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SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket from Southern California base

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:00 GMT

SpaceX is launching a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Southern California on Tuesday night.The rocket is scheduled to lift off from the base at 10:25 p.m. PDT and will be carrying a group of Starlink satellites into orbit. Takeoff was pushed back from the initial 9:34 p.m. time.The launch should be visible to onlookers hundreds of miles away.According to the company, 15 satellites will be carried to low-Earth orbit during Tuesday night’s mission.Starlink is SpaceX’s satellite network designed to bring low-cost internet service to rural/remote communities.After previous successful launches, Starlink now boasts over 4,200 functional satellites orbiting the Earth, according to CNET. The launches are part of the company’s goal to build a giant constellation of broadband satellites across the globe.Following stage separation after liftoff, the Falcon’s reusable booster is scheduled to land back on the spaceport drone ship, “Of Course I Still Love You,” in the Paci...

Flores homers twice, SF Giants rally past Cincinnati Reds for seventh straight win

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:00 GMT

CINCINNATI (AP) — Casey Schmitt drew a bases-loaded walk that forced home the go-ahead run in a three-run seventh inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds 11-10 Tuesday night for a seven-game winning streak.San Francisco began the evening by winning the completion of Monday’s suspended game 4-2 behind Joc Pederson’s tiebreaking, 10th-inning double.Cincinnati has lost six straight, matching its season high.Wilmer Flores homered twice off Luke Weaver, a solo drive in the first and a three-run homer in the third that tied the score 4-4. Flores had three home runs in the two games.Walnut Creek’s Christian Encarnacion-Strand, a 23-year-old playing his second big league game, had a pinch-hit, three-run homer off Mauricio Llovera in the fifth for an 8-7 Reds lead. He was surprised to be sent up to pinch-hit but appreciated the faith.“Honestly, when it happened, I was just happy,” Encarnacion-Strand said. “I just want to be a spark for the team. … I try not ...

Noda, Bleday homer as A’s shut out Red Sox 3-0 to end 8-game losing streak

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:00 GMT

OAKLAND (AP) — Ryan Noda and JJ Bleday homered in the second inning and the Oakland Athletics ended an eight-game losing streak with a 3-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.The Athletics were much sharper a day after striking out a season-high 18 times while being held to one hit or fewer for the third time this season in a 7-0 loss to the Red Sox.Noda, who was 14-for-86 (.163) over his previous 25 games, homered off Boston starter Joe Jacques (1-1) leading off the second. After Aledmys Díaz reached on an infield single and advanced to second on a throwing error by shortstop Yu Chang, Bleday hit his sixth homer and first off a left-hander this season.Luis Medina (3-7) allowed three hits in 5 2/3 innings for his first win since June 10. Medina made a nice play on a comebacker in the second, pitched out of a jam with a runner on second in the fourth, then struck out the side swinging in the fifth.Trevor May, the A’s fourth relieve, got the final three outs for his...

Two $287K Mega Millions tickets sold in Bay Area

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:00 GMT

(KRON) -- Mega Millions numbers were drawn on Tuesday night, and while no Californians won the $640 million jackpot, two lucky players did cash in. There were two tickets sold that matched the five winning numbers but not the Mega Ball. Those tickets are worth $287,200 each. Taylor Swift inspires ‘Swiftie Clara’ name change Both were purchased in the Bay Area. One was bought at Shell, located at 1091 East Capitol Expressway in San Jose. Another was bought at M&A Lakeside Market at 136 14th Street in Oakland. The gas station in San Jose is in the south part of the city, just east of Los Lagos Golf Course. The market in Oakland is just off Lake Merritt, near Lake Chalet Bar & Grill.Nobody matched four of the winning numbers with the Mega Ball. There were 199 people that had four numbers, which is worth $450. Anyone looking to get lucky with the lottery has another chance to do so on Wednesday. The Powerball jackpot is estimated to break $1 billion, one of the highest in U.S...

Group pushes to install BART gates faster

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:00 GMT

(KRON) – A Bay Area group of business leaders is demanding BART speed up its timeline to install security gates at its 50 stations. The Bay Area Council Group says data from their recent poll shows riders are staying away due to safety concerns and that gates are one way to drastically improve security throughout the system.  BART plans to have the gates installed by 2026. Officials say they are working hard on making the changes but moving faster may not be the answer. The council calls that timeline unacceptable.  Walnut Creek man arrested after teen fatally shot in botched robbery “We believe there is an urgency and BART needs to do whatever it can to accelerate the project and help keep unwanted elements out,” said Bay Area Council Group spokesperson Rufus Jeffries. Jeffries says the group of local businesses conducted a survey in May showing the primary reason riders have not returned en masse to BART is due to safety concerns. They say their data shows fare gates can so...

