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Miguel Amaya’s injury-plagued path finally leads to his 1st call-up to the Chicago Cubs. ‘It hasn’t been easy,’ the catching prospect says.

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:51 GMT

Miguel Amaya was picking up groceries Monday night at a gas station in Huntsville, Ala., when he received an unexpected call.Double-A Tennessee manager Michael Ryan summoned Amaya to the team hotel and informed the 24-year-old catcher he wouldn’t be in the Smokies lineup Tuesday. Instead, a flight to Washington in the morning to join the Chicago Cubs awaited Amaya, who earned his first big-league call-up.“It hasn’t been easy,” Amaya said in front of his locker in the visitors clubhouse at Nationals Park. “It’s been a roller coaster, ups and downs. A lot of work mentally, of course physically … so happy to be here joining the team and being with this beautiful team.”Amaya initially was on the taxi squad when he arrived at the ballpark but was informed shortly after he was being added to the active roster. The Cubs designated left-hander Ryan Borucki for assignment as the corresponding move. Catcher Yan Gomes continues to be evaluated af...

Mets game vs. Tigers rained out for third time in last four days

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:51 GMT

DETROIT — For the third time in four days, the Mets are underwater.After two postponements over the weekend in New York, the Mets went to Detroit hoping for better weather. But with rain and possibly even snow in the forecast, the first game of the three-game set at Comerica Park was postponed. The two teams will play a split doubleheader Wednesday with the first game starting at 1:40 p.m. and the second at 6:40 p.m.The last thing the Mets wanted or needed was a doubleheader after playing one Monday. The bullpen is thin after having to cobble together more than eight innings of relief in the first game against the Atlanta Braves on Monday and they needed three to get through the second game.If their starters can go deep on Wednesday, it would alleviate the pressure on the bullpen. Joey Lucchesi is lined up to start the first game and Max Scherzer will start the second.This week will mark the returns of Scherzer and Justin Verlander. Scherzer hasn’t pitched since April 19...

Freshman Cam McKenna lifts Hingham past rival Duxbury, 11-8

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:51 GMT

DUXBURY — It’s never an easy task being thrust into duty, but sometimes athletes thrive when called upon in a unique situation.Think it’s now safe to include Cam McKenna in that conversation. The rising lacrosse freshman enjoyed a breakout game Tuesday, registering a team-high four goals as Hingham knocked off archrival Duxbury in an 11-8 thriller.“It feels great,” McKenna said. “I’ve found my role on the team. Just don’t take any team lightly. Just execute what we’ve been going through at practice.”Right from the opening whistle, it became apparent that the longtime Patriot League foes were in for a seesaw battle, combining for eight goals in the first quarter alone. Richmond commit Charlie Packard buried a pair of tallies in the opening frame, helping Hingham (10-1) even the score at 4-all entering the second.Early on in the second half, Packard forced a turnover, then fed a pass over to McKenna. The midfielder fired an underhanded shot from about 10 yards out, sniping the back of...

2 men sought after deadly East County shooting

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:51 GMT

LEMON GROVE, Calif. -- Authorities on Tuesday were asking for the public's help in locating two men wanted in connection to a homicide in Lemon Grove, law enforcement said.The San Diego County Sheriff's Department is looking for Ronald Shazun Perry, 32, and Daniel Ethridge, 34, following the March shooting death of 39-year-old Gregory Moore, Lt. Joseph Jarjura said in a news release.The shooting occurred March 18 around 10 p.m. in the 2800 block of Lemon Grove Avenue, according to the department. Moore was found unconscious in a car with gunshot wounds to his left upper leg and lower body in a vehicle at the intersection of Lemon Grove and San Miguel avenues, per Lt. Chris Steffen. Authorities applied a tourniquet to the victim’s leg before the paramedics arrived, but he died at a hospital."Perry and Ethridge are believed to be associated with a local street gang and should be considered armed and dangerous," Jarjura said.Ronald Shazun Perry is wanted by the San Diego County Sheriff...

Woman suspected of mailing meth-soaked letters to jail

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:51 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- An East County woman was arrested last week on suspicion of mailing letters containing methamphetamine to a San Diego County jail, authorities said.Over the last five months, San Diego County Sheriff's deputies intercepted letters addressed to someone at a detention facility that appeared to have been soaked in liquid and dried, the department said in a release. Deputies tested the letters and found they had been soaked in liquid methamphetamine. Navy commander pulled from job after SEAL candidate death Investigators suspect 33-year-old Katherine Smothers mailed the drug-laced letters, SDSO said. Detectives arrested Smothers in Santee on Thursday and booked her into Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility. She faces several charges including bringing drugs into a jail, trying to sell a controlled substance to an individual in custody and conspiracy to commit a crime.

