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Red Sox trade Alex Verdugo to Yankees for pitching

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:00 GMT

Alex Verdugo is heading to the Bronx.As first reported by MLB insider Jeff Passan, the Red Sox and Yankees made a rare trade on Tuesday evening. In exchange for their longest-tenured outfielder, Boston receives three right-handers: Richard Fitts, Greg Weissert, and Nicholas Judice.Judice wasn’t in the Yankees’ Top 30, but Fitts was their No. 12 prospect. According to Double-A managers, the latter exhibited the best control of any pitcher in the Eastern League this season.Of the trio, Weissert is the only one who’s debuted; he made 29 relief appearances in pinstripes between 2022-23, and posted a 4.60 ERA across 31 1/3 innings.Verdugo is in his final year of arbitration, and has been the subject of trade rumors for several months.This is the 49th trade in the storied rivalry’s long and chaotic history, but only the seventh in the last half-century. It’s also notable in the symbolic sense; Verdugo was the centerpiece of the Mookie Betts trade, the most si...

Chicago White Sox agree to 2-year deal with pitcher Erick Fedde, the reigning MVP of the KBO

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:00 GMT

Erick Fedde will look to carry his success in the Korea Baseball Organization back to the major leagues after signing a two-year deal with the Chicago White Sox for $15 million, a source confirmed to the Tribune on Tuesday.The addition is pending a physical. ESPN’s Jeff Passan had the initial report.The right-handed pitcher, 30, isn’t a stranger to MLB, having made 88 starts in 102 career appearances.Fedde has a career 21-33 record with a 5.41 ERA during six seasons with the Washington Nationals. He has 352 strikeouts and 191 walks in 454 1/3 major-league innings.He had a terrific 2023 with the NC Dinos of the KBO, going 20-6 with a 2.00 ERA in 30 starts. He had 209 strikeouts and 35 walks in 180 1/3 innings.Fedde set MLB career highs in wins (7), strikeouts (128) and innings pitched (133 1/3) in 2021. Overall, he went 7-9 with a 5.47 ERA in 29 outings (27 starts).He matched the career-high in starts (27) while going 6-13 with a 5.81 ERA in 2022.Fedde earned MVP honors a...

Man arrested after San Diego school mass shooting threat

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:00 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A man suspected of threatening to commit a mass shooting Friday at Shoal Creek Elementary School in Carmel Mountain Ranch was arrested, authorities said.Police found and apprehended Lee Lor, 38, after the threat was communicated to a third party, Lt. Adam Sharki with the San Diego Police Department said in a news release Tuesday. Lor faces one felony county of making criminal threats, according to SDPD. He has a no-bail hold and is prohibited from possessing or purchasing any firearms. Thieves swarm, rob FedEx truck making deliveries in Chula Vista A criminal protective order was also issued to protect Shoal Creek Elementary School.Anyone with information about the incident should contact the San Diego Police Department’s Northeastern Division at 858-538-8024 or Crime Stoppers. 

Toronto Police seek help identifying vulnerable person

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:00 GMT

Toronto police have released a photo of a vulnerable person in hopes of helping to identify him.Officers first interacted with the man on Monday, December 4, at around 12:15 a.m. in the Queen Street East and Knox Avenue area.“The man was unable to identify himself,” a release states.He’s described as 25 years old, five foot seven with a thin build and brown hair.He was wearing a Toronto Maple Leaf jersey, black pants and running shoes.“Investigators are looking to identify this male to put the minds at ease of any concerned family or friends,” police said.

China raises stakes in cyberscam crackdown in Myanmar, though loopholes remain

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:00 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — China is ramping up a crackdown on online scams operated by criminal syndicates in border areas of military-ruled Myanmar in an effort that has included a shootout, confession videos and national TV broadcasts of arrests of high-profile suspects.But the drive has been confined to a limited area and appears unlikely to root out the kingpins behind the human trafficking and other illicit activities aimed at cheating people of their savings via phone calls and online overtures, schemes that are thought to generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue a year. Over the summer, China announced a series of joint operations with neighboring countries that led to thousands of people being returned to China, many of whom had been lured by the promise of high-paying jobs. Experts say many are victims who were forced into conducting the scams. Those campaigns did not include arrests of ring leaders in Myanmar.“As soon as we discover them, we hand them over,” said Lu Jiantang, t...

