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2-year-old grandson of Bucks coach Adrian Griffin dies in Illinois

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:48 GMT

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — The 2-year-old grandson of Milwaukee Bucks coach Adrian Griffin died Saturday after the child’s father found him unresponsive earlier in the day.Jayce D. Griffin of Urbana, Illinois, was pronounced dead Saturday at 10:40 a.m. at the Carle Foundation Hospital, according to Champaign County coroner Duane Northrup. The coroner’s office said preliminary reports from an autopsy conducted Monday showed no evidence of trauma or foul play.“At this time, the death of Jayce Griffin appears to be from natural causes pending additional testing and final autopsy results,” Northrup said in a statement.Northrup said the death is under investigation by the Champaign police department and the Champaign County coroner’s office. Additional information won’t be released until the completion of the investigation.“My grandson Jayce was very special to me and my family, and his passing is an agonizing tragedy that will be felt forever,” Adrian Griffin said in a statement released by th...

Rematch time: USA and Netherlands to meet at the Women’s World Cup

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:48 GMT

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Now that the United States women have won equal pay with their male counterparts, there’s no need for their supporters to again chant for fairness when the Americans play the Netherlands on Thursday in their rematch of the 2019 Women’s World Cup final. The Americans defeated the Netherlands 2-0 in France for their second straight World Cup trophy, and fourth overall. They were in the midst of a contract battle at the time over pay with U.S. Soccer, and the players were feted with shouts of “Equal Pay!” from the fans. The team’s pursuit for equal pay was finally resolved last year, when a deal was struck that paid the women the same as the U.S. men’s team and, importantly, evenly split the tournament prize money earned by both teams.So the crowd at Wellington on Thursday doesn’t need to fight for the Americans to receive equal treatment. They can instead focus on the rematch and cheer for another win over the Dutch.The game i...

Obama family chef found dead after apparent drowning while paddleboarding on Martha’s Vineyard

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:48 GMT

A chef for the family of Former President Barack Obama has been identified as the man whose body was found in a pond on Martha’s Vineyard after going missing while paddleboarding on Sunday, state police said. State police spokesperson David Procopio said divers helped bring the body of Tafari Campbell to shore around 10 a.m. The recovery came after another paddleboarder told officials they saw Campbell go under the water at Edgartown Great Pond on Sunday evening.Procopio said divers recovered Campbell’s body after Massachusetts Environmental Police spotted the body using a sonar device roughly 100 feet from shore in water that was roughly eight feet deep.In an update, Procopio said Campbell, 45, was a resident of Dumfries, Virginia. He was visiting Martha’s Vineyard at the time of his death, according to Procopio. Procopio said Barack and Michelle Obama were not present at their residence on Martha’s Vineyard.Campbell was a White House sous chef during the Bush and O...

Boston police cruiser involved in crash with car connected to carjacking in Stoughton

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:48 GMT

An arrest was made Monday and a gun was recovered after a Boston police cruiser was involved in a crash with a car connected to a carjacking in Stoughton. The crash happened in Roxbury on Horadan Way late Monday afternoon. A police cruiser was later spotted on scene with front end damage immediately behind a white Jeep Grand Cherokee that was also damaged. Police said the Jeep belongs to a person who was carjacked earlier in the day Monday in Stoughton. Police previously put out a “be on the lookout” message after the carjacking. Among other things, police said the car that was involved had a shattered back window. The car on Horadan Way was seen with the same shattered back window while being towed away. Investigators were spotted searching the Jeep in Roxbury. Police confirmed investigators found a gun inside the car. There was no report of any serious injuries in this incident as of Monday night. The incident remained under investigation and no further information ...

Taunton man arraigned on charges in connection with deadly shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:48 GMT

A 36-year-old man accused in connection with a deadly shooting in Taunton last week faced a judge on Monday. Dustin Humanes was arrested and charged with several charges including murder after the Bristol County District Attorney’s office said officers found another man with gunshot wounds in a car on Friday of last week. The DA’s office said police first responded to the area of Winthrop Street around 7:50 a.m. after receiving a report of shots fired.The injuried man later identified as Alvaro Andrade, 33, was taken to a hospital where the DA’s office said he was pronounced dead. Humanes was being held without bail as of Monday.

