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Houck leads Red Sox past AL East champion Orioles 6-1 in finale

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:59 GMT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Tanner Houck threw six innings of one-hit ball and the last-place Boston Red Sox earned a split in the four-game series against the AL East champion Baltimore Orioles with a 6-1 victory Sunday in the regular-season finale.The Orioles have home-field advantage throughout the American League playoffs and will host a Division Series opener starting Oct. 7.“I am really proud of how we played for six months,” Baltimore manager Brandon Hyde said. “We didn’t play our best baseball game today, unfortunately, in the last game in front of the home fans. How well we played this year, home and away, is definitely something to be proud of.”Houck (6-10) did not allow a hit until Anthony Santander singled up the middle with two outs in the sixth. Houck had six strikeouts and three walks on 87 pitches.Boston finished 78-84, the same record as last year.The Red Sox were mourning former pitcher Tim Wakefield, who died at the age of 57.“The game is secondary. Tough day...

Thousands take part in 31st annual ‘Making Strides Against Breast Cancer’ walk in Boston

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:59 GMT

Thousands of Boston-area residents took part in the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Boston to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month.7NEWS is a proud sponsor of the event, which drew survivors, their families, and those touched by breast cancer and aimed to raise money for breast cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers. Participants could choose either a 2 or 5 mile route before celebrating at the Hatch Shell.Event organizers said thanks to the walk, the organization is on pace to raise its goal of $1.2 million.To learn more or donate Click Here.https://twitter.com/julianamazzatv/status/1708504177473626310

Orioles end historic regular season with 101 wins after 6-1 loss to Red Sox; will face Rays or Rangers in ALDS

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:59 GMT

For the previous six years — and 34 of the past 40 — this would’ve been it.The Major League Baseball regular season ended Sunday, with the majority of teams playing their final game of the year.Not the Orioles.They played their 162nd game Sunday afternoon — an inconsequential 6-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards — and unlike most years in the past four decades, baseball in Baltimore is far from over this fall.The Orioles, the American League East champions for the first time since 2014, get five days off — as many they’ve had the past eight weeks combined — after ending the regular season with the circuit’s best record at 101-61. The only team in the major leagues with a better mark are the National League-best Atlanta Braves, who entered Sunday 104-57.Baltimore will play the winner of the wild-card series between the American League’s Nos. 4 and 5 seeds. The Tampa Bay Rays, the team the Orioles beat out...

Ex-Saugus selectman guilty in $1.3M embezzlement scheme

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:59 GMT

A former Saugus selectman pleaded guilty to 18 counts of forgery, larceny and other charges related to an embezzlement scheme totaling more than $1 million last week, officials announced.Mark Mitchell pleaded guilty to five counts of larceny by scheme, six counts of improper campaign expenditures, three counts of forgery, three counts of false entries in corporate books and one count of publishing false or exaggerated statements, officials said. He was sentenced to 18 months in the House of Correction which will be followed by three years of probation upon Mitchell’s release, according to officials.The amount Mitchell will have to pay will be determined during a restitution hearing on Nov. 9, according to the Suffolk DA’s office. Mitchell embezzled the funds from the Boston Center for Adult Education, where he served as comptroller, officials said.Mitchell’s embezzlement scheme ran from 2011 to 2018, during which time he wrote checks to himself totaling $896,537, officials sai...

Biden renews push for Ukraine aid

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:59 GMT

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Sunday that American aid to Ukraine will keep flowing for now as he sought to reassure allies of continued U.S. financial support for the war effort. But time is running out, the president said in a warning to Congress.“We cannot under any circumstances allow American for Ukraine to be interrupted,” Biden said in remarks from the Roosevelt Room after Congress averted a government shutdown by passing a short-term funding package late Saturday that dropped assistance for Ukraine in the battle against Russia.“We have time, not much time, and there’s an overwhelming sense of urgency,” he said, noting that the funding bill lasts only until mid-November. Biden urged Congress to negotiate an aid package as soon as possible.“The vast majority of both parties — Democrats and Republicans, Senate and House — support helping Ukraine and the brutal aggression that is being thrust upon them by Russia,” Biden said. ...

