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Player of the Week: Clarksburg’s Genevieve Gleason

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:25:05 GMT

Each week, WTOP is picking one student athlete to be featured on air and online as our Player of the Week. This week’s WTOP Player of the Week is Genevieve Gleason of Clarksburg High School in Maryland.Genevieve has excelled on and off the field this year as a senior at Clarksburg. As a softball captain this year, she has a 9-1 record with a .059 earned run average. She has thrown two no-hitters and five shutouts while striking out 119 in 53 innings. In her latest outing this week, she had six strikeouts in seven innings.Pitching is only one part of her game. At the plate she’s having an all-star season, batting .529 with 27 hits, including nine doubles and a triple. She’s also driven in 13 runs.Clarksburg is currently ranked 11th in the state of Maryland with a 13-1 overall record and in first place in the region with a 5-0 record.Genevieve has also taken an active role at her school off the field, as she is involved with the student ambassadors, National Honor So...

Shooting in Dania Beach leaves 2 dead, 1 injured

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:25:05 GMT

The Broward Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that occurred on Thursday in the 800 block of Stirling Road in Dania Beach. According to officials, the incident resulted in the death of two individuals and left one person injured.The incident was reported to Broward Regional Communications at approximately 11:14 p.m. Deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue arrived at the scene to find three individuals with gunshot wounds. Two of the victims were pronounced dead on the scene, while the third was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment.One witness, who worked at a taco stand inside the 7-Eleven where the shooting happened, spoke to 7News and said the gunman started shooting before he walked into the store.“He shot someone in the neck, then he went inside and started shooting,” said the witness. “He killed an 11-year-old boy and then he just killed himself. He shot [the boy] in the head once and then when he hit the floor, [the shooter] went &#...

One More Dry Day Ahead this Friday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:25:05 GMT

The beautiful stretch of weather this week continues this Friday to round out the work week. It’s been dry, hot and sunny all week long and that story will hold true for one more day today until rain chances increase this weekend.Expect mostly sunny skies this Friday paired with a developing ocean breeze out of the east. This wind direction opposed to the northerly wind on Thursday will introduce more humidity and will keep temperatures warm and a couple degrees above average into the mid to upper 80s. Rain chances will remain very low at a near-0% chance due to high pressure still in control but that will change by the weekend.On Saturday, the day will start off mostly dry but then some spotty showers and an isolated thunderstorm are expected to develop in the afternoon. Rain will favor inland areas with the highest chances to our west, but a shower could still impact coastal portions of Miami-Dade and Broward. The Florida Keys overall should remain mostly dry. This is as a r...

Massive split in Russian military forces as Wagner vows to quit Bakhmut on May 10

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:25:05 GMT

KYIV — The war of words between Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Russian defense ministry escalated on Friday, with the paramilitary group’s financier filming himself raging at Moscow and threatening to pull out of the key battleground town of Bakhmut.In a statement published by Prigozhin’s press service, Wagner commanders accused Russia’s defense ministry of artificially creating shell shortages for their mercenaries and causing mass casualties. Wagner’s statement accuses the Kremlin of being jealous of its forces’ successes on the front lines, particularly after defense ministry units were forced to retreat from Kharkiv and Kherson during Ukraine’s September 2022 counteroffensive.“We were supposed to take Bakhmut by May 9. And knowing that, military bureaucrats almost completely cut our shell supplies on May 1,” the statement claimed.Wagner’s statement was released several hours after Prigozhin ...

‘I wouldn’t wish this on anybody’: Best friend of worker killed in in explosion at Newburyport chemical plant speaks out

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:25:05 GMT

Family members and friends are mourning after one person was killed and several others were injured when a massive explosion tore through a chemical plant in Newburyport early Thursday morning.“It’s horrible, it’s terrible,” said the victim’s best friend Billy Carter. “I wouldn’t wish this on anybody.” Carter said his friend of nearly 50 years, Jack O’Keefe, was the person who died in Thursday’s blast. Carter and O’Keefe, he said, are the godfathers to each other’s children.“We did everything together,” Carter said. Firefighters from multiple communities responded to what grew to be a seven-alarm incident Thursday, after multiple reports of an explosion just before 1 a.m.Crews said an industrial-sized vat from inside the building was launched 30 feet because of the explosion and was found in the parking lot as crews arrived.Officials said four injured workers were taken to the hospital, where they were treated and released. One remained missing.In an update, officials sai...

