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76ers fire coach Doc Rivers after 3 seasons, AP source says

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:02 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers fired coach Doc Rivers on Tuesday following a third straight exit in the second round of the playoffs, a person with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team had not announced the move.Rivers led the 76ers to their second straight 50-win season behind NBA MVP Joel Embiid but again failed to lead them to the Eastern Conference Finals.The 76ers held a 3-2 semifinals series lead against Boston before dropping Game 6 at home and were crushed in Game 7 on the road.Rivers fell to 6-10 in Game 7s. The 10 defeats are five more than any other NBA coach.Rivers and the 76ers also lost a decisive Game 7 at home in the second round to Atlanta in 2021 as a No. 1 seed. Embiid endorsed Rivers’ return following Sunday’s loss but James Harden was noncommittal about wanting Rivers back.Rivers had two years left on his contract and was 236-154 in three years wit...

Report: Space Command may stay in Colorado due to Alabama's abortion laws

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:02 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — The U.S. Space Command's headquarters may no longer be moving to Alabama from Colorado Springs, according to a report obtained by NBC News. Two U.S. officials and one U.S. defense official familiar with the discussions told NBC News that they believe the White House is laying the groundwork to halt plans on the Space Command move in part because of the state's restrictive abortion law.“This is all about abortion politics," one U.S. official told NBC News. Best places to live in the US: 3 cities in Colorado FOX31 reached out to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet about his thoughts on the possible halt.“For over two years, I've urged the Biden Administration to reverse Trump's politically motivated decision and keep Space Command in Colorado. This decision should be made in the interest of the national security of the United States. As I said on the Senate floor last week, reproductive freedom is important for our military readiness and national security...

Denver is the 5th-best city in US for beer

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:02 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver may have changed in the last 10 years, but its podium place as a beer hub hasn't.Denver is still one of the top cities for beer among U.S. cities, according to a study by Real Estate Witch, a brokerage powered by Clever Real Estate. The study ranked 51 major U.S. cities by their average beer prices, breweries and bars per capita, beer affordability, average Yelp rankings of breweries and bars, and Google search trends for beer. Denver murder numbers going down, but not by much Denver ranked fifth overall, but the Midwest beat the Mile High City. Pittsburgh ranked first, followed by Cincinnati, Milwaukee and New Orleans. Los Angeles, meanwhile, ranked last along with Riverside, California; Tampa; Phoenix and Memphis.The sheer presence of beer in Colorado's capital helped rank it among the top five. There are 3.74 breweries per every 100,000 residents in the city, the second-highest in the U.S. Only Portland has more with 4.38 per 100,000. Colorado among th...

BSO searching for gun-wielding man after video shows him pointing firearm at civilian

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:02 GMT

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a man after, they said, he was caught on camera pointing a gun at another person in Cooper City.On March 6, the incident unfolded at a drive-thru ATM near the 9400 block of Griffin Road after the victim, according to detectives, attempted to make a deposit when an unknown man, who drove a black Cadillac sedan, pulled up behind the victim and beeped his horn.The victim said he exited his van to retrieve a deposit slip from the back of his vehicle, but then the two men spoke to one another. After the interaction, the Cadillac driver got out of his sedan and pulled out a firearm. Surveillance video of the incident showed a bald man with tattoos wearing a white t-shirt, armed with what appeared to be a semi-automatic with an extended magazine. He is believed to be in his 40s or 50s and can be heard yelling at the victim before fleeing the scene.Investigators are asking the public for information on the gun-wielding man’s i...

Family of missing 30-year-old woman pleads for public’s help in search at Miramar Police Station

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:02 GMT

A South Florida woman was gone without a trace, and relatives and officers fear the worst after she had been missing for one month.The family of 30-year-old Courtney Babb pleaded for the public’s help at the Miramar Police Station and although the search is still on, police believe her disappearance to be suspicious.On Tuesday, the department hosted a press conference for Babb’s family to express their concerns and to plead with the community in its efforts to bring their loved one home safely.Her family said she never missed a major holiday, including Mother’s Day, and she would would find a way to contact her loved ones on special days, but as her birthday just passed, Babb’s family wanted answers.“I did not hear from her on Mother’s Day,” said Roberta Robinson, Babb’s mother. “I want someone to please — if you’ve seen her, please have somebody call [police] because I really miss her.”Robinson held back tears ...

