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Connecticut and Los Angeles meet in battle of top defenses

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:41 GMT

Los Angeles Sparks (16-21, 8-11 Western Conference) at Connecticut Sun (25-12, 13-5 Eastern Conference)Uncasville, Connecticut; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDTFANDUEL SPORTSBOOK WNBA LINE: Sun -7.5; over/under is 155.5BOTTOM LINE: The WNBA’s top two defenses square off in a meeting between the Connecticut Sun and the Los Angeles Sparks.The Sun are 11-6 in home games. Connecticut averages 82.4 points and has outscored opponents by 3.4 points per game.The Sparks are 6-11 in road games. Los Angeles is fifth in the WNBA scoring 36.5 points per game in the paint led by Nneka Ogwumike averaging 10.6.The teams meet for the third time this season. In the last meeting on Aug. 27 the Sun won 83-68 led by 17 points from Alyssa Thomas, while Azura Stevens scored 17 points for the Sparks.TOP PERFORMERS: Thomas is scoring 15.6 points per game with 9.8 rebounds and 7.9 assists for the Sun. DeWanna Bonner is averaging 14.5 points and 6.5 rebounds over the past 10 games for Connecticut.Ogwumike is averagi...

Stewart leads New York against Dallas after 26-point game

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:41 GMT

New York Liberty (30-7, 16-3 Eastern Conference) at Dallas Wings (20-17, 10-9 Western Conference)Arlington, Texas; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDTFANDUEL SPORTSBOOK WNBA LINE: Liberty -6.5; over/under is 171.5BOTTOM LINE: New York visits the Dallas Wings after Breanna Stewart scored 26 points in the Liberty’s 86-69 victory over the Chicago Sky.The Wings are 10-8 on their home court. Dallas leads the Western Conference in rebounding, averaging 38.6 boards. Satou Sabally paces the Wings with 8.3 rebounds.The Liberty have gone 16-3 away from home. New York scores 88.9 points while outscoring opponents by 9.2 points per game.The teams meet for the third time this season. The Wings won 98-88 in the last matchup on July 19. Arike Ogunbowale led the Wings with 25 points, and Stewart led the Liberty with 25 points.TOP PERFORMERS: Sabally is scoring 18.6 points per game and averaging 8.3 rebounds for the Wings. Ogunbowale is averaging 20.2 points and 3.8 rebounds over the last 10 games for Dallas....

United Airlines lifts ground stop after technology issue

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- United Airlines briefly grounded all flights late Tuesday morning due to a technology issue, according to the airline and the Federal Aviation Administration.This included all flights in and out of Denver International Airport.The airline lifted the ground stop just before noon.DIA is a major hub for United, with hundreds of flights daily. Get the FOX31 App: Breaking news alerts & Pinpoint Weather FOX31 is working to gather more information on the situation.

CU Buffs jump into the AP Top 25 after season-opening upset win

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:41 GMT

No. 22 Colorado and No. 21 Duke moved into the Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Tuesday after scoring the biggest upsets of the opening weekend of the season and No. 4 Florida State jumped into the top five after its resounding victory over LSU in Week 1's marquee game.Georgia remained No. 1 with 58 first-place votes and Michigan held steady at No. 2 with two first-place votes.Colorado's victory as a three-touchdown underdog at TCU in coach Deion's Sanders debut was the story of the weekend, and now the Buffaloes are ranked for the first time since a brief stay in the 2020 season. The Buffs were also ranked for two weeks in 2018, but have only finished a season in the Top 25 once (2016) in the last 20 seasons.Sanders, the former NFL star and Florida State All-American, took over a team that went 1-11 last season and did an unprecedented roster makeover, with nearly 90 new players, 58 of them transfers. The new-look Buffs came away with a 45-42 v...

