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Newgarden earns record $3.6M for Indy win; Pedersen gets rookie of year honor

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:58:23 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Josef Newgarden celebrated his first Indianapolis 500 win Sunday night.He cashed in Monday at the race’s annual victory dinner.The two-time IndyCar champ earned a record $3.666 million for the biggest win of his career, an increase of more than $500,000 over last year’s race winner, Marcus Ericsson. Newgarden’s win also extended Team Penske’s record total to 19.Indy’s total purse of $17,021,500 also broke last year’s mark by more than $1 million.Race organizers estimated more than 330,000 attended the race. It was the second-largest race-day crowd since 2000 though actual attendance figures are not announced.“This is the greatest race in the world, and it was an especially monumental month of May featuring packed grandstands and intense on-track action,” Penske Entertainment President and CEO Mark Miles said in a statement. “Now, we have the best end card possible for the 107th Running of the Indianapolis 500: a record-breaking...

Hendriks activated by White Sox, making his return from non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:58:23 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Liam Hendriks has been activated by the Chicago White Sox, clearing another hurdle in his return from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.The closer was reinstated from the 15-day injured list before Monday night’s game against the Los Angeles Angels. Fellow reliever Jimmy Lambert was placed on the IL with right ankle inflammation.The 34-year-old Hendriks had no record and a 10.80 ERA in six rehab appearances with Triple-A Charlotte. The Australian right-hander allowed one run and one hit in one inning in his last game with the Knights on May 16.The White Sox opened a six-game homestand Monday night against the Angels. The team said all along that Hendriks’ return depends entirely on how he is feeling. He threw live BP on Friday.Hendriks could provide a big lift for a Chicago team that has struggled for much of the season. The White Sox (22-33) are coming off a tough series in Detroit, blowing late leads on Saturday and Sunday while dropping three of four against the Tigers.He...

Manhattanhenge: dónde ver el especial espectáculo del atardecer en Nueva York

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:58:23 GMT

(CNN) — El horizonte de Nueva York —famoso en todo el mundo— deslumbra a los espectadores desde hace casi un siglo. Pero durante cuatro días al año, el sol se alinea perfectamente a través de los espacios entre los edificios para proyectar un asombroso haz de luz al atardecer que recuerda al antiguo Stonehenge de Inglaterra.Esta versión muy moderna, apodada “Manhattanhenge”, aparecerá por primera vez en 2023 al atardecer de la noche de este lunes (8:19 p.m., hora local).Manhattanhenge: el mágico atardecer de Manhattan que solo ocurre dos veces por añoLos espectadores verán un medio sol flotando sobre la red de calles de la ciudad a las 8:13 p.m., y habrá una visión del sol completo el martes a las 8:12 p.m., según afirma el astrónomo Neil deGrasse Tyson en el sitio web del Museo Americano de Historia Natural.El efecto dura sólo unos minutos, cuando la luz de la puesta de sol se proyecta por las calles de este a oeste que no están bloqueadas por ninguno de los gigantescos...

Crews fighting abandoned warehouse fire in Denver

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:58:23 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Denver Fire Department responded to a warehouse fire near 48th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard Monday afternoon.According to DFD, the amount of fire warranted crews to attack the fire defensively after completing initial searches. DFD said the warehouse is currently abandoned.

Teenager walks at brain injury event weeks after getting shot in head for knocking on wrong door

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:58:23 GMT

Ralph Yarl — a Black teenager who was shot in the head and arm last month after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell — walked at a brain injury awareness event Monday in his first major public appearance since the shooting.The 17-year-old suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was shot while trying to pick up his younger brothers in April, the Kansas City Star reported.Yarl walked with family, friends and other brain injury survivors Monday at Going the Distance for Brain Injury, a yearly Memorial Day race at Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri.“It takes a community. It takes a family. It takes a support group, all of that,” Yarl’s mother, Cleo Nagbe, said ahead of the race, adding: “Let’s raise more awareness to stop the things that cause brain injuries and should not be causing them, especially gun violence.”As many as 1,000 people raced through the park, including many in neon green T-shirts who registered to be part of “Team Ralph,” said Robin Abramowitz, executive dir...

