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Peter Jensen: Orioles players should be the next ‘Real Housewives’; bring reality TV to the MLB | COMMENTARY

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:26:48 GMT

My most memorable experience in sports writing, which I’m no expert in, was helping cover Pete Rose when he surpassed Ty Cobb’s career base hits mark in 1985. I was a young reporter working for the now-defunct Cincinnati Post, and it was quite the jaw-dropping moment to walk into a real Major League Baseball locker room and ask questions of a legend like Rose. But I quickly learned something about baseball that everyone involved with the game no doubt takes for granted: The players were a bunch of kids. They acted like kids. They were excited by kid things. They had little awareness of the world around them, just about their game.Oh, they’d straighten up like they were in Sunday school for their on-camera moments with TV reporters or when the ballclub’s public relations staff dragged them to the podium to deal with the rest of the media. And their juvenilia wasn’t about chronological age. Rose was 44 years old on Sept. 11, 1985, when he officially recor...

Adult fraudulently enrolled in multiple BPS high schools, under police investigation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:26:48 GMT

A woman enrolled in three BPS high schools in the last school year in a scheme using multiple pseudonyms and transfers and is now being investigated by police, BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper said in a letter to families at the schools Tuesday morning.“I am deeply troubled that an adult would breach the trust of our school communities by posing as a student,” Skipper said in a statement. “This appears to be a case of extremely sophisticated fraud.”The individual attended Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Brighton High School and English High School during the 2022-23 year.A police report from June 14 on the incident lists two female and one male suspects. The only victim listed is the state under the offense “investigate person,” though the report does check off a human trafficking box.A report stated the school staff became concerned when a man came to pick up his “daughter” and announced she would be transferring to St. Columbkille in B...

Warmup expected for San Diego on first day of summer

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:26:48 GMT

SAN DIEGO — Summer officially begins Wednesday and the sun is expected to come out for San Diego County to celebrate.According to the National Weather Service, the Summer Solstice will occur at 7:58 a.m. PDT Wednesday.In summery fashion, temperatures across the county are expected to increase from one to three degrees from Tuesday into Wednesday, NWS San Diego said on Twitter.When will El Niño peak?Warmer conditions with better chances of low clouds clearing are expected for Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, bringing some sunshine to the region.A brief cooling trend is expected for Thursday and Friday, NWS San Diego said. Gusty southwest to west winds will be felt in the mountain and desert areas on these days.As summer kicks off and with El Niño conditions arriving earlier than anticipated this year, meteorologists have warned that it could be an abnormally warm summer for Southern California and the rest of the country.Here are some of the forecasted high temperatures around San Di...

Guests displaced after 2nd alarm fire at Oceanside motel

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:26:48 GMT

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — A North County motel caught fire Tuesday, displacing the occupants of the business.The fire began around 4 a.m. at the Oceanside Inn & Suites located at 1820 S Coast Highway, Oceanside Fire Department said in a news release.Upon arrival, firefighters found heavy smoke and flames coming from an end room of the single-story motel complex.Crews began work to extinguish the flames, while looking for any possible victims in the burning room. San Diego researcher who helped discover Titanic wreckage mystified by missing submersible After more engines arrived on scene firefighter began to evacuate the occupants of the adjoining rooms and check if the fire had spread, according to OFD.A 2nd alarm response was ordered due to the potential for fire spread and the limited amount of resources on scene.Crews turned off the gas and electricity to the building and went on the roof to perform trench cuts in order to stop the fire spread in an attic, officials said. Body ...

Actor Jonathan Majors’ domestic violence trial scheduled for Aug. 3

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:26:48 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Jonathan Majors’ domestic violence case will go to trial Aug. 3, a Manhattan judge said Tuesday, casting him in a real-life courtroom drama as his idled Hollywood career hangs in the balance.Majors’ accuser alleges he pulled her finger, twisted her arm behind her back, struck and cut her ear and pushed her into a vehicle, causing her to fall backwards, during a March confrontation in New York City. The woman was treated at a hospital for minor head and neck injuries, police said.Majors’ attorney, Priya Chaudhry, said Tuesday that she provided prosecutors with video evidence showing the female accuser attacked her client, not the other way around. The woman has not been named in court records.Majors had been a fast-rising Hollywood star with major roles in recent hits like “Creed III” and “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.” But in the wake of his arrest, the U.S. Army pulled TV commercials starring Majors, saying it was “deeply concerned” by the allegatio...