Brazil’s President Lula back at official residence to recover from hip replacement surgery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:59 GMT

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was discharged from the hospital Sunday, two days after undergoing successful hip replacement surgery that will have him working from home while he recovers.Lula, 77, underwent the operation Friday. Doctors also performed minor eyelid surgery. He has returned to the official presidential residence and will work there during the coming weeks, Lula said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter. He previously said that he had suffered hip pains since August of last year.“Thank you for all the prayers and the caring messages. I’m recovering to work even more for Brazil,” Lula wrote on X, adding — as a joke, presumably — that he intends to run a marathon.A medical bulletin from Lula’s doctors earlier Sunday said that he had ascended and descended stairs with assistance.Recovery for hip replacement surgery varies from patient to patient, but most can resume light, day-to-day activities within three to six weeks, according ...

Blue Jays to face Minnesota in wild-card playoffs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:59 GMT

Win-or-loss in Game 162 wouldn’t have made a difference for the Toronto Blue Jays, as it turned out, after a Houston Astros victory and a Texas Rangers defeat locked them into wild-card three and a date with the Minnesota Twins.Kevin Gausman versus Pablo Lopez in Game 1 on Tuesday at Target Field.Let the fun begin.“It’s very unique to get to the post-season,” Gausman said before a just-get-through-it, 12-8 loss Sunday to the Tampa Bay Rays capped an 89-73 season for his Blue Jays. “You have to be a very good team to advance. We’ve talked from Day 1 about the talent in this room. Now we’ve got to put it together in the most important games of the year.”A high-stakes, severe-pressure run through the final two-and-a-half weeks after a four-game sweep Sept 11-14 by the Rangers at Rogers Centre should have the Blue Jays as prepared as they can be for the grind ahead.Their season has regularly alternated between inspiring and infuriating.During series in which they swept major...

NDP leader calls on government to adopt legislation to lower food prices

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:59 GMT

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is urging the government to adopt his party’s proposal to lower food prices across the country.Singh introduced the Lowering Prices for Canadians Act to the House of Commons Sept. 18. It would give the Competition Bureau more power to issue penalties for certain “anti-competitive acts,” including price-fixing.On Sunday, Singh and Taylor Bachrach, MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley, held a news conference in Terrace, B.C., to discuss the legislation. They say it would close loopholes that let large grocery chains “price out the competition.”Related links:Are grocery stores greedy or a scapegoat? Group pushes back on feds’ ultimatumLack of competition is driving up grocery prices, federal watchdog says“For almost two years, the Liberal government has stood by and watched while grocery CEOs made record profits off the backs of working families,” said Singh in a news release. “The reality is Justin Trudeau only started...

Tim Wakefield, former Red Sox pitcher, dies at 57

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:59 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Tim Wakefield, the knuckleballing workhorse of the Red Sox pitching staff who bounced back after giving up a season-ending home run to the Yankees in the 2003 playoffs to help Boston win its curse-busting World Series title the following year, has died. He was 57.The Red Sox announced his death in a statement Sunday that detailed not only his baseball statistics but a career full of charitable endeavors. Wakefield had brain cancer, according to ex-teammate Curt Schilling, who outed the illness on a podcast last week — drawing an outpouring of support for Wakefield. The Red Sox confirmed an illness at the time but did not elaborate, saying Wakefield had requested privacy. Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson dies at 86 “It’s one thing to be an outstanding athlete; it’s another to be an extraordinary human being. Tim was both,” Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner said in the team's statement. “I know the world was made better because he was in it.”Drafted by the Pit...

Woman who fled Maui wildfire on foot dies after weeks in hospital burn unit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:59 GMT

HONOLULU (AP) — A woman who escaped Hawaii’s Lahaina wildfire by running through a flaming field has died after spending more than seven weeks in a hospital burn unit.Laurie Allen died Friday at Straub Medical Center in Honolulu, according to a gofundme page set up for her and her husband, Perry Allen.“Laurie slipped away peacefully. Her heart was tired, and she was ready,” her sister-in-law, Penny Allen Hood, wrote on the website. Videos show winds whip flames through Maui and the deadly aftermath Allen's husband, two brothers, a sister and other relatives were at her side.Allen was among at least 98 people killed by the fire Aug. 8 that devastated historic Lahaina on the west coast of Maui. The fire was the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century and destroyed 2,200 buildings, most of them homes.The fire began when strong winds appeared to cause a Hawaiian Electric power line to fall and ignite dry brush and grass. After being declared contained, the fire flared up and race...