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Enrique Bradfield Jr. on joining Orioles as No. 17 overall selection: ‘It was meant to be’

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:27 GMT

Enrique Bradfield Jr. knows professional baseball will be an adjustment. “The game is fast,” he said.But so is he.Bradfield, the speedy outfielder out of Vanderbilt who the Orioles selected No. 17 overall Sunday night in the first round of the MLB draft, said during his introductory press conference that he’s confident he’ll hit the ground running to begin his professional career in Baltimore’s minor league system.“I have no concerns about going up to the next level and not having success,” Bradfield said. “I’ve been able to adapt to every level I’ve ever been at and be able to produce, and I feel like this one’s going to be no different.”Bradfield, who Baseball America ranked as the 16th-best prospect in the draft, was surprised the Orioles selected him because he didn’t have much communication with the organization during the predraft process. While becoming an Oriole “definitely came as a shock,&#...

James Lewis, suspect in 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed 7, dead

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:27 GMT

CAMBRIDGE  — The suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area and triggered a nationwide scare has died, police confirmed on Monday.Officers, firefighters and EMTs responding to a report of unresponsive person about 4 p.m. Sunday found James Lewis dead in his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home, Cambridge Police Superintendent Frederick Cabral said in a statement. He was 76, police said.“Following an investigation, Lewis’ death was determined to be not suspicious,” the statement said.No one was ever charged in the deaths of seven people who took drugs laced with cyanide. Lewis served more than 12 years in prison for sending an extortion note to Johnson & Johnson, demanding $1 million to “stop the killing.”When he was arrested in 1982 after a nationwide manhunt, he gave investigators a detailed account of how the killer might have operated. Lewis later admitted sending the letter and demanding the money, but he said ...

Yankees to hire Sean Casey as new hitting coach: report

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:27 GMT

A new mayor is coming to New York City.The Yankees will hire Sean Casey to be their new lead hitting coach, according to multiple reports. Per the New York Post’s Joel Sherman, Casey’s deal is for the rest of the 2023 season.The club fired Dillon Lawson on Sunday after less than two seasons in the same job. As of Sunday, the Yankees planned on retaining assistant hitting coaches Casey Dykes and Brad Wilkerson.Brian Cashman said that he wanted to venture outside the organization for Lawson’s replacement, and Casey meets that requirement. However, he has plenty of experience working with Aaron Boone, as the two played for the Reds from 1998-2003.Cashman added that Lawson’s replacement would be in “lockstep” with the Yankees manager.While Casey, 49, has 12 years of playing experience with Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Boston, the Willingboro, New Jersey native has not worked as a major league coach before. Rather, he has been working...

Spain rescues 86 people near the Canary Island, but scores of migrants from Senegal remain missing

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:27 GMT

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Spanish authorities rescued 86 people Monday from a boat near the Canary Islands that appeared to be from Senegal, after an aid group reported that three boats from the African country went missing with 300 people aboard.Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said it could not confirm that the rescued boat was one of the three reported missing, but told The Associated Press that the vessel was a multi-colored, 20-meter-long (65-foot-long) canoe of the type known in Senegal as a pirogue.Eighty men and six women of sub-Saharan origin were rescued and expected to reach Spanish soil Monday evening, the Spanish agency said. It also said it had alerted boats sailing in Atlantic waters between the Canary Islands and West Africa to be on the lookout for other migrant boats still missing.Helena Maleno Garzon, coordinator for the aid group Walking Borders, which is known as Caminando Fronteras in Spanish, said earlier Monday that the three missing boats had departed Senegal in ...

Belarusian journalist faces up to 6 years in prison for opposition reporting

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:27 GMT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A prominent journalist went on trial in Belarus Monday, the latest step in a years-long crackdown on opposition figures, independent journalists and human rights activists.If convicted on the charges of assisting extremist activity, Pavel Mazheika, 45, faces up to six years in prison for his work covering the political opposition.He is accused of working for news outlets including Belsat TV, which broadcasts in Belarusian from its base in neighboring Poland. The Belarusian authorities have labeled Belsat as “extremist.” Journalists and activists in Belarus have faced large-scale repression since the August 2020 vote that handed a sixth term to President Alexander Lukashenko. Following the election, which was rejected as fraudulent by the opposition and the West, Belarus was swept by massive protests, some of which drew more than 100,000 people.Authorities responded with a brutal crackdown. More than 35,000 people were arrested, thousands were beaten by police...

