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Collision ends Smyly perfect game bid, Cubs top Dodgers 13-0

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:13:27 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Drew Smyly lost a perfect game bid when he collided with his catcher while trying to field an eighth-inning dribbler that went for an infield single in the Chicago Cubs’ 13-0 rout of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.Nico Hoerner hit a three-run homer with four hits and four RBIs as Chicago won for the fifth time in six games. Cody Bellinger went deep for the second straight day and third time this season against his former team. Trey Mancini and Patrick Wisdom also connected.Smyly (2-1) struck out 10 and walked none in 7 2/3 innings. He threw 68 of his season-high 103 pitches for strikes.David Peralta accounted for Los Angeles’ only baserunner against Smyly on a 32.9 mph leadoff dribbler in the eighth that trickled between third base and the mound. Smyly and Yan Gomes each went for the grounder, and the catcher tumbled over the pitcher as the left-hander picked up the ball.Smyly was checked by manager David Ross and an athletic trainer, but the pitcher st...

NCAA rules panel approves keeping clock running on 1st downs

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:13:27 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel has approved rules changes that are expected to reduce the number of plays in football games, notably one that will keep the clock running when a team makes a first down except in the last two minutes of a half. The panel on Thursday approved recommendations forwarded last month by the Football Rules Committee. Since 1968, the clock had stopped on a first down until the referee gave the ready-for-play signal.The new clock rule affects only Divisions I and II. The Division III Management Council requested the proposal be referred back to the Football Rules Committee due to opposition within its division.Two other changes were approved. Penalties accepted at the end of the first and third quarters will now be enforced at the start of the following quarter rather than having an untimed down. Also, back-to-back timeouts during the same dead-ball period are no longer allowed.Steve Shaw, NCAA secretary-rules editor and national co...

Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill for now

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:13:27 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone. They are appealing a lower court ruling that would roll back Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone. Colorado says it won’t enforce ‘abortion reversal’ ban The drug has been approved for use in the U.S. since 2000 and more than 5 million people have used it. Mifepristone is used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol, in more than half of all abortions in the U.S. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is facing a self-imposed Friday night deadline to decide whether women's access to a widely used abortion pill will stay unchanged or be restricted while a legal challenge to it...

Slick roads in Rocky Mountain National Park Friday evening

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:13:27 GMT

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (KDVR) — Colorado's high country is seeing flurries today as snow continues to fall in the mountains. Rocky Mountain National Park announced traction laws are in effect. The snow, according to the Pinpoint Weather Team, is coming from a north-easterly direction into the state.Snow falling at Glacier Basin 4/21/2023. Credit: Rocky Mountain National ParkSnow falling at Kawuneeche Valley, 4/21/2023. Credit: Rocky Mountain National ParkColorado Department of Transportation has issued travel advisories for the mountains from the Eisenhower Tunnel through Vail Pass and continuing into the canyon through Saturday. Make sure to proceed with caution through Rabbit Ears Pass as well. The Pinpoint Weather Team also warns slick roads will worsen Friday after sunset and before sunrise on Saturday.

Bandimere Speedway was originally planned for Arvada

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:13:27 GMT

MORRISON, Colo. (KDVR) -- Bandimere Speedway, which announced it will be closing at the end of the drag racing season, has a rich history in its 65-year existence including that it wasn't originally planned for that location. The “Safety Proving Grounds of America,” which the Bandimere family said was intended to be a performance park and education center, initially was planned in 1956 to be built in West Denver, now the Arvada area.But according to John Bandimere Jr., after the family got the permits and were about to break ground, the neighbors decided they didn't want the speedway in their quiet neighborhood. So rather than fighting over it, the family relocated the plan to what is now in Morrison butted up against Hogback Mountain. Grandmother, 71, loves to make towels by hand and race car at Bandimere Speedway The Jefferson County location began construction in 1958 and according to the website, John Bandimere, Sr.'s vision of the property "included an oval track, drag strip...

