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Bounce Bright brings on the nostalgia with bounce house parties for grown-ups

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:40:47 GMT

When you think of bounce houses, you think of kids, but one SoFlo company says, not anymore! Grown-ups can feel young again, in their own adults-only, bounce house parties! Deco’s Alex Miranda has more.Bounce houses…Alesha François: “I miss being a kid so much, and this is a great experience.”…are fun — period!Heather Elliott, Bounce Bright: “A lot of people think this is just for children, but it’s totally for adults, too.”Yeah! Who said we can’t defy gravity, too, albeit more cautiously?Enter Bounce Bright.Heather Elliott: “We specialize in inflatables and balloons, and we are all about spreading joy and bringing the party.”And they’ve got your whole childhood covered.Heather Elliott: “Specifically for adults, we love to bring in the nostalgia. The board games like Jenga, Twister — Twister is always a really fun one — and then also just the improvs and things to get dressed up and feel ...

Marlins’ postseason hopes take a hit as Alcantara and Soler land on injured list

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:40:47 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — The Marlins placed reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcantara and star slugger Jorge Soler on the injured list Wednesday, dealing a blow to Miami’s postseason hopes.Alcantara is sidelined because of a right forearm strain, while Soler will miss time because of a right oblique strain.“This is something that broke my heart, but it is what it is,” Alcantara said before Miami’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday. “You want to be healthy all your career, but one day you’re going to fall down.”Alcantara said he first experienced discomfort during his last outing against Washington on Sunday. The right-hander completed eight innings in the 6-4 win.“I didn’t feel anything bad, but I talked to my trainer about it,” Alcantara said. “Knowing of the hard work that I put on my body, I just have to take it.”Alcantara missed a start this season because of biceps tendonitis, but has been one of the most durable pitchers in the major leagues the last five sea...

With last year’s injuries behind him, Tua Tagovailoa is ready to help Dolphins take next step

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:40:47 GMT

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — As Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa enters his fourth NFL season, one goal is prominent in his mind: staying healthy.“I wouldn’t like to. I would love to do that,” Tagovailoa said Wednesday when asked if playing a full 17-game season is a target for him.Sunday’s season opener against the Los Angeles Chargers will be Tagovailoa’s first regular-season game since he suffered his second concussion of 2022 in a Christmas Day game against Green Bay. He missed Miami’s final three games, including a playoff loss to the Buffalo Bills.Since then, much of the 25-year-old’s offseason has been geared toward making himself more durable. The Dolphins finished 9-8 last year and have hopes of a deep playoff run.When Tagovailoa was healthy, the Dolphins had one of the most prolific offenses in the NFL. He led the league in passer rating (105.5) and guided Miami to the sixth-best overall offense, trailing only Kansas City in yards per play.After br...

Solve It 7: Removal Runaround

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:40:47 GMT

A local woman was worried about a potentially dangerous situation in her backyard. She says no one would help her, so she turned to Solve It 7.  Brandon Gunnoe has the story.  Janine bought a house with a big backyard,  a relaxing pool, and two large propane tanks. “The tanks came with the house. They were there to heat the pool,” Janine said. After a while, Janine decided the tanks had to go.“We didn’t need them because I wasn’t gonna heat the pool,” Janine said. And with the wild New England weather, she worried the tanks could get toppled during a storm.“The tanks were attached to each other with a wire, and then the pipe coming up. There’s a lot of dead trees back here, and they fall all the time. I thought that was dangerous. If we get a gust of wind in, that line snapped. I’ve seen explosions, and stuff, makes me a little nervous,” Janine said. The two tanks had a company n...

Glasnow racks up 14 strikeouts as Rays defeat Red Sox 3-1

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:40:47 GMT

With an exhausted bullpen and James Paxton pushed all the way back to next Tuesday (10 days rest), Alex Cora needed Nick Pivetta to put the Red Sox on his back in Wednesday night’s series finale against the Tampa Bay Rays.Instead, Pivetta became the latest starter to make an early exit. The 30-year-old right-hander lasted just 4 ⅔ innings, giving up a pair of solo home runs and an RBI double before Cora strode out to the mound, forced to go to his beleaguered relief core too soon once again.Of course, Pivetta is tired, too. He’s worked every possible role this season, yanked from the rotation, slotted into the bullpen, then called back to make sporadic starts on an as-need basis. Brayan Bello is the only pitcher on the staff with more innings (137) this season.His manager had nothing but high praise for him. “Nick was outstanding,” Cora told reporters. “He pitched with three days rest and went out there and competed.”“I told him on the mound, I sa...

