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Denmark, Netherlands pledge F-16s to Ukraine  

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:57 GMT

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — The Netherlands and Denmark announced Sunday they will give F-16 warplanes to Ukraine, a long-awaited announcement that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called an important motivation for his country’s forces, embroiled in a difficult counteroffensive against Russia.The promise of new fighter jets came the day after an unusually brazen Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian theater that killed seven people and wounded almost 150 others in the northern city of Chernihiv. Zelenskyy vowed stern retaliation for the attack, whose victims included a slain 6-year-old girl dead and 15 wounded children.After months of entreaties from Zelenskyy for F-16s to bolster the Ukrainian air force, the U.S. recently gave approval for the Netherlands and Denmark to provide Ukraine the American-made jets. Zelenskyy travelled to both countries Sunday to finalize the delivery deals.”F-16s will certainly give new energy, confidence, and motivation to fighters and ...

Deluge from Tropical Storm Hilary hits California after making landfall along Mexico's Baja coast

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:57 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Deadly floodwaters inundated streets across Mexico’s arid Baja California on Sunday as Tropical Storm Hilary moved ashore carrying torrential rain into Southern California, and concerns mounted that flash floods could strike in places as far north as Idaho that rarely get such heavy rain.Forecasters said Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing the potential for flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes, high winds and power outages.Hilary made landfall along the Mexican coast in a sparsely populated area about 150 miles (250 kilometers) south of Ensenada, on a path to hit mudslide-prone Tijuana Sunday evening, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border. At least 9 million people were under flash-flood warnings as heavy rain fell across normally sunny Southern California ahead of the brunt of the storm. Desert areas were especially susceptible along with hillsides with wildfire...

Magnitude 5.0 earthquake rattles Los Angeles area

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:57 GMT

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 shook the Los Angeles area Sunday afternoon, just as Tropical Storm Hilary was drenching the region with torrential rain.The quake struck at 2:45 p.m. and was centered two miles east-southeast of Ojai in Ventura County at a depth of one kilometer, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake could be felt sharply across a wide swath of the L.A. area, including Hollywood and Long Beach, and was followed by several aftershocks.California Earthquake MapThere were no immediate reports of damage.This is a developing story. Stay with KTLA for updates.

Longtime Rogers executive Phil Lind has died at age 80

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:57 GMT

Phil Lind, a longtime executive of Rogers Communications and confidante to founder Ted Rogers, has died at the age of 80. “Phil worked for Rogers for 54 years, nearly 40 of them with my father and helped build Rogers into the telecom and media powerhouse it is today,” Edward Rogers, Chair of Rogers Communications, said in a statement on Sunday. “He has been involved in every key decision in the company’s history and we are forever grateful for his countless contributions.” In his 2018 book, Right Hand Man: How Phil Lind Steered the Genius of Ted Rogers, Canada’s Foremost Entrepreneur, Lind says he first met Rogers at a Tory convention and later joined the company in 1969 as Programming Chief when the company owned two radio stations and counted 15,000 cable subscribers. As employee number 160 at Rogers Communications, Lind claims he had a handshake deal with Rogers. “He said, ‘Friends don’t work for friends. That’s not a good thing. Wh...

3 dead, 6 wounded in shooting at a hookah lounge in south Seattle; no word on suspects

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:57 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Three people are dead and six others wounded after a shooting Sunday at a hookah lounge in south Seattle, authorities said.City police didn’t immediately release any information about a possible suspect or suspects in the Sunday’s early morning shooting in the Mount Baker neighborhood.Officers responded to the scene around 4:30 a.m. Sunday after receiving multiple 911 calls, police said.Upon arrival, officers reported finding two men and a woman with gunshot wounds. The two men died at the scene while the woman later died from her injuries at a hospital, police said.The names and ages of the victims weren’t immediately released.Of the six people wounded, one was in critical condition and the other five were in satisfactory condition, police said.Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said in a statement that even as Seattle police “keeps up a rapid and record pace of recovering guns – 869 through July – there are still more illegal guns in the wrong hands that could be used to i...

