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Just keep swimming: SoCal study shows sharks, humans can share ocean peacefully

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’re gonna need a bigger … drone.That’s right, “Jaws” fans. Researchers at California State University, Long Beach-based Shark Lab used drones to study juvenile white sharks along the Southern California coastline and how close they swim to humans in the water.Turns out, it’s pretty close. Almost within the bite radius.Still, it’s safe. There were no reported shark bites in any of the 26 beaches surveyed between January 2019 and March 2021, according to the Shark Lab.The juvenile white sharks mostly grouped together in two locations — in southern Santa Barbara County and central San Diego County — the researchers discovered through roughly 1,500 drone flights over the two years. Adult white sharks are generally solitary animals.In those two spots, the juvenile sharks swam near humans on 97% of the days surveyed, the researchers wrote in a paper published Friday. The sharks often swam within 50 yards (45.72 meters) of the wave breaks...

Deadly shooting at Prince George’s Co. cemetery, police say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

Police in Prince George’s County, Maryland, say they are investigating a deadly shooting at a cemetery on Suitland Road.Police said the shooting happened about 1:20 p.m. Tuesday and that they are still investigating the circumstances of the shooting. It occurred at Washington National Cemetery, police said.Police have not released any further details about the shooting, including how many people were killed.WTOP has a reporter headed to the scene.Below is a map of where the shooting happened.Washington National Cemetery was the site of a deadly shooting Tuesday, June 6, police said. (Screenshot from Google Maps)This is a developing story and this story will be updated.  Source

PGA, LIV golfers react to merger of rival leagues: ‘Nothing like finding out through Twitter’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

It was almost a year ago to the day that Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf teed off for the first time as the PGA Tour’s newest rival, flush with defectors from golf’s top circuit.Morals were questioned. Lawsuits were filed. Golfers doubled down on their affiliations.A merger, it seemed, wasn’t in the cards. But on Tuesday, professionals from both tours were caught off guard by news that their worlds would collide.When a news outlet broke the embargoed announcement that the PGA Tour, European tour and LIV Golf were merging commercial interest before PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan could send a memo to players, some learned about it on social media.“Nothing like finding out through Twitter that we’re merging with a tour that we said we’d never do that with,” Mackenzie Hughes tweeted.“And everyone thought yesterday was the longest day in golf,” tweeted Collin Morikawa, who also said he found out about the merger on Twitter.Justin Thomas was in the middle of...

Gulf’s ‘dead zone’ forecast to be smaller than average, but still twice reduction goal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The oxygen-depleted “dead zone” that forms each year in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana and Texas is forecast to cover about 4,155 square miles (10,761 square kilometers) this year.That’s about 1,200 square miles (3,107 square kilometers) smaller than the average during the 36-year history of dead zone measurements in the Gulf, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday, but still more than twice as large as the long-term hypoxia-reduction goal set by a federal-state task force.This year’s forecast would be about 1,000 square miles (2,589 square kilometers) larger than what was actually measured last year. Scientists from Louisiana State University, the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, NOAA and other universities will travel along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas during the last week of July and first week of August to see if the estimate holds up.But LSU marine biologist Nancy Rabalais, who has overseen the dead zone map...

WSSC Water offers incentives for customers to ‘Get Current’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

Not everyone pays their bills on time — and one local utility has a lot of customers who haven’t paid their bills on time.WSSC Water is hoping those who can afford to pay off their balances, but just choose not to, can be goaded into it.Throughout the entire month of June, WSSC Water is offering amnesty through its Get Current program. The last day to apply is June 30.“Eligible customers can receive a 10% bill credit if they pay in full, and 100% of late payment charges and turn-on fees waived,” said WSSC Water spokeswoman Lyn Riggins.“Customers who want to pay 50% of their delinquent account will receive a 5% bill credit, and when they finish a six-month payment plan, 100% of the late payment charges will be waived as well as turn-on fees waived.”Currently, about 83,000 accounts are past due, and collectively they owe about $53 million.“We have 1.9 million customers in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, and every day we need to provide water and wastewater services to those c...

