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Andretti back in Miami awaiting word on F1 expansion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:24 GMT

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Michael Andretti is back at the Miami Grand Prix with his financial backers networking throughout the paddock in his bid to land a Formula One team.Andretti Global is one of four known applicants to submit official “expression of interest” documentation to the FIA, which in January created a formal process to explore expanding the grid beyond its current 10 teams. The initial deadline of April 30 was extended to May 15th.The process began after Andretti, who in 2021 failed to purchase the Sauber team, asked the FIA to expand the F1 grid so he could field an American two-car team. Andretti at last year’s inaugural race in Miami went team-to-team in an unsuccessful request to have them sign a petition in support of his efforts.All but two teams have been vehemently opposed to the addition of Andretti — or expanding the grid in general — because they don’t want to dilute revenue.Current F1 regulations contain provisions for up to 13 teams, and the...

Driver hospitalized after car goes into Hialeah canal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:24 GMT

Rescue crews took a man to the hospital after, police said, his car ended up in a canal in Hialeah.Hialeah Police and Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the crash in the area of West Fourth Avenue and 61st Street, Saturday morning.According to Hialeah Police, the victim’s vehicle went into the canal at around 8:30 a.m.Divers went into the canal and pulled the man from the water.Paramedics transported the patient to Palmetto General Hospital. As of Saturday afternoon, his condition is unknown.Police have not identified the driver, as they continue to investigate how the crash happened.

Yankees Notebook: Luis Severino scheduled to begin rehab assignment

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:24 GMT

ST. PETERSBURG — The start of Luis Severino’s rehab assignment is right around the corner.The right-hander, out since the end of spring training with a lat injury, is scheduled to pitch for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday, according to Aaron Boone. Severino will fly home from Tampa Bay with the team Sunday after throwing three innings and 40 pitches in an intrasquad game at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Friday.That game was closed to the media, but Boone said that the Yankees’ player development personnel and trainers watched Severino throw.The manager added that Severino will need “at least a couple” starts in the minors before he can make his 2023 debut for the Yankees. He’ll target 50ish pitches on Wednesday with the RailRiders.Severino, an impending free agent, has pitched in just 26 games since 2019, including 19 starts last season, when he recorded a 3.18 ERA. Severino is one of three Yankees starters who began the year on the ...

L.A. business brace for ripple effects of Hollywood writers’ strike

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:24 GMT

Last time there was a Hollywood writers’ strike, in 2007, the resulting halt in filmmaking activity depleted the savings of Pam and Jim Elyea’s prop house History for Hire, so much so that they had to defer a dream of owning their own warehouse.Years later, COVID-19 brought another formidable challenge for their North Hollywood business, which has supplied props including period-appropriate luggage for “Titanic” and cameras for Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans.”Now history is repeating itself with a new writers’ strike that began on Tuesday, which is causing a significant portion of local production to shut down.“COVID didn’t kill us,” Pam Elyea said. “I don’t want this to be the thing that kills us.”This week, the Writers Guild of America, which represents 11,500 members, hit picket lines to demand better pay and treatment after contract talks with the major studios broke down.Writers are seeking i...

New Jets tight end Zack Kuntz models his game after Mike Gesicki of Patriots

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:24 GMT

Zack Kuntz compares himself to a player on a divisional rival.Kuntz, a seventh-round draft pick by the Jets in last week’s NFL draft, began his college career at Penn State before transferring to Old Dominion for his final two years of eligibility. So it is natural Kuntz models his game after former Penn State tight end Mike Gesicki, who spent five seasons with the Dolphins before signing with the Patriots this offseason.“I’m familiar with him through our roots at Penn State,” Kuntz said about Gesicki. “Some of the coaches that we had and the offenses that we fit in. Obviously, it’s an easy comparison for me.“He’s an athletic freak, as everybody knows. He’s a guy that I kind of see as similar.”If Kuntz’s career mirrors anything close to Gesicki’s, the Jets could have one of the steals of the 2023 draft. In five seasons with the Dolphins, Gesicki caught 231 passes for 2,617 yards and 18 touchdowns. Gesicki parlay...

