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Sailor’s last message to family during hurricane: ‘Pray for us’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:52 GMT

By Maria Verza | Associated PressACAPULCO, Mexico — During the first minutes of Oct. 25 when Hurricane Otis roared into Acapulco Bay with 165 mph winds, sailor Ruben Torres recorded a 10-second audio message from a yacht called the Sereno.“All things considered I’m alright, but it’s really horrible, it’s really horrible, it’s really horrible,” he said over the howling wind and the boat’s beeping alarms. “Family, I don’t want to exaggerate, but pray for us because it’s really awful out here.”The Sereno was one of 614 boats — yachts, ferries, fishing boats — that according to Mexico’s Navy were in the bay that night and ended up damaged or on the ocean floor. Of those aboard the Sereno, one person survived, while Torres and the boat’s captain remain missing.Otis killed at least 48 people officially, most drowned, and some 26 are missing. Sailors, fishermen and their families believe there are many more.Sailo...

The Steelers defense is banged up. Reinforcements will come from in-house, not on the open market

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:52 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin won’t go looking on the open market to help out his banged-up defense.Tomlin said Tuesday he believes the answers to Pittsburgh’s depth issues — particularly at inside linebacker, where veterans Cole Holcomb (knee) and Kwon Alexander (Achilles tendon) have been lost for the season in consecutive weeks — are already on the roster.“We’ve got guys we’re comfortable with,” Tomlin said. “We’ve been forward-thinking, to be quite honest with you, in the acquisition of some of our people.”Particularly on the practice squad, which the Steelers have used to not just add developmental players but experienced ones such as inside linebacker Mykal Walker, who had 107 tackles last season for Atlanta before bouncing from Las Vegas to Chicago to Pittsburgh, which signed the 26-year-old in late October.“He’s on our practice squad to learn what to do at the position and to ready himself for a moment such as wha...

White House says it has intelligence that Hamas and other militants shelter in Gaza hospitals

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:52 GMT

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.S. said Tuesday that it has unspecified intelligence that Hamas and another Palestinian militant group use some hospitals in the Gaza Strip — including Shifa Hospital — and tunnels underneath them, to hide and support their military operations, and to hold hostages.The White House’s national security council spokesperson, John Kirby, said the U.S. does not support strikes against hospitals.“We do not support striking a hospital from the air,” Kirby told reporters accompanying President Joe Biden aboard Air Force One to San Francisco for a summit with Asia-Pacific leaders. “Hospitals and patients must be protected.”Kirby said the U.S. also does not want to see “a firefight in a hospital where innocent people, helpless people, sick people are simply trying to get the medical care that they deserve.”When asked about evidence to support the claim, Kirby said “it comes from a variety of intelligence sourcing.” He wouldn’t be more specific.THIS I...

Iraq’s top court rules to oust the speaker and a rival lawmaker from Parliament

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:52 GMT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court ruled Tuesday that the speaker and a rival lawmaker should be ousted from Parliament, following a high-profile feud between the two men. The Federal Supreme Court said in a statement it decided to terminate Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi’s membership in Parliament along with that of lawmaker Laith al-Dulaimi. It did not elaborate on why it was issuing the decision.Halbousi called the ruling unconstitutional, while his party said its members would protest the verdict by withdrawing from key positions in government and the Parliament. Halbousi, a former governor of western Iraq’s Anbar province who has maintained close ties to Gulf countries, was the highest Sunni official in Iraq. Under the country’s sectarian power-sharing system, the parliament speaker is always Sunni, the prime minister Shiite and the president Kurdish.The court decision came against the backdrop of a dispute between Halbousi and Dulaimi, also Sunni. Dulaimi had filed a la...

Big 12 quarterbacks have taken more than their fair share of lumps; 8 teams have lost starters

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:52 GMT

Starting quarterback has been a precarious position in the Big 12. Whether due to injuries or coaching decisions, staying on the field has been a challenge for many of the league’s quarterbacks who started the season No. 1 for their programs. Injuries have knocked out starters at some point in the season for Texas, Kansas, BYU, Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU, West Virginia and Central Florida — more than half the league. Oklahoma State’s quarterback carousel lasted through the first few games before coach Mike Gundy settled on Alan Bowman. Even Kansas State, which won last season’s Big 12 championship game behind veteran Will Howard, put in freshman Avery Johnson when Howard struggled. The senior responded with his best play of the season. The position has been as jumbled as the league standings. Seven teams are within two games of conference leader Texas. Oklahoma and Iowa State have been injury- and rotation-free and the Sooners and Cyclones are still in the mix for the...

