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Justin Steele is building on his progress toward the postseason as Marcus Stroman eyes his return from the IL

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:07:20 GMT

Each year Justin Steele’s big-league experience has served as a building block for the next season’s workload.He learned in 2022, his first season as a full-time starter and third in the majors, what goes into physically and mentally getting through the long season and how he needs to prepare in the offseason to pitch into October. His foundation will be tested over the next several weeks.Steele’s five innings in Saturday’s 5-4 win against the Toronto Blue Jays continued to add to his career-high innings. Through 22 starts, two short of last year’s total, Steele has thrown 126 innings — seven more than he completed in 2022.The Cubs’ offense took advantage of Steele and the bullpen keeping the game close. Cody Bellinger tied the game in the fourth, part of a four-run inning, when he dropped down to almost one knee to take a low pitch off the right field wall for an RBI single. Dansby Swanson followed with a three-run homer to put the Cubs ahe...

Danforth businesses have ‘bittersweet’ closing to make way for Ontario line

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:07:20 GMT

While the Taste of the Danforth festival has brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Danforth Avenue area to try new cuisines and businesses after being cancelled the last three years, for some, it will be their first and last time participating in the festival.Many businesses on the Danforth will have to close to make way for the Ontario subway line that Metrolinx is building, with some having no plans to relocate elsewhere.“We’ve been around 30 years, we started on queen west near Bathurst, in 2014 we had to move from there because the rent went up really high, so then we found this location on Danforth in the Greektown, we just love it here so much, I wish we didn’t have to move out,” said Kalsang Dolkar Gyaltong, co-owner of Tibet Shoppe.“We just got out of COVID, we survived COVID, so we were thinking now good things ahead of us, and this terrible thing happened, it’s kind of a devastating kind of shock for us.”For Tibet Shoppe, ...

Syrian capital rocked by explosions but no immediate word on source or target of attacks

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:07:20 GMT

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The sound of repeated explosions could be heard in the area around the Syrian capital before dawn on Sunday, state media and Damascus residents said.There was no immediate statement from government officials on the source or target of the attack, but similar incidents in the past have usually been attributed to Israeli airstrikes, with Syrian air defenses responding to shoot down the missiles.The latest such incident was on Aug. 7, when Syrian state media reported that Israeli airstrikes hit areas around Damascus, killing at least four Syrian army soldiers. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-linked war monitor, said those strikes targeted weapons and munitions warehouses and positions of Iran-backed militias around Damascus. Israel, which has vowed to stop Iranian entrenchment next door, has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets in government-controlled parts of neighboring Syria in recent years, but it rarely acknowledges them.Israel ...

Survivors of the deadly Maui wildfire start returning to ruins. The death toll is likely to rise

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:07:20 GMT

By CLAIRE RUSH, BEATRICE DUPUY and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER (Associated Press)LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — The grim work of tallying the dead after a ferocious wildfire on the Hawaiian island of Maui came into sharp focus Saturday as crews picked through the devastation, marking homes with a bright orange X to signal they had searched for bodies and HR when they found human remains. At least 80 people perished in the inferno that swept through the centuries-old town of Lahaina on Maui’s west coast. As the homes that remained standing got their marks, residents who barely made it out alive returned to take an inventory of their loss.“Most of our focus will be on humans today,” Gov. Josh Green said Saturday as he and representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency stood under the scorched branches of an old, treasured banyan tree on historic Front Street. Green said operations were now centered on “the loss of life.” The fire reduced hundreds of...

Concert review: Ed Sheeran sets a new attendance record at U.S. Bank Stadium

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:07:20 GMT

Saturday night at U.S. Bank Stadium, Ed Sheeran did something he’s never done before at a local concert. He rocked.By that, I mean he played some rock songs with a full rock band, which is new territory for the 32-year-old Brit, who has spent the past dozen years scoring a seemingly never-ending series of worldwide hits and performing them live for increasingly larger crowds.Speaking of, Sheeran set a new attendance record for a concert at USBS and packed 72,102 folks into the place. He performed on an in-the-round stage, allowing the venue to sell seats around the entire bowl. (Previous record-holder Garth Brooks also played on a considerably smaller in-the-round stage but had seats on the floor. It was general admission for Sheeran.)Sheeran built his empire on his own back and typically performs solo, using pedals to loop vocal tics and guitar riffs and create an electronically aided bed of sound. It’s a cool trick that gets tiresome when employed for an entire two-hou...

