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Speeding motorcyclist in Aurora crash dies days later at hospital

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:30:52 GMT

A 21-year-old Aurora man died Saturday from injuries suffered when the motorcycle he was riding crashed with a van.The incident happened about 10 a.m. Tuesday near the intersection of Chambers Road and East Moncrieff Place, according to an Aurora Police Department news release.The driver of a Toyota van was turning north onto Chambers Road from Moncrieff when the van was struck by a Kawasaki motorcycle that was south on Chambers, police said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Driver dies after truck drives off roadway and onto Middle Fork of South Platte River in Park County Crime and Public Safety | Driver struck and killed child in “terrible, terrible accident” in Commerce City parking lot, police say Crime and Public Safety | Two dead, another injured in Sunday night crash on Interstate 25 Crime and Public Safety | 22-year-old man dies in Aurora rollover crash Sunday night, police say Crime and Pub...

India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in one of nation's worst rail disasters

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:30:52 GMT

Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said Saturday.Chaotic scenes erupted on Friday night as rescuers climbed atop the wrecked trains to break open doors and windows using cutting torches. The death toll rose steadily throughout the night. Scores of bodies, covered by white sheets, lay on the ground near the tracks while locals and rescuers raced to free the hundreds of people trapped in the rail cars under the twisted metal and broken glass. Army soldiers and air force helicopters joined the effort in Odisha state. An Associated Press photographer saw bodies still entangled in a badly mangled coach, as rescuers struggled to retrieve them working under the oppressive heat with temperatures reaching up to 35 degree Celsius (96 degrees Fahrenheit). “By 10 p.m. (on Friday) we we...

New details, arrest information released in knife altercation on San Mateo High School campus

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:30:52 GMT

(KRON) -- Police are releasing new details in the knife altercation at San Mateo High School on Friday. As officers responded to the knife incident, an attack nearby led them on a chase through San Mateo. Fight ends in shooting in front of SoMa nightclub, police say The San Mateo Police Department responded to a report of a fight that involved a knife at the SMHS campus on Delaware Street. Officers secured the scene before medics arrived to treat a boy who suffered a concussion and a "knife wound," police said. Police and school officials worked together to initiate the "secure campus" protocol at the school. This is an action response that requires all students and staff to head inside, lock the doors and stay put until given an all clear, SMPD said. As officers investigated what happened, they learned that two students in the summer school program at SMHS had a verbal argument on campus, which then turned physical. The students exchanged blows, and one began to experience blurr...

BART sees 'major delays' systemwide due to power outage

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:30:52 GMT

(KRON) -- A power outage slowed service on some parts of the Bay Area Rapid Transportation Saturday afternoon, BART announced. Details released in knife altercation at San Mateo High School In a 2 p.m. update, BART said that a power outage on the San Francisco line impacted routes. However, normal service has now been restored to the Orange, Yellow, Blue and Green lines. There was no service on the Red Line Millbrae and Richmond due to the outage as of 1:30 p.m.

Blanchard, Pracht drive in 10 runs, George Mason tops Northeastern 11-3 at Winston-Salem Regional

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:30:52 GMT

WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. (AP) — Chad Gartland went the distance and Evan Blanchard and Carson Pracht each drove in five runs to carry George Mason past Northeastern 11-3 in an elimination game at the Winston-Salem Regional on Saturday. The Patriots (35-26) advance to face the loser of Saturday’s late game between top-seeded Wake Forest and second-seeded Maryland on Sunday. Gartland (7-2) scattered seven hits over nine innings and all three Northeastern runs came on solo home runs by Spenser Smith, Harrison Feinberg and Alex Lane.Blanchard hit a pair of two-run singles and added a fifth RBI on a bases-loaded walk in the ninth inning. Pracht doubled to drive in two runs in the sixth, hit an RBI single in the eighth and singled home two more in the ninth.George Mason amassed a dozen hits and drew six walks off five Huskies pitchers.Aivan Cabral (9-4)started for Northeastern (44-16) and allowed four runs on four hits and a pair of walks over four innings to take the loss. ___AP colleg...

