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Man dies after Saturday night shooting in Oakland

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:35:13 GMT

(KRON) -- A man died after a shooting Saturday night in Oakland, the Oakland Police Department confirmed. The shooting happened just before 11 p.m. on the 6200 block of International Boulevard. OPD arrived at the scene and found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He died at the scene. His identity is not being released at this time.No arrests have been made in connection to this shooting. Police have not released a motive.The 6200 block of International Boulevard is approximately one mile northeast of the Oakland Coliseum. No other information was immediately available.

Yin wins Women’s PGA at Baltusrol, Bradley wins home game at Travelers

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:35:13 GMT

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (AP) — Ruoning Yin made a birdie putt from about 10 feet on the final hole and became the second woman from China to win a major, beating Yuka Saso by one shot in the Women’s PGA Championship on Sunday.After Saso made birdie ahead of her on the par-5 18th hole at Baltusrol to move into a tie for the lead, Yin found the rough with her tee shot, then hit her third shot into an ideal spot and curled in the right-to-left breaking putt, pumping her fist after it dropped.The 20-year-old Yin closed with a 4-under 67, finished at 8-under 276 and joined Shanshan Feng as Chinese winners of women’s majors. Feng won this event — then known as the LPGA Championship — in 2012 and is currently the Chinese national team coach.Rose Zhang, who won in her professional debut three weeks ago, also in New Jersey, made a charge with a final-round 67 and finished in a tie for eighth, three shots back.Saso, the U.S. Women’s Open champion in 2021, shot 66. The championship had a mid-r...

Florida sets College World Series record for runs with 24-4 win over LSU to force deciding Game 3

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:35:13 GMT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Florida scored the most runs in College World Series history and came up one short of the record for largest margin of victory in a 24-4 rout of LSU on Sunday that forced a deciding Game 3.The Gators hit six home runs on a windy day at Charles Schwab Field and pounded LSU pitching for a CWS record-tying 23 hits a day after Ty Floyd struck out 17 in the Tigers’ 4-3, 11-inning win in Game 1.The teams play the final game of the College World Series on Monday night, with the winner earning the national championship. Florida (54-16) came in having been involved in four of the CWS record-tying eight one-run games. The Gators had totaled 17 runs in four games here before the offense broke loose.Ty Evans and Jac Caglianone each homered twice, with Evans’ grand slam breaking things open early. Wyatt Langford and BT Riopelle also went deep.Florida’s 24 runs broke Notre Dame’s CWS record, set in a 23-2 win over Northern Colorado in 1957. The 20-run wi...

Dygert wins women’s US cycling title while Simmons captures men’s road race

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:35:13 GMT

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — American cyclist Chloe Dygert followed up her time trial national title with a victory in the women’s road race on Sunday, while Quinn Simmons broke away from the field to win the shortened men’s race at the U.S. championships.Dygert pulled away from Coryn Labecki, who won the criterium title earlier in the weekend, on the final turns leading to the finish on Gay Street. Labecki took the silver medal while Skylar Schneider out-sprinted 2021 champ Lauren Stephens for third.The 26-year-old Dygert’s big weekend was the culmination of a long comeback from a career-threatening injury that she sustained in a crash during the 2020 world championships. She underwent numerous procedures to repair injuries to her left leg, and after she came back to help the U.S. win a team pursuit medal at the Tokyo Games, she was sidelined for nearly all of last season due to an abnormal heart rate and a bout with the Epstein-Barr virus.She competed at La Vuelta Fem...

Nelson sharp, Marte homers again as Diamondbacks top Giants 5-2

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:35:13 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ryne Nelson struck out six in seven innings in his strongest start of the season, Ketel Marte added two hits and homered for the second consecutive game, and the Arizona Diamondbacks held off the surging San Francisco Giants 5-2 on Sunday to avoid a series sweep.Christian Walker extended his career-high hitting streak to 10 games with an RBI double for Arizona. Alek Thomas had three hits for the Diamondbacks, whose lead in the NL West had been trimmed to 1 ½ games over the Giants after San Francisco won the first two games of the series.Arizona set a franchise record with its 79th consecutive game without being shut out, the ninth-longest streak in the majors since 1998.J.D. Davis and Luis Matos each had two hits for San Francisco. It was the Giants’ second loss in 14 games and prevented them from claiming their fourth series sweep in the last six tries.San Francisco scored once in the eighth and appeared to load the bases on Patrick Bailey’s infield singl...

