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Cubs move a step closer to playoff elimination, losing 4-3 to Brewers in 10 innings

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:07:14 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Chicago Cubs were pushed to the brink of playoff elimination by the NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers, who won 4-3 Friday night on Carlos Santana’s run-scoring double in the 10th inning.Chicago lost its fourth straight and fell 1 1/2 games behind Miami, which beat Pittsburgh, for the NL’s third and final wild-card spot. The Marlins hold the tiebreaker over the Cubs.Chicago seemed well on its way to earning a playoff berth less than three weeks ago when it owned a 78-67 record, but the Cubs have gone 4-11 since.Jeimer Candelario homered in the eighth and Ian Happ went deep in the ninth as Chicago rallied after trailing 3-0 through seven innings.But the Cubs couldn’t close the deal.Caleb Boushley (1-0), a Wisconsin native making his major league debut, struck out Patrick Wisdom with the bases loaded in the top of the 10th. Boushley had allowed the tying homer to Happ in the ninth.Santana led off the bottom of the 10th with a double off José C...

Reds hit six home runs, keep playoff hopes alive with 19-2 rout of Cardinals

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:07:14 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Cincinnati hit six home runs including Nick Martini’s three-run shot in the first inning in a 19-2 rout of the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night that kept the Reds alive in the National League wild-card race.Jonathan India, Spencer Steer, Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Noelvi Marte and Tyler Stephenson also homered for the Reds who scored their most runs since putting up 20 against the Chicago Cubs on May 26, 2022.Cincinnati remain tied with the Cubs 1 1/2 games behind Miami for the last NL wild card. The Cardinals, at 69-91, have their most losses since going 70-92 in 1990.Cardinals right-hander Adam Wainwright, who announced on Tuesday that he is retiring after 18 seasons with the team, pinch hit in the sixth inning and grounded out to second base.Brandon Williamson (5-5) allowed two runs on five hits in six innings for his first win since Aug. 7, and Carson Spiers pitched the final three innings for his first career save.Jake Woodford (2-3) allowed seven r...

Nationals hit season-high 5 home runs, overpower Braves 10-6

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:07:14 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Carter Kieboom, Jake Alu, Kibert Ruiz, Dominic Smith and Lane Thomas homered to help the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 10-6 on Friday night.Washington tied a season high for homers on a night the NL East champion Braves started resting regulars to prepare for the postseason.Jordan Weems (5-0) picked up the win with one inning of relief, and Kyle Finnegan closed out the game. The Nationals used six relievers after starter Trevor Williams gave up two runs and seven hits in 3 1/3 innings.Ronald Acuña Jr. went 1 for 2 with a run and two steals before being pulled after two innings. He tied the Braves’ steals record of 72, set by Otis Nixon in 1991. Matt Olson was lifted for a pinch runner in the third inning after getting an RBI single in the first and walking in the third.Brad Hand (5-3) took the loss in relief of rookie Allan Winans, who gave up six runs in 5 1/3 innings and surrendered three home runs. The Braves had won four straight.Ruiz was 2 fo...

Fallen officer a 'beautiful person' who would help anyone

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:07:14 GMT

PUEBLO, Colo. (KDVR) — The mother of a slain Colorado Springs parole officer is speaking out.Angie Guerin said she is shocked and saddened but, ultimately, at peace with her daughter's tragic death."She was just a wonderful, beautiful person," she said. High earners to fund free school meals for 800,000 kids Thursday, 50-year-old Christine Guerin Sandoval was killed in the line of duty while trying to make a felony warrant arrest. It happened in Colorado Springs, near West Bijou and North Spruce streets. A second officer involved also was injured.Christine Guerin Sandoval (Pueblo County Sheriff's Office)The suspect was eventually captured.Guerin said Sandoval was her eldest child. She leaves behind a husband and two children."Everything: a wonderful, beautiful daughter, and, I'm sure, wife and mother to her children," she said."She'd help anybody out," her mother said.The second injured officer has been released from the hospital.

Colorado Sports Night: Weekend wrap-up for Sept. 29

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:07:14 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — It's a new week in Colorado sports — and it has to be better than last weekend, right?The Buffs and Broncos look to bounce back from horrible showings, Colorado State is looking to make it two games in a row, and the Rockies conclude their season on the wrong side of history.Let’s take a look at what the guests on "Colorado Sports Night" had to say on this week’s hot topics.BIG GETSo where is the panic meter for the Broncos after a miserable showing in Miami?Darren McKee (aka DMac) said it happens in other sports all the time, so don't worry too much about the point differential: "It just wasn't their day.”So where is the panic meter #BroncosCountry after a miserable showing in Miami?Our Big Get @DMacRadio says it happens in other sports all the time, so don't worry too much about the point differential. "It just wasn't their day."That and much more tonight at 11 @channel2kwgn pic.twitter.com/j9asy8HdR3— Colorado Sports Night (@COSportsNight) ...

