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Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson returns to full training after hamstring injury

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:03:56 GMT

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has returned to full training ahead of Saturday’s game at Crystal Palace.The Brazil international has missed the past three matches since injuring his hamstring at the end of Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Manchester City two weeks ago.“Alisson looks good,” manager Jurgen Klopp said on Friday. “I don’t know if good enough now for tomorrow. I have to check that with the coaches and the medical department and with Ali of course.”Alisson resumed full training with the team on Thursday, Klopp said.Backup goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher has started in his place for a win in the Europa League over Austrian club LASK followed by Premier League victories over Fulham and Sheffield United.Klopp was less optimistic about the status of midfielder Alexis Mac Allister, who needed stitches on a cut to his knee sustained in Wednesday’s 2-0 win at Sheffield.“I don’t expect him to be ready for tomorrow,” the manager said.___AP so...

Copa América 2024: así quedaron los grupos tras el sorteo

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:03:56 GMT

MIAMI, Florida – La campeona Argentina quedó encuadrada el jueves en el grupo A de la Copa América de 2024 con Perú, Chile y el ganador entre Canadá y Trinidad y Tobago, mientras que Brasil, Colombia, Paraguay y el ganador entre Costa Rica y Honduras integran el grupo D, a priori el más duro, según el sorteo celebrado en el sur de Florida. El grupo más igualado es en el papel es el B, con México, Ecuador, Venezuela y Jamaica, mientras que Estados Unidos, país anfitrión, es cabeza de serie en el grupo C, con Uruguay, Panamá y Bolivia.La Copa América de 2024 echará a andar el 20 de junio de 2024 en Atlanta y concluirá el 14 de julio en Miami, con 16 selecciones en juego y la Argentina campeona del mundo, comandada por Leo Messi, defendiendo el título conquistado en 2021.Fue precisamente el seleccionador argentino, Lionel Scaloni, en llevar al escenario del James L. Knight Center de Miami el trofeo de la Copa América. Conoce las 14 sedes en Estados Unidos para la Co...

Vandal wanted for causing $16K worth of damage to Parker memorial park

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:03:56 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Parker police are searching for a suspect who allegedly caused more than $16,000 worth of damage to two parks, including a memorial park.Between Nov. 21 and Dec. 5, the Parker Police Department said a total of 11 trees at the Angel Memorial Garden at McCabe Meadows Park and the Salisbury Equestrian Park were cut down or damaged. Playground equipment at Salisbury Equestrian Park was also damaged, as well as two wooden posts.In total, the suspect allegedly caused $16,600 worth of damages. Colorado Parks and Wildlife spots rare 1 in 100,000 piebald cow elk According to Parker Police, this is the third time the Angel Memorial Garden has been vandalized.The Rowan Tree Foundation is a nonprofit that honors children who were lost at the Angel Memorial Garden. They spoke out after they found damage to the park on Nov. 21 and Nov. 24 after five memorial trees were “chopped down by someone, for no other reason than to destroy.”“We’ve seen some dark stuff so we...

2 organized crime groups arrested after theft of more than 40 marijuana dispensaries

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:03:56 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Members from two organized crime groups are facing charges after allegedly burglarizing more than 40 marijuana dispensaries resulting in the theft of approximately $780,000 in cash and property. Following multi-agency investigations conducted by city, state and nationwide agencies, 23 members of the two separate organized crime groups will be charged with stealing or carjacking vehicles and using them to burglarize marijuana dispensaries, federal firearms licensees and other businesses in the Denver metro area between September 2022 and November 2023.  Suspected DUI driver crashes into 2 police officers, 2 firefighters on I-76 The defendants will face other charges including aggravated robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms (including a firearm linked to an open murder investigation) and violations of the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, according to Denver District Attorney Beth McCann.“These arrests send an unmistakable message that ...

BCPS and BSO launch campaign warning teenagers of sextortion crimes

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:03:56 GMT

Broward County Public Schools and the Broward Sheriff’s Office are spreading awareness to a crime that targets teenagers. On Friday, Superintendent Peter Licata and Sheriff Gregory Tony discussed a new campaign aimed at combating sextortion. Sextortion is a form of blackmail where a suspect threatens to distribute a victim’s sexual content if their demands are not met.“Sextortion is more of a threat to our students and to our school population in general then what we’re dealing with in terms of violence,” Tony said.In the past, sextortion mostly target young women, but, according to officials, the crime has elevated to financial sextortion and the victims are now mostly young men. To combat these crimes, BCPS and BSO are teaming up to warn teenagers and parents to be vigilant. “The message out to everybody, make them aware so that our kids, when they are online, they think before they send, they think before twice if I’m talking to a girl or...