Orioles bench bat Ryan O’Hearn has bought into his sporadic role, one he believes can keep him in the majors

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:25:05 GMT

Ryan O’Hearn’s job, most days, is to sit on the bench and wait.The Orioles’ first baseman gets the occasional start against a right-handed starting pitcher. But usually his role is as a bench bat, a left-handed hitter at manager Brandon Hyde’s disposal to pinch hit against a right-handed reliever.The role isn’t new for O’Hearn, who spent the past few years in Kansas City as a bench bat for the Royals. It’s not the job O’Hearn wants, but it’s one he’s learned to accept — and even joke about.“We were joking earlier about if I was gonna get a statue over there,” O’Hearn said, recalling a conversation he had with his former teammates earlier this week. “I said, ‘Yeah, maybe on that bench over there they could put a statue for me.’”O’Hearn spent the first nine years of his professional career in the Royals organization and most of the previous five campaigns in the big league...

Stock market today: Global markets up ahead of US jobs data

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:25:05 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets were mostly higher Friday ahead of a U.S. jobs update amid worries about the health of banks under pressure from interest rate hikes.London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Wall Street futures advanced. Shanghai declined. Markets in Japan and South Korea were closed for holidays. Oil prices advanced.The U.S. government was due to report April employment data that are expected to show a slowdown in job growth. Investors hope more signs the economy is weakening might prompt the Federal Reserve to call off possible additional rate hikes to cool inflation.“We estimate a slowdown in net job growth and tick up in the unemployment rate,” said Rubeela Farooqi of High Frequency Economics in a report.In early trading, the FTSE 100 in London rose 0.4% to 7,733.23. The DAX in Frankfurt gained 0.3% to 15,785.07 and the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.4% to 7,368.51.On Wall Street, the future for the benchmark S&P 500 index was up 0.3%. That for the Dow Jones Industrial A...

Yeezy shoes still stuck in limbo after Adidas split with Ye

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:25:05 GMT

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Adidas saw operating earnings dwindle in the first three months of the year as the German sportswear company’s breakup with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West and his popular Yeezy shoe brand cost it 400 million euros ($441 million) in lost sales. The company is stuck with 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) worth of unsold Yeezy shoes after cutting ties in October with the rapper now known as Ye over his antisemitic and other offensive comments on social media and in interviews.Adidas was “getting closer and closer to making a decision” on what do to with the sneakers stacked up in warehouses and “options are narrowing,” new CEO Bjorn Gulden said Friday in a conference call. But with “so many interested parties” involved in the discussions, no decision had yet been reached, he said.Gulden declined to say if destroying the shoes had been ruled out, but the company was “trying to avoid that.” He has previously said that other options have drawbacks: ...

Superintendent: Kingston student injured in 'attack'

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:25:05 GMT

KINGSTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A Kingston High School student is recovering in the hospital after an attack Wednesday afternoon, according to an online statement from Superintendent Paul J. Padalino. It happened in the school's cafeteria, and lasted only 18 seconds, Padalino said. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! "This act was reprehensible and unacceptable," he added. "The students involved are being held accountable and will be subject to not only our code of conduct, but also legal avenues."School security responded within seconds; the statement read. A lunch monitor and custodian, who are certified EMTs, then rushed to help. Latham man pleads guilty to 2022 stabbing "911 was called and a hold-in-place was issued while first responders cared for the victim," Padalino said. "The victim is currently in the hospital."As of Thursday afternoon, the victim remained in the hospital. Their condition is improving, Padalino noted. ...

Moldovan ex-prime minister charged over airport concession

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:25:05 GMT

Former Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leancă was charged on Tuesday (2 May) with abuse of authority over a deal that handed control of the main airport of the country to a businessman in exile.Veronica Dragalin is the head of Moldova’s anti-corruption prosecutor office. She said that a former minister of economy and six other officials were also facing similar charges in a case she said was referred to court.She told a press conference in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, that all the accused had pleaded innocent.The 2013 concession gave control of the Chisinau International Airport to a company affiliated with businessman and politician Ilan Shor. He fled Moldova after Maia Sandu was elected pro-Western president in 2019.A court of appeal ruled in November last year that the airport's control should be returned to the state.