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Man sentenced to life behind bars for 2016 Fairfax Co. double murder

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:19:27 GMT

A man, who fled the country after killing two people in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2016, and avoiding law enforcement for years, was sentenced to life in prison Friday.Yohannes Nessibu, 29, was convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of Kedest Simeneh, 22, and voluntary manslaughter in the death of Henok Yohannes, prosecutors said.His sentencing included a life sentence for the first-degree murder charge, 10 years for manslaughter and eight years for felony firearms charges.Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said the more than six years of delay in the investigation and conviction were caused, in part, by Nessibu’s escape to Ethiopia.“The families of Kedest and Henok have faced a great tragedy with the loss of their children and siblings at a young age,” Descano said in a release. “Their trauma has only been exacerbated by the unusual length of this case, which progressed for seven years due to the need for international extradition, separa...

Cubs place INF Patrick Wisdom on 10-day injured list with a right wrist sprain

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:19:27 GMT

Chicago Cubs' Patrick Wisdom (16) scores on a double by Matt Mervis, next to Los Angeles Angels catcher Matt Thaiss during the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)(AP/Jae C. Hong) Chicago Cubs' Patrick Wisdom (16) scores on a double by Matt Mervis, next to Los Angeles Angels catcher Matt Thaiss during the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)(AP/Jae C. Hong) CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Cubs placed infielder Patrick Wisdom on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist sprain.Manager David Ross said Wisdom has been dealing with the issue for about two weeks. But he aggravated the injury...

Nuggets players signing autographs for fans this weekend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:19:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Not every day do fans have the chance to meet and get an autograph from an NBA champion, but there will be two more chances this weekend while some Nuggets players are signing autographs.The team secured their first NBA championship title after winning the fifth game of the NBA Finals in Denver on Monday. Photos: 40 years of Nuggets jerseys After the game, the city celebrated througout the streets, and on Thursday fans gathered to rally and celebrate the win with a parade thorugh downtown. The players are not done celebrating with fans.Christian Braun, Bruce Brown, and Jamal Murray are signing autographs for fans at DICK'S Sporting Goods located in the Park Meadows Mall in Lone Tree on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday, according to a press release.Christian Braun was signing autographs Saturday morning after he rescheduled his planned Friday appearance due to urgent team matters. Watch replay: Nuggets 2023 championship parade and rally in Denver On Sunday, Bruce Br...

Ticker: Reddit CEO says company is ‘not negotiating’ on 3rd-party app charges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:19:27 GMT

Reddit, a discussion-based social media platform, is facing an ongoing blackout from some of its most active users after it revealed plans to charge some third-party apps for data access. But despite thousands of communities within the online discussion network going dark this week, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told The Associated Press the company is not changing course.Reddit’s response to the blackout has fueled further outrage among protest organizers, who accuse the company of trying to remove moderators of subreddits, which are individual forums on the site, who are protesting. Reddit says it is simply enforcing its code of conduct. Reddit’s changes to its data access coincide with the San Francisco-based company’s reported plans to go public later this year.UN steps up criticism of IMF and World Bank, the other pillars of the post-World War II global orderFrom the ashes of World War II, three institutions were created as linchpins of a new global order. Now, in an unusual m...

Mets Notebook: Brett Baty struggling, Francisco Lindor out of lineup after birth of his second child

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:19:27 GMT

To the delight of fans, the Mets are playing the kids.Rookies Brett Baty and Francisco Alvarez have been locked in as key players and for the most part find themselves on the lineup card on a nightly basis for the Mets. However, handing MLB responsibilities to rookies requires plenty of patience.Although Alvarez has made the adjustment from Triple-A to the big leagues seem smooth — .810 OPS in 46 games — Baty is experiencing his first extended stretch of struggles. The 23-year-old is slashing .188/.264/.234 since May 23 and has not hit a homer since May 19.“Nobody knows [if he’ll be OK in the big leagues] for sure,” said Buck Showalter prior to Saturday’s game against the Cardinals. “I could sit up here and smugly say I got it all figured it out and you know exactly what somebody’s going to do…“It’s part of it, [rookies] are all going to have some failure up here… Even veteran guys. We can’t just wave arou...