TSA advises do’s and don’ts for travelers who plan to travel with their gun

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:03:56 GMT

TSA wants travelers to be mindful about their carry-on items this holiday season, especially if you plan to travel with your firearm.TSA officials report that since it became legal to carry a gun without a permit in the state of Florida, almost 200 guns have been taken at security checkpoints across South Florida’s two largest airports, and 750 confiscations statewide in just six months. “There’s some confusion with everyone thinking they can bring their guns through the checkpoint.. it is still illegal,” said Sgt. Toni Hopkins from the Broward Sheriff’s Office. TSA officials said the uptick in gun confiscations at South Florida airports is due to people taking their guns everywhere with them “It becomes part of a daily routine. People are heading out the door now with firearm, keys, wallet and cell phone to go about their business,” said TSA’s Mark Howell. That’s why the TSA is reminding passengers of the do’s and don̵...

Two gene therapies for sickle cell disease approved in US

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:03:56 GMT

Regulators on Friday approved two new gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S.The Food and Drug Administration said the one-time treatments can be used for patients 12 and older with severe forms of the disease. One, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, is the first approved therapy based on CRISPR, the gene editing tool that won its inventors the Nobel Prize in 2020. The other is made by Bluebird Bio and works differently.“Sickle cell disease is a rare, debilitating and life-threatening blood disorder with significant unmet need,” the FDA’s Dr. Nicole Verdun said in a statement announcing the approvals. “”We are excited to advance the field especially for individuals whose lives have been severely disrupted by the disease.”In the U.S., an estimated 100,000 people have the disease and about a fifth of them have the severe form. Sickl...

Finland: We ‘trust’ China will help probe Baltic Sea pipeline damage

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:03:56 GMT

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said she trusts Chinese authorities to assist Finland in its investigation into the Baltic Sea gas pipeline damage, which Helsinki suspects was carried out by Chinese boat Newnew Polar Bear.“Now that the vessel has indeed arrived in China, there will be joint action together with the Chinese authorities and the Finnish ones and probably also the Estonian ones to investigate,” Valtonen told POLITICO in an interview Friday. “On a diplomatic level, China has promised their assistance for the investigation and we trust them to help us out in this, that we have a thorough and transparent investigation,” she added.A Finnish probe has identified Chinese container ship Newnew Polar Bear as the primary suspect in the rupture of the Balticconnector, a 77-kilometer-long gas pipeline that connects the NATO members Estonia and Finland beneath the Baltic Sea. Authorities believe the vessel dragged its anchor across the Baltic Sea bed, cutting through t...

Harvard president apologizes amid backlash over antisemitism testimony

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:03:56 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of Harvard University has apologized for her remarks at a congressional hearing on antisemitism, saying she got caught up in a heated exchange and failed to properly denounce threats of violence against Jewish students.In an interview Thursday with The Crimson student newspaper, President Claudine Gay clarified her response to a line of questioning that asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate Harvard’s code of conduct. At the Tuesday hearing, Gay said it depended on the context, adding that when “speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.”Gay’s response has drawn intense national backlash, as have similar responses from the presidents of MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, who joined Gay in testifying before the Republican-led House Education and Workforce Committee. Wealthy donors and some members of Congress in both parties have called for their resignations.Gay told The Crimson she w...

Wilmington Police arrest suspect following police pursuit, car crash, escape from scene

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:03:56 GMT

A Tewksbury man is under arrest following a dramatic series of events early Friday morning across multiple jurisdictions.Ron Jeremiah Bell Jr., 24, is facing multiple charges, including assault with a dangerous weapon, carrying a firearm without a license, resisting arrest, and posession of a class B substance.Around 1:30 Friday morning officers initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle operating erratically. The driver fled south on I-93 in the vehicle, out of authorities’ sight. A short time later the car was seen on Lowell Street in Wilmington, where it attempted to ram a police cruiser twice.Officers then pursued the vehicle north on I-93; it exited the highway at Exit 35 and soon crashed on Andover Street before 2 a.m. The driver, believed to be Bell, fled into a wooded area, leaving behind the female passenger of his car. She was transported to Lahey Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.Bell was located at 7 a.m. after an hours long search conducted by Wil...