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Vesey puts New York ahead, Krieder scores 2, Rangers beat Bruins 7-4 in matchup of East’s top teams

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:22:21 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Vesey’s goal put the Rangers ahead late in the second period, Chris Kreider scored twice and Jonathan Quick made 27 saves as New York beat the Boston Bruins 7-4 on Saturday in a matchup of the top teams in the Eastern Conference.Vesey’s fourth goal of the season came during a delayed penalty at 16:37 off a scramble in front of the Boston net. It gave the Rangers the lead to stay en route to their seventh win in eight games.Kreider scored on the power play and short-handed and leads the Rangers with 13 goals.Nick Bonino, K’Andre Miller, Tyler Pitlick and Artemi Panarin also scored for New York. Vincent Trocheck had two assists for the Rangers (15-3-1), who are 13-1-1 in their last 15 games and have 15 wins in 19 or fewer games for the first time in franchise history.Charlie Coyle scored twice for Boston (14-3-3), which was coming off a 5-2 loss to visiting Detroit on Friday. Morgan Geekie and David Pastrnak also scored for the Bruins.Quick continued his st...

QB Hudson Card pulls the ace as Boilermakers rally past Hoosiers 35-31 for Old Oaken Bucket

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:22:21 GMT

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Hudson Card tied his career high with three touchdown passes and scored on a 10-yard run with 2:39 left Saturday, giving the Purdue Boilermakers a 35-31 victory over Indiana and their straight win in the Old Oaken Bucket series.The Boilermakers (4-8, 3-6) had lost five of their previous six games but capped the 100th season at Ross-Ade Stadium by celebrating for the 300th time on its home turf.Indiana (3-9, 1-8) lost its final three games by a combined total of 10 points and blowing late leads in all three. The Hoosiers lost seven of their last eight in coach Tom Allen’s seventh full season.And this time it was an errant kickoff out of bounds that helped Card throw his ace. He found Deion Burks for 44 yards on the first play and eluded a couple of tackles as he sprinted the final 10 yards to give Purdue its biggest lead of the game.Indiana marched to the Boilermakers 35-yard line on its final drive but was stopped on third-and-1 and Brendan Sorsby w...

Jayden Daniels’ 4 TD passes lead No. 14 LSU past Texas A&M 42-30

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:22:21 GMT

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Jayden Daniels passed for four touchdowns and accounted for 355 yards of total offense against one of the nation’s top defenses, and No. 14 LSU beat Texas A&M 42-30 on Saturday.Daniels completed 16 of 24 passes for 235 yards and ran 11 times for 120 yards — a fine day by most quarterbacks’ standards but somewhat short of the Heisman Trophy candidate’s usual production this season.Time will tell if he did enough to win over Heisman voters, who will get an additional look at two other top candidates — Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. and Oregon QB Bo Nix — when their teams meet in the Pac-12 title game on Friday.Malik Nabers caught six passes for 122 yards and two TDs for LSU (9-3, 6-2 SEC). In the process, he became LSU’s career record holder in receptions with 186, eclipsing Wendell Davis’ mark of 183.The Aggies (7-5, 4-4) were within one score after Jaylen Henderson found tight end Max Wright for a 51-yard touchdown that t...

Turnovers cost UMass in season-ending 31-18 loss to UConn

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:22:21 GMT

AMHERST – UMass brought an unfathomable array of miscues into the locker room at halftime of Saturday’s Rivalry Weekend clash with UConn at McGuirk Stadium.The Minutemen gave up a pick six, lost two fumbles, turned the ball over on downs on their side of the field and had two punts partially blocked, all in the first half. The Huskies built a 19-0 lead at the break and rolled to 31-18 victory in a battle of FBS independents.“Complementary football usually breeds success and when we’ve been successful, we’ve been a positive in the turnover margin,” said UMass coach Don Brown. “We literally gave them field position inside the 40 and we just didn’t play complementary football.”UConn netted 414 yards of offense with 24 first downs. The Huskies’ offense was managed by dual threat quarterback Ta’Quan Roberson, while tailback Cam Edwards rushed for 102 yards and two touchdowns. UMass quarterback Taisun Phommachanh completed 18-of-30 passes for 230 yards with a touchdown.Both teams fi...

Cambridge looks to join other Massachusetts cities, towns in banning gas-powered leaf blowers

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:22:21 GMT

It may be only a matter of time until residents and businesses in Cambridge are banned from using gas-powered leaf blowers, which officials say are taking a toll on the environment and public health.A proposed ordinance in front of the Cambridge City Council looks to eliminate the gas-powered tool for good, doing away with seasonal restrictions that have been in place for years.The License Commission is set to hear feedback from residents and commercial leaf blower operators on Monday regarding the proposal that would implement a gradual phase-out of the equipment. The council’s Ordinance Committee will then consider the input on Tuesday.If approved, residents would be prohibited from using gas-powered leaf blowers starting in March 2025. The ban on commercial and city uses would go into effect two years later.Officials not just in Cambridge but also in nearby cities and towns are eager to swap in gas-powered lawn equipment for those powered by batteries because of the amount of pol...