Alligator found roaming NW Miami-Dade warehouse parking lot captured

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:13:27 GMT

An alligator has been detained after it was found wandering through a warehouse district parking lot.7Skyforce hovered overhead as a Miami-Dade Police officer responded to the area near 10301 NW 112th Ave., at around 3 p.m., Friday.He was seen tailing it closely with his police cruiser until a wrangler from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission arrived.After the wrangler arrived, the alligator went into some bushes, where he snared it with a pole, and after the gator wore itself out rolling on the grass, the officer helped duct tape the animal’s snout shut.Before the animal was restrained, a woman was seen coming out of the office, but she soon backed off after noticing the animal. She still took a moment to break out her phone to document it.The officer and wrangler remained at the scene with the gator tied up and restrained, as it laid under the wrangler’s pickup truck, while a trapper was en route.The trapper then threw the 6-foot critter into the back...

VP Harris lands in Miami to discuss climate change agenda

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:13:27 GMT

Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Miami on Friday to discuss the Biden administration’s climate change agenda. As the effects of climate change become increasingly apparent, the Biden administration has made it a priority to address the issue. During her last visit to Miami, Harris spoke about the need for the United States to take action to combat climate change and the importance of investing in infrastructure that is resilient to its effects.Vice President Kamala Harris visited the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science Friday to announce a $562 million investment as part of the Investing in America agenda.“President Joe Biden and I understand the incredible challenges that coastal communities face, and we intend to do all in our power to help fight back,” Harris said.That money is set to fund 149 projects, reaching 30 coastal states and territories under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

Students at North Beach Elementary have Earth Day celebration

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:13:27 GMT

Students at one South Florida school had an early Earth Day celebration.Second graders at North Beach Elementary spent the day in the school’s garden.They did arts and crafts, learned about recycling and planted healthy foods like bananas and papayas.“The fun thing is they go ahead and they cook as well with these items and bring it to the cafeteria and in fact our teachers as well bring some of this stuff home from the garden and cook with it so it’s a win-win for all,” said Melanie Fishman, principal at the school.The children also got to learn about endangered butterflies and insect species.Earth Day is on Saturday.

Doctor who was carjacked during multi-county chase speaks out

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:13:27 GMT

A driver is sharing his horror days after he was pulled out of his car at gunpoint and taken during a chaotic and violent chase.Dr. Emilian Christea was coming home from work when he had a terrifying run-in, and as people saw on live TV he was carjacked by a man with a gun.The chase was first seen on 7News on Wednesday. It started in Miami-Dade, crossed into Broward and then sped into Palm Beach County before traversing back into Broward again.Two people inside a stolen car drove dangerously and at incredibly high speeds.The chase ended along Commercial Boulevard in Tamarac, when one of the suspects got out of the car and stole Christea’s car.The doctor told 7News Friday evening that he feared for the worst.“A guy comes out. Comes with a machine gun, with a rifle, whatever it was, and points the gun towards me, ‘Get out of the car, get out of the car,’ and then some f-words there,” Christea said. “I was very scared. I thought for a moment to run a...

Family of Louisville bank shooter wants his rifle destroyed

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:13:27 GMT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The family of a man who opened fire at a Louisville bank is working to destroy the AR-15 rifle he used to kill five of his co-workers.A state law in Kentucky sends firearms confiscated by law enforcement to auction, and the proceeds are used to buy law enforcement equipment. Last week after the shooting, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said the “murder weapon will be back on the streets one day under Kentucky’s current law.”Greenberg, who was shot at by an assailant during his mayoral campaign last year, has been critical of the law and has sought workarounds that would render crime weapons unusable after they are confiscated by his police force in Louisville.The family of 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, who lives in Indiana, said they were shocked to hear the gun he used in the April 10 attack could go back in circulation. Sturgeon was fatally shot by a responding police officer in the bank’s lobby.“The Sturgeon family was aghast to le...