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NCS playoff roundup: Pinole Valley softball gets help from unexpected places

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

SoftballDivision IIIPinole Valley 1, San Marin 0On a team headlined, rightfully so, by senior pitcher Kailani Tatro, it was two unheralded freshman who were the difference in Pinole Valley’s 1-0 victory over visiting San Marin in the North Coast Section Division III semifinal. Freshman Gabriella Ornelas doubled in the bottom of the sixth inning, notching Pinole Valley’s first hit of the night. Driving her pinch-runner Jordan Mendoza in was fellow first-year player Jazabella Cabrera. That was all the offense the Spartans would get, not that they needed any more that that with Tatro locked in against the visitors. The senior got her 26th victory of the season after striking out 11, allowing just two hits, and walking none. Pinole Valley, now 26-1, had enjoyed a bye through the first round as the No. 1 seed. The Spartans will play No. 4 Albany, a rival from the Tri-County Athletic League Rock Division, on Wednesday for a spot in the section championship. Division IVDel Norte 12, St. Pa...

Hallan muerta a Madeleine Pantoja, reportada desaparecida en Texas hace más de una semana

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

(CNN) — Una mujer de 20 años que estuvo desaparecida durante más de una semana en el oeste de Texas fue encontrada muerta el sábado, y un hombre fue detenido en relación con su homicidio, dijo la policía.Madeline Pantoja fue reportada como desaparecida el 11 de mayo. Su coche y su móvil habían quedado en casa, informó el Departamento de Policía de Midland.Su desaparición puso en marcha una búsqueda que duró varios días y en la que participaron varias fuerzas del orden.Sus restos fueron encontrados en una zona rural al sureste de los límites de la ciudad nueve días después de que se denunciara, anunció la policía el sábado.Horas después del hallazgo, Mario Juan Chacon Jr., de 24 años, fue detenido como presunto autor de la muerte de Pantoja, según la policía de Midland.Está detenido sin fianza desde el sábado por la noche en la cárcel del condado de Midland, dijo la policía. CNN está trabajando para determinar si Chacón tiene un abogado.Las autoridades dieron pocos detalles el ...

Park rangers rescue fallen climber at Alaska’s Denali National Park

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

TALKEETNA, Alaska (AP) — National Park Service rangers rescued a climber who fell from a 16,000-foot-high (4,800-meter-high) ridge at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, officials said Saturday.A mountaineering ranger evacuated the 24-year-old Japanese climber from a point at 15,100 feet (4,602 meters) in elevation, park officials said.The climber suffered minor injuries and was transferred by helicopter to a hospital, officials said.The climber was climbing with a partner on Friday, on the West Buttress climbing route on Denali just above the fixed line at 16,200 feet (4,937 meters). The climber’s partner told rangers early Saturday morning the fall occurred Friday around 11 p.m. while they were on a route known as the West Buttress to Peters Glacier, the agency said. The partner saw the fall but couldn’t see where the climber came to rest.Rangers began an aerial and ground search for the climber, but cloudy weather conditions prevented a helicopter from access...

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says destroyed Bakhmut “only in our hearts,” after Russians say they’ve taken city

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says destroyed Bakhmut “only in our hearts,” after Russians say they’ve taken city.Source

Gallo homers for 4th time in 7 games, Twins beat Angels 6-2

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Joey Gallo homered for the fourth time in seven games, Trevor Larnach hit an RBI triple that turned into a Little League home run and the Minnesota Twins beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-2 on Saturday night.Shohei Ohtani hit his 11th home run of the season for the Angels, a night before he takes a 5-1 record to the mound for the rubber game. Minnesota will be trying to win its second road series in eight tries this season.Kyle Farmer, Kyle Garlick and Willi Castro drove in runs in a three-run first. Farmer went 3 for 5 and is batting .395 (15 for 38) since becoming Minnesota’s starting third baseman on May 10.“Kyle Farmer’s a heck of a baseball player,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “I like relying on him, and he handles a lot of what comes with this job very, very well. And he’s here to play. He’s here to do whatever we’re asking him to do, and right now what we’re asking him to do is basically play every day, and right n...

