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Rebuilding Flyers willing to be patient with top pick Matvei Michkov of Russia

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Philadelphia Flyers are in rebuilding mode, so that makes waiting for Matvei Michkov to finish his commitment in Russia a bit easier.The Flyers answered perhaps the biggest question coming into Wednesday night’s NHL draft by taking the Russian right winger at No. 7 overall.Michkov wasn’t the first Russian selected. That was defenseman Dmitriy Simashev at No. 6 by Arizona despite Michkov being considered possibly the best Russian prospect since Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin in 2005. Now the Flyers have no choice but to be patient after the team drafted a Russian in the first round for the third time in its history.“We can’t wait to have that answer ourselves,” general manager Daniel Briere said of exactly when Michkov will play for Philadelphia. “It is what it is. We know he has got a contract for three more seasons. But for us we just felt after watching him play and after meeting him, we just felt it’s a talent that we cannot pa...

Family fears accused murderer could post bond after court ruling

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — A recent court from the Colorado Supreme Court has a family in Arapahoe County very worried.The Bloch family said the person who killed their loved one could be out on bond on Thursday.David Lechner was arrested back in March in the shooting death of his wife, Tracy. Tracy's brother, Ben Bloch, talked about his sister and her life, he also talked about the plan he has to make to keep his family safe if Tracy's husband posts bond. 16-year-old accused of murdering girlfriend Lechner's bond hearing is Thursday at an Arapahoe County courthouse, and Bloch said he will be there."She suffered an unjust murder by David Lechner, leaving my 9- and 7-year-old niece and nephew without parents," Bloch said.The justice system must work through its process, but Bloch is convinced of who killed his sister and the danger that person poses to his family."It's just not right for somebody who's killed somebody to be allowed back into the community with an anklet, with ...

Pop-up encampment at day shelter angers neighbors

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — What some are calling a growing homeless encampment outside of a Denver shelter and resource center has some residents concerned and the center’s staff taking action to ensure everyone who needs assistance has safe access. The Denver metro area now has more than 7,000 people living on the streets, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mystery gas sickens 17 at Colorado campground Residents near The Gathering Place, located near High Street and Colfax Avenue, say a makeshift encampment is growing outside of the facility. "We’re out picking up trash, human feces on a regular basis," Rachel Schwab said. FOX31 found loitering in the alley at the back of the building as well. “There’s drug activity, there are a lot of gunshots," Lynese Hill said.Day shelter helps tens of thousandsThe Gathering Place is a day shelter that offers support and empowerment to women, transgender and non-binary individuals and children experiencing poverty and home...

Could the short-term rental decline affect Denver's housing market?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A lag in the short-term rental market could force some Airbnb owners to sell. It's all part of the slowdown in post-pandemic travel, and it's happening across the country. Denver metro housing prices rising toward last year’s peak Kelly Moye, with the Colorado Association of Realtors, has spent 32 years in the business. Right now, she said the biggest challenge is inventory."We have way more buyer demand than we do listings to sell them," Moye said. But with the downturn in the short-term rental market, specifically with Airbnb renters, more houses could hit the market."I don’t really think there’s any big surprise as we’re all getting back to travel that the short-term rentals are not going to be quite as profitable as they were before," Moye said.4 Colorado counties among top short-term rental declinesReventure Consulting recently published data from AllTheRooms showing the top 25 Airbnb rental declines by county. Four of them were in Colorado: Larimer,...

Inside Biden’s dramatic backchannel to Russia as a near-coup unfolded

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

Last weekend, as President Joe Biden and top national security aides watched a dramatic — and ultimately, short lived — coup attempt play out in Russia, officials decided they needed to communicate directly with the Kremlin.Using a regular diplomatic channel, administration officials told counterparts inside President Vladimir Putin’s suddenly wobbly government that the White House viewed the mutiny led by the Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin as an internal Russian matter. They would not be making any changes to U.S. or NATO troop positions. There was no need, the U.S. side made clear, for any direct talks between Biden and Putin or other high-ranking officials.“Everything was done to ensure that Russia didn’t see an American hand in all this,” said Ian Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group who first wrote about the backchannel conversation in his weekly client newsletter. “From a U.S. perspective, that was actually quite useful, being able to communicate to Moscow that Americ...

Italian hospitals imported substandard cancer drug not approved in EU

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

At least 16 hospitals in Italy have been treating cancer patients with a poor-quality imported drug that is not approved for use in the EU, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) and POLITICO have found. Gaps in national and EU medicines regulations have allowed Italian hospitals to legally request shipments of Celginase — a low-cost cancer medicine shown to be substandard — even when better alternatives have been available. Neither Italy’s drugs regulator nor the country’s ministry of health are responsible for checking the quality, efficacy or safety of this drug before allowing it into Italian hospitals. Nor does it fall within the remit of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Yet, hundreds of vials of the drug have arrived from India over the last seven years. It is unknown how many cancer patients could have experienced adverse side effects or lower chances of remission as a result. Many vials still sit on hospital shelves today.Celginase is a brand of asp...

Domingo German makes history, throws Yankees’ fourth perfect game

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

Fresh off two of the worst starts of his career, Domingo German delivered the definitive game of his life.The right-hander faced the minimum on Wednesday, twirling the fourth perfect game in Yankees history in an 11-0 win over the lowly A’s. German did so with dazzling efficiency, requiring just 99 pitches while striking out nine in Oakland.German, mourning the recent death of an uncle, had to overcome two lengthy delays to achieve perfection, as the Yankees’ six-run fifth took 24 minutes and forced German to stay loose in the bullpen. More stoppage occurred in the seventh when A’s reliever Yacksel Rios left with an injury.But German, leaning heavily on his heater, a devastating curveball and Kyle Higashioka’s brilliant game-calling behind the plate, waited Oakland out and etched his name into the history books. Only 23 other men have been perfect, including the Yankees’ David Cone in 1999, David Wells in 1998 and Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series.The...

Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán throws perfect game against Oakland A’s, the 24th in MLB history

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

By MICHAEL WAGAMAN (Associated Press)OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Domingo Germán of the New York Yankees pitched the 24th perfect game in major league history Wednesday night, retiring every Oakland batter in an 11-0 victory over the Athletics.It was the first perfect game since Seattle Mariners ace Félix Hernández threw one against the Tampa Bay Rays on Aug. 15, 2012. There were three that season — but none since until Germán finished the first no-hitter in the big leagues this year. He joined Don Larsen (1956), David Wells (1998) and David Cone (1999) as Yankees pitchers to throw perfect games. Larsen’s gem came in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers.“So exciting,” Germán said through a translator. “When you think about something very unique in baseball, not many people have an opportunity to pitch a perfect game. To accomplish something like this in my career is something that I’m going to remem...

Despite rally capped by Adam Frazier’s homer, Orioles fall to Reds, 11-7, in 10 innings for series loss: ‘It just kind of got away’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

The Orioles twice came back from three-run deficits to send Wednesday night’s game to extra innings, but they ran out of gas in the 10th.After Adam Frazier’s two-run home run in the eighth tied the score, reliever Keegan Akin imploded two innings later, allowing four runs as Baltimore fell, 11-7, to the Cincinnati Reds at Camden Yards.Three of the first four batters Akin faced in the 10th recorded extra-base hits, as the left-hander continued his recent struggles. Will Benson tripled home the unearned automatic runner, TJ Friedl blasted a two-run homer, and Luke Maile roped a double and later scored on a wild pitch.“We just came up a little short,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “They just played a little better than we did tonight.”Orioles starter Kyle Gibson was tagged for three runs in each of the first two innings for his second straight rough start. The offense backed him up, though, batting around in the bottom half of the first to take a brief ...

Lucas: Alliance with Russia looking like less of a good bet for China

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin may still be buddies, but don’t look for China to be taking any advice from Putin these days.Especially when it comes to invading another country.Because what happened to Putin and Russia as a result of his ill-advised and botched invasion of Ukraine could happen to Xi Jinping and China who are intent on taking over Taiwan.Such an invasion could blow up in Xi’s face, the way the Ukraine has blown up in Putin’s, especially if Xi has a Yevgeny Prigozhin or two secreted somewhere in the vast Communist bureaucracy.Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.Prigozhin, of course, is the ruthless head of the equally ruthless mercenary Wagner Group, who sought to turn on Putin in an astounding political development, that included an abated march on Moscow.Prigozhin, fighting the Ukrainians as well as Putin’s top generals, denied he had launched a military coup against his old friend and mentor Putin “This is not a m...