Federal judge won’t block Medicare from negotiating drug prices

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:07:14 GMT

(CNN) — A federal court judge in Ohio denied Friday an attempt by the US Chamber of Commerce to immediately stop the Biden administration’s implementation of Medicare’s new drug price negotiation program.The ruling was the first time a federal court has weighed in on the multiple lawsuits filed against the controversial program.The chamber filed a lawsuit in June arguing that allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices is unconstitutional for several reasons. It then asked for a preliminary injunction to halt the program by October 1, when drug makers have to agree to participate in the program.“As to Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction, they have demonstrated neither a strong likelihood of success nor irreparable harm,” wrote Judge Michael Newman of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, in Dayton.“Any economic harm — which, on its own, is insufficient to satisfy this prong of a preliminary injunction analysis — will not occur for years in the futu...

1 dead, 1 in hospital after breaching whale capsizes boat in Australia

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:07:14 GMT

(CNN) — One man is dead and another in hospital after a boat reportedly struck by a whale capsized in waters off Sydney, Australia, early Saturday morning local time.Police responded to reports that two people were in the water just outside the headland past Botany Bay around 6 a.m. local time, said New South Wales Water Police Acting Superintendent Siobhan Munro.“When police arrived, the two male persons from a vessel were rescued,” Munro said, adding that one of them had “been confirmed as deceased.”“Early reports are that a whale may have breached near the boat or onto the boat,” she said.The vessel has been recovered and will undergo forensic testing, Munro added.The incident occurred on the first day of National Safe Boating Week in Australia, which runs from September 30 to October 6. A key focus of the initiative by Australia & New Zealand Safe Boating Education Group is lifejackets.CNN affiliate Channel 7 reported that it was unclear if the two men involved in the a...

Jack Osbourne goes hunting for ghosts in new Travel Channel series ‘Night of Terror’

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:07:14 GMT

There are some crazy scary places all over this country. We don’t mean our Deco Drive office, but places like abandoned prisons and mansions.Jack Osbourne goes on ghost hunts inside these creepy places. His show, “Night of Terror” premieres on the Travel Channel on Sunday, and we have a sneak peek.Jack Osbourne: “Everything you shouldn’t do in a horror movie, we’re about to do.”Jack Osbourne is serving up a scary size of screams in his new show, “Night of Terror.”Jack Osbourne: “This season, I bring along friends and family to do ghost hunts. We go to some pretty crazy places.”Places like an insane asylum and an old prison.Jack Osbourne: “I’m bringing my mother, Sharon Osbourne, to a stately inn that hides a dark history of death.”But there was a real-life scare for the whole Osbourne gang, and it was all caught on camera with the premiere episode.Jack Osbourne: “Mom? Mom?”News anchor: &#...

Rising star Durand Jones gets personal on new album

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:07:14 GMT

Durand Jones wrote a letter to himself as a teenager, a letter to himself and to every kid growing up in the rural South. Jones didn’t drop the missive in the mail but laid it to wax — 12 songs that unfold, bloom and cry, on new LP “Wait Til I Get Over.”The singer and songwriter from tiny Hillaryville, Louisiana, thinks about everyone the letter is addressed to.“I think of that kid within me, still with me to this day, that kid that always wanted to do this,” Jones told the Herald from a tour van crossing the Canadian border. “I think of that kid and I tell him, tell myself, dream bigger than any dream anyone can have for you. Even if it’s just one nerdy kid out in the rural South, I just want them to know that if I can do it, they can too.”No one can do what Jones does, he’s a wonderfully unique artist, but his point is taken.“Wait Til I Get Over” looks back at Jones’ teen years of the 2000s growing up in Hillaryville. It’s full of honest admissions —  “That Feeling” is his ode to ...

Editorial: AI helping in the battle against retail theft

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:07:14 GMT

It’s no secret that retail theft has skyrocketed since the pandemic. We’ve all seen the alarming videos of criminal gangs attacking stores, cleaning out shelves and walking off with no apparent consequences.This year, U.S. merchants expect to report a stunning $100 billion in losses — a big increase over pre-pandemic levels.At this month’s convention for Ace Hardware, exhibitor Laura Freeman of Watcher Total Protection had talked herself hoarse by the end of the opening day. Aggrieved store owners crowded her booth to quiz her about her company’s security systems, which are augmented with artificial intelligence.AI is coming to the rescue of merchants, for better or worse. “We will see a lot more AI for shoplifter protection,” said Freeman. “You’ll see more and more where the system does the work.”The old days of dumb cameras recording thieves in action for review after the fact have given way to smart systems that can detect illegal activity as it happens and send instant text aler...