DA identifies woman fatally shot at Fall River car wash, man facing murder charge

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:58:23 GMT

A 33-year-old Fall River man is being charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman at a car wash in that city on Monday afternoon, officials saidOfficers responding to a reported shooting at the Globe Car Wash on Broadway around 12:30 p.m. found Jessenia Simmons, 45, of New Bedford, dead in one of the car wash bays, according to the Bristol District Attorney’s Office.Angelo O. Leo initially fled from the scene of the shooting but turned himself in to police in Tiverton, Rhode Island, about a half-hour later.If he waives rendition, Leo could be transported to Fall River District Court for arraignment Tuesday.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Troopers: 2 killed when wrong-way driver causes head-on collision on busy holiday in Maine

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:58:23 GMT

FALMOUTH, Maine (AP) — Two motorists were killed and a passenger critically injured on Interstate 295 on Monday when a motorist traveled the wrong way, causing a head-on collision, state police said. Busy holiday traffic came to a standstill for hours.A motorist from Oklahoma was killed and his spouse injured when a vehicle driven by a local resident entered the highway about 10 a.m. traveling south in the northbound lanes, state police said.The collision happened near Exit 11 in Falmouth, a few miles north of Portland.The highway was closed for about three hours on Memorial Day.Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene, state police said. The Oklahoma motorist’s wife, critically injured, was taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland.

Cocoa flavanols may boost memory, but don’t start buying chocolate

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:58:23 GMT

(CNN) — If your diet is low in flavanols — antioxidant compounds found in foods such as green tea, apples, berries and cocoa — adding 500 milligrams a day to your diet may slow and possibly improve age-related mental decline, according to a new study.Age-related mental decline is typically subtle. The condition impacts thinking speed and the ability to sustain attention and causes issues with word-finding, and it should not be confused with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, experts say.“Older adults consuming lower levels of food-borne flavanols scored less well in tests of hippocampal memory function than individuals consuming higher levels,” said Dr. Ian Johnson, emeritus fellow at the Quadram Institute in Norwich, a center for food and health research in the United Kingdom. He was not involved with the study. The hippocampus is a part of the brain that regulates learning, spatial navigation, and storage and consolidation of memory.When those same p...

2 men are on the run after breaking out of a Mississippi detention center. Last month, 4 others had escaped from the same facility

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:58:23 GMT

(CNN) — Authorities in Mississippi are looking for two detainees who escaped a detention facility Monday morning, just a little over a month after four other men had escaped the same jail.Michael Lewis, 31, and Joseph Spring, 31, were discovered missing from the Raymond Detention Center, about 15 miles west of Jackson, following a head count conducted after a deputy noticed items and “what appeared to be blood” near the facility’s outer perimeter fence, Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said in a news conference.Officers found there had been a breach in the ceiling of one of the facility’s rooms and believe that’s how the two men got out.“We believe that they were able to get access to an air duct within the facility, which led to the exterior of the facility where they were able to go over a fence and escape,” the sheriff said.Spring, who had been at the facility since November, was being held on probation and parole violations, burglary and also “what appears to be a hold...

‘We are US citizens and we shed blood’: Boston’s Puerto Ricans honor fallen on Memorial Day

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:58:23 GMT

Puerto Ricans have fought in the U.S. military for the past two centuries, but do not always garner the same recognition as other American citizens who did.Those who gathered at Puerto Rican Veterans Memorial Plaza in the South End addressed that complicated history this Memorial Day, while also paying tribute to the fallen Puerto Rican soldiers who served in the U.S. Armed Forces.“It is no secret to anyone that these soldiers from the 65th Infantry Regiment made significant contributions to the history of the United States,” said Roberto Santiago, Boston’s commissioner of veterans services, standing alongside the nation’s first-ever memorial to Puerto Rican veterans on Monday.Also known as the Borinqueneers, the all-Puerto Rican military regiment fought for the United States in both world wars, but made its most pivotal contributions in the Korean War, where the 65th was deployed for the first time as front-line troops.In Korea, the 65th regiment was tasked with exterminating enemy...