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Alexandrova and Kudermetova to meet in all-Russian women’s final on Den Bosch grass

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:43:12 GMT

DEN BOSCH, Netherlands (AP) — Ekaterina Alexandrova will defend her Libema Open title against fellow Russian and top seed Veronika Kudermetova after both reached the final on Saturday without dropping a set all week.The No. 4-seeded Alexandrova defeated No. 7 Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-1, 7-6 (1) by taking her break point chances, three of five. She denied all five for Sasnovich, who was playing her first semifinal of the year and first ever on grass.Alexandrova will be playing for her fourth WTA singles title on Sunday. She beat Kudermetova in the semifinals here last year en route to the title.Kudermetova, a tournament top seed for the first time, knocked out unseeded Viktoria Hruncakova of Slovakia 6-3, 6-2.Hruncakova couldn’t convert all six of her break chances, while Kudermetova took four of her five to make the difference.Kudermetova won her only WTA singles title in 2021 at Charleston and has lost three finals since then, all of them last year. She’s rank...

WNBA working with Brittney Griner and Mercury on travel options including charter flights

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:43:12 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA is working with Brittney Griner and the Phoenix Mercury on travel options including charter flights going forward.Griner’s travel was back in the spotlight last week when the team took a flight to Texas and then Indiana, requiring Griner and her Mercury teammates to go through commercial airports. While going through a Dallas airport last Saturday, the All-Star center who had been detained in Russia for nearly 10 months was harassed by what the WNBA called a “provocateur.”The league doesn’t allow teams to use charter flights except for when they have back-to-back games.Many teams have been using public charter airline JSX. Those flights are allowed by the WNBA with certain protocols in place, including that teams fly on the 30-seat planes using preset routes and times.The Mercury flew to their first road game in Los Angeles on JSX and took the airline to Dallas. There wasn’t a standard flight available on the airline from Dallas to Indianapolis, which was wh...

Pedestrian hit, killed on Aurora road, police said

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:43:12 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A man was killed in a vehicle versus pedestrian crash Friday night in Aurora, according to police.According to a release from APD, this incident makes for 32 traffic-related deaths this year in Aurora alone. Man hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being shot while driving in Aurora on Friday At approximately 9:58 p.m., officers from both APD and Denver PD responded to reports of a crash near South Havana Street near East Tennessee Avenue, which is on the border of Denver and Aurora.When they arrived on the scene, they said they found a 46-year-old man dead, lying in the northbound lanes of Havana Street.A 36-year-old woman from Texas was driving a Toyota Highlander northbound on South Havana Street, striking the man. The driver stayed on the scene and worked with officers in the investigation.APD said the pedestrian's name will be released by the Arapahoe County Coroner's Office, The road was closed for some three hours while investigators documente...

Looking Glass: Running from the cops seemed like such a good idea

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:43:12 GMT

A man ran a red light in Altoona, Pa., right in front of a police officer and led the cop on a high-speed chase. His license had been suspended, he was high on drugs, had a felony warrant for his arrest and was using the vehicle he was driving without the owner’s permission. He reached speeds over 80 mph on various side roads, and ran two more red lights, the second of which was at an intersection where a Jeep slammed into him. He took off on foot and jumped a fence before being tased and handcuffed.IT’S A LITTLE SLOW BUT IT GETS YOU THERE: A man stole a backhoe in Williamson County, Ill., and drove it to the airport so he could catch a flight to the West Coast. He was arrested as soon as he got off the plane in Elko, Nev.I TOOK ALL THAT RISK FOR NOTHING!: A Minnesota man traveled to Chicago where he robbed several banks, but, when he returned to the Minneapolis suburb where he lives, someone stole his car with the cash in it. Police found the vehicle abandoned with the engine runni...

Video shows Conor McGregor and rape accuser together at club after alleged sexual assault

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:43:12 GMT

New footage shows Conor McGregor and the woman who accused him of sexual assault hanging out together about half an hour after she says the incident took place.The woman claims McGregor forced her to perform oral sex on him before attempting to sodomize her. The alleged attack took place on June 9, after game 4 of the NBA finals between the Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat.The footage, which was obtained by TMZ, was shot just before 1 a.m. and appears to show the woman and the UFC fighter chatting at a club.Ariel Mitchell, a lawyer for the accuser, describes the clip as showing the pair “awkwardly interacting with each other,” which she said did not happen before the alleged assault, according to TMZ.“My client has always stated that there would be video of before and after, and in those videos she emphasized that the difference in the interactions between them would be visibly noticeable,” Mitchell said in a statement to the outlet, noting the new footage f...

