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2 dead as severe storms, tornadoes move through central U.S.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

COLE, Okla. (AP) — Strong storms including tornadoes, winds and hail moved through parts of the Central U.S. on Wednesday, killing at least two people, causing injuries, destroying homes and leaving thousands without power.The National Weather Service began issuing tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings Wednesday evening in Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa with forecasters warning people to find shelter. Central Oklahoma saw multiple tornadoes, including one that raced through the communities of Shawnee and Cole Wednesday night. Authorities said at least two people were killed in the small town of Cole in McClain County and there also were injuries ranging from cuts and bruises to some requiring hospitalization, although the numbers weren’t immediately clear as hundreds of people fanned out in search operations.Power lines also were torn down, trees toppled and homes and other buildings badly damaged or destroyed. Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee and an airport received damag...

Hintz hat trick as Stars get even with 7-3 win over Wild

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

DALLAS (AP) — Roope Hintz scored a short-hander on Dallas’ first shot and added two more goals after that, Evgenii Dadonov scored twice and the Stars beat the Minnesota Wild 7-3 on Wednesday night to even the first-round series at a game each. Dadonov and Hintz each scored their second goals of the game in a 48-second span late in the second period for a 6-3 lead. That was the last of three pairs of quick scoring goals in that middle period — two by the Stars that sandwiched an even-quicker scoring duo by the Wild.Hintz, who also had an assist, secured his first career hat trick with a power-play goal with just under eight minutes left, when Miro Heiskanen got his fourth assist of the game. Hintz is the first player with a short-handed, power-play and even-strength goal in a playoff game since Tyler Johnson did it for Tampa Bay against the New York Rangers in 2015. The Dallas scoring onslaught came against three-time Stanley Cup champion goalie Marc-André Fleury, who got the s...

Bucks make 25 3s, beat Heat 138-122 without Antetokounmpo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — For at least one night, the Milwaukee Bucks didn’t miss Giannis Antetokounmpo at all.Brook Lopez scored 25 points, Jrue Holiday added 24 and the hot-shooting Bucks withstood Antetokounmpo’s absence while trouncing the Miami Heat 138-122 on Wednesday, tying their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series at a game apiece.Milwaukee shot 25 of 49 from 3-point range to match an NBA record for 3-pointers in a game as the Bucks showcased their depth by thriving without their two-time MVP. Pat Connaughton, who hadn’t even played in Game 1, scored a playoff career-high 22 points and shot 6 of 10 from beyond the arc.“Everyone’s ready,” Lopez said. “Everyone has the right mentality coming into the game — the mentality it takes to be a Milwaukee Buck. There’s no one above anyone else. We’re just out there trying to win.”Antetokounmpo remained out for Milwaukee after leaving the Bucks’ 130-117 Game 1 loss early in the second quarter with a brui...

La abogada del actor Jonathan Majors refuta las acusaciones de abuso: “Será totalmente exonerado”

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

(CNN) — Una abogada del actor Jonathan Majors refutó un nuevo informe de acusaciones de abuso por parte de la estrella de Marvel.Citando fuentes familiarizadas con el asunto, Variety informó este miércoles que otras presuntas víctimas de abusos se presentaron y están cooperando con la Oficina del Fiscal del Distrito de Manhattan después de que Majors fuera detenido y acusado de cargos de asalto y acoso en marzo tras una disputa doméstica en Nueva York.Al ser contactado por CNN este miércoles por la noche, un portavoz de la Fiscalía de Manhattan declinó hacer comentarios. CNN no ha podido confirmar de forma independiente que se hayan presentado más presuntas víctimas.Arrestan al actor Jonathan Majors por cargos de agresión en Nueva York, según la Policía“Jonathan Majors es inocente y no ha abusado de nadie”, dijo su abogada, Priya Chaudhry, en un comunicado enviado a CNN por correo electrónico. “Hemos proporcionado pruebas irrefutables al fiscal del distrito d...

Ferreira goal gives US 1-1 exhibition tie against Mexico

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Jesús Ferreira scored in the 81st minute on a counterattack that began when a Carlos Rodríguez’s shot hit off the crossbar, giving the United States a 1-1 tie against Mexico on Wednesday night in an exhibition missing most top players on both teams.Uriel Antuna scored off an American giveaway in the 55th minute. After Matt Miazga’s giveaway to Atuna led to Rodríguez’s shot off the crossbar, Miazga lofted the rebound from inside his penalty area to Sergiño Dest, who dribbled through the midfield and passed to Alan Soñora. Soñora sent the ball wide to Jordan Morris, who crossed toward a streaking Ferreira. Defender Luis Chávez tried to clear and the ball glanced off a foot to Ferreira, who directed the ball past onrushing goalkeeper Carlos Acevedo from 7 yards out for his eighth goal in 18 international appearances.Because the match was not on a FIFA international fixture date, just two Americans and three Mexicans started who had extensive playing t...

