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There was power loss before plane crash that killed ex-NFL player Russ Francis, investigator says

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:01:32 GMT

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — The small plane crash that killed former NFL tight end Russ Francis and another man at an Adirondack Mountains airport occurred after the craft’s engine apparently lost power, a federal investigator said Tuesday.Francis, 70, and Richard McSpadden, 63, had just taken off from the Lake Placid Airport on Sunday afternoon in a single-engine Cessna 177 when the plane encountered trouble. The plane, which has two steering columns, had turned around in an attempt to land, officials said.“The engine apparently lost power,” National Transportation Safety Board investigator Todd Gunther said at a briefing Tuesday. “The pilot, or pilots in this case, turned back toward the runway.”Gunther said the plane hit a berm at the end of the runway and fell about 30 feet into a ravine, according to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.Multiple witnesses told investigators that the pilots called over the radio to say they had a problem and were returning to the airport, Gunther ...

Real Sociedad beats Salzburg 2-0 for its 1st group-stage win in 20 years in Champions League

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:01:32 GMT

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Real Sociedad picked up its first win in the group stage of the Champions League in two decades with a 2-0 win at Salzburg on Tuesday.Mikel Oyarzabal and Brais Méndez scored first-half goals for Sociedad, which took the Group D lead. The Spanish club reached four points after two matches, while Salzburg stayed on three points. Inter Milan joined Sociedad at the top by beating Benfica 1-0 at home later Tuesday.“It was a perfect match. We did a spectacular job from first minute to last. It was a well-deserved victory,” Méndez said. “We can compete with anyone, we know that. We needed to demonstrate it and tonight we did. Now we want more.”Oyarzabal put the visitors ahead in the seventh minute with a low shot into the far corner after a pass by Méndez, who added to the lead in a breakaway in the 27th after calmly navigating through the Salzburg defense before finding the net.Sociedad is making its first Champions League appearance in nearly a decade, when...

A bus crash near Italian city of Venice kills at least 21 people, including Ukrainian tourists

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:01:32 GMT

ROME (AP) — A bus carrying foreign tourists including Ukrainians crashed near the Italian city of Venice when it fell from an elevated street Tuesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 18 others, authorities said.Four of the injured were in serious condition following the accident in the Mestre borough, on the mainland opposite the historic old city of Venice, said Renato Boraso, a Venice city official. Two of the dead were children, Venice prefect Michele Di Bari said.Boraso confirmed that some of the victims are Ukrainians, and said the bus was bringing tourists to a camping site.Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the scene of the crash was “apocalyptic” and that he had already declared the “city’s mourning” for the “numerous victims” who were on the bus. According to local media, the bus fell a few meters before crashing close to Mestre’s railway tracks, where it caught fire. Emergency crews were on the scene.Premier Giorgia Mel...

PSV scores in stoppage time to salvage 2-2 draw with Sevilla in Champions League

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:01:32 GMT

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) — Jordan Teze scored five minutes into second-half stoppage time as PSV salvaged a 2-2 draw with Sevilla in the Champions League on Tuesday.Sevilla had taken the lead in the Group B match with a header by Youssef En-Nesyri in the 87th, a minute after Luuk de Jong had converted a penalty kick to even the match. Nemanja Gudelj had put Sevilla ahead in the 68th.It was the third time the teams met this year, with Sevilla eliminating PSV 3-2 on aggregate in the Europa League playoffs en route to the title. ___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerSource

Seahawks take winding route to reach 3-1, but show off their potential getting to the mark

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:01:32 GMT

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Mapping out the Seattle Seahawks schedule before the season began, sitting at 3-1 heading into the bye week appeared the optimal outcome.And that’s precisely where the Seahawks sit, even if the route wandered a bit getting to that mark.“We’re finishing the first quarter of the schedule. So, with a lot of hope and looking toward the future, and developing the young guys, seeing them able to play a role for us just gives us the confidence that we’re going to keep getting better,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. “So, we’re not a finished product, we’re just getting rolling.”Seattle won its third straight game on Monday night with a 24-3 thumping of the New York Giants where the defense grabbed the spotlight, highlighting the different ways the Seahawks have reached their mark through four games.It was Seattle’s offense that carried it to a 37-31 overtime win over Detroit in Week 2. Week 3 was a mix of strong special teams, solid run defense and a big second half o...