Woman dies after rafting accident in Colorado River

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:35:13 GMT

GRAND COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- A 51-year-old woman died after a rafting accident on the Colorado River Sunday afternoon, according to the Grand County Sheriff's Office.Dispatch received a report of an overturned raft near the Radium Campground around 12:48 p.m.The woman had been pulled from the river and was unresponsive.Life-saving measures were attempted but were unsuccessful.The woman's family is from the Kremmling area, according to GCSO.

Greece’s conservatives win election majority to secure second term

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:35:13 GMT

ATHENS — Greece’s conservatives won big on Sunday’s parliamentary elections, securing an outright majority. Far-right parties also made gains, while the left struggled, giving Greece’s parliament its most rightward slant since the restoration of democracy in 1974.The New Democracy party of Kyriakos Mitsotakis managed to widen its double-digit lead over its main rival, the left-wing Syriza party, and secured 158 seats in the country’s 300-seat parliament, under the new electoral system which awards the winning party 50 bonus seats.“Our goals are high and must be high in a second term that can transform Greece with dynamic growth rates that will raise wages and reduce inequalities,” Mitsotakis said in his first message from his party’s headquarters.“People gave us a safe majority. The major reforms will therefore proceed with speed as this is the choice of the Greek people and I will honor it in full.”Sunday’s elections were the second held in the country...

Changes are coming for star-studded Bruins

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:35:13 GMT

Several Bruins are gathering in Nashville for Monday night’s NHL Awards show and some will no doubt walk away with the hardware for the incredible regular season the team had.But just below the surface was not only the lingering pain of how that historic season ended far too early, but also that the salary crunch the club is facing will in some way break up that team.We could know how drastically it’s broken up this week when the draft is held at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday and Thursday and free agency opens on Saturday. The B’s have just under $5 million in cap space with only seven forwards and one goalie signed. Players will have to be moved to rebuild a team that will inevitably have less depth than the 2022-23 B’s did.One of those players could be one of the honorees in Nashville. Goalie Linus Ullmark is the favorite for the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goalie, but the B’s goaltending tandem with Jeremy Swayman – a restricted free age...

Kayaker found dead in the Merrimack River in Haverhill: Massachusetts State Police

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:35:13 GMT

A kayaker who went missing in the Merrimack River in Haverhill was found dead on Sunday, according to Massachusetts State Police.Multiple fire and police departments conducted a joint search effort Sunday afternoon and evening after an adult male kayaker went missing in the Merrimack River.Then at around 6:30 p.m., Haverhill firefighters found and recovered the man’s body.State Police detectives assigned to the Essex County District Attorney’s Office have responded to the scene to conduct the death investigation, along with Haverhill Police and the State Police Crime Scene Services Section.Multiple local agencies, the State Police Underwater Recovery Unit, and the Massachusetts Environmental Police assisted in the search operation, which began about 2 hours before the recovery.

Braintree teen, Dorchester man shot dead in parked car

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:35:13 GMT

Despite attempts by first responders to render medical aid, a local teen and a Dorchester man died after they were found shot multiple times while sitting in a car in Braintree.According to a release from the Braintree Police Department, around 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning, officers were dispatched to the area of Alfred Road after several 911-callers reported gunfire in the area.“Braintree Police Officers arrived on-scene within seconds and located two individuals in a parked motor vehicle suffering from gunshot wounds,” the department wrote in a release. “A third person in the car was uninjured. Numerous life-saving measures were initiated by police, Braintree Police Department, Fire Department personnel, and Brewster Ambulance paramedics. Both victims ultimately succumbed to their injuries at a local hospital.”One of two victims lived on the street where the shooting occurred, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office, who identified the victims as 19-year-old Jayden ...