OPINIÓN | La aristocracia multirracial representada en “Queen Charlotte” es una distorsión peligrosa

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

Nota del editor: Shaun Armstead es una historiadora cuya investigación se centra en el activismo internacional de las mujeres negras en el siglo XX. Es doctora en Historia por la Universidad Rutgers-New Brunswick y becaria predoctoral saliente en el Instituto Carter G. Woodson de Estudios Afroamericanos y Africanos de la Universidad de Virginia. Comienza este otoño como investigadora postdoctoral asociada en el Departamento de Estudios Africanos de la Universidad Brown. Las opiniones expresadas aquí son suyas. Puedes encontrar más artículos de opinión aquí.Una noble negra encuentra el amor y la felicidad como esposa del rey de Inglaterra: esa es la conmovedora aunque improbable trama de la última miniserie histórica de Shonda Rhimes, “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story”.La precuela de seis episodios de “Bridgerton” se emite actualmente en Netflix. “Queen Charlotte” explora los orígenes de la sociedad aristocrática racialmente integrada a la que l...

Greece votes in first election since international bailout spending controls ended

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greeks were voting Sunday in the first election since their country’s economy ceased to be subject to strict supervision and control by international lenders who had provided bailout funds during its nearly decade-long financial crisis.The vote pitches conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 55, a Harvard-educated former banking executive, against 48-year-old Alexis Tsipras, who heads the left-wing Syriza party and served as prime minister during some of the financial crisis’ most turbulent years, as the two main contenders.The rising cost of living was at the forefront of many voters’ minds as they headed to polling centers set up in schools across the country.“Every year, instead of improving, things are getting worse,” said Athens resident Dimitris Hondrogiannis, 54, “Things are expensive. Every day, things are getting out of control. It’s enough to make you afraid to go to the supermarket to shop. We’ll see how things go.”Ho...

Biden, McCarthy to speak on debt limit; talks stalled as Republicans seek deep spending cuts

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — President Joe Biden planned on Sunday to speak directly with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, hoping to salvage talks to raise the debt limit that have stalled in recent days while he was abroad at the Group of Seven summit.GOP lawmakers are holding tight to demands for sharp spending cuts, rejecting the alternatives proposed by the White House for reducing deficits. Biden and world leaders at the gathering for industrial nations in Japan had been closely tracking the negotiations, looking for signs of a compromise that would ensure the federal government can keep paying its bills and avoid a potentially catastrophic default.Biden has tried to project optimism even as the talks back in Washington were rocky. Republicans are rejecting a White House plan that would impose less strict cuts while also increasing revenues. The two sides are up against a deadline as soon as June 1 to raise its borrowing limit, now at $31 trillion.“We’re going to get a chance to talk l...

Extremist Israeli Cabinet minister visits sensitive Jerusalem holy site

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — An extremist Israeli Cabinet minister visited a sensitive Jerusalem holy site on Sunday at a time of heightened tensions with the Palestinians.The visit by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, his second known visit since becoming a member of Israel’s most right-leaning government ever, drew condemnations from the Palestinians and Israel’s neighbor Jordan, which acts as the custodian of the site.“I am happy to come up to the Temple Mount, the most important place for the Israeli people,” Ben-Gvir said during his early morning visit to the site, with the golden Dome of the Rock in the background, according to video released by his office. He praised the police presence at the site, saying it “proves who is in charge in Jerusalem.”Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh called Ben-Gvir’s visit a “blatant attack” on the mosque. Jordan’s Foreign Ministry called it “a provocative step that is condemned, and a dangerous and unacceptable escalati...

State TV says armed group kills 6 Iranian border guards in clash near Pakistani border

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Six Iranian border guards were killed in a clash with an unknown armed group trying to enter the country near the Pakistani border, state TV reported Sunday.The fighting happened in the town of Saravan in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, some 1,360 kilometers (850 miles) southeast of the capital Tehran. The report said the militants fled the area with casualties, but did not elaborate.TV also said two border guards were wounded in the clash. It did not blame the attack on any group and no group immediately claimed responsibility. There were no additional details.The area is one of the least developed parts of Iran. The relationship between the predominantly Sunni residents of the region and Iran’s Shiite theocracy has long been fraught.On Thursday, the top leaders of Pakistan and Iran inaugurated the first border market as relations warm between the two countries.Located in the remote village of Pashin in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan pr...