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Michael Bonallack, amateur great and R&A secretary, dies at 88

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:05:34 GMT

Michael Bonallack once said he never considered turning pro because he didn’t realize he was good enough until he was too old. No matter. His influence on the game was enormous, from his standing as Britain’s greatest amateur to his running the Royal & Ancient Golf Club.Bonallack died on Tuesday at age 88, a month after he made one last appearance at St. Andrews for the opening ceremony of the Walker Cup.Jack Nicklaus said Bonallack always embraced the game’s traditions and that his friend of 65 years was “important voice through golf’s growth, evolution and global expansion.”“He was an influential ambassador, and someone always dedicated to properly shaping the future of the next generations of golfers,” Nicklaus said in a statement.Bonallack was a five-time British Amateur and five-time English Amateur champion, part of nine Walker Cup teams and the playing captain when Great Britain & Ireland won for the first time after World War II.Bonallack late...

Man City out of the League Cup after 1-0 loss at Newcastle. Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea advance

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:05:34 GMT

NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Manchester City seems to win every competition it enters these days except the English League Cup.Newcastle beat Man City 1-0 on Wednesday in the third round of the League Cup which also eluded Pep Guardiola’s team during its storied treble last season. Guardiola’s agitation at his team’s first defeat of the season showed by getting a yellow card in the closing minutes for dissent to the match officials.Leaving star starters Erling Haaland, Kyle Walker and Phil Foden on the bench, Man City still dominated the first half without making its possession count with a goal.Alexander Isak struck in the 53rd for Newcastle which also made sweeping lineup changes to rest key players for another midweek fixture sandwiched between two Champions League challenges.The goal was created by Joelinton’s dribble into and across the penalty area past four City defenders before squaring a pass that found Isak alone at the far post.Foden and Jeremy Doku came on in the seco...

Nebraska latest Republican state to expand Medicaid to cover postpartum care for low-income mothers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:05:34 GMT

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lower-income new mothers will get a full year of Medicaid health care coverage in Nebraska under an order issued Wednesday by Republican Gov. Jim Pillen. The move makes Nebraska the latest in a growing list of Republican-led states that had previously refused to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage beyond the minimum 60 days after women give birth. Conservatives are now largely embracing the change as part of an anti-abortion agenda in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year overturning Roe v. Wade, which for 50 years guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion.Since that ruling, the Nebraska Legislature enacted a 12-week abortion ban, and Pillen has promised to push for a six-week ban next year.State lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year to expand Medicaid’s postpartum coverage to at least six months. Pillen said his order of a full year of coverage is “a significant step in supporting Nebraska’s mothers and children.” Other states that h...

New storms batter central Greece as government prioritizes adapting to effects of climate change

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:05:34 GMT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — New floods following torrential rain swept Wednesday across swathes of central Greece already battered by deadly storms weeks earlier, once again damaging roads, flooding homes and causing power outages in the city of Volos and the island of Evia.At least eight villages were ordered evacuated late Wednesday as floodwaters rose, and road traffic was banned in Volos — a coastal city of about 140,000 — with residents urged to stay indoors.The fire service received hundreds of calls for assistance in Volos and dozens of people were evacuated from flooded homes, but there were no reports of deaths or people missing. State-run ERT television said the basement of the Volos hospital was inundated, although services were not affected.The new heavy storms follow deadly wildfires that caused record destruction in the summer, and earlier Wednesday the government declared that adapting to climate change has become a national priority.Volos, the nearby Mount Pilion area and ...

Nebraska police standoff stretches into day 2 with hostage still trapped in home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:05:34 GMT

GERING, Neb. (AP) — A police standoff with a man who barricaded himself in a Nebraska home with a hostage passed the 24-hour mark Wednesday. Local law enforcement agencies said the standoff began after the 37-year-old fled when a deputy tried to pull him over for a traffic violation Tuesday in the western Nebraska city of Gering. Gering police and the Scotts Bluff County Sheriff’s Office said the man shot at the deputy’s vehicle during a brief chase, then crashed into a residential garage.The man barricaded himself inside the home around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Scottsbluff Star-Herald reported. He took a woman and two girls hostage but eventually freed the children.Local law enforcement says the man has fired at officers with multiple weapons during the standoff.The FBI and the Nebraska State Patrol are helping local law enforcement. Source

