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Rockies’ trade mission was clear: Add pitching, free up playing time for young players

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:52 GMT

The Rockies have never liked the term rebuild. Retooling or restocking is probably more to their liking.But no matter the semantics, the Rockies’ actions in the weeks, days and hours leading up to Tuesday’s MLB trade deadline revealed their blueprint. Namely, fill their minor-league cupboard with young pitchers, and provide playing time for young position players already on the roster.The Rockies have added seven pitching prospects to their system while trading veterans C.J. Cron (first base), Randal Grichuk (outfield), Mike Moustakas (corner infield), Brad Hand (left-handed reliever) and Pierce Johnson (right-handed reliever).“It was about pitching and we were looking at opportunities to play some of our young guys,” Schmidt said. “But really, the focus was on adding pitching because we do think we have some good position players (coming up).“And we saw what happened a couple of weeks ago with some (pitching injuries), so it’s purely about ...

Report of shots fired spurs lockdown of Morgan Hill school

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:52 GMT

MORGAN HILL — Live Oak High School was locked down Tuesday following a report of gunfire, though an investigation found no evidence of a shooting, police said.At 11:10 a.m., the Morgan Hill Police Department received a single call about four shots fired inside the school at 1505 East Main Avenue, police said in an advisory.Officers arrived at the school within 1½ minutes of receiving the call, locked the campus down and searched the grounds until they determined no shooting had occurred, police said.Officers found the person who made the call and were still working Tuesday to determine what led the person to believe they had heard shots at the school, police said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | ACLU, justice groups sue Santa Clara County court alleging unfair jailings Crime and Public Safety | Head-on collision kills suspected DUI driver, passenger on I-280 in Los Altos Hills Crime and Public Safety | Borenstein: Oakland cri...

Solano hits tiebreaking single as the Twins snap 5-game skid with 3-2 win over Cardinals

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:52 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Donovan Solano hit a tiebreaking, two-run single in the seventh inning and Pablo Lopez tossed six effective innings as the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins snapped a five-game skid with a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night.Minnesota was coming off a three-game sweep to the Kansas City Royals and having lost the last two games of a three-game set against the Seattle Mariners. The Twins hold a two-game lead in the division over Cleveland, which was no-hit in Houston on Tuesday.Tyler O’Neill homered for St. Louis, which has lost four of its last five games and eight of 11. The loss comes just hours after the Cardinals traded right-hander Jack Flaherty to the Baltimore Orioles for prospects. The Cardinals got infielder César Prieto, left-hander Drew Rom and right-hander Zack Showalter. Prieto is Baltimore’s No. 16 prospect and Rom is No. 18. Flaherty was 7-6 with a 4.43 ERA this year for the Cardinals, who are mired in last place in the NL Cen...

Rams WR Cooper Kupp leaves practice early with an injury

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:52 GMT

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Rams receiver Cooper Kupp left Los Angeles’ practice early with an apparent leg injury Tuesday night, and coach Sean McVay is uncertain about the injury’s severity.The former Super Bowl MVP walked off the field with the training staff about 30 minutes into the two-hour workout at UC Irvine. Matthew Stafford and other players didn’t see exactly what happened, but McVay said he was told Kupp “came up a little bit in a red zone route.”“Obviously we’re much better when he’s here, and we hope he’s going to be OK,” McVay said. “If he’s not, we’ll see what happens, but the practice had to go on.”Kupp is returning for his seventh NFL season this fall after missing the final eight games of last season with a high ankle sprain. He also missed the final eight games of his second NFL season in 2018 due to a torn knee ligament.Kupp won the NFL’s triple crown of receiving in 2021, leading the league in catches (145)...

Max Scherzer says the Mets told him 2024 would be a transition year, with eyes on ‘25

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:52 GMT

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Max Scherzer never anticipated being traded from the New York Mets, and said the sentiment in their clubhouse was that the underachieving team that had expected to contend for a World Series title this year would reload for 2024.Scherzer instead found out the Mets were shifting their focus past that date — until after his contract expires. The three-time Cy Young Award winner waived his no-trade clause to be dealt to the Texas Rangers after conversations with New York general manager Billy Eppler and owner Steve Cohen about the team’s plans following his final start for the Mets. “(Eppler’s) answer was that the team is now kind of shifting vision and that they’re looking to compete now for 2025 and 2026, and that 2024, that it was not going to be a reload situation in New York, and that it was going to be more of a transition in 2024,” Scherzer said when he was introduced by the Rangers on Tuesday, two days after the deal was announced. Since that...

