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US has 2 men’s tennis players in top 10 after Tiafoe beats Struff for 1st grass title

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:26 GMT

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — There will be two American men’s tennis players ranked in the top 10 for the first time in more than a decade after Frances Tiafoe beat Jan-Lennard Struff on Sunday to win the Stuttgart Open for his first grass-court title.Tiafoe won 4-6, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (8) after saving a match point in the deciding tiebreaker and will move up to a career-high ranking of 10th on Monday, up from 12th.Along with Taylor Fritz in eighth, the U.S. has two men in the top 10 for the first time since Mardy Fish and John Isner were ninth and 10th in May 2012, the ATP tour said.Tiafoe failed to convert his first match point at 6-5 in the decisive tiebreaker when he hit into the net after the longest rally of the match. Struff then had a match point of his own at 7-6, which Tiafoe saved with a backhand. A miscued return cost Tiafoe his second match point before a hectic finish on his third when he hit a smash only for Struff to somehow return it, before Tiafoe finished off the win...

5 places to watch the sunset in San Diego

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:26 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- San Diego's coastline is a spectacle to be enjoyed, especially as the sun descends into the Pacific horizon.Sunset seekers, sky gazers and dusk dwellers can agree that Southern California makes for great days end viewing. From beaches, piers, mountaintops and skyscrapers, here are five places to watch the sunset in San Diego. Monsoon Season begins in San Diego this June Mount SoledadThis spot offers incredible 360 degree panoramic views of San Diego and the West Coast. Located on an 822-foot hilltop southeast of La Jolla Shores, this well known landmark and national veterans memorial site has a 29-foot tall cross that sits on top of a 14-foot tall stepped platform. Whether you take a seat on its steps or lay a blanket in the grassy area in front of the memorial, this sunset view is one to be remembered.Sunset at Mount Soledad in San Diego's La Jolla area. (Adobe Stock Photo)Silver Strand State BeachThis beach offers sandy views of both the Pacific Ocean and San D...

Search continues for missing hiker at Three Sisters Falls

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:26 GMT

JULIAN, Calif. -- Authorities are searching for a missing hiker at Three Sisters Falls in Julian.According to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, deputies with the Julian Sheriff's Substation received a call for help just before 5 p.m. Friday.Authorities say two people were swimming at the middle level of the falls when one went underwater and did not resurface. How ‘burn scars’ could create disaster during monsoon season in Southern California Deputies, CAL FIRE San Diego crews and volunteers with Sheriff's Search and Rescue (SAR) responded to the area to look for the missing 27-year-old man. A San Diego Sheriff Special Enforcement Detail (ASTREA) helicopter also helped with the search, SDSO confirmed.A search operation was conducted around the waterfalls until sunset. According to authorities, the darkness and amount of water flowing into the waterfalls made it too dangerous to continue with the search.The dam that feeds water to Three Sisters Falls, which is controlled b...

Shooting in St. Louis kills 1, injures 9 young people

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:26 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — An overnight shooting in a downtown St. Louis office building killed a 17-year-old and wounded nine other teenagers, the city’s police commissioner said Sunday. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Commissioner Robert Tracy identified the victim who was killed as a 17-year-old.Tracy said victims ranging in age from 15 to 19 suffered gunshot wounds. Some were shot just once or grazed; others were hit multiple times. A 17-year-old girl was trampled as she fled, seriously injuring her spine, Tracy said.Police believe teenagers were having a party in an office space on 14th Street and Washington Avenue when the shooting broke out around 1 a.m. Sunday. Shell casings from AR-15-style rifles and other firearms were scattered on the ground.The Associated Press

Netflix hypes ‘The Last Airbender,’ ‘One Piece’ at starry fan event

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:26 GMT

Netflix gave audiences first looks at some planned and upcoming projects including “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” “One Piece” and the third season of “Bridgerton” at a fan event on Saturday.The event, called “Tudum,” was live-streamed from São Paulo, Brazil with the participation of talent like Kevin Hart, Chris Hemsworth, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Boyega and Gal Gadot.The streamer announced the addition of Linda Hamilton to the “Stranger Things” season 5 cast, a third “Extraction” movie and more of the cast for “Squid Game” season two, including Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Sung-hoon and Yang Dong-guen. They will join returning cast Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-Hun, Wi Ha-jun and Gong Yoo.Lily Collins also teased some details about the fourth season of “Emily in Paris,” which she said will bring her ex-pat to Rome. The live-action “Avatar: The Last Airbender” is one of the most eagerly anticipated series in the bunch. It stars Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley ...

