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The Patriots’ risk and reward of replacing Jakobi Meyers with JuJu Smith-Schuster

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:40 GMT

JuJu Smith-Schuster reaching terms with the Patriots on a free-agent contract Wednesday was no surprise.The Patriots need receivers. Smith-Schuster was the best available. Supply met demand, and Smith-Schuster became a Patriot.The surprise came moments later, when the financial details were first leaked: three years for $33 million, the same structure Jakobi Meyers agreed to in Las Vegas.In essence, the Patriots chose Smith-Schuster over Meyers, their leading receiver the past three seasons and the best of their in-house free agents. After re-signing seven of said free agents and tendering two fringe backups, the Patriots made Meyers the exception to their run-it-back approach to free agency.Why? What does Smith-Schuster, another 6-foot-2 slot receiver entering his age-27 season, offer that Meyers doesn’t?For starters, he’s proven to have a higher ceiling. While Meyers has never cracked 900 receiving yards in a season, Smith-Schuster reached 111 catches for 1,426 yards a...

San Diego rainfall totals: This area received over 5 inches of rain in two days

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:40 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A low pressure system with moisture from an atmospheric river swept over the region this week, dumping rain across the county.Several areas experienced heavy precipitation Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, making the morning commute more challenging for some with flooding and debris affecting roadways. These San Diego County roads are closed due to inclement weather conditions According to data from the National Weather Service San Diego, rainfall levels in some areas surpassed a whopping 4 and a half inches in the last couple of days. Here's a breakdown of accumulating precipitation levels in San Diego's coastal areas, valleys, mountains and desert lands. The data reflects two-day totals as of 2:18 p.m. Wednesday, according to calculations from NWS.*Areas above the freezing level may not show accurate precipitation totals, said NWS.Coastal areasGeneral locationPrecipitation levelSan Onofre3.16 inchesCarlsbad2.73 inchesOceanside2.58 inchesSan Marcos2.55 inchesEnci...

From Naval Training Center to multi-use hub, Liberty Station celebrates their centennial

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:40 GMT

SAN DIEGO – Liberty Station is turning 100 this year and celebrations are underway to honor the history of one of San Diego’s oldest military developments still standing.The now-marketplace was once a training center for the Navy for over 70 years – a development steeped in history at the heart of San Diego’s military community.“The excitement about Liberty Station really lies in the historic nature of it,” director of Liberty Station, Laurie Albrecht, told FOX5SanDiego.com. The Naval Training Center (NTC) was dedicated in October 1923, shortly after the Navy came to San Diego during the time of World War I. During this time, there were only three similar centers in the U.S., director of Liberty Station Laurie Albrecht told FOX5SanDiego.com.“It was a big coup for San Diego to even receive the opportunity,” she said.Front gates at the Naval Training Center. (Courtesy of Liberty Station Community Association)The Naval Training Center circa 1928 from an aerial view. (Courtesy of L...

NBA suspends Ja Morant 8 games for video showing gun in club

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:40 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Ja Morant will be back with the Memphis Grizzlies next week, after the NBA handed the All-Star guard an eight-game suspension without pay Wednesday and saying his displaying a firearm at a club in suburban Denver earlier this month was “conduct detrimental to the league.”Morant missed his sixth consecutive game when the Grizzlies played in Miami on Wednesday night. He will miss the next two games — at San Antonio on Friday and home against Golden State on Saturday — then be eligible to return on Monday when Memphis plays Dallas, though he is not expected to play that night.The games he already missed will count toward the suspension, and Morant will forfeit about $669,000 in salary.“Ja’s conduct was irresponsible, reckless and potentially very dangerous,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. “It also has serious consequences given his enormous following and influence, particularly among young fans who look up to him.”Silver met with Morant in New York befor...

Long-used US abortion pill under threat in Texas lawsuit

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:40 GMT

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Texas raised questions Wednesday about a Christian group’s effort to overturn federal regulators’ decades-old approval of a leading abortion drug, in a case that could threaten the country’s most common method for ending pregnancies.Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk heard more than four hours of debate over the Alliance Defending Freedom’s request to revoke or suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone. Such a step would be an unprecedented challenge to the FDA and its authority in deciding which drugs to permit on the market.Kacsmaryk said he would rule “as soon as possible,” without giving any clear indication of how he might decide and leaving open the question of whether access to the standard regimen for medication abortions might soon be curtailed throughout the country.Mifepristone, when combined with a second pill, was approved in 2000 and is used to end pregnancies until their 10th week. It has...