Former respiratory therapist in Missouri sentenced in connection with patient deaths

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:57 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri respiratory therapist who pleaded guilty in the deaths of two hospital patients has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.Jennifer Hall was initially charged with two counts of first-degree murder but pleaded guilty in April to reduced first-degree involuntary manslaughter counts in the deaths of 75-year-old Fern Franco and 37-year-old David Wesley Harper. She also pleaded guilty to one count of attempted second-degree assault. She was sentenced Friday, KCTV-TV reported.Franco and Harper were among nine patients who died at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe over several months in 2002 in what charging documents describe as “medically suspicious” events. “A sentence 20 years in the making,” Livingston County Prosecuting Attorney Adam Warren said in a statement. He noted that Hall will eventually be eligible for parole. “But for now, we all sleep better knowing she is behind bars,” he said.From December 2001, when Hall started working at th...

Potential new rivalries in Big 12 with BYU becoming league’s 3rd private Christian school

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:57 GMT

There could be some new rivalries between Christian schools brewing in the evolving Big 12 Conference.With BYU coming in this season, the Big 12 has three private Christian schools from different denominations. The Cougars, the 1984 national champions who played the past 12 seasons as an independent, are now in the same league with Baylor and TCU — whose 118-game “Revivalry” in Texas dates to a scoreless tie in 1899.“I think that will be really intriguing to see … is there more of a long-term interest amongst TCU and Baylor fans in BYU as an opponent compared to some of the other Big 12 teams that are coming in,” said Northern Kentucky professor Joe Cobbs, an expert in sports rivalries.BYU was founded by and still supported by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church. Baylor is the world’s largest Baptist university, and TCU partners with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). All three schools were founded in the 1800s.Ther...

Suzuki and Amaya hit solo homers, Cubs beat Royals 4-3

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:57 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Seiya Suzuki and Miguel Amaya hit solo homers, helping Kyle Hendricks and the Chicago Cubs beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Sunday.Chicago, in position to claim of the NL's three wild cards berths, won two in a row after losing the series opener. Jordan Lyles (3-14) became the major leagues' first 14-game loser as Kansas City fell for the fourth time in five games and dropped to 40-86, better only than Oakland among the 30 major league teams. YESTERDAY: Cody Bellinger hits 2 homers, Justin Steele pitches 6 strong innings as the Cubs beat the Royals 6-4 Hendricks (5-6) won for the first time since July 25, allowing one run and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. He retired 10 in a row before his lone walk, to Matt Beaty in the fifth inning.Mark Leiter Jr. got two outs in the seventh, Julian Merryweather pitched a perfect eighth, and Adbert Alzolay got his 18th save in 19 chances after allowing pinch-hitter Maikel Garcia's run-scoring single and Matt Beaty's RBI groundout. ...

Hawaii governor says more than 1,000 people still unaccounted for after devastating wildfires

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:57 GMT

(The Hill) – Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) said on Sunday more than 1,000 people were still unaccounted for, as search and rescue operations continue to scour the devastation left behind by the wildfires in Maui County. “More than 1,000 are unaccounted for, about 1,050. It will take several weeks still. Some of the challenges are going to be extraordinary. As you reported, 85 percent of the of the land of the impact zone has been covered now by what amounts to an army of search and rescue teams and 41 dogs,” Green said in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.” “So 85 percent of the land has been covered. Now we go into the larger buildings which require peeling back some of the floors and structures. That last 15 percent could take weeks,” Green added.Green said that the final stretch of the search may not yield the results that the community is hoping for, as some remains “may be impossible to recover meaningfully.”“We do have extreme concerns that, because of the temperat...

Public Utility Commission of Texas calls for 'voluntary power conservation'

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:57 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) is echoing calls from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) for "voluntary power conservation" Sunday. PUCT officials requested Texans to "voluntarily reduce electricity use" due to ongoing extreme temperatures and high power demand.The latest voluntary conservation notice is effective from 7-10 p.m. Sunday.At this time, ERCOT isn't experiencing emergency conditions, officials said in the release. The PUCT's voluntary conservation notice is part of ERCOT's Texas Advisory and Notification System, the release added.ERCOT is currently requesting all government agencies — including city and county offices — to "implement all programs to reduce energy use at their facilities.""Voluntary conservation is a widely used industry tool that can help lower demand during a specific period of time, typically late afternoon and evening," the release read in part.The PUCT's website outlines tips for electricity use reductions...