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Fox, Kings beat Warriors 114-106 for 2-0 lead; Green ejected

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:57:00 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — De’Aaron Fox scored 24 points and made a backbreaking 3-pointer that led the playoff newcomer Sacramento Kings to a second straight victory over the defending champion Golden State Warriors, 114-106 on Monday night.The Kings closed the game strong after Golden State’s Draymond Green was ejected for a flagrant foul and became the first team to take a 2-0 series lead over the Warriors in the Stephen Curry era.The Warriors will try to get back into this Western Conference series when it shifts less than 90 miles southwest to San Francisco for Game 3 on Thursday night.The game got heated in the fourth quarter when Green stomped on Domantas Sabonis’ chest with 7:03 to play, leading to an ejection for a flagrant foul.Fox’s 3-pointer made it 107-101 with 2:17 to play and the Kings were in control from there. Sabonis added 24 points for Sacramento and Malik Monk scored 18 off the bench.Curry led the Warriors with 28 points but made just 3 of 13 from 3-point range a...

Kings beat Warriors 114-106 to take 2-0 series lead

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:57:00 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — De’Aaron Fox scored 24 points and made a backbreaking 3-pointer that led the playoff newcomer Sacramento Kings to a second straight victory over the defending champion Golden State Warriors, 114-106 on Monday night.The Kings closed the game strong after Golden State’s Draymond Green was ejected for a flagrant foul and became the first team to take a 2-0 series lead over the Warriors in the Stephen Curry era.The Warriors will try to get back into the series when it shifts less than 90 miles southwest to San Francisco for Game 3 on Thursday night. The game got heated in the fourth quarter when Green stomped on Domantas Sabonis’ chest with 7:03 to play, leading to an ejection for a flagrant foul.During the review, the fans in Sacramento yelled derogatory chants toward Green, who egged them on by waving his hands, holding a hand to his ear calling for louder cheers and standing on a chair. The Warriors fought back to tie the game before the Ki...

Patrick Wisdom hits 2 more homers as Cubs pound Athletics

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:57:00 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Patrick Wisdom hit two more homers and drove in four runs, leading Hayden Wesneski and the Chicago Cubs to a 10-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Monday night.Wisdom, who played at nearby Saint Mary’s College, connected for a solo drive in the second inning and a three-run shot in the eighth. He has five homers during a four-game streak and eight homers on the season, tied for the big league lead.Ian Happ added three RBIs and Cody Bellinger had a career-high five hits as the Cubs won for the eighth time in 11 games. Wesneski (1-0) pitched seven innings of one-run ball after struggling in his first two starts of the season.Chicago finished with a season-high 20 hits in its first game in Oakland since 2016.Oakland left-hander Kyle Muller (0-1) was tagged for six runs and 13 hits in four innings. The Athletics lost their fifth game in a row. They dropped to 3-14, matching the 1951 and ’56 teams for the worst 17-game start in franchise history.Oakland jumped...

Suprema Corte de México prohíbe escuchas telefónicas sin autorización judicial

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:57:00 GMT

(CNN) — La Suprema Corte de Justicia de México informó este lunes a través de un comunicado que invalida los preceptos de interceptaciones telefónicas sin autorización judicial.La Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) dijo que el decreto por el que se reformaron, adicionaron y derogaron diversas disposiciones del Código de Justicia Militar (CJM) y se expidió el Código Militar de Procedimientos Penales (CMPP) no establecían si la intervención de comunicaciones solo podía efectuarse respecto de militares o si también implicaba las de civiles.Suprema Corte de México otorga suspensión contra reforma electoral de López ObradorEl máximo tribunal mexicano también dijo que invalida la facultad que posibilitaba a los militares efectuar cateos en residencias u oficinas públicas de cualquiera de los tres poderes de gobierno, así como de organismos constitucionales autónomos debido a que permitía a la autoridad militar ejercer medidas restrictivas que impactaban a las personas civ...

Draymond Green ejected from playoff game for flagrant foul

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:57:00 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was ejected from a playoff game after stomping on the chest of Sacramento’s Domantas Sabonis.The play happened in the fourth quarter of Game 2 of the first-round playoff series on Monday night after Stephen Curry grabbed a defensive rebound.With the Warriors pushing the ball up court and Sabonis on the ground, Green took a hard step right on Sabonis’ chest. Sabonis stayed down for a a few minutes as the officials reviewed the play. Sabonis was called for a technical foul for grabbing Green’s leg and Green was given a flagrant-2 foul that led to an automatic ejection.During the review, the fans in Sacramento yelled derogatory chants toward Green, who egged them on by waving his hands, holding a hand to his ear calling for louder cheers and standing on a chair. This isn’t the first playoff infraction for Green, who got suspended for one game during the 2016 Finals after accumulating too many...

