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$100,000 reward to solve San Francisco quadruple shooting

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:36:50 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Police announced a $100,000 reward on Tuesday with hopes of catching the killer responsible for a quadruple shooting in a San Francisco park. The victims were playing basketball in Alice Chalmers Park on April 3, 2022 when a brazen gunman opened fire in broad daylight. Brandon Alexander Cheese, 22, and Kieran Carlson, 20, were killed. Two more victims were shot in the melee and survived.The killer slipped away from the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood before San Francisco Police Department officers arrived. Nearly one year later, no arrests have been made. Brandon Cheese smiles with his young daughter. (Image courtesy Silvia Lopez)The SFPD announced the reward has been increased from $50,000 to $100,000 for information that helps crack the case. "The San Francisco Police Department is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the murder of Kieran Carlson and Brandon Alexander C...

Barnes has 22, career-high 12 assists, as Raptors beat Heat

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:36:50 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Pascal Siakam scored 26 points, Scottie Barnes had 22 points and a career-high 12 assists and the Toronto Raptors beat the Miami Heat 106-92 on Tuesday night.O.G. Anunoby scored 22 points, and Precious Achiuwa and Fred VanVleet each had 12 as Toronto won for the 10th time in 11 home games. The Raptors evened their record at 38-38 after outscoring the Heat 62-36 on points in the paint, and 23-10 on fast-break points.Tyler Herro scored 33 points and Bam Adebayo had 21 points and 12 rebounds as Miami lost its second straight. The Heat are 15-22 on the road.Miami played without leading scorer Jimmy Butler, who sat because of a sore neck. Former Raptor Kyle Lowry had six points and five rebounds in 24 minutes. The sellout crowd of 19,800 responded with a warm ovation when Lowry checked in to start the second quarter.Toronto won three of four against Miami, winning the season series for the first time since a 4-0 sweep in 2018-19.The Raptors are 8-0 this season when holding...

Point scores 2, Lightning snap skid with shutout of ‘Canes

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:36:50 GMT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Brayden Point had two goals and an assist and the Tampa Bay Lightning snapped a four-game losing streak by defeating the Carolina Hurricanes 4-0 on Tuesday night.Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves, including 12 in the third period, for his third shutout of the season.Steven Stamkos added a goal and an assist as the Lightning wrapped up a four-game road stretch with a much-needed result to stay in good position to reach the playoffs. Alex Killorn scored an empty-net goal with 4:21 remaining.Pyotr Kochetkov made 17 saves as the Hurricanes lost for the third time in four games (1-2-1). Carolina was blanked for the third time in a 10-game stretch.Stamkos scored 5:58 into the second period. He hung out near the net and was on the receiving end of Mikhail Sergachev’s pass, sliding the puck under Kochetkov’s pads for his 31st goal this season.Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kocherov also was credited with an assist on the game’s first goal, giving him 75 this season. He added another...

Frost scores 2 goals, leads Flyers to 4th straight win

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:36:50 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Morgan Frost scored his second goal of the game with 2:15 left in the third period and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 on Tuesday night.Frost gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead in the second period with a goal just as the power play expired and he clinched their fourth straight win off a 2-on-1 effort for his 16th goal of the season and a 2-1 lead. Owen Tippett added an empty-netter.Brendan Gallagher and Rafael Harvey-Pinard scored for the Canadiens, who were eliminated from playoff contention with the loss. The Flyers wrapped a seven-game homestand at 5-1-1 and play three more home games before the season mercifully comes to an end. One of the worst teams in the Eastern Conference, the Flyers will miss the playoffs for a third straight seasonCoach John Tortorella, who won his 700th career game this season, has been tasked with turning the Flyers into winners. Despite the late push at home, his first season has been a disaster in just about every ...

North Texas reaches NIT finals, shuts down Wisconsin 56-54

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:36:50 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tylor Perry scored 14 of his 16 points in the first half, Rubin Jones scored all 12 of his after halftime and North Texas closed on a 10-0 run to beat Wisconsin 56-54 on Tuesday night in the semifinals of the NIT.North Texas (30-7) advances to the program’s first NIT championship game on Thursday. Conference USA is now 16-1 this postseason.North Texas, which trailed 41-29 at halftime, took its first lead of the game at 56-54 with 2:08 remaining on Moulaye Sissoko’s shot in the lane to cap a 10-0 run. Wisconsin forward Tyler Wahl missed two free throws with 49.1 seconds left and North Texas worked the clock down before Perry had it poked away. Wahl had a shot blocked at the rim, but Wisconsin secured the loose ball and called a timeout with 5.8 left. Wisconsin got it inside to Wahl but Sissoko knocked it away and dove on the ball to end it.The Mean Green, the nation’s leader in scoring defense at 55.7 points per game, held Wisconsin without a point for th...

