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Homa wins Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa for 1st win abroad

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:32 GMT

SUN CITY, South Africa (AP) — Max Homa can finally say he’s an international winner. Homa shot a 6-under 66 to win the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa on Sunday for his first win abroad.Homa finished at 19 under for the tournament, four shots ahead of Nicolai Hojgaard to add to his six PGA Tour career titles. Homa secured the win with a final round that included six birdies, an eagle and two bogeys. He pulled away at the top after consecutive birdies on the 15th and 16th holes, where he drained a 38-footer on the par-3.“It’s kind of what you dream of, you want to be in the fight and it was just fun to kind of close it out at the end,” he said. “It was one of those weeks the ball wanted to go in when it needed to go in.”Hojgaard — who played against Homa at the Ryder Cup — had four birdies in a bogey-free final round 68. Fellow Danish player Thorbjorn Olesen finished third after a 3-under 69 that included two bogeys and a double bogey in his last seven holes....

Fairfax man wins $5 million from scratch-off ticket

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:32 GMT

Alexandr Pichshev won $5 million after purchasing a scratch-off ticket at a Safeway in Fairfax, Virginia. (Courtesy Virginia Lottery) Alexandr Pichshev won $5 million after purchasing a scratch-off ticket at a Safeway in Fairfax, Virginia. (Courtesy Virginia Lottery) A man in Fairfax, Virginia, decided on a whim to buy a few scratch-off tickets from the lottery machine after doing some grocery shopping.And that decision paid off.Alexandr Pichshev recently won $5 million on the “$326,000,000 Fortune ticket” scratch-off game at the Safeway at 3043 Nutley Street in Fairfax, according to a news release from the Virginia Lottery.“It was unexpected,” Pichshev of Fairfax City told Virginia Lottery...

Man stabbed ‘multiple times’ outside Dulles Town Center

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:32 GMT

A man was pulled from his car and stabbed “multiple times” in the parking lot of Dulles Town Center in Sterling on Friday evening.At 9:45 p.m., deputies responded to the mall parking lot, where they learned the victim was approached by two men wearing masks as he got into his car, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.The men opened the vehicle door, pulled the victim out, and stabbed him multiple times before fleeing in a dark-colored four-door sedan, the release said. The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment of his non-life-threatening injuries.The first suspect was described as a male of unknown race, 5’6 to 5’8 inches tall, stocky build, wearing blue jeans, a yellow shirt, a black jacket, black gloves, and a black ski mask.The second subject is described as a male of unknown race, tall, and slender, wearing black pants, a blue shirt, a black jacket, black gloves, and a black ski mask.Detectives are looking into the motive behi...

State police searching for driver who fled after fatal crash on I-95 in Stafford

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:32 GMT

State police are searching for a driver who ran from the scene after a Saturday crash on Interstate 95 in Stafford County that killed his passenger.The wreck happened about 4:08 p.m. near the 140 milemarker when a 2005 Nissan Pathfinder traveling northbound in the right lane suddenly ran off the left side of the roadway, collided with an embankment and overturned, state police said in a news release.An adult male passenger in the Nissan was ejected and died at the scene, the release said. The driver of the Nissan fled the scene on foot before law enforcement arrived.The driver is believed to be a Hispanic adult male. He was last seen wearing a green sweatshirt and dark-colored pants.Anyone with information is encouraged to call Virginia State Police Master Trooper J. Fletcher at 804-750-8778 or email [email protected]

UN sounds alarm on Darfur, warns world not to repeat history

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:32 GMT

Escalating bloodshed since the outbreak of civil war in Sudan could lead to another genocide, the United Nations warned after a sharp uptick of violence in Darfur.The U.N. Refugee Agency said on Friday that it was “gravely concerned” following the mass killing of at least 800 people within 72 hours as part of the ethnic cleansing of minorities conducted by the Arab paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allies in the Ardamata refugee camp in West Darfur this week.Reports from Ardamata detail how paramilitary forces armed with assault rifles went door to door shooting men and boys, leaving their corpses scattered on the street.About 30,000 non-Arab Sudanese civilians — largely members of the Masalit tribe — had sought shelter in the Ardamata camp since mid-April, when war broke out between Sudan’s two top generals, Sudanese military Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum attributed the mass killing to the RSF, further expressing...

