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Harry Hall crashes the ‘Block’ party at Colonial with 62 as club pro shoots 81

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:06 GMT

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — California club pro Michael Block was living the dream at the PGA Championship. Thursday at Colonial brought him back to reality.A sensation at Oak Hill when he tied for 15th against the strongest field in golf, Block opened with three straight bogeys and finished with three double bogeys over his last four holes of an 11-over 81 that left him in last place and 19 shots behind Harry Hall in the Charles Schwab Challenge.Block received a sponsor exemption — he has one for the RBC Canadian Open next week, too — after his amazing week at the PGA Championship. He was on “CBS This Morning,” received a text from Michael Jordan and signed with WME Sports. “I’ve got nothing,” he said to himself after a tee shot on the 13th barely cleared the water and finished on the back left of a green that had a front right pin.“If you are a golfer, you’ve had the day I’ve had,” Block said after his worst score by seven shots in the four PGA Tour-level events he ...

NCAA Division I Softball Super Regionals Glance

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:06 GMT

All Times EDT(Best-of-3; x-if necessary)Host school is home team for Game 1; visiting school is home team for Game 2; coin flip determines home team for Game 3At Norman, Okla.Friday, May 26: No. 1 Oklahoma (53-1) vs. No. 16 Clemson (46-9), 2 p.m.Saturday, May 27: Oklahoma vs. Clemson, 2 p.m.x-Sunday, May 28: Oklahoma vs. Clemson, TBAAt Durham, N.C.Friday, May 26: No. 8 Duke (46-10) vs. No. 9 Standford (41-13), noonSaturday, May 27: Duke vs. Stanford, 3 p.m.x-Sunday, May 28: Duke vs. Stanford,TBAAt Tuscaloosa, Ala.Friday, May 26: No. 5 Alabama (42-19) vs. No. 12 Northwestern (39-11), 8 p.m.Saturday, May 27: Alabama vs. Northwestern, 9 p.m.x-Sunday, May 28: Alabama vs. Northwestern, TBAAt Knoxville, Tenn.Friday, May 26: No. 4 Tennessee (45-8) vs. No. 13 Texas (43-13-1), 4 p.m.Saturday, May 27: Tennessee vs. Texas, 3 p.m.xSunday, May 28: Tennessee vs. Texas, TBAAt Tallahassee, Fla.Florida St. 1, Georgia 0Thursday, May 25: No. 3 Florida St. (52-8) 8, No. 14 Georgia (40-14) 1Friday, May ...

Alonso hits MLB-best 19th HR, Carrasco gets 1st win as Mets rout Cubs 10-1 to avoid sweep

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:06 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Pete Alonso launched his major league-leading 19th home run and Carlos Carrasco earned his first win this season as the New York Mets routed the Chicago Cubs 10-1 on Thursday to avoid a three-game sweep.Brett Baty knocked in New York’s first two runs and the Mets pounded out 15 hits on a chilly night at Wrigley Field to ruin Kyle Hendricks’ season debut for the Cubs in his return from a serious shoulder injury. Jeff McNeil had three hits and scored three times. New York got four straight base hits with two outs in a three-run third inning and took a 4-1 lead on Starling Marte’s two-run single.“We just put together good at-bats in some key situations and big moments there,” McNeil said after the Mets were outscored 11-4 in the first two games of the series. “We didn’t play the kind of baseball we wanted to the last few days. To get this win is big.”Alonso added a two-run homer in the seventh and Brandon Nimmo laced a two-run triple in a three-run eighth.Dan...

Nordqvist goes distance again, Valenzuela topples Vu in LPGA Match Play

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:06 GMT

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Anna Nordqvist was among 11 players who won matches for the second straight day, only the three-time major champion from Sweden had to work the longest at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play.Nordqvist had her second match go all 18 holes Thursday before she held on for a 1-up victory over Lauren Coughlin. Nordqvist never trailed, but she watched a 4-up lead after eight holes shrink to 1 up after the 13th.They halved the last five holes, leaving Nordqvist in good position — but still not safe — to win her group and advance to the knockout stage on the weekend at Shadow Creek.The second day of round-robin group play was all about staying alive, and 16 players from the field of 64 already are mathematically eliminated. Xiyu “Janet” Lin was the only top seed in her group to get eliminated, losing another match, this time to Pajaree Anannarukarn.The tournament attracted only two of the top 10 players in the women’s world ranking, and both suffered setbacks...