San Diego bakery among top 10 Asian-owned bakeries in US: Yelp

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:51 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego bakery is being recognized by Yelp during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.CAKED ranks seventh on Yelp's top 45 Asian-owned bakeries in the U.S., according to the popular online directory. Its main location is in Mira Mesa, but does vend at local markets in Little Italy, Ocean Beach, College Area, downtown San Diego and Oceanside.Known for its "unique variety of soft cookies and monster-sized brownies," the local bakery currently offers 30 flavors of gourmet desserts."ABSOLUTELY the best brownies on the planet! We come to Little Italy on Saturday just for the brownies at CAKED!" Yelp user Judy B. commented. This famous ramen restaurant from Tokyo is expanding to San Diego "Not gonna lie, I've been to a handful of cookie places and I've always walked away saying meh I can make them the same or better at home. But this place def worth buying. They're still so soft when I get home, pop them in microwave for like 10 secs & perfection. So ...

North Carolina Republicans unveil new abortion restrictions

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:51 GMT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders said on Tuesday there’s agreement in the GOP-dominated legislature on backing a measure that would prohibit abortion in nearly all cases after roughly the first trimester of pregnancy. House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger announced at an early-evening news conference that there’s consensus between Republicans in the state House and Senate.North Carolina law currently bans nearly all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The measure would reduce that to 12 weeks, with new exceptions in cases of rape, incest or fetal abnormality. An existing exception for when the life of the pregnant woman is in danger would remain.Final votes for the agreed-upon legislation would occur Wednesday in the House and Thursday in the Senate, legislators said.The bill also contains provisions to make adoptions easier and to improve health care access for children and pregnant women.“It’s time for North Carolina...

Cops: Man borrows phone, admits to ex-landlord’s 2008 murder

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:51 GMT

ROSWELL, N.M. — A New Mexico man, overwhelmed by guilt, borrowed a cellphone to call 911, confess to a 2008 murder case and tell police where his former landlord’s body was buried, authorities said Tuesday.Police said Tony Ray Peralta, 37, of Roswell, was booked into the Chaves County jail on suspicion of murder.They said Peralta went to a store Monday afternoon, borrowed a cellphone to call 911 and told a dispatcher that he had killed someone. Officers went to the store and Peralta was detained for questioning.Police investigators then obtained a search warrant for a house where Peralta had been a tenant of 69-year-old William Blodgett. He told them where he buried the body, and they found a boot, bones and dentures after removing plywood floorboards from a detached room on the side of the house.A tearful Peralta told police during an interview that he didn’t know why he had killed Blodgett and that he just needed to confess, according to an affidavit filed with the criminal ...

Family of bride killed in wreck warns about drunken driving

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:51 GMT

The mother of the bride had just unwound with a change of clothes and a glass of wine on her short-term rental’s balcony when the sound of sirens gave the first impression that her daughter’s wedding night had gone awry.Within minutes, Lisa Miller was riding with her new in-laws to the South Carolina beach road where authorities say a woman driving under the influence at twice the speed limit slammed into the golf cart escorting a happy couple away from their sparkler-filled goodbye at a reception overlooking the Atlantic shoreline.A day that had begun blissfully with charcuterie and mimosas along the beach ended with hours spent in agony outside a hospital where she had wrongly been told her daughter had been taken. Then, Lisa Miller said she learned that the bride’s father had identified the body back at the crash site.Samantha Miller, 34, died Friday in Folly Beach, South Carolina, while still wearing her wedding dress. The groom, Aric Hutchinson, is recovering ...

Mom of man missing in Mexico is killed, search group says

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:51 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Another mother searching for her disappeared child has been killed in Mexico, the sixth murder of a volunteer search activist in Mexico since the start of 2021. The volunteer search group known as “A Promise to be Kept” said Teresa Magueyal was killed Tuesday in the violence-wracked city of Celaya, in the north-central state of Guanajuato. The state prosecutor’s office said it was still investigating the report and could not confirm it. It was the second such killing in Guanajuato in less than six months. Volunteer searcher Maria Vázquez Ramírez was shot to death in November in the city of Abasolo, Guanajuato. “In Guanajuato we women searchers are not safe, they kill us in broad daylight, in public, with total impunity,” Magueyal’s group said in a statement, calling the killing “cowardly.”The motive in the killing remained unclear; most searchers say they are looking for the bodies of their children, not evidence to convict their killers.Magueyal was active ...