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Military members file claims for fuel in Hawaii Navy water

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:28 GMT

HONOLULU (AP) — A Navy sailor, an Army colonel and an Army major are the first active-duty military members taking the initial step toward suing the U.S. government over jet fuel that contaminated drinking water in Hawaii. Navy Ensign Koda Freeman, Army Col. Jessica Whaley, and Army Maj. Amanda Feindt filed pre-litigation claim forms with the Navy late Monday, which will allow them to later file a federal lawsuit in Honolulu, their attorneys said. In 2021, jet fuel spilled from a drain line at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, flowed into a drinking water well and then into the Navy’s water system serving 93,000 people in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Nearly 6,000 sought medical attention, complaining of ailments such as nausea, headaches and sores. The military put about 4,000 families in hotels for several months. The Hawaii Department of Health ordered the Navy to shutter the facility after the spill, which also contaminated the ground beneath the tanks and th...

Brewers’ Hiura outrighted to Triple-A after clearing waivers

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:28 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers outrighted infielder Keston Hiura to their Triple-A affiliate in Nashville on Tuesday after he cleared waivers.The move means Hiura will remain with the Brewers organization after they had designated him for assignment.Hiura, 26, had an outstanding rookie season in 2019 but hasn’t been able to recapture that form. He batted .226 with 14 homers and 32 RBIs in 80 games last season and struck out in 111 of his 266 plate appearances.He has a .238 career batting average with a .318 on-base percentage, 50 homers and 132 RBIs in 284 games. His best season was that rookie year of 2019, when he hit .303 with 19 homers and 49 RBIs in 84 games while posting a .938 OPS.Hiura began his career as a second baseman but primarily has played first base since 2021. He also played five games in left field last season. ___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Majors-most Ls do not dim Nationals pitcher Corbin’s belief

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:28 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — No major league pitcher lost more games in 2022 than Patrick Corbin’s 19. And none took more Ls in 2021 than Corbin’s 16. Last season’s ERA for the Washington Nationals left-hander was 6.31. A year earlier? 5.82.Hard not to notice those numbers. Hard not to comment on them. Corbin is all too aware.“Doesn’t really matter what other people are saying,” he said Tuesday in the home clubhouse at Nationals Park before Washington hosted the New York Yankees in an exhibition finale. “I just kind of believe in myself and what I’ve done.”That includes, most notably, a starring role as a starter and reliever as the Nationals won the 2019 World Series championship. If that seems as if it was forever ago, it’s probably because it is, in some ways, for a franchise that has finished last in the NL East every year since and was 55-107 in 2022.When the Nationals host the Atlanta Braves on Thursday, there will be only two players on Washington’s 26-man roster who were around for the...

Police: Impaired semi driver kills 4 people changing tire

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:28 GMT

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) — The driver of a tractor-trailer that hit a van alongside an interstate in east Tennessee — killing four people who were changing a tire and critically injuring another — was impaired, police said.Saul A. Carrera, 60, of New York, was driving a Peterbilt tractor-trailer south on Interstate 81 Sunday when the vehicle veered to the right onto the shoulder and sideswiped the white Chevrolet Express van, hitting five males who were trying to repair the tire, Kingsport Police said in a statement. Afterward, the tractor-trailer continued south for a short distance before jack-knifing and overturning, police said. Jesse James Delacruz, 49, of Fayetteville, Tennessee; Jose Urbano Serrano Ramos, 25, of Crossville, Alabama; a 17-year-old male from Crossville; and another male who hasn’t yet been identified were killed. A 17-year-old male from Gasden, Alabama, was taken to the hospital in critical condition, but he was later updated to stable, police said. Three me...

Elephant in the dining room: Startup makes mammoth meatball

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:28 GMT

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Throw another mammoth on the barbie?An Australian company on Tuesday lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct pachyderm, saying it was meant to fire up public debate about the hi-tech treat.The launch in an Amsterdam science museum came just days before April 1 so there was an elephant in the room: Is this for real?“This is not an April Fools joke,” said Tim Noakesmith, founder of Australian startup Vow. “This is a real innovation.”Cultivated meat — also called cultured or cell-based meat — is made from animal cells. Livestock doesn’t need to be killed to produce it, which advocates say is better not just for the animals but also for the environment.Vow used publicly available genetic information from the mammoth, filled missing parts with genetic data from its closest living relative, the African elephant, and inserted it into a sheep cell, Noakesmith said. Given the right con...

