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Cubs minor league pitcher suspended for performance enhancer use

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:56 GMT

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball suspended one of the Cubs' minor league pitchers on Tuesday, and it comes down to the use of a banned substance. Dalbert Mosquea, who is pitching for the Cubs' rookie team in the Dominican Summer League, was given a 56-game suspension without pay after testing positive for Stanozolol. This was announced just ahead of the big league club's start of their City Series with the White Sox at Wrigley Field.Use of that performance-enhancing substance is a violation of MLB's Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.The 18-year-old pitcher was signed by the club as a free agent on June 29, first assigned to the DSL Cubs Red team before joining their DSL Blue team. In nine games with that squad, Mosquea had a 3.14 ERA in 14 1/3 innings with 23 strikeouts compared to three walks with a WHIP of 1.05.

Cubs right-hander Marcus Stroman dealing with some right rib discomfort

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:56 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Cubs right-hander Marcus Stroman is dealing with some right rib discomfort, delaying his return from the injured list.Stroman was placed on the 15-day IL on Aug. 2 with right hip inflammation. The All-Star was slated to start Wednesday against the White Sox, but manager David Ross said Stroman had some discomfort in the rib area after throwing a bullpen session Sunday in Toronto.“Concern is just ... we’ve got to wait and see,” Ross said Tuesday.Read more: Latest Chicago news headlinesThe Cubs said Stroman was getting checked out for the issue, and there was no further update. Javier Assad “more than likely” will start the series finale against the South Siders, Ross said.

Austin's 39-day streak of consecutive 100° days is the longest in recorded history

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:56 GMT

Editor’s Note: The video above shows the latest from the KXAN First Warning Weather team.AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin is currently experiencing the longest stretch of triple-digit heat in recorded history.Camp Mabry, Austin's official weather reporting site, has reached 100° or hotter every day since July 8.That means temperatures have reached the century mark for 39 days in a row. With records dating back to the 1890s, that's the longest stretch of triple-digit temperatures ever recorded in Austin. MORE HEAT RECORDS: What is Austin's hottest month ever? The previous record of 27 days was set between July 17 and Aug. 12, 2011. That summer went on to have a record-breaking 90 days of triple-digit heat. How often does Austin hit 100°? Here’s a breakdown by date, month, year and decade Meanwhile, an 18-day streak is underway at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, with temperatures hitting 100° or above every day since July 29. That ties as the fourth-longest of all time.An ...

Mobile morgue arrives to assist in identification of confirmed dead in Maui wildfires

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:56 GMT

By CLAIRE RUSH, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER (Associated Press)LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — A mobile morgue unit arrived Tuesday to help Hawaii officials working painstakingly to identify the 99 people confirmed killed in wildfires that ravaged Maui, and officials expected to release the first list of names even as teams intensified the search for more dead in neighborhoods reduced to ash.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services deployed a team of coroners, pathologists and technicians along with exam tables, X-ray units and other equipment to identify victims and process remains, said Jonathan Greene, the agency’s deputy assistant secretary for response.“It’s going to be a very, very difficult mission,” Greene said. “And patience will be incredibly important because of the number of victims.”A week after a blaze tore through historic Lahaina, many survivors started moving into hundreds of hotel rooms set aside for displaced locals while donations of food, ice, wa...

Vigil, memorial tree planned to honor Stacy teen killed in Forest Lake

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:56 GMT

Friends and family members of Darisha Bailey Vath will gather Wednesday night at Lakeside Park in Forest Lake to mark the one-month anniversary of her hit-and-run death.Vath, 17, of Stacy, Minn., was killed July 16 when prosecutors say she was intentionally run over during a fight between two groups of people in the parking lot of the park in downtown Forest Lake.Darisha Vath (Courtesy of GoFundMe)The candlelight vigil, which will begin at 7 p.m., will include music and readings. It is open to anyone who wants to pay their respects, said Sarath Vath, Darisha’s mother.“She was loved. She still is loved,” Sarath Vath said. “She was beautiful inside and out. She loved helping people, and she loved helping animals. She was just becoming.”Vath plans to read a letter her daughter wrote before she died; Vath found the note stored in her daughter’s phone after her death, she said. “This is what she wrote: ‘This summer I want to celebrate and have so much fun – as much fun as I can,’” Darish...

Gov. Walz: Tax rebates to start going out this week

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:56 GMT

Minnesotans could see tax rebates, worth as much as $1,300 per household, hitting their bank accounts later this week with more than two million payments expected to be send out by the end of September.Gov. Tim Walz is expected to formally announce the rebate checks have started to be distributed Wednesday at the Capitol in St. Paul during a back-to-school event with Paul Marquart, state revenue commissioner, parents and students.Direct deposits could be received by some taxpayers later this week and paper checks will be mailed later.All rebates should be sent to eligible taxpayers by the end of September, according to the governor’s office.To qualify, single filers must have $75,000 or less in income and couples must have earned $150,000 or less. Individual filers will get $260 and couples filing together $520 with an additional $260 for each dependent for a maximum rebate of $1,300.The state Department of Revenue will use 2021 adjusted gross income, line 1 on most state inco...

American Airlines passenger service workers picketing for better pay

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:56 GMT

ST. LOUIS – Passenger service employees at American Airlines and members of the Communications Workers of America-International Brotherhood of Teamsters Association held an informational picket at St. Louis-Lambert International Airport on Tuesday to demand a new bargaining agreement.“We just want to be appreciated,” CWA Chief Shop Steward Carleton Smith said. “Fair contract, job security, things that we all want here in America.”Workers said negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement have stalled for 10 months.They want a contract that guarantees job security, worker safety, adequate pay, and better working conditions.“We need a contract,” said Arianna Gray, a customer service representative. “We haven’t had a contract in four years, and as much as we do for this company, we need to get things negotiated.” Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Daily News ...

2 Missouri moms charged with misdemeanors for children's absences lose their court battle

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:56 GMT

LEBANON, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law criminalizing parents whose children miss school, ruling against two mothers charged in their young children's tardiness.Prosecutors charged two moms from Lebanon, Missouri, with misdemeanors and the mothers then went to the state Supreme Court to challenge the law’s constitutionality.One mother was sentenced to a week in county jail for her first-grade daughter’s nine unexcused absences in the 2021 school year. Another was sentenced to two years of probation for her kindergartener’s seven unexcused absences that year. Road rage mystery solved as ghost driver gets prison time Missouri law requires K-12 students to attend school “on a regular basis.” A public defender for the mothers argued the law is unconstitutionally vague.Supreme Court judges disagreed, ruling that regular attendance means going to school when it is in session.Judges wrote that school officials can excuse an absence for menta...

Texas detention officer arrested in Riverside deadly hit-and-run crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:56 GMT

A man who worked as a detention officer in Texas has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in Riverside last week.Giovanni Ceja, 31, was arrested in Bexar County, Texas Monday and is awaiting extradition on suspicion of murder, manslaughter with gross intoxication, DUI causing injury and hit-and-run, according to the California Highway Patrol.Ceja, of San Antonio, Texas, resigned after being taken into custody, the San Antonio Express-News reported.The incident occurred around 1:45 a.m. Aug. 7 along the 215 Freeway east of the 91 Freeway, according to the CHP. CHP investigating deadly Riverside hit-and-run A preliminary investigation revealed that Ceja allegedly allowed his truck to drift into the right shoulder, striking a 38-year-old man who was fueling his disabled vehicle on the right shoulder of the highway.The victim died at the scene and Ceja allegedly drove away.A relative had taken fuel to the victim after he had run out of gas and ...

Firearm homicide rate in California 33% lower than national average, report finds

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:56 GMT

The newly formed California Department of Justice’s Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP) released a first-of-its-kind Gun Violence Prevention Data Report Tuesday, state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced. According to the OGVP, the report helps highlight the policies that are working and where more work is needed.  There are more than 116 gun deaths per day across the United States, but on Tuesday, AG Bonta said his office is working to bring that number down.  “We chose to change the trajectory of where we’ve been and to end the gun violence epidemic,” said Bonta, alongside local leaders outside Homeboy Industries.Formed in September of last year, the OGVP’s new data-driven report shows that California’s homicide rate is 33% below the rest of the country.  “If the national gun death rate matched California’s gun death rate over the last ten years, nearly 140,000 Americans who have died from gun violence would still be with us today,” Bonta said.  The report cla...