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Liberty top Mystics 90-75 in Game 1 of playoff series, Sabrina Ionescu scores 29, drops 7 3-pointers

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:31:35 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Sabrina Ionescu scored 29 points, hitting seven 3-pointers, to help the New York Liberty beat the Washington Mystics 90-75 in Game 1 of their WNBA playoff matchup on Friday night.Jonquel Jones added 20 points and 12 rebounds to give New York its first home playoff victory since 2015. Game 2 of the best-of-three series is Tuesday night in New York. Given the three-day break, the Mystics are heading home between games.Ionescu scored eight points in the third quarter, including the final five of the period with a deep 3-pointer and then a floater in the lane just before the buzzer to give New York a 69-57 advantage. It was New York’s biggest lead of the game to that point.The Liberty extended their advantage to 14 before Washington scored the next eight points to get within 71-65 on Brittney Sykes’ three-point play with 8:02 to play. That was as close as the Mystics got. Ionescu hit back-to-back 3s over the next 80 seconds to restore the double-digit lead an...

Ocho fugas de prisión increíbles que parecen de película o las inspiraron

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:31:35 GMT

(CNN Español) — Tras una intensa búsqueda que duró 14 días, Danilo Calvacante, asesino convicto que se había fugado de una prisión en Pensilvania, fue capturado este miércoles 13 de septiembre. La imagen de este hombre trepando como cangrejo las paredes para poder escapar recorrió el mundo. Pero el brasileño no es el primero y ni, tal vez, el más osado en lograr escabullirse de una cárcel.Aquí, un repaso de algunas de las fugas de prisioneros más increíbles.Huyeron de Alcatraz, pero ¿sobrevivieron?Intentar escapar de la prisión de Alcatraz, en la Bahía de San Francisco, era realmente una osadía con un desenlace casi por seguro fatal. Sin embargo, hubo quienes lo intentaron. Tal fue el caso de John Anglin, Clarence Anglin y Frank Morris, quienes el 11 de junio de 1962 llevaron a cabo una fuga digna de una escena de Hollywood. Utilizaron papel, pelos y jabón para armar muñecos y simular que seguían durmiendo en sus celdas, mientras escapaban por un túnel que cavaron con cucharas...

Denver weather: Sunshine and warming up again this weekend

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:31:35 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) —Sunshine moves back into Denver's weather this weekend and will aid in a warming trend that will carry into the start of the workweek. Weather today: Sunny, warmerSaturday, clear sky will give us a cool start to the day. But, sunshine and a southerly breeze will help temperatures to climb into the mid 70s. Weather tonight: Clear, coolSaturday night will stay clear and dry. Low temperatures will be cool but seasonal and fall to around 50 degrees in Denver. Looking ahead: Sunny and warmer start to the week Sunday, sunshine and a southerly breeze will help temperatures to climb back into the lower 80s, which is just a couple degrees above normal. More sunshine and 80s are in the forecast for the first half of the week. Then another chance for showers moves in Wednesday and Thursday.

Erdoğan threatens to ‘part ways’ from EU after critical European Parliament report

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:31:35 GMT

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday slammed a report from the European Parliament on the country’s EU accession talks and threatened to “part ways” from the bloc. Questioned by journalists about the report, Erdoğan said that “the EU is trying to break away from Turkey,” according to Turkish state media Anadolu Agency.“We will make our evaluations against these developments and if necessary, we can part ways with the EU,” Erdoğan said ahead of a trip to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The European Parliament report, adopted this week in Strasbourg, said talks over Ankara’s accession to the bloc should not be resumed in current circumstances, voicing the EU’s concerns about human rights and rule of law violations. Instead, European lawmakers advocated finding “a parallel and realistic framework” for relations between Brussels and Ankara. “We have recently seen a renewed inte...

