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WBC final winner Shōta Imanaga becomes free agent Tuesday, talks can run through Jan. 11

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:16 GMT

Shōta Imanaga, who got the win for Japan in this year’s World Baseball Classic final against the United States, will become a free agent Tuesday and major league teams can sign him through 5 p.m. on Jan. 11.Naoyuki Uwasawa, a 29-year-old right-handed reliever with the Pacific League’s Nippon Ham Fighters, also will become a free agent Tuesday and be available through Jan. 11.Imanaga, a 30-year-old left-hander, was 7-4 with a 2.80 ERA in 22 starts this year for the Yokohama BayStars of Japan’s Central League. He struck out 174 and walked 24 in 148 innings.Imanaga, recognizable for throwback style high socks, became the second prominent Japanese pitcher on the free agent market after 25-year-old right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who can sign through Jan. 4.Imanaga is 64-50 with a 3.18 ERA in eight season with Yokohama, striking out 1,021 and walking 280 in 1,002 2/3 innings.His fastball averaged 93.5 mph in the WBC final, when he allowed one run and four hits in two i...

Police link gun in Vermont suspect’s apartment to casings found at scene of shooting of 3 Palestinian college students

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:16 GMT

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Police link gun in Vermont suspect’s apartment to casings found at scene of shooting of 3 Palestinian college students.Source

Chiefs finally play clean game as offense comes alive in second half against Raiders

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:16 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Perhaps the Kansas City Chiefs finally solved their second-half woes against the Raiders on Sunday in Las Vegas.Or maybe they just did what Andy Reid has been imploring them to do for the past month.Despite falling behind by two touchdowns early, the Chiefs were able to rally for a 31-17 win largely because they committed just four penalties and were turnover-free for the first time since Week 5 and the second time all season. The result was an offense led by Patrick Mahomes that started to resemble their high-scoring teams of the past five years.“We’ve shown that we can move the ball,” Mahomes said, “but penalties and drops, and me not getting to the right guy at the right time (were problems). … Little things have kind of stalled our drives, but we got to it. Kind of went back to fundamentals this week, and we kept pressing and pushing, and we’re going to try to keep going the rest of the season.”While the offense finally came online...

La Casa Blanca revela el motivo de la decoración de Navidad: aquí las fotos

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:16 GMT

Noventa y ocho árboles de Navidad, más de 142,000 luces parpadeantes y casi 34,000 adornos adornan los pasillos de la Casa Blanca de una manera que la primera dama Jill Biden espera que inspire a los visitantes a abrazar a su niño interior y experimentar la “magia, la maravilla y la alegría” de la Navidad. Este es su tema para la decoración navideña.“Cada sala expuesta está diseñada para capturar el deleite y la imaginación puros y sin filtros de nuestra infancia, para ver esta época del año a través de los ojos maravillosos y brillantes de los niños”, informó en declaraciones preparadas para una recepción el lunes. A lo largo de la decoración hay numerosos objetos que conmemoran el aniversario 200 de la publicación en 1823 del poema y libro “Era la noche antes de Navidad”.La Biblioteca del Congreso proporcionó muestras de ediciones de los últimos 200 años que se exhiben a lo largo del corredor de la planta baja. La tradicional Casa Blanca de pan de jengibre ...

IndyCar champ Palou admits breach of contract as Spaniard tries to mitigate damages owed to McLaren

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:16 GMT

Two-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou concedes in court documents that he breached his contract with McLaren Racing when the Spaniard did an about-face and stayed at Chip Ganassi Racing. The admission came in Palou’s response to a lawsuit filed against him by McLaren in September seeking to recoup at least $23 million in losses the team calculated Palou’s reversal cost the organization. Palou’s 20-page response was filed in the High Court of Justice Business and Property Courts of England and Wales Commercial Court. The Associated Press reviewed the filing Monday. In the response, Palou says he changed his mind about joining McLaren ahead of the 2024 season when he “lost trust and confidence that (McLaren) genuinely intended to support his ambition to race in the Formula One Series and decided to continue racing with CGR in the Indy Car Series instead.”Palou “therefore admits that he renounced his contractual obligations” with McLaren and “the real issue between the...

