out to Republicans and sought middle ground.Her death was followed by a stream of tributes from around the nation, including from President Joe Biden, who served with Feinstein for years in the Senate and called her “a pioneer...

Biden says it’s ‘good news’ the shutdown was averted but blames House GOP for ‘manufactured crisis’

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:17 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Staring down a possible government shutdown, the White House wanted to make sure any blame would fall at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue — specifically on House Republicans. After all, it was the majority party in the House that had been paralyzed until Saturday by an inability to pass a funding package, stymied by members who don’t want to uphold a bipartisan spending agreement from earlier this year. President Joe Biden is hoping the rest of the country would see things the same way. It’s a murky proposition at a time of extreme political polarization, with many Americans dug into their partisan corners regardless of the facts of the matter.With a deadline looming, Congress on Saturday approved a short-term funding bill to keep federal agencies open through Nov. 17, and sent the measure to Biden to sign. Speaker Kevin McCarthy dropped demands for steep spending cuts, but also cut aid for Ukraine. In a statement, Biden said the bill was “good news for the Ame...