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Fuji’s first start: Here’s how notable pitchers in A’s history fared in their debuts

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:00 GMT

OAKLAND — Shintaro Fujinami makes his major league debut for the Athletics Saturday against the Los Angeles Angels, and he can only hope it goes as well as it did for Mike Norris 48 years ago.Norris, the San Francisco-born right-hander, threw a three-hit shutout against the Chicago White Sox at the Coliseum as the Athletics won 9-0 the first time he pitched in a major league game.A look at notable A’s debuts, including starts by Catfish Hunter (with the Kansas City Athletics), Mike Morgan, Tim Conroy and Todd Van Poppel who went from high school straight to the major leagues for their first game:Catfish HunterDate: May 13, 1965 (for Kansas City Athletics) at Chicago White SoxOuting: Pitched 2 innings in relief, 0 hits, 0 runs, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts, no decision in 6-3 defeat.Age: 19Vida BlueDate: July 20, 1969 at California AngelsOuting: Pitched 5 1/3 innings as starter, 6 hits, 5 runs, 3 earned runs, 1 walk, 1 strikeout, losing pitcher in 7-3 defeat.Age: 19Mike NorrisDat...

Redwood City police seek information after hit-and-run crash involving bicyclist

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:00 GMT

Redwood City police are asking for tips from the public after a bicyclist was injured in a hit-and-run crash Friday night.The crash happened at about 9:25 p.m. Friday near the intersection of Veterans Boulevard and Maple Street, according to the Redwood City Police Department. Few other details about the crash have been released, and police have given no update on the condition of the bicyclist.No information has been released about the vehicle suspected of hitting that person.Anyone with tips about the crash can call police at 650-780-7118.

San Leandro man charged with beating and stabbing his girlfriend to death after she tried to end their relationship

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:00 GMT

SAN LEANDRO — A city resident is due in court next month to enter a plea on charges that he fatally beat and stabbed his girlfriend inside the apartment they shared with several others, according to court records.Chataron Rose, 23, was charged Jan. 20 with murder in the death of 24-year-old Mya Watts. More than two months later, he has still not entered a plea, but is expected to at his next court appearance on April 13. Rose is being held in the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on a no-bail hold, records show.Authorities believe Watts was fatally stabbed sometime Jan. 14, but exactly when is not clear. But that evening, Rose allegedly began answering her phone and making excuses for why she wasn’t there, going so far as to tell one roommate not to be suspicious if they found Watts’ blood in the bathroom, police say.Rose was arrested later that night, at his mother’s house in San Francisco. Police say he went there and “created a disturbance” while frantically...

Fire tears through vacant restaurant building in San Jose

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:00 GMT

A fire erupted early Saturday morning at a vacant restaurant building in San Jose, sending flames shooting through the roof as firefighters worked to contain the blaze.The two-alarm fire prompted temporary road closures around the building, which was in the 2000 block of North First Street, near Brokaw Road, according to the San Jose Fire Department. Firefighters arrived at the blaze shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday, and managed to contain the flames to the building where the fire began.Firefighters are on scene of a 2nd Alarm Fire on the 2000 block of N. First St. in a vacant commercial restaurant – no injuries reported N. First is closed at Browkaw Rd. @pge pic.twitter.com/vSguxKHxZU— San José Fire Dept. (@SJFD) April 1, 2023No one was injured, according to the fire department. A cause for the blaze has not been announced.

Pop, Gasol, Hammon, Parker, Nowitzki, Wade heading to Hall

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:00 GMT

Tony Parker and Pau Gasol played for him. Becky Hammon coached alongside him. Dirk Nowitzki and Dwyane Wade waged battles against him.He is Gregg Popovich.And he, finally, is a Hall of Famer.The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame made it official Saturday, with three of the NBA’s all-time international greats — Nowitzki, Parker and Gasol — joining Wade, Hammon and Popovich as the headliners of the 2023 class that will be enshrined on Aug. 11 and 12 at ceremonies in Connecticut and Massachusetts.“This is basketball heaven,” Wade said on the ESPN telecast of the announcement in Houston. Also getting the Hall’s call: Jim Valvano, who coached North Carolina State to the 1983 NCAA title; the 1976 U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team; former Purdue coach Gene Keady, a seven-time Big Ten coach of the year; former Texas A&M women’s coach Gary Blair, who took two teams to the Final Four; longtime coach at Division III Amherst and two-time national champion David Hixon;...

