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California vs. Florida: By the numbers

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:18 GMT

(KRON) -- With California and Florida's governors embattled in a "Who does it best?" campaign, some are wondering how the two states match up. Transgender man says he was denied hormone medication at Oakland Walgreens After California Governor Gavin Newsom invited Floridians to "Join us in California," in July 2022, it was off to the races. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visited San Francisco this week before he released a campaign ad bashing the city, "It’s really collapsed because of leftist policies, and these policies have caused people to flee this area," he said. San Francisco Mayor London Breed shot back at DeSantis on Wednesday, calling his statements the "oldest trick in the book." "People who are running for office, they criticize. and criticizing is easy, but actually doing the work is hard," Breed told KRON4. "No one has ever denied that we have challenges."The 2024 Presidential race is heating up, with DeSantis battling former President Donald Trump for the Republican...

Golden Gate Bridge tolls set to rise

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:18 GMT

(KRON) -- At the outset of July, tolls on the Golden Gate Bridge will be going up. Whether they have a FasTrak account, are paying as they go, or are carpooling, bridge commuters going into San Francisco will have to pay more starting July 1. The bumps are part of a multi-year toll increase plan that was approved by the Golden Gate Bridge Board of Directors in 2019.Take a look at what each increase will be below:BeforeAfterFasTrask account$8.40$8.75Pay-as-you-go (license plate accounts and one-time payments)$8.80$9.00Toll invoice$9.40$9.75Carpool$6.40$6.75The price raises are annual -- they last happened in the same increments on July 1, 2022. The toll increase plan was expected to raise about $100 million over five years. Toll increases on bridges have become somewhat frequent in the Bay Area. At the start of 2022, seven Bay Area bridges saw their tolls rise from $6 to $7. The Golden Gate Bridge was not included in that, as it is not state-owned.

Heim homers a night after controversial play at the plate, the Rangers beat the White Sox 6-3

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:18 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Jonah Heim hit a three-run homer a night after he was involved in a controversial play at the plate and the Texas Rangers beat the Chicago White Sox 6-3 on Wednesday night.Ezequiel Duran also connected as Texas won for the fourth time in five games. Martín Pérez (7-3) pitched seven effective innings in his first victory in a month, and Will Smith got two outs for his 14th save.The AL West leaders bounced back nicely after a frustrating 7-6 loss Tuesday night. Chicago scored the winning run in its three-run eighth when Heim was called for illegally blocking the plate in a replay review that overturned umpire D.J. Reyburn’s out call.A day later, Rangers manager Bruce Bochy called the ruling “really, really confusing for the catchers.”“It is something that probably is going to have to get discussed more, and get a little more clarity to it,” Bochy said.Heim provided his response in the rubber match of the three-game set. After hitting his 10th homer, lifting Texas ...

Kreilach scores 2 goals, Real Salt Lake beats St. Louis 3-1

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:18 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Damir Kreilach scored two goals, teenager Gavin Beavers saved two shots and Real Salt Lake beat St. Louis City 3-1 on Wednesday night.RSL (7-7-5) improved to 2-8-2 in 12 road matches against expansion teams — with the first victory knocking LAFC out of the 2018 playoffs. RSL lost to St. Louis 4-0 in March, tying its worst loss to an expansion team.St. Louis (9-7-2) is winless in four straight matches, going 0-2-2. SLC won its first five matches but has since gone 4-7-2.Diego Luna opened the scoring in the 15th minute for Real Salt Lake. Kreilach’s first goal gave RSL a 2-1 lead in the 48th after sending home Maikel Chang’s heel pass. Kreilach also scored in the 66th with a one-touch finish of Andrew Brody’s cross. Beavers, who turned 18 on April 29, was making his fourth start and fifth appearance for RSL. Roman Bürki finished with five saves for St. Louis.Nicholas Gioacchini scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season for St. Louis in the 21...

Naylor scores the go-ahead run in the 8th inning, the Guardians beat the Athletics 7-6

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:18 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Rookie Bo Naylor scored the go-ahead run in the eighth inning on a throwing error, Gavin Williams pitched 5 2/3 innings in his major league debut and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Oakland Athletics 7-6 on Wednesday night.Naylor singled for his first hit in the majors — snapping an 0-for-19 drought — and came home on Steven Kwan’s one-out double. Myles Straw was the first to score on Kwan’s hit, which turned into a two-run play when right fielder Ramón Laureano wildly flung the ball back to the infield.Williams, the Guardians’ consensus top prospect and 2021 first-round pick, allowed four runs on four hits — all in the third — while striking out four. The right-hander maxed out at 98 mph, topping 96 mph on 18 of his 84 pitches.The 6-foot-6, 250-pound Williams went 9-6 with a 2.10 ERA in 37 minor league starts between Single-A Lake County, Double-A Akron and Triple-A Columbus. He was 3-2 with a 2.93 ERA in nine starts this year with the Clippers.Eli Morgan (3-1) pi...