Spooked by Putin (and Macron), the Council of Europe meets

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:02 GMT

As Russia wages war in Ukraine, one aging pan-European institution hopes to reclaim its historic role at the heart of the Continent.Almost 50 heads of government are gathering this week in Iceland for what is only the fourth Council of Europe summit since the the body was created 74 years ago in the ashes of World War II. Focused on human rights, the Council was the original post-war forum for discussion among European leaders. Items on the agenda this week include a tentative first step toward a compensation mechanism for victims of the war in Ukraine.But officials and academics admit that Russian aggression in Europe was not the only reason to arrange the first Council summit since 2005.The arrival of a new kid on the block — Emmanuel Macron’s European Political Community (EPC) — has forced the Strasbourg-based Council to defend its patch. With questions raised about the value of so many pan-European bodies, the Council — which employs 2,200 people and has an annual budget of €479...

Athens slams French newspaper for displaying Greek islands as … Turkish!

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:02 GMT

Greece complained to French newspaper Le Monde after it published a map of Turkey’s election results which showed a number of Greek islands as Turkish territory.The map, which appeared on the English version of Le Monde’s website Monday, showed the Greek islands of Chios, Samos, Ikaria, Kos, Ios, Amorgos and Rhodes as having voted for Turkish opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in Sunday’s election.According to two officials in the Greek foreign ministry, Greece’s ambassador to Paris, Dimitrios Zevelakis, wrote a letter to the newspaper’s publishers, calling on them to remove the map, which noted Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu as its source. Le Monde has since removed the map from its website.Despite being NATO allies, neighboring Greece and Turkey have been at odds for decades over a number of bilateral disputes, including maritime boundaries, Cyprus and overlapping claims to their continental shelves.Even though Aegean tensions briefly calm...

Neighbors recount woman who leapt to safety from roof, escaping Brockton blaze that displaced 8

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:02 GMT

A person was forced to make a desperate leap from a second-floor roof to escape a fast-moving blaze in Brockton late Monday night that left a building seriously damaged and eight people without a home.Crews responding to a reported structure fire at a multi-use building with a convenience store on Warren Avenue around 11 p.m. found heavy smoke and flames coming from the three-story building, according to Brockton fire officials.A neighbor told 7NEWS that a woman who lived on the building’s third floor was able to climb through a window before dropping down from the second-floor roof onto concrete below.“As soon as I’d seen her, she just fell down,” Antonio Santos said Tuesday morning. “She tried to grab some things, just to jump – she was a little scared to jump so she just fell.”Santos said he was able to contact the woman and speak with her while she was at a local hospital. He told reporters that after the fall, she was feeling better as ...

Virginia man charged in baseball bat attack on congressional staff also facing hate crime charge

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:02 GMT

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A man charged with attacking two staffers for Rep. Gerry Connolly with a baseball bat in his district office is also being charged with a hate crime, accused of damaging a car and chasing a woman in a Virginia neighborhood less than an hour earlier.Xuan-Kha Tran Pham, 49, of Fairfax was arraigned Tuesday by video hookup from the Fairfax County jail. Pham refused to appear, so a judge read the four counts against him while he huddled under a blanket in his cell.The charges include aggravated wounding and malicious aggravated wounding for the baseball bat attack on two staffers at Connolly’s district office in Fairfax. They also include a misdemeanor hate crime charge, and a felony count of destroying property. ‘Police say Pham approached a woman parked in her car Monday morning, asked if she was white, and then hit her windshield with a baseball bat. A video recorded on a neighbor’s home camera system shows a man with a bat chasing a woman wh...

Patriots-Titans preseason game date and time announced

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:02 GMT

The Patriots will close their 2023 preseason with road game at Tennessee on Friday, Aug. 25, the team announced Tuesday.Kickoff is set for 8:15 p.m. in Nashville.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Guregian: Emptying the notebook after a 38-year run at the Herald New England Patriots | Guregian: Patriots schedule is a doozy no matter which way you slice it New England Patriots | Patriots 2023 schedule: Analyzing all 17 games from the Cowboys trip to Aaron Rogders’ Jets New England Patriots | NFL 2023 schedule: Patriots open with Eagles, play Chiefs and Steelers among 4 primetime games New England Patriots | Patriots back James Robinson looking forward to showing his mettle The Patriots and Titans have discussed holding joint practices prior to their shared preseason finale, sources confirmed to the Herald. Those practices would likely take place Monday through Wednesday of that week. The Pats pr...