Message in a bottle tossed in the ocean off Mass. found in France 25 years later

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:32 GMT

A message in a bottle that was thrown into the Atlantic Ocean by middle schoolers who were studying ocean currents in Sandwich has been recovered and received a response from a man who found it while cleaning up trash on a beach in France. In 1997, Oak Ridge Middle School’s science and math teacher had students write letters to whoever found them as part of a research project on ocean currents. Recently, when they received a letter addressed to Ben Lyons, they realized they were holding a treasure.The response came from a man in France and the amazing discovery was also documented in newspapers in France.The school plans on writing back to the man in France to thank him for responding to his find.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft broke his silence on the Patriots’ ‘disappointing’ season

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:32 GMT

Patriots owner Robert Kraft said what his fanbase has been preaching all season Sunday morning on NFL Media.Kraft was asked about the Patriots’ season that currently sees his team last in the AFC East with a long path out of the basement of the division.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Patriots rookie WR Kayshon Boutte breaks inactive streak, defensive leader out New England Patriots | Four Patriots players who could play key roles vs. Colts in Germany New England Patriots | Callahan: Bill Belichick, Patriots finding joy in Germany amid lost season New England Patriots | NFL notes: How many Patriots are guaranteed to return in 2024? Well, not many New England Patriots | Patriots-Colts preview: How Mac Jones and Bill Belichick can win in Germany “This our 30th year that I’ve had the privilege of owning this team. And I’ve never been 2-7. So, it’s really disappointing,&#...

Vowing to “do it for the city,” Lewiston soccer team wins state title weeks after mass shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:32 GMT

OAKLAND, Maine (AP) — The boy’s high school soccer team in the Maine city that was the site of a mass shooting more than two weeks ago has won the state title.The Lewiston Blue Devils beat Deering 3-2 on Saturday in the Class A boys’ soccer state championship game.The shootings at a bowling alley and a nearby bar on Oct. 25 in Lewiston killed 18 people and injured 13 others, making it the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history.“We have been saying the past few weeks, ‘Do it for the city,’” Lewiston goalie Payson Goyette told the Sun Journal. “It feels great to win for the city and bring some good to the city.”With about a minute left in the first overtime session, Tegra Mbele scored his second goal of the game, giving the Blue Devils the victory. After the goal, Mbele was mobbed by his teammates and some spectators in a celebration that the coach called “euphoric.”“It was the joy we brought to the fans, which made them go crazy,” Mbele told the newspaper. “We just want...

Missile fire from Lebanon wounds a utility work crew in northern Israel as the front heats up

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:32 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Lebanese Hezbollah militants fired antitank missiles at an Israeli community just over the border on Sunday, Israeli officials said, badly wounding utility workers as multiplying attacks from Lebanon threatened to escalate into another front in the Mideast’s latest war. The Israeli military said it was striking the origin of the launch with artillery fire. The Israel Electric Corp. said workers in the rural community of Dovev were wounded while repairing lines damaged in a previous attack. Israeli media reported that six people were wounded, including one critically. Hezbollah said it launched guided missiles against a “logistical force belonging to the occupation army that was about to install transmission poles and eavesdropping and spying devices near the Dovev barracks.” It said it hit an Israeli military bulldozer in a separate strike. Shortly after the attack, air raid sirens were heard in northern Israel. Army Radio reported that another antitank missile had ...

French politicians, citizens march in Paris against soaring antisemitism amid Israel-Hamas war

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:32 GMT

PARIS (AP) — French politicians and citizens marched in Paris on Sunday to protest against rising antisemitism in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, representatives of several parties on the left as well as far-right leader Marine Le Pen attended Sunday’s march in the French capital amid tight security. President Emmanuel Macron did not attend, but expressed his support for the protest and called on citizens to rise up against “the unbearable resurgence of unbridled antisemitism.”Paris authorities deployed 3,000 police troops along the route of the protest called by the leaders of the Senate and parliament’s lower house, the National Assembly, amid an alarming increase in anti-Jewish acts in France since the start of Israel’s war against Hamas after its Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel.France has the largest Jewish population in Europe, but given its own World War II collaboration with the Nazis, antisemitic acts today open old sca...