Seoul: North Korea fires another missile toward sea

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:40 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched another ballistic missile toward its eastern waters Thursday, South Korean officials said, the third such weapons test this week.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launch occurred in the morning but did not immediately give further details, such as how far the missile flew.Pyongyang had already staged two launch events this week amid joint military exercises being held by South Korea and the United States. North Korea views such drills as a rehearsal for invasion.The Associated Press

NTSB: Wing parts from air ambulance fell far from wreckage

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:40 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new federal report says parts of the right wing on a medical transport plane that crashed last month in rural Nevada, killing all five people aboard, fell far from the main wreckage site.The National Transportation Safety Board’s findings released Wednesday could support the agency’s initial theory that the aircraft had broken apart before hitting the ground. But NTSB did not release a probable cause in its three-page preliminary report.The agency says parts of the plane’s right wing were located as far as three-quarters of a mile (1.1 kilometers) from where the single-engine Pilatus PC12 crashed in Stagecoach, Nevada, a rural community of about 2,500 residents outside of Reno.Authorities have said the Care Flight piloted by Scott Walton, 46, was headed from Reno to Salt Lake City, Utah, when it crashed around 9:15 p.m. on Feb. 24 amid a winter storm. Care Flight is a service of REMSA Health, and its aviation vendor is Guardian Flight.In a statem...

Judge wants plan to protect humpback whales from fishery

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:40 GMT

A U.S. judge this week ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the law when it failed to develop a plan to prevent the harming of humpback whales by West Coast commercial fishermen catching sablefish. The Endangered Species Act requires the fisheries service to develop a plan to reduce the number of whales accidentally injured or killed by the fishery, but the agency neither crafted such a plan nor started to create one, the ruling said. About 150 commercial fishing vessels use traps to capture sablefish in waters off California, Oregon and Washington. The fish dwell on muddy ocean floors deeper than 650 feet (200 meters). To target the fish, fishermen place multiple heavy pots on the seafloor and link them together with heavy-duty fishing line.The number of pots range from 15 to 50 while the lines can stretch about two miles (three kilometers), according to court documents. The fishery deployed an annual average of 75,000 pots from 2015 to 2019, the document said....

Here is what’s at stake in abortion medication case

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:40 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that poses a threat to the nationwide availability of a popular abortion medication. The hearing comes as a conservative Christian group seeks to reverse federal approval of the drug mifepristone.A two-pill combination of mifepristone and another drug is the most common form of abortion in the U.S. and the ruling would affect states where abortion is legal as well as those that outlaw it. The case has raised concerns about court transparency and so-called judge shopping.Here’s a look at some of the legal issues surrounding the case: HOW DID THE ABORTION PILL CHALLENGE START? Abortion opponents who helped overturn Roe v. Wade filed a lawsuit in November, asking a judge in Texas to reverse the approval of mifepristone. Research shows that medication-induced abortions are safe and effective, and they were approved by the Food and Drug Administration more than 20 years ago. But the group, Alliance Defending F...

André Boisclair, former Parti Québécois leader and sex offender, granted parole

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:40 GMT

MONTREAL — Former Parti Québécois leader André Boisclair, who pleaded guilty in June to sexually assaulting two young men, has been granted parole. In a decision rendered Tuesday, the provincial parole board, the Commission québécoise des libérations conditionnelles, concluded that releasing Boisclair would not compromise public safety.“The commission believes that release at this stage of your sentence, with followups, conditions, and supervision, remains, in the long run, an appropriate measure to ensure the protection of the public, while promoting successful reintegration,” it wrote. Boisclair, 56, has served roughly one-third of his sentence of two years less a day in jail.It was the second time Boisclair had sought parole. A previous application was denied in November because of what the parole board saw as Boisclair’s “arrogant attitude” and his refusal to take part in a therapy program. The board wrote this week that it believes the November denial has led ...