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Heat fans outside Kaseya Center celebrate Eastern Conference semifinals win against Knicks

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:48 GMT

Jubilant Miami Heat fans leaving the Kaseya Arena celebrated their hometown basketball team’s 96-92 win against the New York Knicks, a victory that has catapulted them into the Eastern Conference Finals.There was gridlock outside the Kaseya Center on Biscayne Boulevard, late Friday night, but on the steps of the venue, Heat fans cheered and chanted “Let’s go Heat,” as some of them waved to 7News cameras.One fan pointed out this was not an easy win.“I was biting my nails, but I knew we were going to win it,” she said.“At the beginning we thought, ‘OK, the Knicks are pretty good,’ as the team got close [in score], but then the [Heat] got together and made the game,” said a man.A former New York resident gave his unique perspective about the result of Friday’s game.“I was a New Yorker, born and raised, but you know, there’s something special brewing in the grounds of Miami,” he said. “There’...

Cousins scores in OT to send Panthers into Eastern Conference final after 3-2 win over Maple Leafs

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:48 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Nick Cousins scored at 15:32 of overtime and Sergei Bobrovsky made 50 saves as the Florida Panthers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series on Friday to advance to the Eastern Conference final.Aaron Ekblad and Carter Verhaeghe each had a goal and an assist to help the Panthers build a 2-0 lead in the first period.Morgan Rielly and William Nylander scored for the Maple Leafs, who had advanced in the playoffs for the first time in 19 years when they beat Tampa Bay in the first round. Rookie goalie Joseph Woll had 41 saves in his first home playoff start.In the extra period, Cousins buried his second goal of the playoffs off the rush short-side on Woll to send the Panthers to the conference finals for the first time since 1996.Florida — the team with the fewest points to qualify for the postseason — won all three games in Toronto and improved to 6-1 on the road in the playoffs after also upsetting the record-setting Boston Bruins. ...

Five people face charges after pair of stabbing attacks in Brockton

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:48 GMT

Five people are now facing charges after two different stabbing attacks in Brockton Friday, according to police. The first stabbing happened near a softball field outside Brockton High School shortly after dismissal around 2 p.m., leaving three people with injuries, police said. Two of the victims were rushed to the hospital. The third person later sought medical attention on their own.Roughly one hour later, police said officers rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital, also in Brockton. There, police said a suspect in the stabbing outside the high school was stabbed during a fight. Police had not publicly identified the people charged in this case as of Friday night.Police and the Brockton Public Schools both said this was not a random incident and there was never a threat to the high school.

Soak it in: Cedric Mullins hits for the cycle in Orioles’ 6-3 win over Pirates

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:48 GMT

For much of the night in which the Orioles introduced the Bird Bath Splash Zone at Camden Yards, they left their runners out to dry.But the waterworks came in bunches in the later innings of their 6-3 victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates, fueled by center fielder Cedric Mullins recording the seventh cycle in team history and the first since close friend and fellow Orioles outfielder Austin Hays in June of last year.Mullins completed the cycle with a three-run home run in the eighth inning, coming with Hays at third base. He said Hays’ first words to him after were, “I can’t believe we both did it.”“We were roommates in the minor leagues,” Hays said. “We’ve had our struggles together. We’ve had successes together, so to be able to hit for the cycle on the same team, the team that we were both drafted by and came up together through the minor leagues, it’s very special.”Having singled in the third, Mullins first provi...

Mucciarone, Franklin complete regular season sweep of Taunton

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:48 GMT

Alfred Mucciarone’s emotions as he recorded his 10th and final strikeout of the night told it all. This one meant a little more.Mucciarone threw a complete game allowing three earned runs while fanning 10 and walking one as No. 1 Franklin completed a regular season sweep of Hockomock League rival Taunton, 7-4, on Friday night at Franklin High School.The win earned Franklin the Hockomock Kelley-Rex crown. All three of Mucciarone’s earned runs came on a three shot by Dawson Bryce in the third inning. From that point forward Mucciarone did not allow a hit.“Taunton is as good as advertised today was just not their day,” Franklin coach Zach Brown said. “Real competition is when you do something good, they do something good, and you have to respond. Today was one of those days.”The Panthers (15-0) did all the damage needed in the bottom of the second as they recorded six straight hits to start the frame. After Luke Sidwell and Ethan DePaolo each singled...