Wrong-way driver seriously injures another in head-on collision in Hampton, NH

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:31:35 GMT

An Arizona man traveling the wrong day down Route 101 in Hampton, New Hampshire collided head-on with another car Friday night, seriously injuring the driver, officials said.Eric Jenkins, 22, was traveling west down Route 101 East near the I-95 interchange when he collided with 23-year-old Melisa Kizoglu of Hampton, New Hampshire at around 9:30 p.m., the New Hampshire State Police announced.Kizoglu was extracted from her vehicle by emergency personnel after becoming entrapped. She was stabilized on the scene and then flown to a Boston area hospital.Jenkins was transported to the hospital as a precaution.Investigators said all lanes of traffic had to be closed for over three hours, and Route 101 East was reopened fully around 1:40 a.m.Officials said all aspects of the crash is still under investigation.

Train and car collide in Andover

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:31:35 GMT

A train and a car collided in Andover Saturday morning, officials confirmed.Crews responded to Pearson Street near Essex Street at the railroad tracks, where a car can be seen crumpled and smashed. No further details were immediately available, including if anyone was injured.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Boston police ask for help in search for missing 76-year-old Roxbury man

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:31:35 GMT

Boston police are turning to the public for help as they search for a missing 76-year-old Roxbury man.Richard Gelzer was last seen about 5:30 p.m. Friday in the area of 25 Ruggles St.He is described as being a Black man who is about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, about 150 pounds, and was last seen wearing a yellow jersey with dark pants.He is known to frequent the Nubian Square/Tropical Foods and the Mass. Ave. area. Gelzer is living with mental health issues.Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is advised to contact 911 or B-2 Detectives at 617-343-6683.

NFL Notes: The Patriots can start to prove themselves again Sunday night

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:31:35 GMT

The promise of this Patriots season was never a playoff win.It wasn’t even a postseason berth.It wasn’t joy or winning or more automatic, biannual beatdowns of the Jets.It was clarity.Finally learning Mac Jones’ true potential. Finding out whether Bill Belichick is positioned to lead the Patriots long-term or will drop himself onto an already rumored hot seat. Discovering whether the Patriot Way is a dust-gathering relic of the past or a blueprint the franchise has successfully rolled out again.Yet here we are, still waiting.Of course, that promise was never going to be kept in Week 1. NFL season-openers are both the most anticipated and least telling games of the year. What the Patriots’ loss to the Eagles taught us is largely what we already knew.Against top-tier opponents, Jones can both lead the Patriots close to victory and count himself among the reasons they ultimately lost. Belichick can still devise as sharp a defensive game plan as you could imagine...

Activists in Europe mark the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody in Iran

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:31:35 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds gathered in central London on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy.Chanting “Women! Life! Freedom!,” the crowds held her portrait and rallied around the memory of a young woman who died on Sept. 16, 2022, after she was arrested for allegedly violating Iran’s mandatory headscarf law. Similar protests took place in Italy, Germany and France.In Iran, authorities sought to prevent the anniversary from reigniting the protests that gripped the country last year. Amini’s father was detained outside his home after the family indicated that they planned to gather at her grave for a traditional service of commemoration, the Kurdish rights group Hengaw said. People in downtown Tehran reported a heavy security presence, and security forces were seen in western Iran, where t...

Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial is on the brink of a verdict as senators end deliberations

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:31:35 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Senate on Saturday ended deliberations over whether Attorney General Ken Paxton should be removed from office, putting the Republican’s historic impeachment trial on the brink of a verdict.The jury of 30 senators, most of whom are Republicans, spent about eight hours deliberating behind closed doors. A two-thirds majority is required to convict Paxton on any of 16 articles of impeachment that accuse Paxton of bribery, corruption and unfitness for office. Voting was expected to begin at 10:30 a.m. CT. The vote could be a slow, public process. Each article of impeachment gets a separate vote. Republicans hold a 19-12 majority in the Senate, meaning that if all Democrats vote to convict Paxton, they would need nine Republicans to join them. Deliberations started Friday, and the talks dragging out for more than a day behind closed doors fed a rare lack of assurance about how a vote might go in the Texas Capitol, where a dominant Republican majority typical...