Twins place Joey Gallo on IL with hamstring strain

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:30:52 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Twins slugger Joey Gallo was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring strain before Saturday’s game against Cleveland.Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said Gallo has been dealing with the injury for “a little while now.” The team recalled outfielder Kyle Garlick from Triple-A St. Paul.Gallo is batting .188 with 11 homers and 23 RBIs in 46 games this season. He leads the Twins in home runs and OPS (.799).It’s the second time on the injured list for Gallo this season after he missed 10 games in April with an intercostal strain.Garlick, in his third stint with the Twins this season, is hitting .235 with two homers and four RBIs in eight games.Baldelli is not with the team on Saturday as he deals with an illness. Bench coach Jayce Tingler will be the acting manager in his placeOutfielder Byron Buxton and shortstop Carlos Correa are also out of the starting lineup for the second straight game. Buxton has sore ribs after being hit by a p...

Bosacker’s 4-hit shutout, Walker’s 4 RBIs help Xavier eliminate E. Illinois at Nashville Regional

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:30:52 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ethan Bosacker allowed four hits with six strikeouts in a complete game shutout, Andrew Walker went 2 for 4 with a home run and four RBIs to help Xavier beat Eastern Illinois 7-0 Saturday in an elimination game at the Nashville Regional. No. 3 seed Xavier (38-24) plays the winner between Oregon — which beat the Musketeers 5-4 in the regional’s opener — and No. 6 national seed Vanderbilt in a loser-out game Sunday. Jared Cushing scored on an RBI groundout by Grant Stephenson to make it 1-0 in the bottom of the second inning and Walker hit a three-run shot in the fifth to make it 5-0. McCormick added a two-RBI single in the seventh inning and Jack Housinger scored on a groundout by Walker to cap the scoring in the eights. No. 4 seed Eastern Illinois (38-21), which set a program record for single-season wins, never moved a runner beyond first base. ___AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25Source

Oklahoma tops Tennessee 9-0 to win 50th straight, advance to Women’s College World Series semifinals

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:30:52 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tiare Jennings and Kinzie Hansen homered, and No. 1 seed Oklahoma rolled past No. 4 Tennessee 9-0 in five innings on Saturday to win its 50th straight game and advance to the Women’s College World Series semifinals.The Sooners (58-1) extended their Division I record for consecutive wins and inched closer to a possible third consecutive national title.Oklahoma starter Jordy Bahl allowed one hit — a double to Kiki Milloy, the game’s first batter. Bahl went 3 2/3 innings, walked one and struck out three to earn the win. Relievers Alex Storako, Kierston Deal and Nicole May did not allow a hit.Tennessee (50-9) will play No. 6 Oklahoma State in an elimination game Sunday.Tennessee chose not to throw Ashley Rogers, a National Fastpitch Coaches Association first-team All American. She and No. 2 pitcher Payton Gottschall watched as hard-throwing freshman Karlyn Pickens got the nod.The decision paid off early. Pickens escaped a bases-loaded jam in the first and didn...

Carlson, Pence one-hit Wright State, North Carolina wins 5-0 to stay alive in Terre Haute Regional

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:30:52 GMT

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Max Carlson and Dalton Pence combined on one-hitter and Mac Horvath belted his 23rd home run of the season to carry North Carolina past Wright State 5-0 in an elimination game at the Terre Haute Regional on Saturday afternoon.The Tar Heels (36-23) will face the loser of Saturday’s late game between host Indiana State and Iowa in a Sunday elimination game. Carlson retired the first 12 batters he faced before giving up a base hit to Sammy Sass for the Raiders’ lone hit leading off the fifth. After Julian Greenwell reached on a two-base error by right fielder Casey Cook with two out in the seventh, Carlson gave way to Pence, who blanked Wright State (39-23) the rest of the way.Carlson (5-2) walked just two batters and struck out five over 6 ⅔ innings. Pence worked 2 ⅓ perfect innings for his second save.Wright State starter Luke Stofel (5-6) gave up a pair of base hits to start the third inning and the Tar Heels took the lead when Horvath grounded i...

For Nuggets rookie Christian Braun, praise from mom is high praise indeed

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:30:52 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Nuggets rookie Christian Braun gets high praise from coach Michael Malone, and his star teammates Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray also rave about the rookie.And praise from them is nice, for certain.But it pales compared to praise from his mom.Lisa Braun is part of a basketball family — a big-time one. She and her six siblings in the Sandbothe family, all of them All-State players who went to college on athletic scholarships, were inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame together in 2019. She starred at Missouri, where she was a two-time All-Big Eight conference pick.“Mom doesn’t give me constructive criticism at all,” said Braun, whose father also played the game in college. “Mom is more critical. It’s not constructive most of the time. She’ll throw it in there every once in a while, but mom is definitely the critical one of the bunch.”Braun — the only rookie in Denver’s eight-man rotation right now in the NBA Finals — is looking to win championships i...