Friday’s high school roundup/scores: Matt Donovan tosses shutout, leads Stoneham by Wakefield

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:48 GMT

BASEBALLHarry Scheel belted his first home run of the year, backing Matt Donovan’s complete-game shutout to help Stoneham topple Middlesex League foe Wakefield, 6-0.TJ Walsh earned the win in four and two-thirds innings on the mound, while delivering two hits and three RBI at the plate in Lynn Classical’s (13-1) 10-2 Greater Boston League win over Lynn English.Jaden Arruda allowed four hits over five innings and went 2-for-4 with the bat as Seekonk defeated Case 5-0 in the South Coast Conference.Ray McNaught threw a complete game one-hitter with 13 strikeouts, and David McNaught tripled and scored on a passed ball for East Bridgewater (10-4) in a 1-0 South Shore League victory over Abington.Max Gallant fanned four batters over five innings and also had a hit, an RBI and two runs scored as Westport (11-2) bested Southeastern 15-4 in a Mayflower Athletic Conference matchup.Seamus Vining (3-for-3, two doubles), Brayden Ramsey (two hits), Ty Creigton (two hits) and Jeremy Angelis (three...

Wasteful Red Sox lineup and bullpen implosions spoil James Paxton’s strong season debut

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:48 GMT

It had been 767 days since James Paxton’s last start in the majors.Back then, he had just returned to the Seattle Mariners after two seasons with the New York Yankees. On April 6, 2021, he made his season debut, threw 1.1 innings, and departed with left elbow discomfort.Since then, he’s had Tommy John surgery, signed a contract with the Red Sox, suffered a season-ending Grade 2 lat tear in his first rehab game last summer, and missed the first several weeks of the ongoing season.Finally, on the 768th day, he took the mound again during an 8-6 loss to the visiting St. Louis Cardinals.The veteran southpaw’s rehab games had been a very mixed bag, with far too many walks and earned runs, and after more than two years out of the game, expectations were low.That made it easy for him to clear the bar. Over five innings in his season debut (and Red Sox debut), Paxton held the St. Louis Cardinals to two earned runs on four hits, issued a walk, and struck out nine. His veloc...

Privacy commissioner appeals Federal Court decision in Facebook case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:48 GMT

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is appealing a recent decision by the Federal Court, which sided with Facebook in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica affair.A judge in April dismissed the federal privacy watchdog’s bid for a declaration that the social media giant, now known as Meta, broke the law governing the use of personal information.The application was brought by the watchdog in relation to its 2019 investigation of Facebook, conducted jointly with British Columbia’s privacy commissioner, which found shortcomings in its privacy practices.The investigation followed a complaint that British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica was able to access the private data of millions of Facebook users without their consent. Facebook disputed the findings and did not agree to implement any recommendations.The watchdog asked the Federal Court in 2020 to require Facebook to correct its privacy practices to conform with a law governing how the private sector can...

Japan’s Kishida says G7 facing historic moment as finance leaders wrap up talks on global economy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:48 GMT

NIIGATA, Japan (AP) — The world is facing a “historic turning point,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says, as Group of Seven advanced economies prepare for a summit next week in Hiroshima. G-7 finance leaders were expected to confirm a show of unity on support for Ukraine, strengthening financial systems and supply chains and a range of other pressing global issues as they wrapped up three days of meetings in the Japanese port city of Niigata on Saturday. “The international community is facing a historic turning point, facing divisions and conflicts such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Sudan,” Kishida said in a statement issued late Friday.The G-7 will “resolutely reject the threat or use of nuclear weapons and uphold the international order based on the rule of law,” Kishida said. “As G7 chairman, I will convey my strong will to have an impact on history.”The G-7 economies comprise only a tenth of the world’s population but about 30% of economic activity, down from rough...

Private detective appeals to Nevada Supreme court in Reno mayor’s lawsuit over GPS tracking device

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:48 GMT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A private investigator who used GPS devices to secretly track the vehicles of Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve and a county commissioner ahead of the 2002 election asked the Nevada Supreme Court late Friday to overturn a judge’s order that he identify the client who hired him.Schieve filed suit in December seeking damages from private detective David McNeely for a violation of her privacy after a mechanic alerted her to the clandestine GPS tracking device.Sparks police determined it was purchased by McNeely and ex-Washoe County Commissioner Vaughn Hartung joined the suit in February under similar circumstances.Lawyers for McNeely said in Friday’s appeal to the state’s high court that divulging the name of a client who paid him to spy on the politicians would violate the long-accepted and expected confidentiality of a “private investigator-client relationship.”The attorneys said Washoe District Judge David Hardy had erroneously rejected McNeely’s a...