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Chicago Cubs minor-league preview: Who to watch at each affiliate, including Brennen Davis, Matt Mervis and Pete Crow-Armstrong

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:23:28 GMT

Throughout spring training, Chicago Cubs President Jed Hoyer and manager David Ross reiterated that the team would need more than just the 26 players on the opening-day roster to contribute over the course of the season.The 162-game schedule can test an organization’s depth and talent. As the minor-league season gets underway, the Cubs believe their farm system — rated between No. 10 and 16 in baseball by publications — continues to take steps in producing the type of big-league talent the organization needs to build a sustaining, winning team.“We’re not satisfied, we’re still hungry,” vice president of player development Jared Banner told the Tribune. “We’re still looking to get better. We think we can be even better than we are and we’re going to go out and try to prove it.”Triple-A IowaTop prospects: OF Brennen Davis, 1B Matt Mervis, RHP Caleb Kilian, RHP Cam Sanders, RHP Jeremiah Estrada and RHP Riley ThompsonNota...

Sprint car driver Owen dies after crash at Indiana track

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:23:28 GMT

LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. (AP) — Sprint car driver Justin Owen of Harrison, Ohio, died from injuries he suffered when his car crashed during a race in southeastern Indiana, the U.S. Auto Club announced.Owen’s car struck the outside wall and flipped several times along the third turn in a qualifying race Saturday night for the AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship at Lawrenceburg Speedway, USAC said.USAC canceled the remainder of the event after the crash.The 26-year-old Owen was the reigning track champion at Lawrenceburg Speedway with two feature wins and the title in 2022, USAC said. It was Owen’s first crown at the 3/8-mile dirt oval where he competed in the sprint car division for the past several seasons.Among his top achievements were a victory in the season-closing Dick Gaines Memorial during his Lawrenceburg championship season in 2022, USAC said. In 2019, Owen had three victories, at the Buckeye Outlaw Sprint Series at Pennsylvania’s Lernerville Speedway, his second victor...

Blumenthal breaks leg at UConn parade, to undergo surgery

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:23:28 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he expects to undergo surgery to repair a broken leg he suffered Saturday during a victory parade for the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team.In a tweet Saturday night, Blumenthal said a fellow parade goer tripped and fell on him during the event in Hartford, Connecticut, to celebrate the team winning the NCAA basketball title on April 4 in Houston. The 77-year-old Democrat said he was awaiting “routine surgery” on his femur scheduled for Sunday and expects a full recovery.“What can I say, I love a parade!” he tweeted.Connecticut’s other U.S. senator, Chris Murphy, tweeted that “after he broke his femur he got back up, dusted himself off, and FINISHED THE PARADE. Most Dick Blumenthal thing ever.”Connecticut state Rep. Matt Blumenthal tweeted that he heard his father “was also on the reviewing stand for a while. Tough as nails, and on the mend shortly!”Blumenthal is serving his third term in the Senate after ...

Review of democratic processes needed as ministerial responsibility changes: experts

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:23:28 GMT

One of the longest House of Commons committee filibusters in the last 10 years was the recent marathon attempt by the Liberals to prevent the prime minister’s chief of staff from testifying about foreign interference.Throughout February and March, government members of the procedure and House affairs committee argued that Katie Telford should answer questions because of ministerial responsibility: the idea that it is up to ministers — including the prime minister — to speak on behalf of their files, staff and departments.“This is essentially the way the executive is held to account,” said Lori Turnbull, director of Dalhousie University’s school of public administration.Telford eventually agreed to testify sometime this week, following mounting pressure from the Conservatives, who had support from the New Democrats and Bloc Québécois.That ended about 24 hours of Liberal stalling that lasted through several committee meetings. According to data from the Library...

More than 115,000 still without power in Quebec following deadly ice storm

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:23:28 GMT

More than 115,000 customers in Quebec are still without power as Hydro-Québec makes repairs to its energy grid after last week’s deadly ice storm.Most of the remaining outages are in the Montreal region, where 82,000 customers are in the dark.Hydro-Québec says some of the roughly 3,000 remaining outages are in hard-to-access areas or are trickier to resolve, slowing the progress of repairs.The province has announced some grocery stores can remain open on Easter Sunday — a statutory holiday — to help residents running low on food after the blackout.The temporary measure applies to stores in six particularly hard-hit regions: Montreal, Monteregie, Laval, Outaouais, Laurentides and Lanaudiere.More than a million people were without power at the peak of the outages caused by Wednesday’s storm, which left large swaths of southern Quebec and eastern Ontario under a coat of ice and is being linked to three deaths.This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 9, 20...