Commanders Corner: Soaring not high enough

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:01:32 GMT

Washington Commanders head coach Ron Rivera speaks during a press conference at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)(AP/Michael Conroy) Washington Commanders head coach Ron Rivera speaks during a press conference at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)(AP/Michael Conroy) The Washington Commanders were a mere two-point conversion away from taking the NFC East lead. All they needed were 2 yards, and the way they had been moving the ball down the field, they were in position to get the necessary 6 feet of real estate.Even if they didn’t make it into the end zone, they’d leave Phi...

North Dakota lawmaker killed in plane crash had recently earned commercial pilot’s license

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:01:32 GMT

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker who died in a plane crash along with his wife and two young sons had recently received his commercial pilot’s license with hopes of one day working for a major airline, a Senate colleague said.State Sen. Doug Larsen, his wife Amy and the two children died Sunday in a plane crash near Moab, Utah. The plane crashed shortly after taking off from Canyonlands Airfield near the desert recreation town, according to the Grand County Sheriff’s Office. The senator was the pilot, according to the sheriff’s office.Peggy Steimel, Larsen’s sister, identified the sons as 11-year-old Christian and 8-year-old Everett.The National Transportation and Safety Board is investigating the crash, with a preliminary report expected in two weeks.FAA records show that Larsen’s single-engine Piper PA-28-140, popularly known as a “Cherokee,” was built in 1966. Its airworthiness certificate was renewed this past June through 2030, indicating it had p...

Bayern beats Copenhagen 2-1 in the Champions League to extend its winning run

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:01:32 GMT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Bayern Munich needed a late goal from Mathys Tel to continue its winning streak in Champions League group-stage games with a 2-1 win at Copenhagen on Tuesday.With the score at 1-1, youth and experience combined for the winning goal as 34-year-old Thomas Müller picked up a pass from Harry Kane, held off two defenders and then played in 18-year-old French forward Tel to blast the ball into the net in the 83rd minute. It was a rare moment of cohesive, creative team play from Bayern after the German champion spent most of the game frustrated by Copenhagen’s deep, compact defense and was vulnerable to the Danish team’s counterattacks.Tel’s goal extended Bayern’s remarkable run of wins in Champions League group-stage games to 15 since a draw with Atletico Madrid in 2020, a competition record. Bayern is also 36 games unbeaten in the group stage since 2017.Lukas Lerager opened the scoring for Copenhagen in the 56th but Jamal Musiala responded for Bayern 11 m...

Thuram scores to help Inter beat Benfica 1-0 and go joint top of Champions League group

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:01:32 GMT

MILAN (AP) — Marcus Thuram made his mark in the Champions League to help Inter Milan get its campaign up-and-running with a 1-0 win over Benfica on Tuesday.Thuram scored in the 62nd minute for his first goal in the competition for the Nerazzurri. He has two goals and six assists in Serie A in a fantastic start at Inter for the 26-year-old player, who is the son of former Parma and Juventus defender Lilian Thuram.The goal came shortly after Inter’s top scorer Lautaro Martínez hit the woodwork twice in the space of six minutes.The result lifted Inter — last season’s runner-up — level on points with Group D leader Real Sociedad, which won 2-0 at Salzburg. Benfica was bottom with zero points from two matches.Both Inter Milan and Benfica have had strong starts to their domestic seasons but would have been expected to do better in their Champions League openers.Inter needed a last-minute equalizer from Martínez to snatch a 1-1 draw at Real Sociedad, while Benfica lost 2-0 at home to...

Movie Review: Her voice is lower, but Joan Baez has songs to sing and secrets to tell in new doc

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:01:32 GMT

Bob Dylan called it her “heart-stopping soprano,” and it’s true that when Joan Baez unleashed that pure, angelic voice on the protest song “We Shall Overcome,” you could believe we would, indeed, overcome.The celebrated folk singer and activist was singing about civil rights, of course. But what we learn in the thoughtful, thorough and sometimes harrowingly intimate “Joan Baez: I Am a Noise” is that Baez was also seeking to overcome much on a personal scale: anxiety, depression, loneliness and, late in life, troubling repressed memories about her own father.If that sounds like a lot to cover in 113 minutes, it is — especially because the new documentary, directed by Maeve O’Boyle, Miri Navasky and Karen O’Connor, also recaps a 60-year performing career, with the singer telling her story through interviews and an incredible wealth of archival material. We see Baez entering for the very first time a storage unit filled to the ceiling by her late mother with photos, home films, audio r...