Ya son 29,000 los permisos humanitarios otorgados a cubanos bajo política de patrocinadores

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:06 GMT

LA HABANA — Estados Unidos entregó 29,000 permisos humanitarios de viaje a ciudadanos cubanos a partir de patrocinadores desde que se inició una nueva política en enero que autorizó el uso de este mecanismo para intentar poner orden en el flujo migratorio de personas provenientes de la isla y tras meses con llegadas récords de cubanos a la frontera norte de México, informó un funcionario.“Hemos hecho muchos progresos en las últimas semanas y últimos meses para lidiar con el reto de migración que estamos viendo en nuestra frontera”, expresó el subsecretario interino de Política Fronteriza e Inmigración del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de EEUU, Blas Nuñez-Neto, durante una video conferencia enfocada a la situación migratoria de los cubanos.“Pero también reconocemos que es demasiado pronto para sacar conclusiones definitivas o predecir qué va a pasar en las semanas que vienen”, indicó.El funcionario señaló también que en las próximas semanas se darán a conocer nuevas disposicione...

South Korea’s Hyundai and LG announce plans for $4.3 billion plant in Georgia to make batteries for electric vehicles

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:06 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — South Korea’s Hyundai and LG announce plans for $4.3 billion plant in Georgia to make batteries for electric vehicles.Source

Thieves caught on camera breaking into condo mailboxes

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:06 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Thieves were caught on surveillance camera as they broke into mailboxes at a Denver condominium complex. “It’s harder to catch people at 4 o’clock in the morning when they’re only here for 5 minutes,” said resident Eric Crowley, who had items stolen from his mailbox at the Woodside Village condos. Larimer County deputy saves teen from flooded car Residents tell the Problem Solvers the property has become a common target of mailbox raiders. “This has happened four or five times just in the last couple of months," Crowley said. Surveillance video obtained by FOX31 shows two men enter the mailbox area just after 4:18 a.m. on Thursday, May 25. They quickly move row to row, breaking open each mailbox and removing the items they find. “It’s sad, it’s sad. That’s all I can really say,” said Tashana Pendergrass, who has had mail stolen. Mail theft rises during the summerReports from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service show mail theft is higher during the summer months. Thie...

Major sports complex in Windsor nearly finished

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:06 GMT

WINDSOR, Colo. (KDVR) — A major sports complex in Northern Colorado continues to inch toward completion. The Future Legends complex in Windsor is a 118-acre facility that will eventually include a professional baseball field, 12 multi-use fields, two hotels and nearly a dozen restaurants. This is the most common activity in lightning deaths Thursday night, the Northern Colorado Owlz, a minor league baseball team, took the field against the Rocky Mountain Vibes out of Colorado Springs. The Northern Colorado Hailstorm will play soccer here on Saturday. The complex was supposed to open a year earlier but was delayed to weather and construction complications. The Future Legends Complex is located east of downtown Windsor.

Editorial: Congress takes a break while debt default looms

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:06 GMT

Note to Congress: get back to work.Though they’ve yet to reach a deal on the debt ceiling, House lawmakers are leaving Washington for the long Memorial Day weekend.Sorry, but this isn’t the time to kick back and watch a parade.The deadline to avoid a debt default is a week away, and as The Hill reported, negotiators say they’re getting closer to making a deal.Close is not good enough – certainly not good enough to warrant a break.“Still working through thorny issues, but there’s goodwill on all sides,” Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), a key ally of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and negotiator in spending talks with the White House, told The Hill on Thursday.“It’s just tougher issues that remain,” he added.All the more reason to work through the weekend. Because resolving those  “tougher issues that remain” are what’s keeping Americans anxious, wondering if their Social Security check, military paycheck, veterans benefits and/or funding for...

Connaughton: Follow the money for key to Beacon Hill payroll blackout

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:06 GMT

Article V of the Massachusetts Constitution requires that the branches of government “at all times” be accountable to the people.But few state governments are less accountable to the people than Massachusetts. The latest evidence came when state senators rejected a proposed amendment to the Senate’s budget plan that would have required the state’s quasi-public agencies to post their payrolls on the state comptroller’s website.From DCR summer lifeguards to corrections officers, salaries are available online. Why shouldn’t that be the case for employees of the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency? Perhaps the answer can be found in the words of Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester), who sponsored the amendment.“The quasi-public entities have, in many cases, very highly compensated individuals and many of them … do not share that information with the comptroller’s office,” Tarr told the Boston Herald.He might have been referring to the fact that quasi-public agencies are...