McHenry County Jail inmate found dead in cell

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:00 GMT

WOODSTOCK, Ill. — An inmate at the McHenry County Adult Correctional Facility was found dead in his cell on Tuesday afternoon, authorities say.According to McHenry County deputies, a 74-year-old man was found unresponsive around 4 p.m. in a single-occupied booking cell at the facility, which is located in Woodstock Vinyl record shops report surge in burglaries, shoplifting Deputies say Corrections officers and Woodstock Fire and Rescue crews began performing life-saving but were unsuccessful. The inmate was then pronounced dead at the scene.Authorities have not yet identified the man, and deputies say, in compliance with sheriff’s office protocol and state law, an investigation by the McHenry County Major Investigation Assistance Team is now underway.

Salesforce Tower opens in Chicago

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:00 GMT

CHICAGO -- Mayor Brandon Johnson joined business leaders to celebrate the opening of Salesforce Tower in Chicago.The 57-story building is located at Wolf Point, where the north and south branches of the Chicago River meet. CTA, Google Public Sector to launch new chatbot to answer CTA rider’s questions Salesforce will allow local non profits to use the top two floors of the building to host fundraising events at night and on weekends at no cost.The cloud-based software company is headquartered in San Francisco, but have 2,200 employees that work in Chicago.

Parents of young Chiefs fan wearing headdress threaten to sue Deadspin

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:00 GMT

(NewsNation) —  The parents of a 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan threatened to sue the sports website Deadspin following the publication of an article that accused their son of racial insensitivity. The article alleged that their son, Holden Armenta, exhibited racist behavior by painting his face black and red and wearing a Native American headdress to a football game.In a letter obtained by NewsNation, Holden's parents, Shannon and Raul Armenta, hired Clare Locke LLP to demand a retraction and threaten further action against the author Carron J. Phillips, Deadspin, G/O Media, and Great Hill Partners. Texas TikTok teacher firing upheld by school board "These Articles, posts on X, and photos about Holden and his parents must be retracted immediately. It is not enough to quietly remove a tweet from X or disable the article from Deadspin’s website. You must publish your retractions and issue an apology to my clients with the same prominence and fanfare with which you defamed t...

Social Security, Medicare: Where GOP candidates stand on retirement benefits

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:00 GMT

NewsNation will host the fourth Republican primary debate on Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. E.T. The debate will be aired and streamed live on all NewsNation platforms. Not sure how to find us on your TV? Use our ChannelFinder app. If you have a question for the candidates, submit it here. (NewsNation) —  While President Joe Biden vowed to strengthen Medicare and called for “protecting and strengthening” Social Security, the future of retirement benefits has exposed a rift in opinion and policy among the 2024 Republican presidential candidates. How to watch the fourth Republican presidential debate The candidates are split on whether to call for changes to the programs; reducing the benefits afforded to retired Americans is very unpopular, but so are tax hikes on high earners proposed to keep the programs afloat. Most adults think AI will add to election misinformation in 2024, poll finds Ahead of the 2024 election, NewsNation is committed to covering the issues that matter mos...

DeSantis sets aside $1 million to sue over Florida State's playoff snub

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:00 GMT

(The Hill) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he plans to set aide $1 million from the state’s annual budget to Florida State University (FSU) for potential ligation over their controversial snub from the College Football Playoff. DeSantis, whose currently running for president, made the announcement during a press conference on his budget proposal for the Fiscal Year 2024-2025. “But what we decided to do, we're setting aside a million dollars for any litigation expenses that may become as a result of this really, really poor decision by the college football playoffs to exclude an undefeated team who won a big Power Five conference championship,” DeSantis said at the press conference. DeSantis, who noted that his kids are big Seminoles fans, said litigation may not change the outcome, but that the state would let “the chips fall where they may on that.” Chiefs fan’s mom defends son after critics call him racist “We had one of our schools, Florida State, go undefeated...