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Orioles outlast Red Sox 10-9 on Opening Day

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:45:28 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Adley Rutschman became the first catcher in major league history with five hits on opening day, and the Baltimore Orioles survived a wild ninth inning to beat the Boston Red Sox 10-9 on Thursday.Playing in his first season opener after starring for the Orioles as a rookie last year, Rutschman homered in his first at-bat and finished 5-for-5 with a career-best four RBIs and a walk on a chilly day at Fenway Park, with temperature of 38 degrees at first pitch.Ramon Urias hit a two-run homer for Baltimore, which finished with 15 hits, nine walks and five stolen bases.Kyle Gibson (1-0) allowed four runs and six hits over five-plus innings to earn his first opening-day victory since his 2021 All-Star season with Texas. Gibson gave up an RBI groundout in the first inning before retiring nine straight Red Sox hitters.The Orioles nearly gave away the game in the ninth.With Baltimore leading 10-7, closer Félix Bautista walked pinch-hitter Raimel Tapia. Alex Verdugo followed with...

Curbing violence through community partnerships works, but takes money roundtable discussion in Dorchester shows

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:45:28 GMT

Around a long table at a youth center in Dorchester’s Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood, a group of district attorneys, police officials, state legislators and various community organizers and at-risk youth service providers shared stories about their memories of violence and trauma and how those events change whole families and communities, but they also surveyed various ways out of the cycle.“I think we all can agree there’s no place for youth violence in Massachusetts,” said state Public Safety and Security Secretary Terrence Reidy at the start of the roundtable discussion at the Catholic Charities Teen Center in Dorchester. The discussion would last more than two hours.“How do we get to a point where we can curb it and make an impact and prevent kids from defaulting into a position of going to gangs or hanging out with the wrong crowds or putting themselves in bad positions,” Reidy continued. “One of the key ways is communication, collaboration, but you can’t do that if you don&...

Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels, hush money, and a historic indictment: Complete timeline

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:45:28 GMT

By The New York Daily NewsTwelve days before Donald Trump won one of the most astonishing upsets in the history of the American presidency, his fixer wired $130,000 to a porn star’s lawyer.The furtive Oct. 27, 2016, payment came at the height of the election cycle — one day before the FBI director told Congress he was reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton — and concerned an alleged tryst a decade earlier.Stormy Daniels, an adult film star from Louisiana whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, had privately described having sex with Trump at a charity golf tournament event in 2006, months after the birth of the future president’s youngest son.Stormy Daniels attends the Los Angeles Premiere Of Neon’s “Pleasure” at Linwood Dunn Theater on May 11, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)Trump wanted to shut Daniels up, the fixer, Michael Cohen, would later testify.The payment seemed to work. Trump beat Clinton and became the 45t...

DA’s indictment of Trump may add fuel to 2024 fire

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:45:28 GMT

The Manhattan DA just fired up the base.That’s the opinion of a veteran Democratic political analysis and supporters of former President Donald Trump who is being indicted in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case.“This just sucked the oxygen out of everything on his side,” James Carville told the Herald Thursday night soon after Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina confirmed the indictment in New York City.“It could strengthen him,” Carville, a longtime straight-talking Democratic strategist, added. “It sure strengthens him in the Republican party.”Trump and Nikki Haley are the two declared candidates for president in the 2024 GOP race with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis close to announcing. Carville said both Haley and DeSantis will be snowed under as many rush to Trump’s side.Just the historical quake caused by a criminal indictment of a former president is enough to fire up some indignant Republicans, Carville said, calling it “a short-term rall...

On Opening Day, Red Sox walked before they ran in 10-9 loss

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:45:28 GMT

On Thursday morning, Alex Cora sat in an interview room filled to the brim with media and spoke about how important it was to start the season off on the right foot.“It’s always good to play good baseball early,” the Red Sox manager said. “I think the brand of baseball was really good (in spring training), and hopefully that translates here.”“Last year is in the past, right?” he asked, hoping the question would become rhetorical in a manner of hours.But on Thursday afternoon, the pitching mostly looked like the same old song-and-dance: off-key and devoid of rhythm.What began as an early 1-1 tie ended as a 10-9 tug-of-war, with the Red Sox on the losing end to the Baltimore Orioles.By the end of the top of the fourth, starting pitcher Corey Kluber and rookie reliever Zack Kelly had combined for six walks and six strikeouts. The half-inning that had begun with a 1-1 tie ended with the Orioles leading 5-1, with all the runs charged to Kluber, who was charged with the loss at the end of...