Bradley goes 6 strong innings and Rays beat Orioles 7-2 to split 2-game series

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:18 GMT

Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Taj Bradley delivers to the Boston Red Sox during the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)(AP/Chris O'Meara) Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Taj Bradley delivers to the Boston Red Sox during the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)(AP/Chris O'Meara) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Rookie Taj Bradley allowed one run over a career-high six innings, Randy Arozarena and Isaac Paredes homered, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-2 on Wednesday to split a two-game series between the top two teams in the AL East.Bradley (5-3) gave up three hits and struck ...

Denver weather: Severe storm warning until 10:30 p.m.

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:18 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Strong to severe thunderstorms will stay in Denver's weather forecast through Wednesday evening and return again Thursday.A severe thunderstorm warning was in effect for Arapahoe and Denver counties until 10:15 p.m. and Douglas and Elbert counties until 10:30 p.m.The Front Range to the eastern plains remains under a slight to enhanced risk for thunderstorms becoming severe with the potential to produce large hail, damaging wind gusts, heavy rain and isolated tornadoes. Weather tonight: Thunderstorms continueSevere thunderstorms and tornado watches continue through Wednesday night.During this time there will be the greatest concern in the Denver area will be large hail and strong wind gusts. Even after the watches expire, there will be a risk of thunderstorms. The greatest concern for severe storms will track east through the overnight. Weather tomorrow: Another round of thunderstorms There will be another risk of thunderstorms on Thursday.Some morning sunshine...

Tornado destroys home in Logan County

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:18 GMT

LOGAN COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — A tornado that hit Logan County on Wednesday evening destroyed a home and damaged at least one other building.The home was hit in the 6900 block of County Road 20.5, according to the Logan County Office of Emergency Management. A person was in the home's basement at the time but was uninjured. The home is a total loss. June weather in Denver is breaking these records It was not the only place in the area to suffer tornado damage. An abandoned warehouse in Sterling lost its roof and some of its walls collapsed, the OEM said. The building is owned by Banner Health.Severe storms hit the Front Range on Wednesday, with several areas under an enhanced risk for hail, strong winds and tornadoes. The area of concern included the Eastern Plains.Tornado warnings were issued for both Logan and Washington counties on Wednesday evening, while severe thunderstorm warnings were in effect across much of the plains. The Denver metro area was also under a severe thunders...

Why Brits are going to start fighting about pylons

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:18 GMT

LONDON — The U.K. is on the cusp of a net zero revolution. Just not the one many might assume.“When people think about the energy transition and the move to net zero — what it means for them, personally — they think about replacing their car, maybe their boiler, maybe putting solar panels on their roof, or whether they can afford insulation,” says Alice Delahunty, National Grid’s president of electricity transmission. “They don’t yet think … ‘will it mean a pylon through my village?’”But as the government pursues net zero electricity generation by 2035 — a target it must hit to have any hope of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 — it is planning a massive expansion of the system for transmitting electricity across the country.Experts are hesitant to put an exact number on this expansion, but it is going to require more pylons. Lots more pylons.National Grid estimates that, over the next seven years, five times as many transmission lines — via overhead pylons or (a more ex...

Britain’s mortgage crisis could destroy Rishi Sunak. Why won’t he act?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:18 GMT

LONDON — Hundreds of thousands of Britons are facing mortgage misery over the next 12 months. Rishi Sunak is about to feel their wrath.The U.K. prime minister has been snookered by Britain’s stubbornly high inflation rate, which at 8.7 percent remains the highest in Western Europe. The Bank of England is pushing interest rates ever-higher as a result, creating a crisis for U.K. homeowners not seen for a generation.Around 800,000 households will need to remortgage their properties next year, the Resolution Foundation think tank calculates, and rising interest rates mean they will pay a staggering £2,900 a year more on average from 2024. With a general election looming next year, the timing for Sunak could hardly be worse.This is a “huge problem” for voters, Andrea Leadsom, a Conservative member of the Commons Treasury committee and former U.K. business secretary, told POLITICO.“It’s clear we’re going to lose the next election,” another former Cabinet minister sighed. “These are...