Call-ups of top prospects bring big changes to Saints’ lineup

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:07:20 GMT

On the night the St. Paul Saints honored their past, the lineup they put on the field Saturday night at CHS Field bore little resemblance to the one that debuted under new ownership in 1993.In a way, it bore little resemblance to the one that started this season.A seismic shift took place on Aug. 3, when three players rated among the top 30 in the Twins organization — Brooks Lee, Yunior Severino and DaShawn Keirsey — were called up from Double-A Wichita, and veteran minor leaguers Mark Contreras and Alex De Goti were released.Recent history has shown that most top prospects in baseball made the leap from Double-A to the majors, with Triple-A lineups primarily made up of veteran minor leaguers who were viewed as short-term answers in the majors. The lineup the Saints put on the field these days often is made entirely of top prospects and players with substantial major league experience.“The look of the minor leagues has changed since Major League Baseball took over (in 2021),” Saints...

Dunn Landfill open to discussion by the DEC

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:07:20 GMT

RENSSELAER, N.Y. (NEWS10) -Dunn Landfill has been operating without valid permits since 2022. With two applications for permits now pending, the Department of Environmental Conservation is accepting comments from the public.The DEC kicked off the discussion August 8 in-person at the Rensselaer City School District, a ten-minute drive from the dump. The afternoon and evening brought in a large crowd to the school. With only two to three minutes to speak, participants voiced their opinions mostly of concern. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Among those at the meetings was Rensselaer Environmental Coalition Treasurer, Bob Welton. One of the issues brought up was the location of the landfill. “You need landfills, but you don’t need them next to a school. That’s one big issue. The community is really pretty unified against the land fill. They don’t want it there anymore."Back in 2020, NEWS10 met with the mayor of Rensselaer, Michael ...

1 killed, 5 injured in three-vehicle Ventura County crash

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:07:20 GMT

One person was killed and five others were injured after a three-vehicle crash in Ventura County Friday night.California Highway Patrol responded to a collision on SR-1, just south of Las Posas Road around 4:35 p.m.The driver killed was only identified as a person driving a white 2022 BMW.The other victims included:- A 34-year-old man and 33-year-old man in a 2012 Ford truck- A 30-year-old man, 28-year-old woman, and 23-year-old woman in a 2019 HondaAll victims, besides the person killed, were confirmed as Oxnard residents, officers said.At the time, the Ford truck was traveling northbound while two other vehicles — the BMW and the Honda — were traveling southbound. Video captures mob of robbers swarming Nordstrom in Topanga mall For unknown reasons, the BMW crossed over solid double yellow lines into the northbound lanes and crashed head-on into the truck.The impact pushed the truck over into the southbound lanes, causing the oncoming Honda to slam into the truck.When authorities...

Southern California hiker falls to death in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:07:20 GMT

A Southern California woman fell to her death while hiking a steep, craggy peak in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park on Friday.Park rangers say Joy Cho of Simi Valley was hiking with seven other people when she fell off the west side of Teewinot Mountain in the early morning. She died at the scene, and her body was flown from the area by helicopter.National Park Service officials did not say how old Cho was, what caused her to fall or how far she fell.Teewinot, a popular destination for mountaineers, is an exposed peak that reaches 12,325 feet (3,757 meters) above sea level.

SF Giants can’t recover from Rangers’ pitcher switcheroo, another dud from Cobb

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:07:20 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Bruce Bochy was always known for his bullpen strategy, and he pulled out a doozy Saturday evening that flummoxed the Giants and his counterpart, Gabe Kapler.Starting a lineup that featured seven right-handed hitters, the Giants had no answer when the Bochy pulled his starter, lefty Andrew Heaney, in the second inning for funky right-hander Grant Anderson, who teamed up with Chris Stratton to mow down the Giants on their way to another listless loss, 9-3.The Rangers’ (70-47) surprise switcheroo put the matchup-dependent Giants (62-55) on the wrong side of the platoon advantage for much of the game, managing only one run on four hits from the third through the eighth inning, until Heliot Ramos tacked on one run in the ninth with his first career home run against lefty Brock Burke, performing mop-up duty.They went 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base, three of whom were stranded after a bases-loaded, inning-ending double play immedi...