Mets Notebook: Carlos Carrasco’s return still in limbo because of illness … ‘he’s not doing well’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:24 GMT

Carlos Carrasco’s return looked imminent earlier this week, but his mid-May timeline now appears to be in doubt.Carrasco, who has been sidelined with bone spurs in his right elbow, was slated to make a rehab start this weekend. But an illness is preventing him from going out on a rehab assignment. His start was moved from Friday to Saturday, then to Sunday, and now the Mets are unsure when and where it will take place as the 36-year-old right-hander continues to deal with some sort of illness.“He’s not doing well,” manager Buck Showalter said Saturday before the Mets played the second game of a three-game series against the Colorado Rockies at Citi Field. “He’s got the mask on and staying away from everyone and wiping everything down because he does have to throw.”Carrasco has been present in the Mets clubhouse since the club returned home from Detroit for the weekend series against Colorado, and the Mets can’t seem to figure out what ...

San Diego is the 4th best city for runners: Runner's World

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:24 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Headed out for a run today? If so, you’ll be trekking through the fourth best city for runners in the U.S., according to Runner's World.San Diego is among the top 10 best running cities based on a new study conducted by ARRIS, which analyzed U.S. cities with a population of more than 500,000.Runner's World says factors that were considered during this study included pedestrian fatality rates, average air quality index, percent of residents living within a 10-minute walk of a park and average annual rainfall. Air pollution improving in California, but still worst in the nation, report shows According to the study, one in three Americans like to run in parks and the ideal outdoor temperature among runners is 63 degrees.With over more than 400 parks and 26 miles of shoreline from Sunset Cliffs to La Jolla, according to the city's parks and recreation webpage, it looks like San Diego has what runners are looking for when they lace up their shoes for an on foot venture ou...

Newton Minow, ex-FCC chief who dubbed TV ‘wasteland,’ dies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:24 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Newton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a “vast wasteland,” died Saturday. He was 97.Minow, who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, died Saturday at home, surrounded by loved ones, said his daughter, Nell Minow.“He wanted to be at home,” she told The Associated Press. “He had a good life.”Though Minow remained in the FCC post just two years, he left a permanent stamp on the broadcasting industry through government steps to foster satellite communications, the passage of a law mandating UHF reception on TV sets and his outspoken advocacy for quality in television.“My faith is in the belief that this country needs and can support many voices of television — and that the more voices we hear, the better, the richer, the freer we shall be,” Minow once said. “After all, the airways belong to the people.”Minow was appointed as FCC chief...

In London, Brazil’s Lula calls for efforts to free Assange

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:24 GMT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After attending the coronation of King Charles III in London, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced the lack of concerted efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent four years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison.“It is an embarrassment that a journalist who denounced trickery by one state against another is arrested, condemned to die in jail and we do nothing to free him. It’s a crazy thing,” Lula told reporters. “We talk about freedom of expression; the guy is in prison because he denounced wrongdoing. And the press doesn’t do anything in defense of this journalist. I can’t understand it.”Lula offered the remarks in response to a question about Assange, who is a native Australian. He said he had forgotten to discuss the matter with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, but that he would write to him upon returning to Brazil. Assange has been fighting extradition to the United States, and Lula’s comments come at a mom...

Here's what the USPS does with lost mail — and how you might get it back

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:24 GMT

(NEXSTAR) – Were you expecting a package that never arrived? A present, maybe? A birthday card? Or perhaps a care package from your Aunt Linda with some crisp new socks inside?If it was shipped via the United States Postal Service, chances are it’s in Atlanta. Or at least it was, at some point.There are several reasons that the U.S. Postal Service might fail to deliver a package or piece of mail to its intended recipient in a timely manner: e.g., the sender may have provided the wrong address (or an illegible one), or maybe the item was shipped with insufficient postage. It’s also possible the contents of the package somehow came loose in the mail, making it tough to determine where they came from. In these cases, USPS workers try to return those packages or items right back to the sender.But when that’s not immediately possible (usually because there’s no return address), those items get shipped off to USPS’ consolidated Mail Recovery Center in Atlanta. Forever stamps, First-Clas...