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Joe, Keller lead Pirates over Reds 4-2 for 5th straight win

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:31 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Connor Joe had three hits and reached base four times to back a strong start by Mitch Keller and lead the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Cincinnati Reds 4-2 on Friday night.for their fifth straight win.At 14-7, the Pirates are off to their best start since 2002. Pittsburgh lost 101 games in 2021 and 100 last season.Cincinnati has lost four in a row and is 5-12 since opening the season by winning two of three from the Pirates. The Reds have five runs and 22 hits during the losing streak — 19 singles and two doubles. Acquired from Colorado in an offseason trade, Joe went 3 for 3 with a walk and raising his batting average to .377. He was selected by the Pirates in the first round of the 2014 amateur draft and traded to Atlanta three years later for infielder-outfielder Sean Rodríguez.Keller (2-0) gave up two runs and four hits in six innings with five strikeouts and one walk. He is unbeaten in five starts and pitched Pittsburgh’s 11th straight quality start.Robert...

Virginia State Police identify suspect who tried to flee traffic stop, swimming away

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:31 GMT

Virginia State Police identified one of the two suspects who attempted to swim away from police after fleeing a crashed vehicle Wednesday. The two were attempting to avoid a traffic stop in Arlington but were later taken into custody.Bryant R. Mayo, 26, of D.C., was charged with one felony count of eluding law enforcement and one felony charge of leaving the scene of a crash.In the predawn hours on Wednesday morning, a Virginia trooper attempted to conduct a traffic stop involving a two-door Chrysler that had the wrong license plates. Instead of stopping the car sped off.While in pursuit for nearly an hour, the car struck a police cruiser, causing both vehicles to spin out. The passengers in the Chrysler then fled the scene on foot and hid near Roaches Run Waterfowl Sanctuary along the Potomac River.Around 2 a.m., the passengers, identified as Mayo and a 23-year-old woman, jumped into the water and began swimming across Roaches Run toward the George Washington Parkway. U.S. Park Pol...

Coach Prime's spring game to preview fresh-look Colorado

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:31 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders recently met his match on the football field in the form of an intimidating furry figure named Ralphie VI.By the end, Colorado's new coach had the roughly 800-pound buffalo mascot eating out of the palm of his gloved hand.Now that they've been formally introduced, Sanders can’t wait to see her run a lap around Folsom Field — weather permitting — before the spring game Saturday. Bandimere Speedway closing at end of drag racing season An expected capacity crowd can't wait, either, to see a preview of what’s in store under Sanders, the charismatic coach who has generated so much buzz that Colorado's season tickets have sold out for the first time since 1996.Sanders: 'You're going to be happy with the product'Sanders has a caveat: What everyone will see this weekend is far from a final version. It's merely a hint of what’s in store for the Buffaloes, who went 1-11 last season.“You’re going to be happy with the product that we place on ...

Bruins reclaim home-ice edge, top Panthers 4-2 in Game 3

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:31 GMT

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Taylor Hall had a goal and an assist, Linus Ullmark stopped 28 shots and the Boston Bruins topped the Florida Panthers 4-2 in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round series on Friday night.Charlie Coyle, David Pastrnak and Nick Foligno also had goals for Boston, which reclaimed home-ice advantage and took a 2-1 lead in the series. Dmitry Orlov had a pair of long outlet passes that became assists for the Bruins.Alex Lyon stopped 23 of 26 shots for Florida, the Pastrnak goal with 11:28 remaining chasing him and having Florida send in Sergei Bobrovsky. And that suggests the Panthers have a big decision to make on a starting netminder before Game 4 in Sunrise on Sunday afternoon.Gustav Forsling and Sam Reinhart had goals for Florida, which didn’t get anything past Ullmark until 5:19 remained. Boston improved to 50-3-0 this season when allowing no more than two goals.The Bruins were again without captain Patrice Bergeron, out with an upper-body injury. H...

Flaming cocktails and an MEP getting punched: EU Parliament hits the town

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:31 GMT

STRASBOURG — When the European Parliament goes out, it goes hard.A night that began clinking cocktails among MEPs and diplomats in a classy speakeasy ended at 4 a.m. with a wasted Parliament official punching an MEP outside a nightclub.A huge entourage of EU politicians and staffers descend on the Alsatian city for four days per month for a frenetic blur of policy work, negotiations and knife-edge voting.On Wednesday nights MEPs and their assistants venture out to a handful of favorite bars where the usual institutional stuffiness and hierarchies melt away. These boozy school-trip style soirées are a crucial breathing space for the Parliament, fostering friendships across political divides and providing an escape valve for all that pent-up parliamentary stress.But according to stories that abound, they’re also when some MEPs behave inappropriately toward staffers on the dancefloors of grotty clubs.Strasbourg by night bristles with stories threatening to come out.Flaming ZombiePushin...