3 taken to hospital after Delaware mall shooting, no suspect in custody

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:23:28 GMT

CHRISTIANA, Del. (AP) — A Delaware mall shooting left three people injured and forced shoppers to evacuate as police investigate.Delaware State Police said authorities do not have a suspect in custody in the shooting at the Christiana Mall, in a northern community near Pennsylvania.“We can confirm that there are 3 victims who were injured by gunfire and transported to an area hospital for medical treatment,” police said in a tweet. “There are currently no public safety concerns at Christiana Mall and the surrounding area.”The mall would remain closed Saturday evening, police said in a statement.The three people were shot in the food court area, WPVI-TV reported.Police asked people to keep away as authorities investigate, but set up a reunification site at the north entrance for those trying to locate someone.Additional details were not immediately available.“We appreciate everyone’s patience as we continue to gather more details on this shooting,” police said in a tweet.

Man killed after being hit by CTA train in Near West Side

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:23:28 GMT

CHICAGO — A man is dead after being struck by a CTA train on the blue line in the Near West Side stop early Sunday morning. According to police, the man was hit by the incoming train near the 400 block of South Damen Avenue around 4:00 a.m. He was severed at the mid-body and was pronounced dead on the scene. Girl, 15, fatally shot in head on South Side ID’d There is no further information provided.

Suitcase study: What happens to unclaimed luggage?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:23:28 GMT

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (NewsNation) — Have you ever wondered what happens to unclaimed luggage?After 90 days, if no one claims the luggage, it's sold to an unclaimed baggage center where the items inside are resold. If the passenger's bag is truly lost, airlines pay out a claim to the passenger.Sonni Hood at the Unclaimed Baggage store in Scottsboro said they welcome over a million guests every year. The shop offers major discounts on everything that they acquire.Hood said their rare, one-of-a-kind shop is "kind of a bucket list destination" for folks.The bottom line is, if you don't grab your bag at the airport, the airlines sell it. How the TSA determines what a 'liquid' is But luggage doesn't go unclaimed very often. In fact, 99.5% of bags are reunited with their owners.But with millions of passengers flying every single day, there's a lot of luggage that's never reunited with its owners. And Unclaimed Baggage workers said they’ve seen some pretty wild items."To me the most shocking...

Gophers blow late lead, lose NCAA title game to Quinnipiac

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:23:28 GMT

TAMPA, Fla. — Quinnipiac came from behind to win its first NCAA Division I men’s hockey championship on Saturday at Amalie Arena.The Bobcats got a goal from sophomore center Jacob Quillan 10 seconds into overtime to beat Minnesota 3-2. The Golden Gophers finished the season 29-10-1, the Bobcats were 34-4-3.Quinnipiac, playing in its third national championship game, rallied in dramatic fashion, sending the game to overtime when the Bobcats scored an extra-attacker goal in the final minutes of regulation. The Gophers had just finished killing a high-sticking penalty to Logan Cooley, but the Bobcats had pulled goalie Yaniv Perets for an extra attacker.In overtime, Quillan won the opening faceoff and Quinnipiac scored on a 2-on-1 rush with Quillan scoring from in close off a pass from freshman left wing Sam Lipkin for the game-winner.Quinnipiac moved the puck around and sophomore right wing Collin Graf scored on a wrist shot from the faceoff dot to the right of goalie Justen Clos...

Charley Walters: Wild hope to keep Kaprizov in U.S. this summer

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:23:28 GMT

The Minnesota Wild’s best player, Kirill Kaprizov, last summer experienced a harrowing journey getting back from homeland Russia in time for this season. The Wild hope to be able to keep the team’s leading scorer in America this offseason.“I can assure you that we will have a very friendly conversation with Kirill, and if he wants to go to the Grand Canyon or the Painted Desert or Mount Rushmore, we’ll pay for what it takes,” Wild owner Craig Leipold said.>> Meanwhile, even Leipold has been surprised by his team’s success as the playoffs approach.“In complete honesty, I cannot say that this is where I saw our team headed at the beginning of the season, but as the season went on and on and different players were stepping up and lines started jelling together … am I surprised that we’re here? Yeah, maybe a little bit,” he said. “But we’re certainly enjoying the moment.”That moment meant the Wild late in the regular season were in contention for first place in the Central Divisio...