Trump calls his indictment ‘unthinkable,’ claims he’s ‘completely innocent’

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:45:28 GMT

By Chris Sommerfeldt and Michael GartlandDonald Trump claimed he is “completely innocent” and a victim of “political persecution” Thursday after becoming the first former president in American history to face a criminal indictment.The ex-president, who’s holed up at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, declared his innocence in a lengthy statement issued minutes after word emerged that a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels had voted to indict him on criminal charges.“The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,’ but now they’ve done the unthinkable — indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant Election Interference,” said Trump, who’s the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2024 election.“Never before in our Nation’s history has this been done,” he continued. “The Democrats have cheated countless times over the decades, including spying on my campaig...

Trump indictment: What will the arrest process look like?

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:45:28 GMT

By JENNIFER PELTZ (Associated Press)NEW YORK (AP) — Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump is expected to become one of them next week. Trump was indicted on charges involving payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter, his lawyers confirmed Thursday. It’s the first criminal case ever brought against a former U.S. president.Trump — a Republican who assailed the case Thursday as a Democratic prosecutor’s “political persecution” of “a completely innocent person” — is expected to turn himself in to authorities next week, according to a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly. The person said the details of a surrender are still being worked out.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said it had contacted Trump’s lawyer to coordinate his su...

Franz Wagner ventures beyond numbers to help Magic rebound better

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:45:28 GMT

Although others also brought it to his attention, Orlando Magic second-year forward Franz Wagner didn’t need to be told where he needed to improve.“One thing I got to get better at is rebounding,” Wagner told the Orlando Sentinel during a conversation after the team’s Thursday practice at Georgetown University. “That was one of my focuses these last couple of weeks.”Wagner’s concerted effort on rebounding has been evident in the box score recently.He averaged 5.8 rebounds in 33.2 minutes in the Magic’s previous nine games entering Friday’s road game against the Washington Wizards (34-42).Wagner’s averaging 4.1 rebounds in 33 minutes for the season and was collecting 3.8 per game in his previous 66 games before the recent stretch.He grabbed a season-high 10 rebounds in a March 16 road loss to the Phoenix Suns and Sunday’s home win against the Brooklyn Nets. His four-highest rebounding games have come in the last three ...

Who’s who in the Manhattan DA’s Donald Trump indictment

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:45:28 GMT

By The Associated PressAs Donald Trump fought his way to victory in the 2016 presidential campaign, key allies tried to smooth his bumpy path by paying off two women who had been thinking of going public with allegations of extramarital encounters with the Republican.The payoffs, and the way that Trump’s company accounted for one of them, are believed to be at the center of a grand jury investigation that led to a criminal indictment and could result in the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president.Here’s a look at key figures in the case:STORMY DANIELSA porn actor who’s also had bit parts in mainstream films like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up,” Daniels was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about what she says was an awkward and unexpected sexual encounter with Trump at a celebrity golf outing in Lake Tahoe in 2006. Trump denies having sex with Daniels.Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid the money i...

Among 160 years of presidential scandals, Trump stands alone

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:45:28 GMT

By RUSS BYNUM (Associated Press)Though far from the only U.S. president dogged by legal and ethical scandals, Donald Trump now occupies a unique place in history as the first indicted on criminal charges.Two others, like Trump, found themselves impeached by Congress — Bill Clinton for lying under oath about his affair with a White House intern, and Andrew Johnson for pushing the limits of his executive authority in a bitter power struggle following the Civil War.Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace over his role in the infamous Watergate break-in. And Ronald Reagan and Ulysses S. Grant both became forever tied to scandals in which close aides got prosecuted, though neither president was ever charged.Here’s a look at how Trump’s predecessors fared:BILL CLINTONClinton spent more than half his presidency under scrutiny in investigations that ranged from failed real estate deals to the Democratic president’s affair with a White House intern.Investigators took a len...