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Happ, Cubs agree to $61 million, 3-year contract for 2024-26

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — All-Star outfielder Ian Happ and the Chicago Cubs agreed Wednesday to a $61 million, three-year contract covering 2024-26.Happ agreed in January to a $10.85 million, one-year contract. His new deal calls for a $3 million signing bonus payable June 1 and salaries of $20 million in both 2024 and 2025, and $18 million in 2026. He gets a full no-trade provision and a hotel suite on road trips.The 28-year-old would have been eligible for free agency after this year’s World Series.“It’s compromising on structure and terms that takes three years and runs through my baseball prime,” Happ said. “That takes me on the market at 32. But that was my concession to be here.”Happ is hitting .282 with one home run and six RBIs.Happ was a first-time All-Star last year, when he hit .271 with 17 home runs, a career-high 42 doubles and 72 RBIs. Happ also earned his first NL Gold Glove. He hit a career-high 25 home runs in 2021.“You want flexibility,” Cubs president of ba...

Rare lynx caught on film in San Juan mountains

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, Colo. (KDVR) -- A Colorado photographer last snapped a photo of a lynx in Colorado's San Juan mountains in 2016, until Tuesday. Photographer Wesley Berg spends a lot of time in the San Juans photographing wildlife and said the lynx had alluded him for seven years. He also took a video of the animal showing it in its natural habitat. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said the state began a seven-year project to reintroduce the lynx back into the San Juan mountain range in the 90s. Dog returns home after 150-mile Alaskan sea-ice odyssey "The reintroduction resulted in astounding success, and our current monitoring efforts suggest Colorado is home to 150-250 individual animals," CPW said in a tweet with Berg's photo of the lynx. CPW said many people have confused the lynx with the bobcat but said the two may look similar but are different animals.

Trial begins for man accused of deadly road rage shooting that killed a 13-year-old boy

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

BRIGHTON, Colo. (KDVR) -- The long-delayed murder retrial of Jeremy Webster is finally getting underway in Adams County. He's accused of opening fire on the Bigelow family in front of a Westminster dental office after a road rage incident in June of 2018, killing 13-year-old Vaughn Bigelow Jr. and injuring three others.On the stand Wednesday, Meghan Bigelow told the jury that the whole incident started when she was driving her three boys, Vaughn Jr., Cooper and Asa, to the dentist's office. She said she tried to move into another lane of traffic to allow an emergency vehicle to pass, and another driver became enraged that she cut him off. Meghan told the jury he screamed obscenities at her and followed her into the dentist's parking lot. There was some yelling and then she saw him pull out a gun. Officers charged with killing Christian Glass to face trial "I yelled to the boys he's got a gun, run," she explained to the jury.She said she did everything she could to lead t...

Elderly woman speaks out after she says condo manager attacked her and hurled antisemitic curses

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

An elderly couple is speaking out after a disturbing confrontation between a condo manager and a resident in her 70s.Speaking with 7News on Wednesday, Martha Arnold said it was bad enough that she was physically attacked, but it’s what she said the manager told her that may have been even worse.“I was petrified when I saw her so close to me,” she said.Martha 71, said she’s terrified to go home after the attack at the door of an elevator on the property, which was caught on surveillance video.“I was screaming like a madwoman,” she said.Martha and her husband, Martin Arnold, live at Ocean Summit on Galt Ocean Mile in Fort Lauderdale.On March 16, Martha said, she was wearing her headphones listening to music and heading up to her condo.“I was coming from the pool area after I did my exercises, like I do every morning,” she said.When the freight elevator didn’t arrive, she moved to the resident elevator. That’s when, she said, ...

Oh no, Joe: Biden confuses ‘All Blacks’ rugby team with ‘Black and Tan’ military force

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

DUBLIN — That didn’t last long.Joe Biden managed to tread carefully around historic and current political sensitivities during the first part of his trip to the island of Ireland this week, marking 25 years since the U.S.-brokered Good Friday Agreement sought to secure lasting peace for Northern Ireland.But not long after crossing from that U.K. region into the Republic of Ireland on Wednesday, the U.S. president made a major gaffe: He confused New Zealand’s “All Blacks” rugby team with the notorious “Black and Tans” British military unit that fought the Irish Republican Army a century ago.At the end of a rambling speech in a pub Wednesday night, Biden — flanked by Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin and star rugby player Rob Kearney, a distant cousin — tried to pay a compliment to one of Kearney’s greatest sporting accomplishments. That would be when Ireland’s rugby team defeated New Zealand for the first time in 111 years, in November 2016 in ...