Rodgers takes 3-shot lead into weekend at Texas Open

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:00 GMT

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Patrick Rodgers’ three-shot lead at the Valero Texas Open remained intact when the field completed the weather-delayed second round on Saturday. Rodgers, looking for his first PGA Tour victory and first Masters appearance, had completed rounds of 66-67 for 11-under Friday while much of the afternoon portion of the field could not finish due to darkness.Corey Conners, the 2019 Texas Open winner, turned in rounds of 64-72 on Friday and was 8-under.Mexico’s Roberto Diaz had reached 8-under on Saturday while playing the front at the TPC San Antonio Oaks Course as his second nine, but bogey on the par-5 8th dropped him into a tie at 7-under with two-time Tour winner Michael Thompson, Harry Higgs and Brendon Todd.The third round will be completed under clear skies Saturday.Thompson finished Friday with 4-under 68. On Saturday, Diaz turned in a 69, Higgs a 68 and Todd, a three-time Tour winner, finished off a 67.“It’s something I’ve always dreamt of,” Rodgers said Friday...

Maryland lawmakers reach deal on state budget

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:00 GMT

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers got passed their differences and reached a deal Friday on the state’s $62.5 billion budget that includes making major investments in prekindergarten through 12th grade education.In one major highlight, they agreed to allocate $900 million for future costs to the state’s huge pre-K-12 education funding reform law known as the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, a priority by the legislature that phases in larger amounts of funding in future years.The differences between the General Assembly’s two chambers related to a proposal in Gov. Wes Moore’s initial budget plan. The governor first proposed allocating an additional $500 million for the blueprint, while setting aside $500 million for unspecified transportation projects.The House shifted $400 million of the transportation funds to add to future blueprint funding, bringing the total additional blueprint money to $900 million. The Senate brought that down to $800 mil...

DC-based ‘gifting’ dispensaries will be able to get medical cannabis licenses

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:00 GMT

The legal purgatory that many D.C.-based marijuana “gifting” dispensaries live in will likely end thanks to a new law that took effect last week.The aim is to make it easier to get medical cannabis from a legal business that sells regulated products.More D.C. NewsMore Local NewsCurrently, well over 100 dispensaries will sell a sticker or T-shirt for $100 and then “gift” the customer an amount of cannabis that’s equivalent in value. It was a legal gray area, but now many of those companies are going to be able to get medical marijuana dispensary licenses.The Medical Cannabis Amendment Act of 2021 went into effect on March 22. It eliminates caps on the number of medical dispensaries, allowing many of the “gifting” brick-and-mortar and delivery services to apply for medical marijuana licenses.It also expands the types of licenses that retailers could apply for, including internet retailer and a courier license of deliveries of marijuana as well as “safe-use facility endorsement” ...

Kyiv accuses Orthodox Church leader of justifying Russia’s invasion

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:00 GMT

Ukrainian investigators are searching the home of Metropolitan Pavel Lebed, an Orthodox Church leader, who they accuse of justifying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and inciting inter-religious hatred. Ukraine’s security service (SBU) confirmed on Saturday that Pavel, who runs Ukraine’s most important monastery, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, is suspected of violating the country’s criminal code. Pavel “in his public speeches repeatedly insulted the religious feelings of Ukrainians, humiliated the views of believers of other denominations and tried to form hostile sentiments towards them,” said the SBU, which also published what it alleges are phone intercepts from Pavel’s sermons. He also “made statements that justified or denied the actions of the aggressor country,” according to the service. “Today, the enemy is trying to use the church environment to promote its propaganda and split Ukrainian society,” the SBU’s hea...

German compromise on gas and oil heating includes key exemptions

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:00 GMT

Germany’s ruling coalition on Friday evening reached a compromise on a controversial energy bill to ban the installation of new gas and oil-fired heating systems as of the start of next year, but the deal includes important exemptions and phase-in periods. According to the agreement, every newly installed heating system will have to be powered by 65 percent renewable energy starting January 1, 2024.The compromise contains a number of exemptions, introduces transition periods and includes dedicated financial support, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. The law will “bring about a mandatory switch to renewable heating,” Germany’s economy and construction ministries said. The coalition agreement on the details of the bill — which still needs to be submitted to the federal states for consultation and passed by the cabinet — comes after the government on Tuesday evening reached an agreement on its future climate policy following 30 hours of negotiations. Germany a...