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Lonzo Ball promises ‘I’m coming back’ while shooting down Stephen A. Smith report — but isn’t expected to play for Chicago Bulls this season

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:52 GMT

Lonzo Ball delivered an emphatic message Tuesday as reports continue to fill doubt surrounding the Chicago Bulls guard’s ability to return from a left knee injury: “I’m coming back.”Ball posted a video on social media in response to a report by ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, who claimed on Tuesday’s edition of “First Take” that Ball is still struggling to stand up five months after his third operation to address the knee injury.“I’m incredibly, incredibly sad for Lonzo,” Smith said. “It’s really sad what happened to him. Something went wrong in terms of these procedures that he has had. I don’t think he’ll ever be the same based off of what we’re seeing and hearing. I’ve heard that it’s even hard for him to get up from the sitting position.”Ball’s response was delivered poolside from his home in Los Angeles while standing and sitting repeatedly from a chair on his injure...

Stolen motorhome located with East County license plate-reading cameras

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:52 GMT

EL CAJON, Calif. — A man was arrested after a stolen motorhome was located by license plate-reading cameras in El Cajon, authorities said.On Friday, the c says officers received a "Flock Safety alert" around 3 p.m. which detected a motorhome that had been reported stolen.The motorhome was located  at 181 N Second St. in El Cajon shortly after, and police say the driver -- 59-year-old Gordon Appleton -- was arrested. Motorcyclist seriously injured after colliding with vehicle The suspect, a transient man who police say was previously arrested for stealing gas and for damaging/tampering with a vehicle, was recently released from jail on Aug. 15 on supervised probation.Appleton was, once again, booked into jail and is currently awaiting his court appearance, according to the authorities.ECPD says the automated license plate reading cameras, which were approved by San Diego city officials earlier this month, served as an instrumental tool in this vehicle theft case. Forty of these su...

San Diego Lifeguards cracking down on illegal boats, jet skis in Mission Bay

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:52 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Lifeguards are cracking down on illegal jet ski rentals following the death of a 12-year-old girl who was killed while paddle boarding in Mission Bay. The girl was hit by a jet skier near De Anza Cove three weeks ago. city officials are now targeting unlicensed jet ski rentals as a part of an ongoing enforcement effort to create a safer Mission Bay.  “We have to achieve it through enforcement, but also education is the best way,” said James Gartland, Chief of the San Diego Lifeguards. SNAP changes coming Sept. 1 He says one of the big issues with wave runners is their counterintuitive control system that can confuse new riders.  “If you are not under throttle, there’s no steer and there’s no brakes," explained Chief Gartland. "So it can be challenging for any new person using one of those skis."Lifeguards say there are currently several companies who are renting out watercraft legally, and they go through all the training prior to renting out their ski...

Motorcyclist seriously injured after colliding with vehicle

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:52 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A motorcyclist was seriously injured Tuesday after colliding with vehicle in San Pasqual, authorities said.A 26-year-old man was riding a BMW S1000 motorcycle northbound around 2 p.m. at 13900 San Pasqual Rd. when for unknown reasons the motorcycle crossed over into the southbound lanes of the roadway, the San Diego Police Department explained. San Diego Lifeguards cracking down on illegal boats, jet skis in Mission Bay At that same time, police say a 46-year-old man was driving a Toyota RAV4 southbound on San Pasqual Road. The Toyota collided with the motorcycle, ejecting the rider. According to SDPD, the rider sustained injuries to his left leg and internal organs. He was transported by ambulance to a local hospital with life threatening injruies. SDPD's Traffic Division units responded to the scene and are handling the investigation. Anyone with information related to the incident is encouraged to call Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.

Stock market today: Wall Street drifts higher ahead of pivotal profit report from Nvidia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:52 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting Wednesday ahead of a profit report that could show whether the frenzy this year around artificial-intelligence technology is deserved or overdone.The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in early trading and holding steadier for now amid what’s been a dismal August. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 73 points, or 0.2%, at 34,362, as of 9:43 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% higher. Advance Auto Parts rallied 3.5% for one of the larger gains in the S&P 500. It named a new CEO and stronger revenue for the spring than analysts expected, though its profit fell short.Foot Locker tumbled 34.8% after reporting weaker profit for the latest quarter than expected. It also paused its dividend and cut its financial forecasts for the full year, describing a “still-tough consumer backdrop.”The market’s main event for the day will come after trading ends, when Nvidia will report how much it made during the spring. Expectations are immense...