Brewers stay hot, top Mariners 7-3, but concern about Burnes

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:57:00 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Corbin Burnes pitched 5 1/3 innings before leaving with an apparent injury, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Seattle Mariners 7-3 on Monday night for their fourth win in five games. While the Brewers continued to find success on the West Coast the immediate concern was the status of their staff ace. The 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner had just recorded the first out of the sixth inning on Julio Rodríguez long fly out to center field. Burnes (2-1) turned toward the Milwaukee dugout and summoned an athletic trainer and manager Craig Counsell and was removed from the game.Burnes appeared to be pointing at his chest as he spoke with Milwaukee’s staff.Burnes allowed two runs on three hits with three strikeouts. One of those runs scored immediately after he left the game as Ty France’s RBI double scored J.P. Crawford.In his previous start Burnes threw eight shutout innings against Arizona.Seattle starter Chris Flexen (0-3) threw six innings for Seattle, but it was the secon...

Douglas County School District settles lawsuit with former superintendent 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:57:00 GMT

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- Monday, FOX31 learned lawyers for former Douglas County School District superintendent Corey Wise agreed on a settlement of more than $830,000 with the district’s insurance company, Colorado School Districts Self-Insurance Pool.Wise told our team he feels vindicated but that’s not all he’s feeling.  “My whole career was in Douglas County schools, so it still hurts,” he said.This is in response to Wise’s controversial firing in February 2022, in a 4-3 vote led by the board’s elected conservative majority. The firing led to protests, district-wide walk-outs, and even a staged sickout, which included hundreds of teachers.  “The purpose of this charge was to show those actions were discriminatory and that’s not ok,” Wise explained. Protestors call for resignation of Denver Public Schools board Discriminatory actions laid out in a multi-page civil rights lawsuit filed last year, which also alleged his advocacy for masks in the district during the pandem...

Wind advisory in effect for San Diego County mountains, deserts

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:57:00 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Parts of San Diego County are under a wind advisory, with some areas expected to see gusts up to 60 miles and hour.The wind advisory is in effect for the mountains and deserts areas until Wednesday morning.“Lot of dust mostly and everything flying,” Boulevard resident Pat McDuffy said. “Look out for flying objects.”West winds are expected to blow from 25 to 35 miles an hour with gusts up to 60 mph.They are expected to be strongest in the deserts and eastern slopes of the mountains.The driver from Boulevard knows it all too well.“It gets up to 100 miles an hour. It’ll take the shingles off your roof if you’re not careful,” McDuffy said. Ready for a challenge? Here are the hardest hikes in San Diego Gusty winds could blow objects around your home.Neighbors warn to hunker down anything that can blow away in your yards. Beware of any tree limbs or debris that can fly into the roadways.“Feel a lot of sound from the wind gusting like outdoors,” Descanso resident Alf Sc...

Massive landslide buries trucks in northwestern Pakistan

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:57:00 GMT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A massive landslide struck a key highway in northwestern Pakistan near the border town of Torkham before dawn Tuesday, burying several trucks and injuring some people, police and rescue officials said.Police official Ishrat Khan said dozens of firefighters and rescuers were trying to save truck drivers and other people hit by the landslide, near the Afghan border. Officials said the landslide was triggered by lightning amid rain. He said the injured were being transported to a nearby hospital. Volunteers have also joined the search for survivors. Authorities dispatched heavy machinery to Torkham to try and remove the massive mudslide, Khan said.The Torkham border crossing is a trade route between Pakistan and Afghanistan and a location where landslides often block highways, especially in the mountainous areas. Last summer, floods caused by monsoon rains killed 1,739 people in Pakistan.The Associated Press

Suspected shooting attack in Jerusalem wounds 2 Israeli men

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:57:00 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — A suspected shooting attack by a Palestinian gunman in Jerusalem on Tuesday left two Israeli men wounded, police said. It was the latest in a year-long cycle of violence that shows no sign of abating after weeks of heightened tensions around Jerusalem during the overlap of the Jewish holiday of Passover and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.Israeli police were searching for the suspected attacker who fled the scene in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The two wounded, who were shot while inside a vehicle, were treated for moderate gunshot wounds.Tensions in Israel and the occupied West Bank soared weeks after an Israeli police raid on Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, the compound home to the Al-Aqsa mosque. The mosque sits on a contested hilltop known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, revered as the third-holiest site in Islam and the holiest site in Judaism. Earlier this month, the Israeli military struck sites l...