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Giants’ skid continues against wild-card leading Phillies as SF falls into bottom playoff position

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:45:41 GMT

PHILADELPHIA — The most dangerous portion of the Phillies’ lineup is loaded with lefties. Bryce Harper. Kyle Schwarber. Bryson Stott.It’s one reason why the Giants identified Tuesday as the ideal time for Kyle Harrison, the top left-handed pitching prospect in the game, to make his debut. And it explains why on Monday, manager Gabe Kapler wanted to string together as many southpaws as possible to begin their three-game set.They didn’t last long. Turns out, these Phillies can hit lefties, too.Scott Alexander opened and didn’t make it out of the first inning before handing off to Sean Manaea, and by the time Edmundo Sosa tripled to deep center field in the fourth inning, marking an end to Manaea’s night, the Giants were in a hole they never recovered from in a 10-4 loss.Good luck, Kyle.In the first of three games against the team directly in front of them in the wild-card standings, the Giants (65-60) looked outmatched, were outplayed, and, rather than ma...

Person shot near 24th & Mission in SF

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:45:41 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A victim has non-life-threatening injuries after being shot in San Francisco's Mission District on Monday, the San Francisco Police Department said. SFPD responded to 24th and Mission Streets at about 5:50 p.m. regarding gunshots being heard. Responding officers could not find a victim immediately. Later, a victim was located and hospitalized, SFPD said. The suspect in the shooting remains at large. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact SFPD at (415) 575-4444.

Gomes and Madrigal hit doubles in 9th to help Cubs beat Tigers for 3rd straight win

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:45:41 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — Yan Gomes and Nick Madrigal hit doubles in the ninth inning and the Chicago Cubs held on to beat the Detroit Tigers 7-6 on Monday night.The Cubs squandered a three-run lead in the eighth and quickly went back ahead.Gomes led off the next inning with a double and Madrigal followed with an RBI double. Madrigal later scored to put Chicago ahead by two, an extra run it needed after Matt Vierling’s single pulled Detroit within a run.Seiya Suzuki hit a homer for the second straight day and a three-run second inning helped the Cubs take an early lead. Chicago went on to earn a third victory in a row, keeping its lead for the NL’s final wild card, but manager David Ross and veteran players on the team know there’s a lot of baseball left to be played this season.“At the trade deadline, we didn’t win anything,” Ross said. “At the end of August, we’re not going to have won anything. The goal is to win a championship and it’s a long, hard road ahead ...

Divisive Thai ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returns from exile as party linked to him prepares to form government

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:45:41 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Divisive Thai ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returns from exile as party linked to him prepares to form government.Source

Stewart, Ortega and Lindor go deep as Mets beat the first-place Braves 10-4

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:45:41 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — DJ Stewart, Rafael Ortega and Francisco Lindor homered as the New York Mets won for the seventh time in nine games, beating the first-place Braves 10-4 on Monday night despite two homers by Atlanta’s Marcell Ozuna.Going ahead to stay with a four-run fifth inning, the Mets bounced back from an embarrassing series at Citi Field just over a week ago. Atlanta won the first three games of that meeting by a combined score of 34-3 before the Mets salvaged the finale 7-6.This time, New York got off to a winning start in a three-game set at Truist Park. After Ozuna’s second homer of the night pushed the Braves to their first lead, 4-3 in the fourth, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Daniel Vogelbach came through with consecutive RBI singles against Allan Winans (1-1). After Brad Hand replaced Winans, Stewart dropped down a bunt on the safety squeeze to bring home Alonso. Lindor put the game out of reach with his 23rd homer, a three-run drive off Hand in the sixth. David Pe...