Second SDSU student reports sex assault by presumed rideshare driver

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:40:47 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A second San Diego State student has reported being sexually assaulted in the College Area by someone they believed to be their rideshare driver, police said Wednesday. It is the second such report in two weeks.The 19-year-old student says they were assaulted on Aug. 19 sometime between midnight and 2 a.m., police said. Detectives say the victim and a friend were in the 5000 block of Rockford Drive when they ordered a rideshare. A car they believed to be their driver arrived, and the two got inside."The man drove off and sexually assaulted the victim inside the car before dropping the pair off several blocks away," police said. San Diego International Airport warns travelers about upcoming I-5 closure The victim's friend witnessed the assault, police said.Nine days later, on Aug. 28, the report was made to the SDSU Police Department. SDSU police then notified SDPD because the assault happened off-campus.The man is described to be in his mid-20s with a heavy accent, a...

DUI suspect arrested in hit-and-run that killed beloved bartender

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:40:47 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A man has been arrested in connection with a deadly hit-and-run in University Heights that killed a beloved bartender.Josh Gilliland, 47, was walking to work at Cheers on Adams Avenue, just as he had done for more than two decades, when he was hit."It's been a nightmare, it's been a roller coaster," Scott Moore, Gilliland's longtime companion, said to FOX 5.According to San Diego police, Gilliland was walking across the crosswalk when a drunk driver ran a red light and hit Gilliland at the intersection of Park and El Cajon boulevards. The driver fled the scene, and Gilliland was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead a few days later. Second SDSU student reports sex assault by presumed rideshare driver "He obeyed every traffic signal, he was just living his life and somebody hit him and killed him," Moore said. "He was just doing his normal thing and he was just walking across the street.”Police have arrested the driver nearly three months after the deadl...

Texas AG Ken Paxton’s orders to help donor rattled office, former aides say at impeachment trail

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:40:47 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An extramarital affair Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had with a donor’s employee helped connect the dots about why the Republican was using his power in ways that are now at the center of his impeachment trial on accusations of corruption, a former top aide testified Wednesday. “It answered that ‘why’ question,” said Jeff Mateer, who was Paxton’s second-in-command at the Texas attorney general’s office.The account by Mateer, who went on to report Paxton to the FBI in 2020 over allegations of abuse of office, quickly injected an affair that Paxton has acknowledged to staff into the historic impeachment trial — the gravest threat to Paxton’s political career after years of criminal charges and alleged scandal.The trial, which could last weeks, was set to resume Thursday for a third day with the testimony of another former aide who has also accused Paxton of wrongdoing.At the center of the case are accusations that Texas’ top lawyer wron...

Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum to be the ruling party’s presidential candidate

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:40:47 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The former mayor of Mexico City will be the dominant ruling party’s presidential candidate, making it highly likely that Mexico will elect its first female president next year.The decision driven by polls of Morena party members means that Claudia Sheinbaum will run as the party’s candidate in the June presidential election. Mexico’s constitution bars popular outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from a second six-year term.Morena national council president, Alfonso Durazo said that Sheinbaum beat former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, her closest rival by double figures in five party surveys.Sheinbaum is the president’s close ally and as Morena’s candidate she will enjoy a distinct advantage. Last week, a broad opposition coalition selected female lawmaker Xóchitl Gálvez as its candidate.Sheinbaum, 61, led Ebrard in recent polling and both had stepped down from their positions to campaign full time. Durazo said “the result of this exercise is d...

2 men plead guilty to vandalizing power substations in Washington state on Christmas Day

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:40:47 GMT

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Two men have pleaded guilty to vandalizing power substations in Washington state in attacks that left thousands without power on Christmas Day.Jeremy Crahan, of Puyallup, admitted Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma that he and Matthew Greenwood conspired to cut electrical power in order to break into ATM machines and businesses and steal money, Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman said in a news release. According to the plea agreement, Crahan, 40, and Greenwood, 32, damaged four power substations on Dec. 25, 2022. The substations targeted were the Graham and Elk Plain substations operated by Tacoma Power and the Kapowsin and Hemlock substations operated by Puget Sound Energy.In all four cases, the men forced their way into fenced areas surrounding the substations and damaged equipment to cause a power outage. Crahan admitted that he helped plan the scheme and primarily served as a lookout that day.Afterward, the men plotted additional ways to cause powe...