US men’s soccer to open 2024 with exhibition vs Slovenia on Jan. 20 in San Antonio

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:16 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. men’s soccer team will open its 2024 schedule with an exhibition against Slovenia on Jan. 20 in San Antonio.The game announced Monday is not on a FIFA fixture date, which means most Europe-based players will not be available.The U.S. plays Jamaica on March 21 at Arlington, Texas, in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Nations League and faces Mexico or Panama three days later in the championship or third-place game.The Americans are preparing for the Copa América, South America’s championship, which they host from June 19 to July 14.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerSource

Eminent domain case involving Georgia railroad could have widespread property law implications

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:16 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — A hearing began Monday in an eminent domain battle that involves one of rural Georgia’s poorest areas but could have implications for property law across the state and nation.At stake is determining whether a railroad can legally condemn property to build a rail line 4.5 miles (7.3 kilometers) long that would serve a rock quarry and possibly other industries.A hearing officer will take up to three days of testimony before making a recommendation to the Georgia Public Service Commission’s five elected members, who will ultimately decide.The line would be built by the Sandersville Railroad, which is owned by an influential Georgia family. It would connect to the CSX railroad at Sparta, allowing products to be shipped widely. Sparta is about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta.People in the rural neighborhood don’t want a train track passing through or near their property, in part because they think it would enable expansion at a quarry owned...

DIA saw half of the expected travelers during Thanksgiving week

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:16 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver International Airport was anticipating a busy holiday season, but numbers from Thanksgiving week dipped significantly lower than expected.The Transportation Security Administration said this holiday season was expected to be their busiest ever. Within the year, TSA has recorded seven of the top 10 busiest travel days in TSA history.  Denver International Airport prepares for busy holiday travel week With DIA being the third busiest airport in the world, Denver was ready for a crowd of people going through the airport for the holiday.DIA said more than 785,000 passengers were expected to travel through TSA checkpoints from Nov. 17 through Nov. 27, a 13% increase from this time last year.But come Thanksgiving week, the airport was quieter than usual.DIA shared the expected and actual number of passengers that traveled through TSA checkpoints.Wednesday, Nov. 22Forecast: 270,000Actual: 76,359Thursday, Nov. 23Forecast: 162,000Actual: 36,645Friday, Nov. 24Forecast...

When do Coloradans hang Christmas lights?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:16 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Now that Thanksgiving is over, it's time to start thinking about the next holiday. Even though there might still be Thanksgiving leftovers in the fridge, a new study shows that Coloradans are already decorating for Christmas. Today's Homeowner surveyed 3,000 Americans about their holiday decorating preferences. List: Christmas light displays around Denver metro The days between Thanksgiving and Dec. 1 are the time to decorate, according to the survey. Results showed that 40% of decorators plan to put up lights during this week, and the majority of Americans agree it’s the most acceptable time to decorate. While many Americans put up house lights in late November after Thanksgiving, Coloradans put them up even earlier, according to the study.Whether it's because of the darker days or the holiday spirit, in Colorado, holiday lights are up before Thanksgiving.While Colorado is in the minority of states that hang lights up before Thanksgiving, the state isn't the only...

Tesla wins court backing in suit over blocked license plates in Sweden

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:38:16 GMT

Tesla won the backing of a Swedish court on Monday in the electric-car company’s lawsuit to unblock access to license plates for its vehicles in the Scandinavian country.The Norrkoping district court ruled that the Swedish Transport Agency must get the license plates to Tesla within seven days or face a fine of 1 million kronor ($95,383), Swedish media reported. Delivery of the plates is being blocked by industrial action by postal workers, according to the reports.The U.S.-based company charges that the blockage of access to license plates for new vehicles “constitutes an unlawful discriminatory attack directed at Tesla,” according to the reports.The transport authority denied the charges. “We at the Swedish Transport Agency do not share this view that the agency was blocking the distribution of license plates,” an agency spokesperson told the Associated Press. Workers at the state-run PostNord postal service on Nov. 20 joined an industrial action aimed at forcing Tesla to s...