Identifican por un tatuaje a mujer asesinada hace décadas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:52 GMT

LONDRES – Una mujer asesinada hace 31 años en Bélgica fue identificada por un familiar que reconoció detalles de su tatuaje, informó la Interpol el martes.La organización policial internacional dijo que se conocía el caso no resuelto como “la mujer de la flor tatuada” debido al tatuaje que ella tenía en el brazo izquierdo. Su cuerpo fue hallado en un río en Amberes en junio de 1992.Se la identificó como Rita Roberts, británica de 31 años, tras un pedido internacional de ayuda con una veintena de casos no resueltos emitida por la Interpol y las policías de Bélgica, Holanda y Alemania.Un familiar en el Reino Unido reconoció detalles del tatuaje —una flor negra con hojas verdes— en un noticiero y contactó a la policía. Arrestan en México a sospechoso de asesinar a mujer en Estados Unidos hace 25 años Hallan muerto a principal sospechoso de asesinar a familia boricua y sus tres mascotas en Illinois El pedido de información abarc...

The White House says US has intelligence that Gaza militants shelter in hospitals and says patients ‘must be protected’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:52 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says US has intelligence that Gaza militants shelter in hospitals and says patients ‘must be protected.’Source

What’s pushing inflation down? More goods, workers and housing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:52 GMT

Sale signs are displayed at an appliance store in Arlington Heights, Ill., Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. On Tuesday, the Labor Department issues its report on inflation at the consumer level in October. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)(AP/Nam Y. Huh) Sale signs are displayed at an appliance store in Arlington Heights, Ill., Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. On Tuesday, the Labor Department issues its report on inflation at the consumer level in October. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)(AP/Nam Y. Huh) WASHINGTON (AP) — Long past its painful peak, inflation in the United States may be heading steadily back toward its pre-pandemic levels, without the need for further interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. Such a scenario became more likely, if har...

Dog found alive with missing hiker's body after 72 days in San Juan mountains

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:52 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Members of the Taos Search and Rescue team recovered the body of Rich Moore on Oct. 30, 72 days after he went missing. His dog, a Jack Russel terrier, was still alive and by his side.Moore was reported missing on Aug. 19 after making plans to summit Blackhead Peak, just east of Pagosa Springs. According to missing posters posted in the area, his dog, Finney, was with him. Colorado hiker wearing hoodie rescued after getting stuck in snowstorm Finney was recovered by the Taos Search and Rescue team and later reunited with the family.The Taos Search and Rescue team consists of only volunteers. One member, Delinda Vanne-Brightyn, shared that she was part of the initial search along with her certified search K-9, AkioYodasan. Vanne-Brighten said the team searched from just under the peak-top of Blackhead Peak and headed west down the mountain, where 71-year-old Moore's car was located."It was so steep, we were inserted in by a helicopter," Vanne-Brightyn wrote in a Ta...

Deion Sanders addresses Texas A&M position and his time at CU

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:52 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Deion Sanders has had a massive impact on the University of Colorado at Boulder. Not just as the school's football coach, although the team's turnaround is worth noting, but also in terms of money and attention being paid.As the NCAA Division-I Football season comes to an end, some schools have vacancies and there's speculation that Sanders may be a one-and-done coach for the Buffs.His name was mentioned again on Sunday after coach Jimbo Fisher was fired from Texas A&M. ESPN's Stephen A. Smith brought up Sanders' name as a possible replacement.“Deion Sanders in the SEC," Smith said on an episode of ESPN's GetUp. "With that vault that they have available to them. Them hogs that he could recruit. He doesn’t have them at Colorado, and he ain’t going to get them. I don’t think they’ll do it. Texas A&M, Prime Time, Deion Sanders in the SEC? That needs to happen.”Coach Prime, as he's often referred to, was asked about this head-on during a press conference on Tues...