Georgia officials won’t take over elections in state’s largest, Democrat-heavy county

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:26:48 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s State Election Board won’t take over running elections in the state’s most populous county, ending an investigation that had sparked fears of partisan meddling.The board voted unanimously on Tuesday to end its performance review of Fulton County nearly two years after it had begun.Multiple board members said that they want the county to continue to work on improvements before the 2024 election and not to backslide on work already done.“The question is, are we going to draw a line in the sand and say let us go, be done with this, and leave us alone, which is a little bit of what I’m hearing… or are we going to say it’s time to change?” said State Election Board Chair Bill Duffey.Fulton County officials noted that the review panel found no violations of state law or rules across nine elections that it monitored. “I’m proud of the work of Fulton County and what we’ve achieved in the last few years and feel fully confident moving into the future that...

Girl seriously injured after being struck by vehicle in Toronto’s east end

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:26:48 GMT

A girl has been rushed to hospital after they were struck by a vehicle in the city’s east end.Police responded to the scene at Milner Avenue and Neilson Road near Sheppard Avenue East just after 1 p.m. on Tuesday.Paramedics said the injured person is a “young teenager,” who they were taking to a pediatric trauma centre with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.Toronto police later confirmed the victim is a girl.The driver remained at the scene.No further details have been released.

Dean Brody, the Reklaws set to play CCMA Awards as country show heads to CTV

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:26:48 GMT

TORONTO — Homegrown country stars Dean Brody, the Reklaws and Carly Pearce are among the performers headed to this year’s CCMA Awards.The Canadian Country Music Association named the musicians in a larger announcement that sees the show migrate to CTV for its 41st edition this fall.The change is accompanied by a commitment from CTV’s owner Bell Media to put significant marketing heft behind the event across its other broadcast channels, radio stations, digital and social media properties.It’s a notable shift after the CCMA Awards broadcast on Global in recent years and streamed live on Amazon’s Prime Video platform.This year’s event will air live from Hamilton’s FirstOntario Centre on Sept. 26, an unusual placement of the awards show on a Saturday night.Tickets for the CCMA Awards go on sale to the general public on Thursday.This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 20, 2023.David Friend, The Canadian Press

Texas power grid asks customers to cut electricity use as heat wave scorches southern US

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:26:48 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ power grid operator asked residents Tuesday to voluntarily cut back on electricity due to anticipated record demand on the system as a heat wave kept parts of the state and southern U.S. in triple-digit temperatures. In neighboring Oklahoma, more than 100,000 customers were eagerly awaiting the restoration of power and air conditioning following weekend storms that downed trees and snapped hundreds of utility poles. Officials say at least one person in Oklahoma has died because of the prolonged outages, which could last into the weekend for some residents. The request in Texas marked the first time this year that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas — which serves most of Texas’ nearly 30 million residents — had asked customers to cut their energy consumption. ERCOT said it was “not experiencing emergency conditions,” but it noted that the state set an unofficial June record on Monday for energy demand. Much of Texas was under exces...

Ford endorses Saunders ahead of Toronto byelection: ‘He’d be the best mayor’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:26:48 GMT

Ontario Premier Doug Ford will vote for Mark Saunders in Toronto’s upcoming mayoral byelection but maintains he is staying out of the race.Ford’s endorsement of the former police chief comes after a Mark Saunders sign was captured on the Premier’s front lawn this week.“I’ve always said I’m staying out of the race. I have the right, like anyone else, to put a sign on my lawn,” Ford said at a press conference on Tuesday.“I tell everyone, I’ll be voting for Mark, but vote [for] whoever you want to vote for. That’s your choice. That’s not up to me or anyone else to tell you who to vote for.“That’s just my opinion. He’d be the best mayor,” Ford added.In a statement from the Premier’s office, a spokesperson said on Monday that Ford would “work with anyone, and that’s what he intends to do.”Toronto mayoral candidate Mark Saunders is photographed after a mayoral debate in Toronto on W...