Jack Nicklaus is going back to work on the 16th hole at Muirfield Village

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — The course Jack Nicklaus built is still under construction.Muirfield Village performed about as expected under a rare and overdue week of dry, hot weather. The winning score of 281 was the highest for the Memorial over 72 holes since Hale Irwin won at 281 in 1985.What stood out was the 16th, the toughest of the par 3 that left players grumbling. Jason Day was overheard saying after a tee shot into the bunker, “Stupid hole.” Nicklaus was in the television booth, laughed, and when someone suggested they turn down the volume, Nicklaus, “No, I think he might be right.”Nicklaus said he would go back to work on the 220-yard hole with bunkers to the right and a pond to the left.“We’ll adjust 16 next year,” he said. “I’ll do some things that will make it a more forgiving hole. When you’ve got only 25% of the guys hitting the green, which is what it was on Saturday, that’s not enough.”Part of the problem was a wind direction blowing from left to right, sending most shots ...

Colorado workers less than one-fifth blue-collar

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Less than one-fifth of Colorado's workers could be considered "blue-collar," according to recently released government data. The U.S. Census Bureau released new county-level data for employment in 2021. The data includes the number of businesses of each subcategory in each county and the number of people employed in each. Denver accused of ignoring complaints about homeless machete attacker Blue-collar work is decidedly a minority of Colorado's employment. Nearly half the people in Colorado (47%) are employed in just five industries: health care and social assistance (14%); retail; administrative and support and waste management (12%); accommodation and food services (11%); and professional, scientific and technical services (10%). By contrast, only 17% of the state's workers are employed in what could be called blue-collar industries - construction (7%), manufacturing (5%), transportation and warehousing (4%), and mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction (1%...

BSO search for 2 suspects caught on surveillance video stealing car’s tires at parking lot in Davie

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

A car was left sitting on blocks after thieves stole the car’s tires and rims.After an unknown vehicle pulled up at a parking lot in Davie late Monday night, two thieves quickly stole all four tires from a black Honda. “Its a clear video, it looks like it might even possibly be a stolen car,” the victim said. Surveillance video captured the unknown car immediately going towards the 2019 Honda Accord. “It appeared that two people, they did it under probably five minutes,” the woman said. “One of them almost looked like a woman, but it was two people. They backed up very slick about it.”The thieves were so slick and quite brazen, that a resident was seen walking by while the crooks parked, placed a jack under the Honda and stole the car’s tires within minutes.The tire’s bolts were left behind. “It was at 1:46 in the morning, they were gone by 1:52,” said the woman. The resident did not want to be identified, but said t...

Wu announces restructuring plan for 2 Boston schools

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced new plans for two of Boston’s schools on Tuesday, planning to move and expand one school currently in Roxbury into a new home in West Roxbury while expanding another school. Under the plans, the city will relocate the O’Bryant School for Math and Science, which shares a campus with Madison Park Vocational High School, in Roxbury.“We’re talking about generational change at a scale that we haven’t seen for quite some time in our district,” Wu said. The move will allow the neighboring Madison Park to expand into the space O’Bryant is leaving. In their announcement, city officials also rolled out a partnership with JetBlue to train students to aviation jobs at airlines and Massport.“Our kids deserve what the other cities have,” said Coach Collins of the Friends of Madison Park. “Our kids deserve what the other communities have.”Wu acknowledged there will be challenges getting inner city students who traditionally call O’Bryant home out to a new We...

Blue Jays’ Alek Manoah’s awful season gets worse with demotion to Florida Complex League

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:23 GMT

One of the most promising young starters in baseball has suddenly become a punching bag.Toronto Blue Jays ace Alek Manoah (1-7) has had a dreadful 2023 season with arguably the worst of it coming Monday night against the Houston Astros at Rogers Centre in Toronto.The right-hander surrendered six runs on seven hits while getting just one out before he was pulled in the top of the fist. Manoah’s season ERA has ballooned to 6.36. The struggles have been so bad that he has been demoted to the Florida Complex League — which is a rookie-level league — something that manager John Schneider hinted at after Monday’s loss.“As of now, we’re not sitting here making plans for anything” Schneider said after the 11-4 loss to the Astros. “But [we’re] doing everything we can do for him means using every resource that we have, using the staff and using his teammates to help him through it. When I say that everything is on the table, yeah, everythi...