Lightning sparks about 200 new wildfires across B.C. as heat grips Interior

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:27 GMT

VANCOUVER — Hundreds of lightning strikes in many parts of British Columbia almost tripled the number of active wildfires in the province over the weekend, with most burning in central and northern B.C.The BC Wildfire Service is reporting more than 300 fires, with 87 spotted in the last 24 hours and almost 200 of the total number ranked as out of control.The wildfire service is bracing for challenging conditions, with lightning storms still in the forecast for most of the week, as well as heat warnings or above-average temperatures through the central Interior.Of the 13 blazes listed as “fires of note,” all but two are located in the Prince George and Northwest fire centres, and the wildfire service says 11 have prompted at least one evacuation order, although no major communities are threatened.Some of the fires are threatening rural highways, including Highway 27 south of Fort St. James and Highway 77 north of Fort Nelson, while flames first spotted last Thursday near ...

Blockade continues at Winnipeg landfill after deadline passes

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:27 GMT

WINNIPEG — Dozens of protesters were continuing to block a landfill south of Winnipeg after a city-imposed deadline ordering them to leave had passed. The barricade at the Brady Road landfill was being reinforced with more than a dozen tires and wood planks today and some demonstrators gathered in a circle to pray. The city issued an order late Friday afternoon demanding the demonstrators restore full access to the landfill by noon today. The blockade began Thursday after the Manitoba government’s decision against searching a different landfill north of the city, Prairie Green, where the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran are believed to have been dumped.Jeremy Skibicki faces first-degree murder charges in their deaths as well as for the death of Rebecca Contois, whose remains were found last year at Brady Road, and an unidentified woman Indigenous leaders are calling Buffalo Woman whose remains have not been found. Grand Chief Cathy Merrick, of the Assembly of Manitoba Chi...

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Postmedia, Toronto Star owner Nordstar end merger talks

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:27 GMT

TORONTO — Canadian media companies Postmedia Network Canada Corp. and Nordstar Capital LP, the company that owns the Toronto Star, have ended discussions about a potential merger, saying they were unable to come to an agreement. More coming.The Canadian Press

Former Connecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. is remembered as a maverick unconstrained by politics

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:27 GMT

Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a towering figure in Connecticut politics who rose to national prominence for taking on his party during the Watergate hearings as a junior Republican senator, was remembered Monday as a politician from a bygone era, unshackled by partisanship.During more than 30 years in public office, Weicker fought for AIDS funding, clean air and water, medical research, protecting people with disabilities and those marginalized in society. He served in the Connecticut General Assembly, the U.S. House of Representatives and later as Connecticut’s first independent governor. He died June 28 at age 92, following a short illness.His funeral in Greenwich, Connecticut, a town where he was once the first selectman, drew family, friends and politicians from both parties. They recalled his maverick political style being guided by an internal moral compass to do what he thought was right for Connecticut and the nation.“He loved to challenge convention every day and we’re...

Search continues for ‘very dangerous’ jail escapee; stockpiles, campsites found

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:27 GMT

WARREN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities searching for an inmate described by police as “very dangerous” who used bed sheets to escape from a northwestern Pennsylvania jail say they believe he is still in the area and have found stockpiles or campsites in the woods he may have been using.Michael Burham, 34, who fled the Warren County Prison late Thursday by climbing on exercise equipment and using bed sheets to escape through a window, was a suspect in a homicide investigation and had been held on $1 million bail on kidnapping, burglary and other charges, authorities said.“We have located small stockpiles or campsites in wooded areas in the general vicinity of Warren, and we believe that at least some of those may be associated with Burham,” Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police told reporters Sunday afternoon at Youngsville Fire Hall.District Attorney Jason Schmidt of Chautauqua County, New York, said last month that Burham is the “prime suspect” in the May 11 killing of Ka...