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“Sushi Tuesdays”: lecciones para comprender y salir adelante tras un suicidio

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

Nota del editor: Si usted o alguien que conoce tiene problemas con la salud mental, hay ayuda disponible. Marque o envíe un mensaje de texto al 988 o visite 988lifeline.org para obtener apoyo gratuito y confidencial.(CNN) — Cuando Sam Maya, un querido esposo, padre, amigo, corredor de bolsa y entrenador, se suicidó hace 16 años, dejó una nota. Pedía perdón a su mujer, Charlotte, por ser una carga y les decía a ella y a sus dos hijos, que entonces tenían 6 y 8 años, que les quería.En su reciente y desgarrador libro de memorias, “Sushi Tuesdays: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Family Resilience”, Charlotte Maya da testimonio de la vida de Sam, su muerte y las repercusiones con un propósito singular: humanizar el rostro del suicidio y ayudar a los lectores a adquirir soltura a la hora de hablar de salud mental.Maya pasó casi una década escribiendo “Sushi Tuesdays”, que pretende humanizar el rostro del suicidio.Pasó casi una década escribiendo “Sushi Tuesd...

Officials: ‘Loud boom’ heard in DC region caused by military flight

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

Officials with the Annapolis Office of Emergency Management said the cause of the loud sound resembling an explosion heard by residents in the D.C. region Sunday afternoon was an “authorized” Department of Defense flight.Sunday afternoon, WTOP received dozens of calls from listeners reporting a loud boom in the Annapolis and Bowie areas of Maryland. Social media reports spoke of a similar noise in Northwest D.C. as well as in areas of Springfield and Woodbridge in Virginia.The loud boom that was heard across the DMV area was caused by an authorized DOD flight. This flight caused a sonic boom. That is all the information available at this time.— Annapolis OEM (@AnnapolisOEM) June 4, 2023The Fairfax County Police Department said it initially believed the sound to have come from an aircraft.The D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency tweeted it was aware of the reported noise, and that “there is no threat at this time.”This is a developing story. ...

Former Nuggets star signs autographs as team's buzz continues to heighten during NBA Finals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

LONE TREE, Colo. (KDVR) -- Denver Nuggets fans gathered at DICK'S Sporting Goods at Park Meadows to pick up Nuggets Finals gear and meet former player Dan Issel. “I've been involved with this organization for a long long time,” Issel said. Issel, who retired from basketball after the 1984-85 season, was able to head to Ball Arena on Thursday for Game 1 of the NBA Finals. “I was at the game Thursday night. I took my five grandkids with me," Issel said. Kroenke bought Nuggets, kept team in Denver, now hoping to deliver an NBA title Issel is planning on watching Sunday night's game at home. He said he believes the Nuggets will win it all. “The Nuggets this year are the best team and that is why I think they will win," Issel said. Several fans lined up in the back of the store with gear and photos for Issel to sign. One of those fans, Kyle, was excited to meet the former player. “I grew up in Highlands Ranch. It's nice to represent a Colorado team and making it to the finals is nice,...

Elton John serenaded by Manchester City players at airport in FA Cup celebrations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

(CNN) — “This boy’s too young to be singin’ the blues,” Elton John sings in one of his biggest hits “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.”And on Saturday, the legendary singer found himself singing with the sky blue side of Manchester as he was serenaded by Manchester City shortly after the team had won the FA Cup.Pep Guardiola’s side had defeated its bitter rival Manchester United 2-1 at Wembley to keep its hopes of a ‘treble’ still standing, before players and staff bumped into John at Manchester Airport on the tarmac by a plane.“Look who I ran into at Manchester Airport,” John posted on Instagram, alongside a photo of himself holding the FA Cup with some of City’s staff, including a grinning Guardiola. “Congratulations on an incredible double. Fingers crossed for the treble.”Videos posted by Manchester City showed John hugging each of the players in turn as they walked past him, while Phil Foden even posed for a selfie with the singer, before the team serenaded John with a rendition o...

Arraez’s RBI infield single in 8th lifts Marlins over A’s and series sweep

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Luis Arraez hit a tiebreaking infield single in the eighth inning and the Miami Marlins beat the Oakland Athletics 7-5 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.Joey Wendle doubled against A’s reliever Austin Pruitt to lead off the inning, then advanced on Jacob Stallings’ single. Stallings took second on right-fielder Ramon Laureano’s throw to the plate as Wendle remained at third.Sam Moll relieved Pruitt (1-3) and struck out pinch hitter Jorge Soler before Arraez’s hard smash bounced off second baseman Aledmys Diaz’s glove and drove in Wendle to give Miami a 6-5 lead. Nick Fortes ran for Stallings and scored from third on catcher Shea Langeliers’ passed ball.The A’s lost their 14th straight on the road and are a major league-worst 12-49.Yuli Gurriel had three hits — falling a home run shy of a cycle — and Garrett Cooper went deep for the Marlins.Tanner Scott (4-1) pitched a scoreless eighth for the win, and Dylan Floro closed with a perfect ninth for his sixth save.NL ...