Giants beats Reds 4-2 and 11-10, extend winning streak to 7 and Reds’ skid to 6

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:00 GMT

CINCINNATI (AP) — Casey Schmitt drew a bases-loaded walk that forced home the go-ahead run in a three-run seventh inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds 11-10 Tuesday night for a seven-game winning streak.San Francisco began the evening by winning the completion of Monday’s suspended game 4-2 behind Joc Pederson’s tiebreaking, 10th-inning double.Cincinnati has lost six straight, matching its season high. Wilmer Flores homered twice off Luke Weaver, a solo drive in the first and a three-run homer in the third that tied the score 4-4. Flores had three home runs in the two games.Christian Encarnacion-Strand, a 23-year-old playing his second big league game, had a pinch-hit, three-run homer off Mauricio Llovera in the fifth for an 8-7 Reds lead. He was surprised to be sent up to pinch-hit but appreciated the faith.“Honestly, when it happened, I was just happy,” Encarnacion-Strand said. “I just want to be a spark for the team. … I try not to think...

Low-key Kiwis: New Zealand slow to embrace Women’s World Cup

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:00 GMT

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — International visitors are greeted at the arrivals hall in Auckland’s airport by a display promoting the Women’s World Cup with such detail it includes carpeting resembling a soccer pitch.After that, though, the hype trails off. There are banners downtown and an occasional big-screen advertisement, but other than that, one of the globe’s major female sporting events could easily be missed. The tournament kicks off Thursday but seats for many games are still available. One day before the co-host nation faced Norway, many sports fans and media seemed more interested in analyzing New Zealand’s decisive 35-12 win in men’s rugby over South Africa before a sellout home crowd.“We’re a rugby-crazy country, and rugby is seen as our No. 1 sport. You haven’t always seen visibility in terms of being able to watch football on TV, exhibitions, women’s football,” New Zealand midfielder Annalie Longo said. “We’ve only just now got our first professional team here in New...

Abad picks up his first win in six years. Rockies beat Astros 4-3 as bullpen shines

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:00 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Fernando Abad barely remembers his last win or even who he was facing.It was that long ago.Abad picked his first victory in more than six years as the Colorado Rockies used a bullpen game featuring seven pitchers to beat the Houston Astros 4-3 on Tuesday night.“That (win) was a while ago,” said Abad, whose last victory was while he was with Boston on June 13, 2017, against Philadelphia. Back then, the left-handed reliever gave the baseball from the victory to his mom. He plans on giving this one to her as well. That is, once he locates it. For now, he will simply bask in the glow of the moment.“I just had to be able to do everything they needed me to do,” said Abad, who began his big-league career with the Astros. This had all the hallmarks of a high-scoring Coors Field affair when it was 3-3 after the first inning. But the pitching took over and the only run allowed after the early fireworks came courtesy of Ezequiel Tovar, who lined a shot off the fence in right-cent...

Tobi Amusan, women’s record holder in 100 hurdles, charged with missing 3 drug tests

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:00 GMT

World-record hurdler Tobi Amusan says she has been charged with an anti-doping rules violation for missing three drug tests in the span of 12 months. The Nigerian posted the news on her Instagram account Tuesday and said she would fight the charges. “I am a CLEAN athlete, and I am regularly (maybe more than usual) tested by the AIU,” she wrote, in referencing the Athletics Integrity Unit, which oversees doping issues in international track and is the agency that charged her with the violation.At world championships in Oregon last year, Amusan stunned a still-arriving crowd by setting the world record with a time of 12.12 seconds in the semifinals of the 100-meter hurdles. She came back about 90 minutes later to win the gold medal in 12.06, but that time did not go into the record books because there was too strong a tailwind.“When I watched the record, I was like ‘Whoa, who did that?’” Amusan said of her reaction upon seeing her time pop up on the scoreboard.Amusan went to col...

Seiya Suzuki has homer, 4 hits as Cubs pour it on late to rout Nationals 17-3

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:00 GMT

Washington Nationals starting pitcher Patrick Corbin delivers in the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)(AP/Charles Rex Arbogast) Washington Nationals starting pitcher Patrick Corbin delivers in the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)(AP/Charles Rex Arbogast) CHICAGO (AP) — Seiya Suzuki homered and drove in three runs on a four-hit night, and the Chicago Cubs poured it on late to beat the Washington Nationals 17-3 Tuesday night.Patrick Wisdom hit his team-leading 17th homer in the seventh inning to put the Cubs ahead 4-3, and Chicago went ...