3 New Hampshire men charged with harassing, intimidating New Hampshire Public Radio journalists

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:43:12 GMT

Three New Hampshire men were charged Friday with harassing and intimidating two New Hampshire Public Radio journalists after the outlet published an article last year detailing allegations of sexual misconduct by the founder of the state’s largest addiction treatment network.Police arrested Tucker Cockerline, 32, and Michael Waselchuck, 35, on Friday after the pair, along with Keenan Saniatan, 36, vandalized the journalists’ homes as well as the residences of one of the journalists’ immediate family members with bricks, large rocks, and red spray paint.Federal prosecutors said Saniatan “remains at large” as of Friday. Federal Magistrate Judge Paul Levenson signed a warrant for Saniatan’s arrest on Thursday. A hearing where a judge could decide if Cockerline and Waselchuck should remain in jail as their case plays out is scheduled for Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Boston.People have a right to express their opinion but taking it “over the line” and vandalizing homes “will not be tolerated,” s...

Search underway for missing hiker at Three Sisters Falls

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:43:12 GMT

JULIAN, Calif. -- Authorities are searching for a missing hiker at Three Sisters Falls in Julian.According to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, deputies with the Julian Sheriff's Substation received a call for help just before 5 p.m. Friday.Authorities say two people were swimming at the middle level of the falls when one went underwater and did not resurface. How ‘burn scars’ could create disaster during monsoon season in Southern California Deputies, CAL FIRE San Diego crews and volunteers with Sheriff's Search and Rescue (SAR) responded to the area to look for the missing 27-year-old man. A San Diego Sheriff Special Enforcement Detail (ASTREA) helicopter also helped with the search, SDSO confirmed.A search operation was conducted around the waterfalls until sunset. According to authorities, the darkness and amount of water flowing into the waterfalls made it too dangerous to continue with the search.The dam that feeds water to Three Sisters Falls, which is controlled b...

5 die when a speeding driver runs a red light and slams into them in Minneapolis, police say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:43:12 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five people were killed when a driver ran a red light and slammed into their vehicle in Minneapolis after a state trooper spotted him speeding, authorities say. The driver was on Interstate 35 when the trooper first encountered him around 10 p.m. Friday, Minneapolis police said in a statement. The driver exited the highway before the trooper could initiate a traffic stop and crashed into another vehicle with four women and a girl inside, police said. All five were pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the motorist then ran from the crash scene. Officers searched the area before taking a suspect into custody. He was taken to a hospital to be evaluated. Police haven’t released his name or the names of the victims. A homicide team is investigating. The Associated Press

Ecuadorean woman who revived during her wake is dead after a week in intensive care at a hospital

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:43:12 GMT

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A 76-year-old woman who had been declared dead and surprised her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake earlier this month has died after seven days in intensive care, her family said Saturday.Gilberto Barbera Montoya, the woman’s son, told The Associated Press that doctors at the state hospital where she was rushed after the incident said that she died on Friday evening.Ecuador’s health ministry confirmed in a statement that Bella Montoya died from an ischemic stroke after spending a week in intensive care. It added that Montoya had remained under “permanent surveillance,” but didn’t provide further information on the medical investigation surrounding the case.Barbera Montoya said that he hadn’t yet received any report from the authorities on the medical explanation of what happened and warned that things “are not going to stay like this.” He added that a sister of the deceased woman had formally complained about the incide...

Heat wave has US South sweltering, from tornado-ravaged West Texas town to Florida beaches

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:43:12 GMT

Communities from Houston to New Orleans opened cooling centers to bring relief as steamy hot temperatures settled across a broad swath of the U.S. South on Saturday, and beachgoers fled a water spout that swept ashore on a Florida beach.Gov. Greg Abbott meanwhile visited Perryton in the Texas Panhandle, where officials said more than 1,000 customers remained without electricity after a tornado killed three people late Thursday. The Perryton Ochiltree Chamber of Commerce said it would open a cooling center in the town of 8,000 people, about 115 miles (185 kilometers) northeast of Amarillo, to counteract the effects of the high temperatures that followed the storm.The National Weather Service issued excessive heat warnings through Saturday night along the Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas, to Houston. It said heat indexes ranging from near 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius) in Houston to near 120 F (49 C) at Brownsville and Corpus Christi in Texas. Cooling shelters were set up in ci...