Ugandan border town buries victims of rebel massacre that left 42 dead, mostly students

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:26 GMT

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A bereaved Ugandan border town on Sunday began burying the victims of a brutal attack on a school by suspected extremist rebels that left 42 people dead, most of them students, as security forces stepped up patrols along the frontier with volatile eastern Congo.One of eight people wounded in Friday night’s attack, in which 38 students were killed, died overnight, said Selevest Mapoze, mayor of the town of Mpondwe-Lhubiriha.“Most of the relatives have come to take their bodies” from the morgue, he said. In addition to the 38 students, the victims include a school guard and three civilians. At least two of them, members of the same family, were buried Sunday. Some students were burned beyond recognition; others were shot or hacked to death after militants armed with guns and machetes attacked Lhubiriha Secondary School, co-ed and privately owned, which is located about 2 kilometers (just over a mile) from the Congo border. Ugandan authorities believe at le...

Man critically injured in Scarborough fire

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:26 GMT

One person has suffered critical injuries in a two-alarm townhouse fire in the West Hill neighbourhood of Scarborough.Fire crews were called to the complex on Ling Road in the area of Lawrence Avenue East and Morningside Avenue just after 1:30 p.m. Sunday. When they arrived they were met with smoke coming out of the entrance to the building. Firefighters rescued one man from the building who was absent vital signs at the time. Paramedics tell CityNews the man was transported to a trauma centre in life-threatening condition. Police later upgraded the man’s condition to serious and non-life threatening. Fire officials say no other injuries have been reported.

1 trooper killed, 1 critically wounded in central Pennsylvania

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:26 GMT

MIFFLINTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Officials are expressing shock and sadness at the death of one state trooper and the critical wounding of another hours apart in central Pennsylvania over the weekend.Police in Juniata County said a man engaged troopers at about 12:45 p.m. Saturday near the Lewistown barracks and shot one trooper, who was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. Authorities found the man shortly before 3 p.m. several miles away in Walker Township, and a gun battle ensued that killed the shooter and a trooper, police said.The name of the trooper and suspect killed as well as the name of the wounded trooper weren’t immediately released.Gov. Josh Shapiro and Col. Christopher Paris of the state police were at the hospital where the injured trooper was being treated, state police said. Shapiro later said in a social media post that the wounded trooper was in critical but stable condition and he and the commissioner thanked his colleagues for their service and prayed for hi...

Sheriff: 22 injured,1 fatally in shooting at Juneteenth celebration in Willowbrook Township

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:26 GMT

DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. -- At least 20 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday morning during a celebration for Juneteenth in unincorporated Willowbrook Township, according to the DuPage County Sheriff's Office.A group of people were peacefully gathering around 12:30 a.m. near Route 83 and Honeysuckle Rose Lane when shots were fired. An unknown number of individuals fired shots from multiple weapons in the crowd, the Sheriff's office said.According to Battalion Chief Joe Ostrander with the Tri-State Fire Protection District, 12 ambulances were brought to the scene. In total, 10 people were transported from the scene to area hospitals, with injuries ranging from graze wounds to more serious gunshot wounds.On Sunday afternoon, the Sheriff's office said at least 22 people were shot and one fatally. The identifies and conditions of the victims have not been released yet.Some people self-transported to local hospitals. Investigators look over the scene of an overnight mass shooting at a ...

Inside the black box of Amazon returns

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:26 GMT

(The Conversation) - E-commerce may make shopping more convenient, but it has a dark side that most consumers never see.Say you order an electric toothbrush for Father’s Day and two shirts for yourself from Amazon. You unpack your order and discover that the electric toothbrush won’t charge and only one shirt fits you. So, you decide to return the unwanted shirt and the electric toothbrush.Returns like this might seem simple, and often they’re free for the consumer. But managing those returns can get costly for retailers, so much so that many returned items are simply thrown out.In 2022, returns cost retailers about US$816 billion in lost sales. That’s nearly as much as the U.S. spent on public schools and almost twice the cost of returns in 2020. The return process, with transportation and packaging, also generated about 24 million metric tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions in 2022.Together, costs and emissions create a sustainability problem for retailers and the plane...