Uffizi director calls for harsh sanctions against vandals who defaced Vasari Corridor columns

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:52 GMT

MILAN (AP) — The director of Florence’s Uffizi Galleries called Wednesday for stiff penalties against vandals who spray-painted graffiti on exterior columns of the Varsari Corridor connecting the famed museum to the Boboli Gardens.Political and cultural leaders condemned the graffiti, the latest in a summer of high-profile acts of vandalism targeting Italian monuments, including the Colosseum in Rome and Milan’s landmark Vittorio Emmanuele II Galleria. Italian police were examining video to identify those responsible for the Vasari Corridor graffiti, which appeared overnight on the Arno River-facing side of the nearly kilometer-long (half-mile-long) corridor.“Clearly this is not a drunken whim, but a premeditated act,’’ Uffizi director Eike Schmidt said in a statement. He called for harsh sanctions against those responsible, saying that in the United States such cases could bring a prison term of five years.“Enough with symbolic punishments and imaginative extenuating circumst...

India lands a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, a first for the world as it joins elite club

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:52 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Wednesday made history as it became the first country in the world to land its spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, an uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water, and the fourth country to achieve a moon landing. A lander with a rover inside touched down on the lunar surface at 6:04 local time, sparking cheers and applause among the space scientists watching in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru. After a failed attempt in 2019, India now joins the United States, the Soviet Union and China in reaching this milestone. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi watched the historic landing from South Africa, where he is participating in the BRICS nations summit. “India is now on the moon. India has reached the south pole of the moon — no other country has achieved that. We are witnessing history,” Modi said as he waved the Indian tri-colored flag. India’s successful landing comes just days after Russia’s Luna-25, which ...

Rogers launches 5G network in Toronto subway, Bell and Telus left out for now

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:52 GMT

TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc. has rolled out its high-speed 5G wireless service to its own customers in core parts of Toronto’s downtown subway network, as it continues to feud with the other major carriers over access for all transit riders.The company said it has also upgraded the cellular network to provide all subway riders with more reliable access to 911 service in the same areas.Rogers chief executive Tony Staffieri called the launch an important milestone.“We’re working hard to modernize and expand the network so all riders can reliably access 911 and connect to 5G everywhere across the subway system, including underground,” he said in a statement.As of Wednesday, Rogers says its customers can connect to its 5G network while in the Line 1 stations and tunnels in the Downtown U from Union Station north to St. George and Bloor-Yonge, plus Spadina and Dupont stations.Users will also be able to access the 5G network in 13 stations on Line 2 from Keele to...

Climate change may force more farmers and ranchers to consider irrigation — at a steep cost

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:52 GMT

The Texas ranch where Gilda Jackson trains and sells horses has been plagued by grasshoppers this year, a problem that only gets worse when the hatch quickens in times of heat and drought. Jackson watched this summer as the insects chewed through a 35-acre pasture she badly needs for hay; what they didn’t destroy, the sun burned up.Irrigation might have saved Jackson’s hay, but she and her husband rejected the idea about 10 years ago over the cost: as much as $75,000 for a new well and all the equipment. But now — with an extended drought and another U.S. heat wave this week that will broil her land about an hour northwest of Dallas for days under 100-degree-plus temperatures — Jackson said she is “kind of rethinking.”Many other farmers and ranchers in the U.S. might be forced to do the same in coming decades, according to recent research into the expected effects of the rising heat and more frequent weather extremes associated with climate change.That’s if they ev...

Giuliani is expected to turn himself in on Georgia 2020 election indictment charges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:52 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Rudy Giuliani is expected to turn himself in at a jail in Atlanta on Wednesday on charges related to efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.The former New York mayor was indicted last week along with Trump and 17 others. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said they participated in a wide-ranging conspiracy to subvert the will of the voters after the Republican president lost to Democrat Joe Biden in November 2020. Giuliani faces charges related to his work as a lawyer for Trump after the general election.“I’m feeling very, very good about it because I feel like I am defending the rights of all Americans, as I did so many times as a United States attorney,” Giuliani told reporters as he left his apartment in New York on Wednesday, adding that he is “fighting for justice” and has been since he first started representing Trump.Trump, the early front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidentia...