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MLB to stage Negro Leagues tribute game at Rickwood Field next June honoring Willie Mays

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:14 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball will stage a Negro Leagues tribute game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 20, 2024, between the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals.The 10,800-seat stadium, opened in 1910, is the oldest professional ballpark in the U.S. and a National Historic Site. The stadium was home to the Birmingham Black Barons from 1924-60.“It’s an honor. Any time I get to represent my culture like that, especially on the MLB level, it’s always a joy,” said Cardinals rookie Jordan Walker, who is Black. “All I got to do is stay healthy and ready and I want to play in that game, for sure.”The game will honor Hall of Famer Willie Mays, an Alabama native who began his professional career with the team in 1948.“Willie played there, oldest ballpark in the nation,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said. “Really incredible opportunity for our organization. Really excited about it.”MLB said Tuesday it is staging the game around the Juneteenth holiday, which...

Cat adoption nonprofit says shady contractor left them out to dry

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:14 GMT

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (KDVR) — A Lakewood cat adoption nonprofit is asking for the community's help after they say a shoddy contractor left them out thousands of dollars. Angels with Paws is in the process of moving to a larger facility off 19th Avenue and Kipling Street, where they say they paid a contractor to install expensive panels to keep cats from scratching the walls. 11 new Colorado laws go into effect in July That's when treasurer Dalaina Miller said they discovered the contractor was doing the work the wrong way."If you nail them, it destroys the integrity and makes them nonwaterproof any longer," Miller said. "So it had to be removed. There was no fixing it other than removing it and redoing it."How to help the cat adoption centerMiller said they don't have the money to purchase new panels, and the contractor has disappeared.“We can’t find him on the secretary of state's website, or an address, or even an address for the business," she said. "It's just like, poof — he disapp...

Residents complain about unsanitary pool conditions at South Florida condo

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:14 GMT

A big benefit to condo living are the amenities. But residents in one community say they are paying for a pool they can’t use. So they turned to Kevin Ozebek and the 7 Investigates team for help. On a scorching South Florida day, there’s nothing better than a dip in a pool. Unless it’s this pool at the Azul Kimberly Lake Condo Complex in Oakland Park.Kevin Ozebek: “Describe the smell coming off this pool.”William Cipriani/Condo owner: “It’s a stench. Something is foul. “I mean there are ducks, you know, defecating in it. There are algae growing.”William Cipriani owns a unit here and reached out to 7 Investigates after the Florida Department of Health shut down the pool on May 18.The state inspector listed violations that included, “Excessive algae” and “excessive debris, dirt, and leaves.”The inspector also tested the water and found no chlorine.William Cipriani: “Little kids, you know, jump in the ...

Police arrest suspect accused of firing over 30 rounds in Miami neighborhood back in March

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:14 GMT

A suspected shooter was stopped months after, police said, he unloaded in a South Florida neighborhood. The shots rocked the neighborhood months ago when gang unit officials called it an attempted hit.After surveillance footage obtained and aired exclusively by 7News, authorities said 21-year-old David Lee Hayward was the one who fired multiple shots on March 7. Hayward chased a man through the Silver Bluff neighborhood and was caught. He shot around 30 rounds of bullets with some missing targets, but some bullets went into a house on Southwest 23rd Street. Luckily nobody was hit.“You’re charged with attempted felony murder,” said Judge Diana Gonzalez-Whyte.Neighbors reached out to 7News after multiple shots were heard on their block.“I don’t feel safe,” said Neighbor. “The objective is to just kill this guy”“It’s unpleasant and somehow frightening,” said another neighbor. The bullet holes were still on the wall of ...

Residents in Miami-Dade hope to stop thieves from breaking into their mailboxes

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:14 GMT

Thieves struck twice in the last few months and took off with residents’ mail in Southwest Miami-Dade.The residents are now hoping something can be done to stop them.On Monday, it was a federal holiday, which meant residents had no mail service, but that didn’t stop a stranger from breaking into their mailbox.Surveillance video caught the thief removing whatever was inside.“It’s just not one house, it’s the whole neighborhood,” said said Rey. “Forced me that we are being hit and our mailbox has been broken in, and then when I leave in the morning I go through the neighborhood and every mailbox in the neighborhood is open.” Rey and Angie said that they were hit on April 26 too and that their neighborhood at Southwest 191st Terrace and 128th Court in Southwest Miami-Dade has become a frequent target.The father and daughter asked 7News to conceal their identity.They are blaming an organized group for stealing everything from credit cards...

Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill under investigation for alleged assault in NE Miami-Dade

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:14 GMT

Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill is under investigation for an alleged assault.According to reporting by the Sun Sentinel, Hill, who has been with the Dolphins for two seasons, is now the subject of the investigation after an alleged incident occurred at Haulover Park. TMZ Sports reported that the 29-year-old athlete was allegedly involved in some sort of assault and battery that happened over the weekend. Hill has dealt with legal issues in the past when he was with the Kansas City Chiefs and when he was in college. Over the weekend, Hill posted a video of himself and his agent fishing on a boat. What happened before or after the video is at the forefront of the investigation by Miami-Dade County Police. The Miami Dolphins late Tuesday night released a statement, which reads as follows, “We are aware of the situation and have been in contact with Tyreek, his representatives and the NFL. We will reserve further comment at this time.”

Ukraine is winning — and it is changing

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:14 GMT

Denys Shmyhal is the prime minister of Ukraine.What will Ukraine’s victory in this war look like?We often hear this question from our international partners. However, Ukraine is fighting an existential war — a war for  survival. Therefore, Russia’s aggression against our country is a zero-sum game. Russia wants to destroy Ukraine; Ukraine wants to survive. And under these circumstances, it’s difficult to find compromise.Today, for Ukraine, a stable and just peace is impossible without the implementation of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ten-point peace plan, restoring the country’s territorial integrity, establishing justice and building a new European security architecture.The outcome of this war will not only determine how people will live in Ukraine, but also how they will live in the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, France or Lithuania in the years to come. It is a war for the future of Europe, and for the world order that has been so obviously viol...

Inside Chechnya’s gulag for gay men

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:14 GMT

YEREVAN, Armenia — It was winter and the apple trees that line the streets of Grozny were bare when Salman Mukayev’s phone rang. “I’m an officer with the Leninsky police department,” the voice on the other end said. “What is your name? How long have you been using this number? There has been some fraud on your account — we’d be grateful if you could come down to the station tomorrow to clear things up.”Mukayev, a 40-year-old shop assistant from the capital of Russia’s southern Chechnya region, had never had any problems with the authorities before. He turned off the phone and put it in a drawer.Then his wife got a call, he says. “He isn’t here,” she insisted, “he lives at another address. If you’re really investigators, you’ll have to find him for yourselves.”Two weeks later, they did. A black car pulled up outside Mukayev’s house and three men in dark uniforms climbed out. At least one was carrying a gun.Once inside the unassuming police station building, set back from the tower bl...

Ukraine’s communities need support for their green recovery

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:14 GMT

Laurence Tubiana is the chief executive of the European Climate Foundation and the former architect of the 2015 U.N. Paris Agreement on Climate ChangeIn the 21st century, standing alongside an invaded country requires more than providing diplomatic and military support. Thus, there’s a growing consensus that Europe must focus on a sustainable economic recovery for Ukraine.Along these lines, a new donor coordination body has just begun work to bring together international support for the country’s reconstruction. And last month, G7 nations confirmed they were backing “the sustainable and resilient recovery and green reconstruction of Ukraine.Rebuilding a prewar version of Ukraine would be unthinkable. An old-style economy based on fossil fuels means fragile sovereignty, and it would scare off investors wary of financing assets that belong in the last century. It would be no recovery at all.Renewables, however, are aligned with peace, security and independence for Ukraine. They are th...

‘That’s crazy’: Officials say 32-year-old woman fraudulently enrolled at 3 Boston high schools

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:14 GMT

A 32-year-old former social worker has been ordered to stay away from Boston Public Schools property after officials say she used forged documents to fraudulently enroll in three different Boston high schools.In a letter to families, Boston Public Schools officials say the woman attended Brighton, English, and Jeremiah Burke high schools under different names throughout the 2022-2023 school year. The Department of Children and Families has confirmed the woman periodically worked for them as a social worker between 2016 and this year but is not longer employed by the agency.Eugene Vanburea, a student at Brighton High School, said, “That’s kind of crazy I don’t know , that’s crazy, I don’t know why they want to act like they’re a student in their 30s.”A police report shows officers became concerned about the possibility of human trafficking but Boston Mayor Wu said there has been no evidence of that. “I’m very thankful at this moment, there ha...