Celtics reveal injury updates for Kristaps Porzingis, Jrue Holiday ahead of Sunday’s game vs. Hawks

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:22:21 GMT

Celtics big man Kristaps Porzingis will miss Sunday’s home game against the Hawks due to a left calf strain, the team announced.Porzingis left in the third quarter of Friday’s loss to the Magic with what the Celtics described as “left calf tightness.” He told the Globe postgame that he would get an MRI on Saturday and that he didn’t think the injury was serious. It’s unclear how much time he will miss, but he posted an encouraging message via his Instagram story on Saturday afternoon.“Good news this morning. Be back very soon,” Porzingis wrote.https://x.com/steve_hewitt/status/1728495727226019929?s=20Porzingis is coming off the healthiest season of his career but has suffered a few lower body injuries since joining the Celtics. He missed the FIBA World Cup this summer due to plantar fasciitis in his right foot. He missed the Nov. 15 win over the 76ers due to a right knee contusion after he banged knees with the Knicks’ Julius Randle. Now, the calf injury.The Celtics also announced t...

McDonald’s Canada founder George Cohon dies at 86

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:22:21 GMT

George Cohon, the Chicago-born businessman responsible for expanding the McDonald’s empire in Canada, has died at the age of 86.“Last night we said farewell to my Dad,” Mark Cohon said in a post on X. “Our family, Canada and the world lost a remarkable man.”Last night we said farewell to my Dad. Our family, Canada and the world lost a remarkable man. pic.twitter.com/6hbHfRDL5X— Mark Cohon (@MarkCohon) November 25, 2023Cohon was a corporate lawyer in his father’s firm in Chicago when he decided to move to Toronto and open the first McDonald’s location in Eastern Canada in London, Ont., on Nov. 11, 1968 – one year after the first McDonald’s restaurant outside the United States opened in Richmond, B.C. Three years later he would go on to become the chairman, president and CEO of McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada, holding those titles until July 1992.“We didn’t know a soul, we didn’t have much money and McDonald’s then wa...

Lebanese residents of border towns come back during a fragile cease-fire between Hamas and Israel

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:22:21 GMT

KFAR KILA, Lebanon (AP) — With a cautious calm prevailing over the border area in south Lebanon on Saturday, the second day of a four-day cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, villages that had emptied of their residents came back to life — at least briefly.Shuttered shops reopened, cars moved through the streets, and a family on an outing posed for photos in front of brightly colored block letters proclaiming “I (HEART) ODAISSEH” in one border town, with the tense frontier as a backdrop.Around 55,500 Lebanese are displaced by the clashes between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israeli forces since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, according to the International Organization for Migration.The fighting has killed more than 100 people in Lebanon, including more than a dozen civilians — three of them journalists — and 12 people on the Israeli side, including four civilians.While Lebanon and Hezbollah weren’t officially parties to the cease-fire between Israel and Ha...

Hostages released by Hamas have returned to Israel, Israeli military says

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:22:21 GMT

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas released 13 Israelis and four foreigners late Saturday in the second round of swaps under a cease-fire deal, the Israeli military said, after the militant group initially delayed the exchange for several hours and claimed that Israel had violated the terms of a truce deal.Shortly after midnight, the Israeli military said the released hostages, including four Thais, had been transferred to Israel. They were being taken to hospitals for observation and to be reunited with their families.Israel was to free 39 Palestinians later Saturday as part of the deal that ultimately went through after international mediation efforts.The Israeli hostages released Saturday by Hamas included seven children and six women, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced. Most of the released hostages were from Kibbutz Be’eri, a community Hamas militants ravaged during their Oct. 7 cross-border attack, a spokesperson for the kibbutz said. The children ranged in...

Northwest Side liquor store employee shot during string of armed robberies

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:22:21 GMT

CHICAGO -- A liquor store employee was shot during an armed robbery spree on the city's Northwest Side Friday night.According to police, the incident occurred at a liquor store in the 4400 block of West Belmont Avenue around 10:25 p.m. The man relayed to officers that he was working when two unidentified men wearing masks entered the liquor store and shot him after they saw him. The individuals fled the scene on foot. The victim sustained a gunshot wound to the shoulder and was transported to Illinois Masonic Hospital where he is listed in fair condition. Woman, 2 kids injured in hit-and-run crash on South Side Ten other armed robberies were reported in the Chicagoland area Friday. Police said the men are exiting a black Nissan ultima, armed with handguns and demanding property.A dozen armed robberies were also reported on the Southwest side Thanksgiving Day. In those incidents, the suspects were reported driving a Toyota or Hyundai. There is currently no one in custody and polic...