'Where's Moochi?': 900-pound water buffalo missing in Colorado

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:45:41 GMT

ELBERT COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — A Colorado family is searching far and wide for their missing pet, a water buffalo.In the Elbert County farm town of Agate, where cows graze and raise their young, a special part of the Perrys' four-legged family is now missing.“Moochi, and we call her Mooch for short,” owner Laura Perry said. “She's similar to a cow, a little bit longer nose, almost like a little hippopotamus bootie, and she's buff color."'Such a sweet girl'At 14 months old, missing Moochi is about 900 pounds. Perry said she usually spends her days watching the little calves she lives with.“She will lay with the baby. She won’t graze, she’ll literally stand in amongst the pile of them, and she'll stand there until the moms can pick them back up again,” Perry said. “Such a sweet girl.”"Moochi," the missing water buffalo, disappeared from a family farm in Agate. Her loving and loyal attitude is making it extremely hard for Perry to understand why she would just disappear on Aug. 8.“Absol...

Bus cuts a 'huge crisis,' parents tell Denver school board

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:45:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Public Schools students are back in class, but getting to school has become a serious problem for some families.DPS said they had to cut some bus services to align with the Board of Education’s Healthy Start Times resolution, prompting transportation cuts for six of the district's 204 schools. List: The 24 Denver schools getting AC, and the 31 that aren’t Lynne Ly told FOX31 the cuts severely impact students like her daughter, Mai Archibald, who's in the special education program at Morey Middle School. "It’s mostly the traffic downtown that is our biggest concern," Ly said. “These streets are not made for this volume of families coming to the school."Her concern is shared by other parents, like Janna Steele. "The amount of traffic here and the speeds that people are driving is scaring both us and our kids," Steele said.Denver Public Schools: Bus use consideredIn a statement to FOX31, DPS said these decisions were not made lightly.  To reduce the overall imp...

Grief camp for Colorado kids reaches 10-year milestone

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:45:41 GMT

IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — Usually, it’s the kids who get nervous going to summer camp. But at Camp Erin Denver, it’s the grown-ups and volunteers who are anxious.They have a big responsibility: helping grieving kids cope with a death loss in childhood. Kids navigate difficult path with the help of ‘grief hikes’ Over the weekend, Camp Erin Denver held its 10th annual grief camp at Shwayder Camp near Idaho Springs.“That puts us at serving over 500 campers and their families over the past 10 years,” volunteer director Sara Chadil told FOX31.Campers spend 48 hours in the Colorado mountains, connecting with nature and taking part in grief management exercises and activities.“Trying to heal from it,” Scarlett, 7, told FOX31. She’s remembering her dad, who died last year.“For a few days I was staying with some other people, and he just didn’t make it,” she said.Three young boys skip rocks in a pond at Camp Granite Lake in Coal Creek Canyon. The boys attended Camp Erin Denver 2019, a...

Police investigate death near Washington Park

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:45:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Police are investigating a death near Washington Park.Around 10 a.m. Monday, the Denver Police Department tweeted about an outdoor death investigation taking place in the 600 block of South Downing Street. The area is on the northwest side of Wash Park, by Smith Lake on one side of the street and residential buildings on the other side.FOX31 cameras were at the scene. Multiple DPD patrol cars were parked in front of homes on the other side of the park. Police investigating death at Cheesman Park The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner will provide the cause of death and identify the person.As of Monday, Denver Police had not said whether the death was criminal in nature but said they would provide an update when more information became available.This is the second outdoor death investigation in Denver on Monday, and both were near popular parks. DPD was investigating another death at Cheesman Park.

Pembroke Pines town hall meeting held to discuss garbage incineration, as landfills become major issue in city

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:45:41 GMT

Dozens of Pembroke Pines residents weighed in during a town hall meeting, worried about perceived plans for a new garbage incinerator in Broward County, despite there being no plans in place yet to build one.City officials and county officials said there is a big issue of garbage in the county, in which millions of pounds of trash are sent to landfills. A questions and answer session occasionally turned heated as Pembroke Pines residents wanted to know if a garbage incinerator is coming to their city, specifically near US 27 and Sheridan Street. “When I got the notice for this my reaction was ‘What incinerator project?'” said Assistant County Administrator Kevin Kelleher. That’s because officials said there is no plan, at least not yet. But they do need to figure out a way to deal with the county’s annual four million tons of garbage added to landfills.“Twelve million gallons of garbage juice every year that comes out of the landfill, it’s n...