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Swanson homers, Smyly sharp as Cubs beat Nationals 5-1

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:24:58 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dansby Swanson hit a two-run homer and Drew Smyly delivered seven solid innings as the Chicago Cubs bounced back from a rough series at Miami to beat the Washington Nationals 5-1 on Monday night.Swanson went 3-for-5, including a double and his second homer of the season. The 389-foot blast to left-center in the fifth inning made it 4-1 — a welcome advantage for the Cubs, who snapped a three-game skid. All those losses to the Marlins were by one run.Smyly (3-1) allowed a homer by Lane Thomas in the second inning but cruised from there, throwing just 84 pitches. The left-hander gave up six hits and walked none in his fifth straight start allowing two runs or fewer. Cubs’ offense hasn’t needed long to get things going in 2023 MacKenzie Gore (3-2) allowed a season-high four runs over four-plus innings on seven hits — including three doubles and Swanson's homer. Seiya Suzuki had an RBI single in the first for Chicago, and Trey Mancini drove in Suzuki with a double.Ian...

Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot dies at 84

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:24:58 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Gordon Lightfoot, Canada's legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits include “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," died on Monday, a representative of his family said. He was 84.Representative Victoria Lord said the musician died at a Toronto hospital. His cause of death was not immediately available.The Orillia, Ontario native rose to fame in the early 1960s after a move to Toronto opened doors in the thriving Yorkville music scene, and hooked him up with fellow folk musician Ian and Sylvia Tyson. They became great admirers of his work and covered two of his tracks. Talk show host, former politician Jerry Springer dies at 79 His 1965 debut album “Lightfoot!” ushered in a new folk voice and by the turn of the decade he eased rather effortlessly into the pop scene, making his first appearance on the Billboard chart with 1971’s “If You Could Read My Mind.”Lightfoot’s popularity peaked in the mid-1970s when both his single and album “Sundown”...

A few players from the Chicago area will get their shot in Bears rookie camp

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:24:58 GMT

LAKE FOREST - A few natives of the Chicago area are going to get their chance to show the Bears what they can do this weekend at Halas Hall. Three players who played their high school football in the Chicago are are among those who've been brought in for the team's rookie mini-camp that's set to take place Friday through Sunday in Lake Forest. These are players who've either signed a deal with the Bears as an undrafted free agent or have received an invite from the team to the mini-camp. Andre Szmyt, a native of Lake Forest and former kicker for Syracuse, has signed with the Bears as an undrafted free agent, the school announced on Saturday. A placekicker and punter for Vernon Hills High School, he had a quick start to his career with the Orange as he won the Lou Groza award for the nation's best kicker in his redshirt freshman year of 2018.This past season, Szmyt connected on 20-of-26 field goals for Syracuse and was a perfect 40-for-40 on point-after attempts. Donny Navarro III, a...

Serena Williams, Karlie Kloss reveal pregnancies at Met Gala

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:24:58 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Move over Instagram (or Snapchat) — the Met Gala was the place to announce pregnancies Monday night, at least if you're Serena Williams or Karlie Kloss.The tennis legend and supermodel each revealed their pregnancies in interviews on the Met Gala's not-so-red carpet. Williams' announcement had particular poignance given that she stepped away from tennis last year, saying she had to in order to have a second child.“Believe me,” the 23-time Grand Slam champion wrote in an August essay for Vogue magazine, “I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. I don’t think it’s fair. If I were a guy I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.” Photos: Guests arrive at Met Gala 2023 Williams was also afforded more agency in announcing her pregnancy this time, sharing the news alongside her husband Alexis Ohanian in an interview with Vogue liv...

New bride killed after suspected drunk driver hits golf cart hours after South Carolina wedding

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:24:58 GMT

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCBD) - A bride was killed and a groom left critically injured just hours after exchanging their vows on South Carolina's Folly Beach last Friday evening.The couple had left their wedding reception when Folly Beach Public Safety Chief Andrew Gilreath said 25-year-old Jamie Komoroski slammed into the back of a golf cart they were riding in. Komoroski was allegedly traveling at about 65 mph in a 25 mph zone, according to Chief Gilreath.Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O’Neal identified the victim as 34-year-old Samantha Miller of Charlotte, North Carolina. Miller, still in her wedding dress, suffered blunt force trauma in the crash and died at the scene. Robbers with assault rifles hold up Tennessee bank, video shows Miller's husband, Aric Hutchinson of Utah, and another family member on the golf cart were seriously injured and remain in the hospital, Hutchinson's mother wrote in a GoFundMe.Hutchinson has already undergone multiple surgeries, according to h...

