KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr., widely considered the best prospect in baseball, has made the Kansas City roster and will start at third base in the Royals’ season opener against the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday at Kauffman Stadium. The move with the 21-year-old infielder was widely expected, especially after he hit well
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr., widely considered the best prospect in baseball, has made the Kansas City roster and will start at third base in the Royals’ season opener against the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday at Kauffman Stadium. The move with the 21-year-old infielder was widely expected, especially after he hit well
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Las fuertes tormentas que azotan el sur de Estados Unidos han dejado al menos una persona muerta, árboles caídos y líneas eléctricas y pueden haber generado tornados, con un clima más severo posible a medida que avanzan hacia el este. Más de 35 millones de personas estaban en algún nivel de
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar Tshiebwe of Kentucky has won the John R. Wooden Award as the men’s college basketball player of the year. The announcement was made Tuesday on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.” Tshiebwe led the nation with 515 total rebounds and 15.1 rebounds per game at 15.1. The 6-foot-9 center had the most rebounds in
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El máximo responsable militar de EE.UU. dijo este martes a los legisladores que el mundo se está volviendo más inestable y que el “potencial de un conflicto internacional significativo está aumentando, no disminuyendo”. El jefe del Estado Mayor Conjunto, el general Mark Milley, y el secretario de Defensa, Lloyd Austin, comparecieron
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By Dakin Andone, Amir Vera and Abby Bustin, CNN In the late 1980s and early 1990s, several women were murdered or sexually assaulted in a series of attacks at hotels along the Interstate 65 corridor in Kentucky and Indiana. First, Vicki Heath was found dead at a Super 8 Motel in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1987.
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By Katelyn Polantz and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has obtained a cache of emails that right-wing lawyer John Eastman had sought to keep secret. The 101 emails — exchanged between January 4 and January 7, 2021 — were released to the committee
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business JetBlue Tuesday made an unsolicited $3.6 billion offer for low-fare rival Spirit Airlines in an attempt to derail a proposed deal between Spirit and Frontier Airlines. JetBlue’s cash offer is about 33% more than the value of Frontier’s stock-and-cash offer for Spirit. Such a transaction would stop a combined Frontier
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By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two former investment executives arrested in Japan have been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison for their roles in a $1.5 billion international Ponzi scheme with 10,000 victims in the U.S. and abroad. Junzo Suzuki and his son, Paul Suzuki, apologized Tuesday before each
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Kansas’ comeback victory over North Carolina to win the NCAA men’s basketball championship was the most-viewed title game on cable television. The Jayhawks’ 72-69 win averaged 18.1 million viewers on TBS, TNT and truTV. That’s a 4 percent increase over last year’s title game between Baylor and Gonzaga on CBS. This
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Kansas’ comeback victory over North Carolina to win the NCAA men’s basketball championship was the most-viewed title game on cable television. The Jayhawks’ 72-69 win averaged 18.1 million viewers on TBS, TNT and truTV. That’s a 4 percent increase over last year’s title game between Baylor and Gonzaga on CBS. This
Continue Reading By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has lifted a curfew he had decreed less than a day earlier in the country’s capital and its main port in a bid to quell sometimes violent protests over rising fuel and food prices. Castillo had announced the surprise curfew and emergency
Continue Reading THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Punter Riley Dixon has signed with the Los Angeles Rams. Dixon joined the Super Bowl champions on Tuesday after spending the past four seasons with the New York Giants, posting the two highest single-season net punting averages in franchise history during his tenure. New York released him last month. The
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN NASA is still aiming for a June launch after a second attempt at a final test for its Artemis I mission to the moon was scrubbed on Monday. “We’re not ready to give up” on the June launch window, Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin told reporters in a Tuesday news conference.
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By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Byron Blunt and Daria Markina, CNN Oksana Kostychenko walks down a narrow pathway, leading to her back garden in Borodianka. The flower beds on one side are surprisingly well arranged, contrasting with the wanton destruction all around. Near her garden shed is the body of a man laying face-down with
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Macht Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — Sacramento community activist Berry Accius described Sunday’s deadly shooting in downtown Sacramento as another “senseless act of violence” in the city. Three men and three women were killed and 12 others shot after gunfire broke out around 2 a.m., police said.
Continue Reading Jesús Aguilar and the Miami Marlins have reached agreement on a one-year contract that guarantees him $7.5 million. The 31-year-old first baseman will get a $7.3 million salary this season. The deal includes a mutual option for 2023 with a $200,000 buyout. Aguilar hit 22 home runs with 93 RBIs and batted .261 for the
Continue Reading JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s GOP-led House is advancing a state spending plan for the upcoming budget year. House lawmakers on Tuesday fine-turned the budget, which still needs several votes of approval to move to the Senate. Democrats say Republicans are being too stingy in spending billions of dollars in federal funding. But Republicans
Continue ReadingBy Elijah Westbrook, Kevin Rincon Click here for updates on this story New York (WCBS) — An innocent woman is dead after she was shot Monday in front of a bodega in the Bronx. Police said Juana Esperanza Soriano De-Perdomo was struck when two groups started firing at each other. It’s the latest incident of
Continue ReadingBy Ali Bauman Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — A child fell out of a sixth story window and survived Tuesday. As CBS2’s Ali Bauman reports, the child was conscious and alert when police officers rushed the child to Lincoln Hospital in their patrol car. He is expected to survive.
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