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Back in competition, it’s like Simone Biles never left

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:02 GMT

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — It did not look like Simone Biles had been gone.Her full-twisting double-back dismount from the balance beam, hastily scrapped the last time she was seen in gymnastics competition two years ago, was back. She upgraded a tumbling pass with a casual air.Oh, and yes: She finished the competition with a Yurchenko double pike, a vault not contemplated, much less competed, before Biles introduced it in 2021. She took a step to the side, out of bounds. It hardly mattered: It still received the highest score of the competition.Perhaps it hardly needs saying that she won the competition, the U.S. Classic, which is normally a low-key qualification meet for the national championships but became a spectacle this year because of Biles’ presence.The margin — 5 points over the second-place finisher, Leanne Wong — was normal by Biles’ standards, which are not anybody else’s. That margin between first and second was about the same as the margin between second and 17th.In othe...

Nancy Pelosi to let husband’s alleged attacker inspect her San Francisco home

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:02 GMT

By Joel Rosenblatt | BloombergFormer House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband agreed to let lawyers defending the man charged with assaulting Paul Pelosi inspect their home in preparation for his trial.David Depape is shown in Berkeley, Calif.,on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. An intruder attacked and severely beat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer in the couple’s San Francisco home early Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, while searching for the Democratic leader. Police were called to the home to check on Paul Pelosi when they discovered the 82-year-old and the suspect, Depape, both grabbing onto the hammer, said Police Chief William Scott.(Michael Short/San Francisco Chronicle via AP) David DePape is accused of breaking into the Pelosi residence last year and striking Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer.DePape’s defense team sought to do a walk-through of Pelosi’s home in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood. They want photos and measurements to reconstr...

High school football 2023 preview: TCAL Rock Division

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:02 GMT

TRI-COUNTY ATHLETIC LEAGUE ROCK DIVISION(Predicted order of finish)No. 1 EL CERRITOCoach: Jacob RinconRecord in 2022: 13-1What to expect: It won’t be easy for the Gauchos to duplicate last season’s run to the North Coast Section Division III championship. They reeled off 13 consecutive wins before falling in a regional title game to Grant-Sacramento. But they might have to talent to pull it off. Back from last season’s team is QB Michael Vanhook, a first-team all-league player who obviously knows what it takes to win. “He has had a great off-season on his development and expect great things this year,” coach Jacob Rincon said. WR/DB Kamani Jackson has multiple college offers, as does RB Micah Avery. Rincon said Avery is capable of 1,500 yards and at least 10 TDs. OL/DL Tome Veukiso, now a senior, is a three-year varsity player. He’ll team up on the lines with another standout, senior Salesi Mafuahingano. “Strength of our team is that we have a lot of returners with experience,” Rinc...

Noncitizen voter participation ban in school board elections overturned in SF

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:02 GMT

(BCN) -- The California Court of Appeal upheld a San Francisco voting policy that permits noncitizen parents to participate in city school board elections, announced City Attorney David Chiu on Tuesday. The court determined that the noncitizen voting program in the city is legally sound under the California Constitution and San Francisco's charter city authority. In 2016, city voters approved Proposition N, which has since allowed noncitizen parents and guardians of school children to vote in five local school board elections. Chiu's office said the program was challenged after a February 2022 recall election brough in the "highest participation yet" of noncitizen voters. Fire causes heavy smoke near Port of Oakland A San Francisco Superior Court judge later ruled that the program was unconstitutional. Upon reversing the decision, the appeals court determined that the California Constitution cannot prevent cities from allowing noncitizen residents to vote in elections...

Russia military push on eastern front prompts Ukraine to evacuate thousands of civilians

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:02 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities ordered a mandatory evacuation Thursday of nearly 12,000 civilians from 37 towns and villages in the eastern Kharkiv region, where Russian forces reportedly are making a concerted effort to punch through the front line.The local military administration in Kharkiv’s Kupiansk district said residents must comply with the evacuation order or sign a document saying they would stay at their own risk. Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar had said the previous day that “the intensity of combat and enemy shelling is high” in the area.The city of Kupiansk and the territories around it were under Russian occupation until September 2022, when Ukrainian forces conducted a rapid offensive operation that dislodged the Kremlin’s forces from nearly the entire Kharkiv region.The retaking of those areas strengthened Ukraine’s arguments that its troops could deliver more stinging defeats to Russia with additional armament deliveries, which its ...