APD investigating homicide in northwest Austin after 2 found dead in apartment

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:24:58 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department is investigating a homicide after two people were found dead Monday at a northwest Austin apartment complex.APD responded to 10015 Lake Creek Parkway, the address for the Legends Lake Creek apartments, for a homicide investigation at Building No. 3. APD said the call came in at 5:38 p.m. as a "disturbance" by one of the building's residents, and when officers arrived at the scene, two adults believed to be in their late 50s were found dead inside of an apartment "with obvious trauma to their bodies." One was a man, the other was a woman, and they were pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m. APD said.APD said the two who died were residents of the complex, and it's the 27th homicide investigation of 2023. APD said it didn't have any information about a suspect.

Why is Karl Lagerfeld, the Met Gala theme, controversial?

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:24:58 GMT

German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld acknowledges the applause of his models at the end of the show he designed for the French fashion house Chanel, for the 1993-94 Fall-Winter haute couture collection in Paris, July 20, 1993. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Karl Lagerfeld, the subject of this year’s Met Gala, transformed Chanel from frumpy to modern. He revolutionized the merger of hip-hop culture and high fashion. He dressed and befriended celebrities and transformed once-staid runway shows into masterful, theatrical displays.He was also a self-proclaimed “big mouth,” publicly sounding off with fatphobia. He spoke against gay men who want to adopt children, migrants, sexual assault survivors, the #MeToo movement and “ugly” people, without apology.And he left behind the receipts, his own contentious words.Lagerfeld died in 2019 after dominating the fashion universe into his 80s. Come May 1, his legacy will be on display at the starry fundraising party and i...

After latest burglary at Lowertown coffeehouse and restaurant, owners find community support ‘amazing’

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:24:58 GMT

A string of burglaries at a downtown St. Paul coffeehouse and restaurant has been discouraging for the owners, but they’ve been buoyed by the outpouring of community support they’ve received.The latest incident — and the one that caused the most damage — happened early Friday at Lost Fox in Lowertown. The business’s motion detector went off about 4:30 a.m. Large windows to the building had been shattered, but not much was taken, said Annie Rose, who owns Lost Fox with her husband.After Friday’s break-in on Fourth Street, across from Union Depot and its Green Line light-rail station, a Lost Fox Facebook post displayed photos of the damage and read, “I am so tired. Come have a coffee this weekend so we can pay our deductible. We could probably use some words of encouragement.”The support has “been amazing,” Rose said Monday. “There’s been a line out the door. … We’ve had people come in to get a coffee,...

Granny flats are now allowed in even more of west Denver

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:24:58 GMT

Homeowners in two more Denver neighborhoods now have the right to build accessory dwelling units on their properties without going through a long rezoning process.The City Council on Monday made Valverde and Athmar Park on the west side of the town the latest corners of the city with blanket rezoning that allows residents to build secondary housing structures on their lots without applying for that zoning on an individual basis.Those units, often called ADUs or sometimes granny flats or mother-in-law apartments, are viewed as a key tool in the city’s affordable housing efforts because they allow for more housing density in residential areas and, at smaller sizes than primary homes, are expected to provide more affordable options for renters and people living on fixed incomes.“I believe allowing ADUs in Valverde and Athmar will allow our neighborhoods to change and grow while expanding affordable housing options in our neighborhood,” Adriana Lopez, president of the ...

Colorado House plans revival of Polis’s gutted zoning reform bill

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:24:58 GMT

A week after the Colorado Senate gutted Gov. Jared Polis’s marquee land use reform bill, House Democrats are preparing to reverse some of those changes and return key zoning provisions to a measure that’s repeatedly been altered as its passed through the Capitol.Under amendments set to be added to the bill Tuesday, SB23-213 would again allow for accessory dwelling units — like carriage houses — to be built on single-family lots, albeit only in more populous parts of the state. The amendments would also reintroduce provisions clearing the way for density and apartment buildings near transit areas in Colorado cities, along with encouraging looser parking requirements and new restrictions on what HOAs can prohibit.All of those provisions, described to the Denver Post on Monday by lawmakers involved, were in previous versions of the bill and had been stripped from it in order to ensure that it passed the Colorado Senate. Their revival represents an effort to retu...