Putin meets with African leaders in Russia to discuss Ukraine peace plan, but no visible progress

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:19:27 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday met with a group of leaders of African countries who traveled to Russia on a self-styled “peace mission” the day after they went to Ukraine, but the meeting ended with no visible progress.The seven African leaders — the presidents of Comoros, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia, as well as Egypt’s prime minister and top envoys from the Republic of Congo and Uganda — visited Ukraine on Friday to try to help end the nearly 16-month-old war. The African leaders then traveled to St. Petersburg on Saturday to meet with Putin who was attending Russia’s showpiece international economic forum. Details about the delegation’s proposals were thin.Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after the three-hour meeting that the Africans’ peace plan consisted of 10 elements, but “was not formulated on paper.” “The peace initiative proposed by African countries is very difficult to implement, difficult to compare positions,”...

Spain’s Socialists have won the Barcelona mayor’s office after getting help from conservative rivals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:19:27 GMT

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists received an unexpected boost from its main rival in next month’s national election on Saturday when his party won the mayor’s office of Barcelona following a tight vote at city hall.Sánchez’s Socialists, or PSOE, took a beating in local and regional elections in May when the conservative Popular Party routed leftist mayors and regional chiefs in votes across the country.The situation in Barcelona, however, was different. A party in favor of the Catalonia region seceding from the rest of Spain won the most votes by a slim margin over the Socialists. That left the Popular Party, which polled poorly in Barcelona, with the dilemma of either letting separatists rule the Catalan capital or helping the Socialists — PP’s leading opponent nationally.Xavier Trias of the pro-independence Together for Catalonia party said that he arrived to Saturday’s investiture vote believing he had the support n...

All but one person injured in B.C. bus crash discharged from hospital

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:19:27 GMT

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — All but one of the 18 people injured after a bus carrying pipeline workers crashed north of Prince George, B.C., have been released from hospital. TC Energy, the company behind the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, says 30 people were aboard the bus when it crashed on Friday.It initially said 17 people were injured and brought to the hospital but corrected that number to 18 Friday night, adding 17 of them have since been discharged.Northern Health spokesperson Eryn Collins says all of the patients were assessed as being in “good or fair condition” when they arrived at the University Hospital of Northern B.C. in Prince George.She says the last person remains in hospital under observation. Horizon North, which runs a number of camps for pipeline workers in northern B.C., said in a Facebook post that the bus was transporting the company’s employees to a work site when it crashed and it has begun an investigation into the cause of the incident.Thi...

Arkansas city honors enslaved man who fled to Canada and was later extradited

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:19:27 GMT

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An enslaved man who fled Arkansas in 1841 seeking freedom in Canada, only to be forcibly returned to the U.S., has been honored with a historical marker and a new street sign in the city where he once labored.The unprecedented 1842 extradition of Nelson Hackett from Canada on a theft charge sparked an uproar in the British colony, which had long been viewed as a safe haven for escaped slaves. Months later, the British government enacted policies that “made similar extraditions extremely difficult,” according to the Nelson Hackett Project, a digital work of public scholarship helmed by the University of Arkansas Humanities Center. Canada never sent another fugitive from slavery back to the U.S., researchers said.A marker honoring Hackett and his impact was installed Friday in Fayetteville’s downtown square, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.Archibald Yell Boulevard is being renamed Nelson Hackett Boulevard, the newspaper reported, an esp...

Stones frontman Jagger, girlfriend have Florida house up for sale

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:19:27 GMT

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and his dancer girlfriend Melanie Hamrick have put their Florida home up for sale.A listing on realtor.com says the lakefront home with four bedrooms and 5.5 baths is listed at $3.499 million — and it looks like the Jagger connection is a key selling point.“You can’t always get what you want but this house is definitely what you need!” the listing overview says, quoting part of the famous Stones song written by Jagger and Keith Richards. “This magnificent, custom-built Rutenberg home in the premier gated community of The Lake Club was designed with privacy in mind.”Jagger and Hamrick bought the home in the Lakewood Ranch area east of Bradenton along the Gulf coast for a little over $1.9 million in October 2020. The property was registered to Hamrick and was chosen mainly because her family lives in the area. Its original purchase price was $1.2 million in 2010.The overview says the home covers more than 5,700 square fe...