Prisoner uses sheets to escape from 5th floor of NYC hospital and hail taxi; he’s still at large

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:02 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — A prisoner receiving medical treatment escaped from a New York City hospital by tying sheets together, rappelling from a fifth-floor window and hailing a taxi, police said.The 44-year-old man escaped from Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in Manhattan shortly after 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and was still at large Thursday, a police spokesperson said.The man had been in custody since a July 31 arrest for drug possession and was brought to the hospital Aug. 4 for treatment of a medical problem, a spokesperson for the city Department of Correction said.He was taken to the bathroom for a shower and managed to escape out the window using bedsheets, police said. He rappelled to a rooftop below and from there made it to the street, where he got into a taxi.The police and correction departments were looking for him Thursday.Source

Today in Sports – The Green Bay Packers football club is founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:02 GMT

Aug. 111919 — Green Bay Packers football club founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau – named after sponsor Indian Packing Company.1929 — Babe Ruth is the first MLB player to hit 500 home runs.1943 — Volo Song, driven by Ben White, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in the third heat.1948 — Demon Hanover, driven by Harrison Hoyt, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats.1974 — Lee Trevino beats Jack Nicklaus by one stroke to capture the PGA Championship.1979 — Peter Haughton wins his second International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway by driving Doublemint to victory.1984 — Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens′ 1936 feat, winning his 4th Olympic gold medal as part of the US 4 x 100m relay team; world record (37.83).1984 — Britain’s Sebastian Coe sets an Olympic record in the 1,500 meter with a 3:32.53 winning time.1985 — Hubert Green beats defending champion Lee Trevino by two strokes to take the PGA Championship.1986 — Bob Tway’s bunker shot on the final hole gives him the PGA Ch...

Stock market today: Wall Street rallies after report raises hopes inflation will continue to cool

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:02 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rallying Thursday as Wall Street lets out a bit of an exhale following the latest update on inflation across the U.S.The S&P 500 was 1.1% higher in early trading and on track for just its second winning day in the last eight. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 366 points, or 1%, at 35,489, as of 9:50 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.3% higher.Thursday’s highly anticipated report showed U.S. consumers paid prices that were 3.2% higher in July than a year earlier. That’s a touch milder than the 3.3% inflation rate economists expected to see and down sharply from last summer’s peak above 9%. Beneath the surface, underlying trends for inflation were also within expectations.The readings bolstered hopes among investors that the Federal Reserve’s campaign to grind down inflation is progressing and that maybe it could even be done hiking interest rates. High rates undercut inflation by slowing the entire economy and hurting investment pr...

Today in Sports – Week Ahead, August 11 – August 17

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:02 GMT

Aug. 111919 — Green Bay Packers football club founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau – named after sponsor Indian Packing Company.1929 — Babe Ruth is the first MLB player to hit 500 home runs.1943 — Volo Song, driven by Ben White, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in the third heat.1948 — Demon Hanover, driven by Harrison Hoyt, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats.1974 — Lee Trevino beats Jack Nicklaus by one stroke to capture the PGA Championship.1979 — Peter Haughton wins his second International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway by driving Doublemint to victory.1984 — Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens′ 1936 feat, winning his 4th Olympic gold medal as part of the US 4 x 100m relay team; world record (37.83).1984 — Britain’s Sebastian Coe sets an Olympic record in the 1,500 meter with a 3:32.53 winning time.1985 — Hubert Green beats defending champion Lee Trevino by two strokes to take the PGA Championship.1986 — Bob Tway’s bunker shot on the final hole gives him the PGA Ch...

Expectations will be high at Marseille with a new coach and a strong squad

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:02 GMT

It’s been painful for Marseille fans to watch bitter rival Paris Saint-Germain collect league titles over the last decade to become the most successful club in domestic French soccer.For while Marseille still has bragging rights over PSG as the only French club to win the Champions League, it hasn’t won the domestic league title since 2010. PSG, meanwhile, has won it nine times in the last 11 years to set a French record with 11 titles. Saint-Etienne has 10 and Marseille has been stuck on nine for more than a decade. That’s an eternity for fans in the soccer-crazed southern seaport city who live and breathe the game every day. The passion at Stade Velodrome remains as strong as ever, in contrast to the somewhat lukewarm atmosphere at PSG’s Parc des Princes.Marseille looked like title contenders at certain times last season, before once again being hampered by inconsistency: Marseille won eight straight away games but struggled badly at home under former coach...