Maryland fends off plan to have wastewater from Ohio train derailment treated at Baltimore facility

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:36:50 GMT

The plan was to have 675,000 gallons of contaminated wastewater on its way to Maryland from East Palestine, Ohio, by Thursday.But that plan came to a screeching halt Tuesday after Maryland state and congressional lawmakers objected and Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott moved to block the shipment.On Tuesday, Clean Harbors, the company handling contaminated runoff and wastewater from the site of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in Ohio last month, issued a statement saying it was no longer planning to ship the wastewater to Baltimore for eventual treatment at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Dundalk.More Local NewsMore DC NewsMore Maryland NewsThe Back River treatment facility, owned and operated by Baltimore City, has had a troubled history — the latest episode related to an explosion on the site less than two weeks ago.Doug Myers, a senior scientist with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, told WTOP that it was surprising that the Back River plant would be considered f...

Lionel Messi surpasses 100 career goals for Argentina

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:36:50 GMT

SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, Argentina (AP) — Lionel Messi scored a hat trick and surpassed 100 career goals for Argentina with three in the first half of Tuesday’s international friendly against Curacao. The World Cup winners beat the Caribbean side 7-0 in their second match since clinching the trophy in December.The 35-year-old Messi opened the scoring against Curacao in the 20th minute with a right-foot shot from the edge of the box to reach the 100-goal milestone. Nico Gonzalez added another three minutes later with a header from close range.Messi then scored his 101st for Argentina in the 33rd minute with a crossed shot to the right of the goalkeeper and his 102nd in the 37th after an easy run to score. Two minutes earlier he had assisted Enzo Fernandez’ blast from the edge of the box. The Argentine captain trails only two players on the list of most goals scored for national teams in official matches; Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, with 122, and Iran’s Ali Daei, with 109.__...

Short-handed Wizards rout Celtics 130-111

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:36:50 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kristaps Porzingis had 32 points and 13 rebounds, and the Washington Wizards boosted their flickering postseason hopes with a 130-111 victory over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night.The Wizards won despite the absence of Bradley Beal (left knee soreness) and Kyle Kuzma (right ankle sprain) and pulled within 2 1/2 games of Chicago for the final play-in spot in the Eastern Conference. Washington has six games remaining in the regular season.The Celtics had their three-game winning streak snapped and fell to 2 1/2 games behind Milwaukee for the top record in the NBA. Jayson Tatum led Boston with 28 points, but the Celtics trailed 64-51 at halftime, and then their deficit rose to as many as 23 points in the third quarter.Milwaukee plays at Indiana on Wednesday before a showdown Thursday against the Celtics.Deni Avdija matched a career high with 25 points and added 10 rebounds for Washington. Monte Morris scored 19 points.Jaylen Brown contributed 18 points for the Celt...

Petro anuncia que convocará a varios países a una conferencia para promover el diálogo en Venezuela

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:36:50 GMT

(CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia Gustavo Petro anunció este martes que planea convocar a representantes de varios países de Europa, Latinoamérica y a Estados Unidos a una conferencia que buscará “promover el diálogo entre sectores de Venezuela”.Mediante un comunicado, el gobierno de Petro informó que el encuentro se llevaría a cabo en Bogotá, en fecha “por definirse”.“El mandatario buscará un diálogo directo con la oposición venezolana en la reunión, cuya fecha no está acordada, pero se definirá después de Semana Santa”, precisa el texto.Gustavo Petro dice que Colombia debe ayudar a Haití por una relación histórica y por el rol de mercenarios en el asesinato de Jovenel MoïseEl gobierno agregó que esta conferencia fue uno de los puntos tratados entre el cuestionado presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, y Petro, durante sus recientes reuniones, incluida la del jueves en Caracas.“El objetivo de la reunión es reabrir caminos y construir una hoja de ruta para estimular ...

“Se volvió ‘cool’ ser latino”: Bad Bunny protagoniza la primera portada de TIME completamente en español

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:36:50 GMT

(CNN Español) — La carrera de Bad Bunny va de éxito en éxito. El artista puertorriqueño protagoniza la primera portada completamente en español de la revista TIME, con el título “El mundo de Bad Bunny”. Y, justo arriba, una cita que parece advertencia: “No voy a hacer otra cosa para que te guste a ti”.Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, su nombre de pila, aparece vestido de negro y con una flor blanca en el pecho, adelante de un fondo rojo. En la entrevista que le dio a TIME habla sin tapujos de los diferentes ámbitos de su vida: desde su infancia en Puerto Rico y la relación con su familia hasta la fama, el reguetón y el alcance que tiene la música latina actualmente.“Se volvió ‘cool’ ser latino. No solo están haciendo la música, están tratando de copiar el flujo de los latinos. Pero luego pienso; nuestra cultura y nuestra música se extienden por todas partes. Impacta a personas en otros lugares. Quieren probarlo y sentirlo. Entonces, ¿por qué me va ...