Heaney strikes out 11, Garver and Garcia homer as Rangers beat White Sox 2-0 in less than 2 hours

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:52 GMT

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Andrew Heaney struck out 11 without a walk while throwing two-hit ball over six innings, Mitch Garver and Adolis Garcia hit solo homers and the AL West-leading Texas Rangers beat the Chicago White Sox 2-0 on Tuesday night.Josh Sborz and Aroldis Chapman each pitched an inning before Will Smith’s perfect ninth for his 18th save in 20 chances to wrap up the Rangers’ eighth shutout this season. Garver, the starting catcher with All-Star Jonah Hein on the injured list, put the Rangers ahead with his sixth homer when he went deep off White Sox rookie right-hander Jesse Scholtens (1-4) in the fifth inning of the game that took only one hour, 58 minutes to play.Garcia’s 26th homer, and AL-leading 85th RBI, came in the seventh. Heaney (8-6) won his third consecutive decision over his last four starts. Scholtens struck out six, walked one and hit a batter over his six innings. The starter and two relievers limited Texas to four hits — the two solo hom...

City of Kingston collects feedback for nuisance bylaw

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:52 GMT

The city is currently accepting input from community groups, partner organizations, businesses, and community members on a by-law aimed at “[deterring] certain types of nuisance behaviours.”The decision was made at a city council meeting on June 29, 2022, that city staff would prepare a nuisance by-law to be presented to council. The motion came forward after city staff received numerous reports of safety concerns downtown and in city parks. The motion passed with a vote of 6-5 at the time, with concerns surrounding the timing of the proposal due to encampments being discussed in the same meeting, as well as the possibility of increasing stigma against community members.“I don’t even think we should endorse the concept at this time,” stated Coun. Peter Stroud. “I think the optics are terrible and I hope that we will vote this down.”The City of Kingston does currently have a nuisance party bylaw, but no stand-alone general nuisance by-law.The draft, now available for revi...

Fired DPS principal responds to termination through letter

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:52 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- At Denver's Manual High School Tuesday night, dozens of students and parents spoke out against the termination of McAuliffe International principal Kurt Dennis.Dennis has been the principal at McAuliffe since the school opened 12 years ago. He believes he was fired after giving an interview criticizing Denver Public Schools’ policy to have administrators pat down students who need extra security screenings. The interview was with a local news outlet in response to a student shooting involving two deans during a screening at East High School. “It is questionable that DPS decided principal Dennis was suddenly not a fit manager immediately after he blew the whistle on the danger at his school,” said one student at the meeting. Community rallies to save fired principal’s job Outside the front entrance, Katie Rustici handed those walking into the meeting a letter from Dennis. Dennis said, in part, "I redacted all personal information that could be used to identify...

Key revelations, groundbreaking strategies and notable omissions in the new Trump indictment

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:52 GMT

The newest indictment against Donald Trump contains one of the gravest charges any citizen, let alone a former president, could face: undermining American democracy through a concerted effort to overturn the results of a presidential election.Trump’s efforts to derail the transfer of power triggered his second impeachment with just days left in his term and prompted a wide-ranging probe by the House Jan. 6 select committee. But the case filed Tuesday by special counsel Jack Smith is the first attempt to hold Trump criminally accountable in a court of law for his actions between Election Day in 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors now say, with the blessing of a grand jury, that those actions amounted to four federal felonies.Here’s what Smith revealed in the indictment about his new evidence and his legal strategies — plus a few things he held back.Six co-conspiratorsThe indictment does not identify any of the six alleged co-conspirators who prosecutors say unlawfully agreed...

AI improves breast cancer detection rate by 20 percent

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:52 GMT

Artificial intelligence is able to accurately detect 20 percent more breast cancers from mammograms than traditional screening by radiologists, according to early results from a Swedish trial published overnight.The study is the first randomized controlled trial to look at using AI in breast cancer screening and comes amid a dramatically shifting landscape for the technology and how it’s regulated.The interim results, published in the Lancet Oncology late Tuesday, found that using AI-supported analysis of mammograms, alongside either one or two radiologists, was as good as using two radiologists without AI and led to 20 percent more cancers being detected. There was also a significant reduction in workload for radiologists, with the doctors having to spend 44 percent less time reading mammograms. The trial, which is still ongoing, was conducted in Sweden and looked at over 80,000 women. Half the participants had two radiologists look at their mammograms without AI, while the ot...