Red Sox embarrass themselves in sloppy 6-2 loss to Rays

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

Before Sunday’s game the Red Sox welcomed hundreds of kids from across New England onto the field at Fenway Park for a parade around the warning track.Then, in the hours that followed, those kids got to watch as the Red Sox delivered what could only be described as a Little League performance.Over a stretch where the Red Sox have frequently shot themselves in the foot on defense, the club outdid itself with an embarrassing showing in a 6-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.The lowlight came on what started as a simple hit-and-run single in the top of the sixth, which quickly devolved into a full-fledged disaster. The slow chopper by Yandy Diaz bounced through the infield to Alex Verdugo in right, who nonchalantly returned it into the infield without realizing that Manuel Margot had already gone from first to third and was charging home.By the time Enmanuel Valdez made the relay home it was already too late, so catcher Connor Wong tried to salvage the play by trying to throw out Diaz ...

Tensions over Taiwan: China defends buzzing American warship

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

SINGAPORE — China’s defense minister defended sailing a warship across the path of an American destroyer and Canadian frigate transiting the Taiwan Strait, telling a gathering of some of the world’s top defense officials in Singapore on Sunday that such so-called “freedom of navigation” patrols are a provocation to China.In his first international public address since becoming defense minister in March, Gen. Li Shangfu told the Shangri-La Dialogue that China doesn’t have any problems with “innocent passage” but that “we must prevent attempts that try to use those freedom of navigation (patrols), that innocent passage, to exercise hegemony of navigation.”U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the same forum Saturday that Washington would not “flinch in the face of bullying or coercion” from China and would continue regularly sailing through and flying over the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea to emphasize they a...

Quebec town devastated by fishing accident that killed local man, four children

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

Residents of a small northeastern Quebec village are devastated by the news that a local man and two of his children were among five people killed in a weekend fishing mishap, one of the man’s relatives said Sunday.Keven Girard, 37, and four children died early on Saturday when they were caught in the shifting tides of the St. Lawrence River while fishing for capelin. Police identified Girard on Sunday but declined to name the children. But Girard’s aunt by marriage, Vivian Lavoie, said his sons Patrick and Jérôme Girard were among the victims. “Everyone is gutted,” Lavoie said in French on Sunday from the village of Les Bergeronnes, which was also Girard’s hometown.“Everyone knows each other here. It’s tight here. Everyone is affected, because we know them all.”Divers found Girard’s body in the St. Lawrence river on Saturday night, provincial police spokeswoman Sgt. Béatrice Dorsainville said in a phone interview.His death was f...

Mundelein man arrested, charged after deputies find nearly 8,000 fentanyl pills, guns

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

MUNDELEIN, Ill. — A man from the far north suburbs was arrested and charged after the Lake County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) raided his home Friday, where they found thousands of fentanyl-laced pills, a gun and a large amount of ammo.In March, LCSO's Special Investigations Group (SIG) along with members of the ATF and Homeland Security Investigations launched an investigation into 22-year-old Oscar Pena after learning he was allegedly selling firearms and illegal narcotics out of his home in the 1000 block of Concord Circle in Mundelein.Oscar Pena, 22.As the investigation progressed, undercover detectives acquired three firearms, 15 grams of cocaine, and nearly 2,500 fentanyl-laced pills. On Friday, a search warrant was conducted at Pena's home, where law enforcement officials seized nearly 5,500 fentanyl-laced pills, another firearm, and a large quantity of ammunition, according to the LCSO. 19 people shot, 3 dead in overnight violence on the South Side Pena faces the following char...

Hendriks gets win on Burger slam, White Sox beat Tigers 6-2 for 3-game sweep

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Jake Burger's game-ending grand slam handed Liam Hendriks his first win since returning from cancer, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 6-2 on Sunday for a three-game series sweep.Hendriks (1-0) worked a 1-2-3 ninth, striking out two. It was the third big league appearance for the All-Star closer since he missed the start of the season after he was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.Yoán Moncada and Tim Anderson walked with one out to load the bases for Burger, who hit a drive to left-center off Alex Lange (3-1) for his 12th homer of the season. It was his first career slam and game-ending homer. YESTERDAY: Moncada scores on wild pitch that strikes ump, White Sox beat Tigers 2-1 Burger has been at the peak of his powers at home this year, as eleven out of his 12 home runs have cleared the fences at Guaranteed Rate Field this season.Michael Kopech also continued his recent string of success on the mound. The big righty finished his day with 7....