Boulder mass shooting suspect suggested to psychologist that he wanted police to kill him

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:05:34 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The man accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 told a mental health evaluator he bought firearms to carry out a mass shooting and suggested that he wanted police to kill him, according to Wednesday court testimony.Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa made the statements at a state mental hospital during an August evaluation that determined he was mentally competent to stand trial, said Loandra Torres, the forensic psychologist who evaluated the 24-year-old suspect. Remains of Suzanne Morphew found during unrelated search The defendant, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, also “recognized that there are guns that have his fingerprints on them and that can be used as some evidence against him," Torres said.Alissa is charged with murder and multiple attempted murder counts after the shooting rampage on March 22, 2021, in a crowded King Soopers store in Boulder, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of Denver. He has not yet been asked to enter...

Mother speaks out after 3-year-old accidentally shoots hand with gun left unattended at home in SW Miami-Dade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:05:34 GMT

A South Florida mother is making a plea to other parents after her little girl shot herself with a gun that was left unattended on a couch. Now, a relative is in trouble for what happened.Surveillance video on Sunday showed the moment Serenity ran to the couch and grabbed the gun inside of her family’s apartment in Southwest Miami-Dade.Warneicia Williams, Serenity’s mother, spoke with 7News on Wednesday about the chilling footage“I just kept rewatching it, I just kept replaying it, replaying, it, because I’m like, ‘How can this happen?'” she said. “I’m just grateful my daughter is alive, because if you watch the video, the gun was pointed at her chest.”As Serenity began playing with the gun, she accidentally fired the gun and shot her hand.“The bullet went straight through her finger,” Williams said. “Her hand stopped the bullet. Her hand saved her life.”Serenity on Tuesday was released from the hospital a...

WATCH: SUV destroys two parked cars in Worcester before driving away

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:05:34 GMT

A surveillance camera captured a wild wreck in Worcester Saturday night.An SUV lost control and crashed into two parked cars before driving off around 9 p.m. on Pleasant Street. Oscar Bogue’s company Guardian and A to Z Integrated Systems owns the camera that captured the crash.“How he managed to drive away, I don’t know,” Bogue said. “An SUV was coming up the hill, heading towards downtown Worcester, crossed the double line, hit the two cars, did a 360, stopped and managed to drive away,” Bogue said. The parked cars were damaged, with the back bumper hanging off of one, and the front bumper, hood and side of the other seriously damaged. Debris also filled the street.“Luckily no one was walking the street cause usually people are out in the street and it just happened to be quiet, as matter of fact one of the owners of the car said he was in the car 10 minutes earlier, so he was lucky,” Bogue said.Steve Matin and his band were set to play at a club across the s...

Emergency crews respond to serious crash in Hooksett, NH

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:05:34 GMT

Emergency crews responded in Hooksett, New Hampshire Wednesday after a serious crash in the area. Hooksett police in a statement Wednesday afternoon said Main Street was shut down between Grant Drive and Hooksett Road. Police said Hooksett Road was also shut down between Morse Drive and College Park Drive “due to a motor vehicle accident.”SKY7-HD was over the scene during the emergency response, showing debris strewn over the area. All roads had reopened as of around 6 p.m., according to police.No further information was immediately available.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Law enforcement, government officials gather to memorialize 13 fallen officers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:05:34 GMT

In a solemn ceremony held once every year, members of the law enforcement community gathered at the State House to memorialize fallen officers.This year the names of 13 officers — many of whom passed in the early part of the 20th century — will join the hundreds already etched into the memorial.“They all had one thing in common and that was to keep the peace that makes our lives possible, to protect our freedoms, our way of life,” Gov. Maura Healey said Wednesday. “To do so, they showed up every day; they were role models and helpers, who devoted their lives to their communities.”Standing next to the badge-shaped memorial tucked into the corner of Ashburton Park along the State House’s eastern flank, Healey spoke to dozens of family members and uniformed police there to witness the name of their loved one join those of fellow officers.One of them, Trooper Tamar Anoush Bucci, died in March of last year when she was attempting to help a stranded motorist and a tanker truck struck her ...