Police detain 2 men in Miami Gardens suspected in Fort Lauderdale shooting

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:28 GMT

Police detained two men who might be connected to a shooting. An officer in Fort Lauderdale spotted the subjects in a vehicle at Broward Boulevard on Interstate 95, Tuesday morning. The vehicle was stopped by police in Miami Gardens at Second Avenue.7Skyforce hovered over the scene where a large police presence surrounded the vehicle during a traffic stop.The driver and a passenger were taken into custody by Fort Lauderdale Police.According to police, the vehicle, a silver Mercedes Benz, matched the description of a car potentially connected to a shooting that happened Monday in Fort Lauderdale. During that shooting, a woman was caught in the crossfire off of Northwest 20th Street. The victim was shot in the leg and was taken to the hospital. She is expected to be OK.Investigators said the woman was not the intended target. One lane along Northeast Second Avenue has been closed as police continue their investigation. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more deta...

Toddler drowns, infant left in hot car less than a year apart at grandma’s house

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:28 GMT

HARDEE COUNTY, Florida (WFTS) — Tracey Nix was practicing the piano while her infant granddaughter was dying in the back seat of an SUV.According to the Hardee County Sheriff’s Office complaint affidavit, Tracey, 65, told a detective that after she drove home from lunch with friends on November 22, she “just forgot” about 7-month-old Uriel Schock.Uriel’s mother Kaila Nix, had gone to get her hair done that day and had asked her mom to babysit.It wasn’t until one of Tracey’s grandsons arrived, the complaint affidavit said, that “all of a sudden” it “came across her head” that Uriel had been in the SUV all afternoon. Her husband, Nun Ney Nix, immediately began CPR.Temperatures in Wauchula had reached 90 degrees that day. The Lexus SUV was parked in the yard with the windows rolled up.Tracey, a former school principal in Hardee County, was charged with aggravated manslaughter. The pretrial hearing is scheduled for March ...

A Maryland court has reinstated the conviction of Adnan Syed

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:28 GMT

(CNN) — A Maryland appellate court has reinstated the conviction of Adnan Syed, the man who spent over two decades behind bars for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee and whose murder case was featured in the landmark podcast “Serial.”The appellate court said the lower court had violated the rights of the victim’s brother, Young Lee, to attend a key hearing.“Because the circuit court violated Mr. Lee’s right to notice of, and his right to attend, the hearing on the State’s motion to vacate… this Court has the power and obligation to remedy those violations, as long we can do so without violating Mr. Syed’s right to be free from double jeopardy,” the court’s opinion said.This is a developing story and will be updated.

Russian father jailed after daughter made anti-war drawing goes on the run

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:28 GMT

A man sentenced to two years in prison in a case launched against him after his daughter drew an anti-war picture at school is on the run from the authorities, a spokeswoman for a provincial court told journalists. Earlier Tuesday, a judge in the town of Yefremov in Russia’s Tula region, south of Moscow, found Alexei Moskalyov guilty of discrediting the Russian army on social media and sentenced him to two years in a penal colony.Moskalyov was not present at the hearing.Once the proceedings were over, a court spokeswoman, responding to inquiries as to Moskalyov’s whereabouts, said: “The defendant, Mr. Moskalyov, was not present when the verdict was announced because he fled house arrest last night.” Her words were met with applause and several cries of “Bravo!” from some of those in attendance. Formally, Moskalyov was sentenced for two comments he made on social media in which he described Russian soldiers as rapists and Russia’s leadership as “terrorists.”But Moskaly...

MEPs back tighter screening of migrants

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:28 GMT

BRUSSELS — European lawmakers on Tuesday voted for tighter screening of migrants as they gave the green light to a central plank of the EU’s flagship migration package. The new rules seek to speed up the return of migrants who entered Europe without permission and to prevent these migrants from traveling to other countries within Europe. The approved text, seen by POLITICO, includes fast-track processing of asylum-seekers who are unlikely to be successful — yet leaves the Dublin Treaty untouched.Calls to reform the treaty, which puts the countries of first entry on the hook for handling migrants, have in the past floundered. But the new Migration and Asylum Pact attempts to keep the most recalcitrant member states on board while attempting to stem high migrant flows.The three most powerful groups in Parliament — the center-right European People’s Party (EPP), the center-left Socialists & Democrats (S&D) and centrist Renew — all backed the proposal.With Tuesday’s vote i...