Murray has 40 points, Nuggets beat Timberwolves for 2-0 lead

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 40 points and Michael Porter Jr. had 13 of his 16 in the fourth quarter, powering the Denver Nuggets past the Minnesota Timberwolves 122-113 on Wednesday night for a 2-0 lead in the NBA playoff series.Nikola Jokic added 27 points, nine assists and nine rebounds for the Nuggets, who blew an early 21-point lead and trailed 89-87 heading into the fourth quarter.Anthony Edwards had 41 points for the Wolves, who shot a sizzling 81% in the third quarter to erase a 64-59 halftime deficit.Minnesota had shot just 39% in the first half, just slightly better than it did in a 29-point loss in the series opener Sunday night.“They shot 80% in the third quarter — 80%!” Denver coach Michael Malone fumed on TNT after watching the Timberwolves make 17 of 21 shots. “So, we didn't play any defense. That's what happened!”The series shifts to Minneapolis for Game 3 on Friday night.The Nuggets recovered during a thrilling fourth quarter that began with Porter sc...

Low tech makes cleaner water in Iowa; so what’s stopping it?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

SLATER, Iowa (AP) — Nick Helland’s central Iowa farm looks much like every other nearby farm on this chilly March day, with corn stubble stretching from a gravel road up over a low hill to the northern horizon.But look closely, and you can see patches of muddy ground where a few months ago crews buried low-tech systems called bioreactors and streamside buffers that filter fertilizer-borne nitrates from water as it drains from Helland’s field into nearby Big Creek and eventually the Des Moines River.The underground devices work. The question is whether one Iowa county’s promising new approach to an old problem can be expanded enough to finally address nitrate pollution that, for years, has endangered drinking water, made more than half the state’s waterways unfit for fish or humans, and fueled a giant dead zone nearly 1,000 miles away in the Gulf of Mexico.Polk County is doing it by making it painless for farmers — handling all the logistics and arrangements for the syste...

Warm Front To Swing Through And Pump Warm Air Into The Area—But Markedly Cooler Pattern For The Weekend

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

HUGE NORTH/SOUTH CHICAGO AREA TEMP SPREAD--FROM 40s NORTH LAKESHORE TO LOW 80S SOUTH SUBURBS (59 AT O'HARE)--BUT WARM FRONT TO SWING THROUGH AND PUMP WARM AIR INTO THE AREA--T-STORM CLUSTERS SPORADICALLY IN THU EVENING WITH 70s THURSDAY--BUT MARKEDLY COOLER PATTERN FOR THE WEEKEND AND BELOW NORMAL TEMP REGIME TO DOMINATE NEXT 2 WEEKSWEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SATELLITE VIEW OF THE LATEST SPRING STORM SYSTEM which is sending warmer air into Chicago overnight and Thursday:A CLUSTER OF HAIL GENERATING T-STORMS PORTIONS OF THE METRO AREA---generating reports of hailstones ranging in size of 0.75" to as much as 2" in diameter.The storms have flared as two very different air masses clash. Chicago area is bisected by a northbound warm front--with mid afternoon temps ranging from 41 at Waukegan Harbor, 42 at Kenosha, WI, 43 Lake Forest, 48 at the offshore Harrison-Dever Crib, 50 Waukegan and 54 at Belmont Harbor-----to 82 at Dwight, Kankakee, Peotone and Roselawn, IN. The near 80 deg temps had swe...

PHOTOS: Denver Nuggets top Minnesota Timberwolves 122-113 in NBA playoff Game 2

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

The Denver Nuggets hosted the Minnesota Timberwolves in game two of a best-of-seven first-round NBA playoff series at Ball Arena in Denver on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Denver won 122-113.Related ArticlesDenver Nuggets | Nuggets Podcast: Reactions to Game 1 of Denver-Minnesota, and looking ahead to Game 2 Denver Nuggets | Nuggets coach Michael Malone sends pointed message ahead of Game 2: We haven’t done anything yet Denver Nuggets | PHOTOS: Denver Nuggets trounce Minnesota Timberwolves in game 1 of first round NBA playoff series Denver Nuggets | Kiszla: These Nuggets are spicy and the T-Pups don’t have enough dawg to stay in this NBA playoff fight Denver Nuggets | Jamal Murray, Nuggets throttle T-Wolves in resounding Game 1 win

Michael Porter Jr.’s fourth-quarter eruption, Jamal Murray’s 40-point night give Nuggets 2-0 lead

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

Three-letter chants have been commonplace at Ball Arena this season, only this one sounded different.“M-P-J” boomed throughout the lower bowl in the fourth quarter of Wednesday night’s tense Game 2 playoff game in homage to Denver’s supremely talented sniper. Michael Porter Jr. dashed Minnesota’s hopes with an enthralling 13-point fourth quarter as the Nuggets survived, 122-113.Though Porter came alive in the fourth, Game 2 was Jamal Murray’s show. Without his stunning 40-point night, the Nuggets don’t head to Minnesota for Friday’s Game 3 up 2-0. Murray carved up the T-Wolves’ backcourt with six 3-point daggers and even more devastating dribble penetration as he went 13 of 22 from the field.“The kid is a warrior,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said, joking they’d need to carry Murray onto the plane to Minnesota after playing 39 minutes.If Game 1 was a reminder of Murray’s playoff credentials, Game 2 was a time capsule to his scoring eruptions in the Bubble.By...