Facing Europe’s nuclear necessities

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:31 GMT

Maximilian Terhalle is a visiting professor of strategic studies at the London School of Economics (LSE IDEAS). Kees Klompenhouwer is a former Ambassador of the Netherlands.The euphoria in NATO surrounding Finland’s new membership demonstrates a grim reality: Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has searingly exposed Europe’s strategic vulnerability.It is clear now that the West’s war efforts thus far would have been inconceivable without the United States, and Russia’s shrill nuclear rhetoric has been slowly degrading the Continent’s long-standing political unwillingness to address the nuclear elephant in the room.With only a handful of strategic thinkers engaged with the nuclear problem, for years this issue has gone largely unnoticed, and curiously, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s departure from power has faded his threats to leave NATO from European memory. As the 2024 U.S. presidential election may once again result in an isolationist Republican victor, however, doubts rega...

Cyprus president predicts revival of reunification talks after Turkish election

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:31 GMT

Cyprus’ president is looking to revive the island’s stalled reunification talks after next month’s elections in Turkey and is calling for the EU to play a more active role. Nikos Christodoulides was elected in February on a promise to break deadlock in talks over the ethnically divided island, but one key element is out of his hands. “The time horizon is the elections in Turkey,” he told POLITICO in an interview, referring to the May 14 polls in which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces a nail-biting race against a united opposition under Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. The Mediterranean island has been divided into a Turkish Cypriot north and a Greek Cypriot south since Turkey invaded in 1974, responding to a coup backed by Greece. Ankara does not recognize the Republic of Cyprus, an EU member state that is otherwise recognized internationally as the sole sovereign authority over the whole island. Several attempts to find a compromise settlement over the years have failed, most r...

Investigation underway after explosion decimates home in Truro, sending shockwaves felt miles away

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:31 GMT

An investigation was underway Friday after a massive overnight explosion reduced a home in Truro to its foundation, officials said. No injuries were reported, though the structure was leveled, sending debris across the property and creating shockwaves that locals felt miles away. “Tremendous explosion, big flash of light – we weren’t sure what it was,” said Rich Roberts, who witnessed the event and described a secondary explosion that created a massive fireball. “We both got out of bed and looked around and, I thought it was lightening (that) hit, but of course it was a completely clear night. My wife thought it was an earthquake.”Neighbors said the couple who lived at the home had been sleeping next door Thursday night, and that the building was going to be prepped for summer rentals.“It was just luck that they weren’t in that house,” said Kristin Perry, who woke up to the explosion. “Boom, the house blew up and I was like...

Young scores 32, Hawks beat Celtics 130-122 to close to 2-1

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:31 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Trae Young scored 32 points in his best game of the playoffs and the Atlanta Hawks gave themselves a glimmer of hope, beating the Boston Celtics 130-122 Friday night to close the gap to 2-1 in the opening-round series.Young hit a step-back 3-pointer from the corner with 2:21 left and knocked down another huge basket on a floater in the lane with 45 seconds remaining after Jaylen Brown missed a 3-pointer that would’ve tied it for the Celtics.The seventh-seeded Hawks will try to even the series against the second-seeded Celtics in Game 4 on Sunday night at State Farm Arena.Jayson Tatum scored 29 points to lead Boston, which was barely challenged in the first two games of the series.Young was under fire after making just 14 of 40 shots in Beantown. He was much better in Game 3, connecting on 12 of 22 attempts and doling out nine assists.Dejounte Murray had another big game for the Hawks, scoring 25 points, including a 3-pointer with 1:40 remaining that helped ...

Video shows car drive on sidewalk, nearly hit pedestrian while fleeing from Boston police

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:31 GMT

Video recently released by the Boston Police Department shows a driver veering onto a sidewalk, nearly hitting a pedestrian walking nearby earlier this month. A police report said the incident happened in the area of Herald Street and Washington Street shortly before 5 p.m. on April 6. Video of the scene shows the driver jump the curb to get around traffic and away from police, who were trying to conduct a traffic stop, according to the police report.As the driver speeds down the sidewalk, a pedestrian can be seen pressing themselves against a wall to avoid the car. Video then shows the driver getting back onto the road. Police were stuck behind several cars. Though one officer ran down the street as the rogue driver turned onto Washington Street, the car and its driver were able to get away.Police said they did not chase the car after it turned onto Washington Street because it was going too fast. In their report, police explained they initially queried a licens...