Why the US didn’t notice leaked documents circulating on social media

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

A trove of leaked Pentagon documents were circulating online for months without being discovered by the U.S. government — raising questions about how the administration missed them.Images of the classified documents that circulated on social media in recent days were posted to a popular messaging website as far back as January. But they appear to have only caught the government’s attention around the time they were first reported in the media in early April.“No one in the U.S. government knew they were out there,” one U.S. official said. As to why they didn’t: “We cannot answer that just yet,” a senior administration official said. “We would all like to understand how that happened.” Both individuals, along with others in this story, were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive intelligence matter.Senior officials inside the national security apparatus were briefed on the documents on April 6, the same day the leak was first reported by The New York Times, according to two other se...

Still Boston Strong: Boston police sergeant who died from injuries suffered in Watertown shootout remembered 10 years after marathon bombing, manhunt

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

As the 10 year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing and the search for the brothers behind the attack approaches, the lives lost in connection with the incidents are still being remembered. Boston Police Sergeant DJ Simmonds passed away in 2014, one year after he was injured in the shootout between law enforcement and the brothers in Watertown. His sister recently spoke to 7NEWS’ Kimberly Bookman at a playground in Randolph named in his memory. Nicole A. Simmonds-Jordan was with her children, who are getting to know an uncle they never met. “When I look at my children, I struggle to see and feel the hope and the optimism and the confidence and the protection that my parents made sure we had growing up,” Simmonds-Jordan said. “That pain is rooted from watching my parents live for the past nine years in an illogical order of them losing their son.”It has been a difficult road for the Simmonds family. Initially, DJ was not considered a victim of the marathon b...

House Seeks Big Spending Increase, Tax Relief In Budget

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

Legalizing online lottery sales and giving expected wagering revenue to child care providers, significant spending on environmental agencies, and major new investments in education and transportation headline the $56.2 billion state budget bill House Democrats rolled out Wednesday.The House Ways and Means Committee unanimously advanced its fiscal year 2024 spending plan (H 3900), opening the floodgates for hundreds of proposed amendments ahead of debate during the week of April 24.Top House leaders are pursuing significant spending increases, fueled in part by newly available surtax revenue, while they move simultaneously to phase in permanent tax relief changes gradually in the face of shifting economic currents.“Much like our proposal for tax relief, our FY24 budget proposal focuses on fiscal responsibility by balancing the current strength of revenue with the uncertain economic future brought on by inflation and external financial issues,” said House Speaker Ron Maria...

New Hampshire woman who slammed into Methuen home was under the influence of drugs: Police

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

A New Hampshire woman who drove into a Methuen home Wednesday afternoon was under the influence of drugs while behind the wheel, according to police.The 31-year-old Kingston woman is now a repeat offender, as she will face charges of operating under the influence of drugs (second offense), marked lanes violation, and speeding.Methuen Police received a 911 call at around 1:35 p.m., for a vehicle striking a building at 91 Broadway St.A Volvo station wagon had slammed into a home and caused its front porch to collapse. Two bicycles that were parked next to the building were also destroyed.The driver was taken to a local hospital for evaluation.Police at the scene determined that the woman was allegedly huffing and blacked out before the crash.Related ArticlesCrime & Public Safety | 9 killed in Army Black Hawk helicopter crash in Kentucky Crime & Public Safety | Police: Clark Grant, indicted on federal fraud charges with wife Monica Cannon-Grant, died ...

Dexter Lawrence won’t report for start of Giants offseason program due to contract situation: sources

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:35:50 GMT

Giants standout defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence won’t be reporting for the start of the Giants offseason program on Monday due to his contract situation, sources tell the Daily News.That means two of the team’s top players won’t be reporting for the start of Brian Daboll’s second offseason program: Lawrence and running back Saquon Barkley, who hasn’t signed his franchise tag tender.Lawrence, a former first-round pick, made second-team All-Pro in his fourth NFL season last fall. He is entering the fifth and final year of his rookie contract.His absence leaves Daboll without two of his key players to start year two. ()