Police arrest man after multi-car crash on 79th Street Causeway leaves 1 dead

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:41 GMT

Police arrested a man following a fatal multi-vehicle collision on the 79th Street Causeway in Miami, Monday evening. The crash occurred at 1200 NE 79th St. involving five cars and a motorcycle, leading to one fatality. The victim, ejected from their vehicle, was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital but succumbed to their injuries.The eastbound lanes on the 79th Street bridge reopened Monday night, while the westbound lanes remained closed for several hours before reopening just before 10 a.m. Tuesday.Tuesday morning, officials announced the arrest of 24-year-old Alejandro Hall. Hall faces charges of vehicular homicide and driving without a license. Officials said there is evidence that suggests he was driving at a high speed while possibly intoxicated. His Georgia driver’s license had been suspended, with driving restrictions until May 23, 2024.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Delta flight forced to turn around because of diarrhea incident

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:41 GMT

(CNN) — A Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Barcelona on Friday night was forced to turn around after a passenger had diarrhea.The Airbus A350 had set out on time on the evening of September 1 with 336 passengers on board, but was forced to turn around over central Virginia.“It’s just a biohazard issue, we had a passenger who had diarrhea all the way through the airplane so they want us to come back to Atlanta,” a DL 194 pilot said to air traffic control.The Airbus 350 arrived back at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport slightly more than two hours after its departure, according to FlightAware.Delta told CNN that the flight was delayed just over eight hours, but landed in Barcelona without further incident on Saturday at 5.16 p.m. local time. “Our teams worked as quickly and safely as possible to get our customers to their final destination,” a spokesperson said. “We sincerely apologize to our customers for the delay and inconvenience to their travel plan...

Reynders to take over as EU competition chief

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:41 GMT

Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders will take over as the European Commission’s competition chief, after Margrethe Vestager announced that she had gone on leave to run for the presidency of the European Investment Bank (EIB).Vestager had earlier agreed to go on leave when her candidacy for the EIB became official. If she’s picked to head the lender by finance ministers at a September 15-16 meeting, she would then resign and Denmark would put forward a new commissioner. Should she not get the job, she’ll return to her role in charge of digital and competition policy.Her temporary absence caused a big reshuffle of the Commission’s portfolios. “The President has decided to assign the steering and coordination responsibility for ‘A Europe Fit for the digital age’ to Vice-President Jourová, and the portfolio responsibility for Competition to Commissioner Reynders, who will report directly to the President for this responsibility,” the Commission said in a s...

Person taken to hospital after pickup truck crashes into wooded area in Hanover

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:41 GMT

A person was taken to an area hospital Tuesday after a single-vehicle crash into a wooded area in Hanover, local fire officials said.Fire officials said the crash happened in the parking lot of a Shaws store off Columbia Road. The Hanover Fire Department later shared a photo from the scene around 1 p.m. showing a pickup truck wedged against a tree. One person was trapped inside the truck after the crash and had to be freed using extrication equipment and chainsaws, according to the fire department, before they were taken to the hospital.Fire officials said crews remained on scene as of around 1 p.m.

Boy rescued after spending the night clinging to a tree to escape deadly flooding in Spain

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:41 GMT

(CNN) — A 10-year-old boy has been rescued near Madrid after spending the night clinging to a tree to escape severe flooding as Storm Dana lashed the country with torrential rains in recent days, killing at least three people.The boy disappeared with his mother, father, and sister when their car “fell into” the Alberche River in the town of Aldea del Fresno, in the Madrid region of Spain, on Sunday night, Spanish state broadcaster RTVE reported on Monday.The mother and sister were found that night and transported to hospital, but the boy was missing until around 8 a.m. on Monday morning, when he was found by the guard of a private property, RTVE reported. Searches are still ongoing for the boy’s father.The heavy rains in Spain have claimed the lives of at least three people in the province of Toledo following severe flooding in the area, Emiliano García-Page, the president of the Castilla-La Mancha region, confirmed on Monday.On Sunday, Garcia-Page described the storm...

Capitol Hill doctor: McConnell did not have a stroke or seizure when freezing before cameras

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:41 GMT

(CNN) — The Capitol’s attending physician, Brian Monahan, said in a new letter that Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell did not suffer a stroke or seizure – and is not suffering from Parkinson’s disease – after the 81-year-old Kentuckian was evaluated by a group of neurologists following two recent health scares in front of TV cameras.The new letter, released by McConnell’s office Tuesday, comes after he froze in front of cameras for the second time in as many months, raising questions about whether the GOP leader could continue to hold his powerful position atop the Senate GOP Conference. After he froze last week in Covington, Kentucky, McConnell was evaluated by four neurologists, according to a person familiar with the matter.Monahan said in the Tuesday letter that he consulted with McConnell’s neurologists and conducted several evaluations, including brain MRI imaging and a test that measures electrical imaging in the brain.“There is no evidence that you h...