Orioles center fielder Aaron Hicks exits game against Phillies with left hamstring cramp

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:48 GMT

The Orioles were already down one center fielder and, at least for Monday night in Philadelphia, they’re down another.Aaron Hicks dove for a line drive hit by Johan Rojas in the third inning of the Orioles’ series opener against the Phillies. He threw the ball back to the infield and sat for a moment before training staff members came out to evaluate him. He eventually left the game with a left hamstring cramp, the Orioles said, and was replaced in center field by rookie Colton Cowser.Hicks ran to his right on the liner from Rojas and fully stretched out. He appeared to make a spectacular catch and — although replay later showed the ball popped out of his glove — Rojas was ruled out.Entering Monday, Hicks is hitting .254 in 41 games for the Orioles this season with a .351 on-base percentage.The veteran’s exit could spell bad news for the Orioles, who are already without regular center fielder Cedric Mullins, who returned to the injured list last week. H...

Argentina demands that Bolivia explain its new defense agreement with Iran

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:48 GMT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Argentine government and members of Bolivia’s opposition demanded answers Monday following the sealing of an opaque defense agreement between Iran and Bolivia that raised concerns in South America’s Southern Cone it could be a way for Tehran to boost its influence in the region.The deal reached last week has particularly raised concerns in Argentina, where prosecutors have long alleged that Iranian officials were behind the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. Iran has denied any involvement in the attack.Argentina’s Foreign Ministry sent a note to the Bolivian embassy in Buenos Aires on Monday “requesting information about the scope of the discussions and possible agreements reached during the official visit of ( Bolivian Defense) Minister Edmundo Novillo to the Islamic Republic of Iran,” an official at Argentina’s Foreign Ministry said, requesting anonymity because they were not autho...

Wildfires across Algeria have killed 25 people, including 10 soldiers who were battling the flames

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:48 GMT

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Wildfires raging across Algeria have killed 25 people, including 10 soldiers trying to get the flames under control in the face of high winds and scorching summer temperatures, government ministries said Monday.At least 1,500 people were evacuated, the Interior Ministry said, without providing details.The Interior Ministry announced 15 deaths and 24 injuries. In addition, the Defense Ministry later announced 10 soldiers were killed and 25 injured as they fought fires in the resort area of Beni Ksila east of the capital Algiers.It wasn’t immediately clear over what period of time the casualties happened, but the fires have been burning for several days. Wildfires, some spread by strong winds, moved across forests and agricultural areas in 16 regions causing 97 blazes in the north African country. The largest and deadliest fires ravaged parts of Bejaia and Jijel — in the Kabyle region east of Algiers — and Bouira, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast...

Seiichi Morimura, who exposed the atrocities committed by the Japanese army’s Unit 731, dies at 90

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:48 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Renowned Japanese mystery writer Seiichi Morimura, whose nonfiction trilogy “The Devil’s Gluttony” exposed human medical experiments conducted by a secret Japanese army unit during World War II, died Monday. He was 90.His official website and publisher, Kadokawa, said Morimura died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital.“Akuma no Hoshoku,” or “The Devil’s Gluttony,” which began as a newspaper series in 1981, became a bestseller and created a sensation across the country over atrocities committed by Japanese Imperial Army Unit 731 in China.From its base in Japanese-controlled Harbin in China, Unit 731 and related units injected war prisoners with typhus, cholera and other diseases as research into germ warfare, according to historians and former unit members. Unit 731 is also believed to have performed vivisections and frozen prisoners to death in tests of endurance.Morimura began contributing articles to magazines while working in hotels. He won the prestigious Edogawa Rampo ...

In ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ smash success, audiences send message to Hollywood: Give us something new

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:48 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — In the massive movie weekend of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” there were many winners. Greta Gerwig, who made history for female directors. Christopher Nolan, who set a non-Batman career high. Movie theaters, more crowded than anytime post-pandemic. Lovers of unlikely double features. The color pink. Matchbox Twenty.But one of the most important triumphs in the moviegoing monsoon of “Barbenheimer” was originality. Here are two movies that are neither sequels nor reboots pushing the box office to highs not seen in years. “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” became a meme because of their worlds-apart differences but they’re each indelibly the work of those filmmakers.“Barbie,” based on the Mattel doll, had some extremely well-known intellectual property going for it. And the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb comes from no small moment in history. Nolan is himself a brand, too. But Hollywood’s biggest zeitgeist in years was propelled by a pair of movies with...