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Emergency room doctor unveils the most dangerous toys this season 12/24/2023 06:10am • In less than 24 hours kids everywhere will begin tearing into toys from their wish list. But before that happens, one D.C.-area doctor suggested some ways to play it safe and avoid a Christmas trip to the emergency room. Dr. Sarah Ash Combs, an emergency medicine physician and director of outreac Quinton Byfield scores twice, Kings halt hot Flames, 5-3 12/24/2023 02:23am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Quinton Byfield scored twice, Trevor Moore got his team-leading 16th goal, and the Los Angeles Kings defeated the Calgary Flames 5-3 on Saturday night. Alex Laferriere and Pierre-Luc Dubois also scored, Cam Talbot made 29 saves, and the Kings avoided their first three-game losin Jake Browning's charmed run filling in for Joe Burrow ends with 3-pick performance, loss to Steelers 12/23/2023 10:02pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Jake Browning scrambled to his right with two Pittsburgh Steelers defenders closing in during the first quarter on Saturday and thought he did what he's done so often of late while filling in for Joe Burrow: make the smart play. One problem. Well, t 'The Boys in the Boat' gives the Hollywood treatment to rowing during an Olympic year 12/23/2023 07:11pm • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The journey from nowhere to an Olympic gold medal is a tale as old as time. Just as well-worn, but far less explored, are the stories about great athletes who realize they can't make it anywhere unless they have a way to bankroll the trip. “The Boys in the Boat” Israel strikes 2 homes, killing more than 90 Palestinians. Biden says he didn't request a cease-fire 12/23/2023 04:12pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 90 Palestinians, including dozens from an extended family, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two homes in Gaza, rescuers and hospital officials said Saturday, a day after the U.N. chief warned that nowhere is safe in the territory and that Israel’s offensive US tensions with China are fraying long-cultivated academic ties. Will the chill hurt US interests? 12/23/2023 03:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — In the 1980s, Fu Xiangdong was a young Chinese virology student who came to the United States to study biochemistry. More than three decades later, he had a prestigious professorship in California and was conducting promising research on Parkinson’s disease. But now Fu is do Paramedics were convicted in Elijah McClain's death. That could make other first responders pause 12/23/2023 02:16pm • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Two Denver-area paramedics were convicted Friday for giving a fatal overdose of the sedative ketamine to Elijah McClain in 2019 — a jury verdict that experts said could have a chilling effect on first responders around the country. The case involving the 23-year-old Black Solanke hat trick edges Bournemouth to win at 10-man Nottingham Forest 12/23/2023 12:48pm • NOTTINGHAM, England (AP) — Dominic Solanke grabbed a hat trick for Bournemouth to win at Nottingham Forest 3-2 and ruin Nuno Espirito Santo's first game in charge at the City Ground in the English Premier League on Saturday. Forest looked like overcoming the controversial first-half red card to Wi 19 residents displaced by apartment fire in Northeast DC 12/23/2023 11:44am • Nineteen people have been displaced after a Northeast D.C. apartment building fire early Saturday morning. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services said it got a call about the apartment fire in the 12-hundred block of Meigs Place in Northeast, near Gallaudet University, and arrived on the scene 2 French bulldogs stolen days apart in DC, police say 12/23/2023 09:07am • In a continuing trend, two more French bulldogs were stolen this week in the District, according to D.C. police. Mocha was stolen from her owner at gunpoint Friday afternoon in the 3300 block of 14th Place in Southeast, as she was attempting to sell the dog, authorities said. The victim told poli What stores are open and closed on Christmas Day in 2023? Hours for Walmart, Kroger, CVS and more 12/23/2023 06:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — With Christmas right around the corner, you might want to check the list of what stores are open (and closed) twice. From retail to grocery chains, many companies across the U.S. close early on Christmas Eve and shut their doors entirely on Christmas Day — while others opt to cut Warren Foegele and Ryan McLeod help Oilers rally for 4-3 win over Rangers 12/22/2023 11:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Warren Foegele and Ryan McLeod each had a goal and an assist in Edmonton’s four-goal third period, helping the Oilers beat the New York Rangers 4-3 on Friday night. Zach Hyman and Evander Kane scored 1:08 apart early in the third to get the Oilers’ comeback started for their se Embiid plays through ankle injury to extend 30-10 streak to 13, 76ers beat Raptors 121-111 12/22/2023 10:58pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joel Embiid played through an ankle injury to push his 30-10 streak to 13 games, finishing with 31 points and 10 rebounds in the Philadelphia 76ers’ 121-111 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Friday night. Embiid scored all 31 points after landing awkwardly trying to block a Friday's Transactions 12/22/2023 10:31pm • BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Shelby Miller on a one-year contract with and option in 2025. Designated C Donny Sands for assignment. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Claimed 1B Alfonso Rivas off waivers from Cleveland. National League ARIZONA DIAMON Happy trails: Volunteers tackle repairs along Mount Vernon Trail 12/22/2023 10:13pm • The 18-mile-long Mount Vernon Trail in Virginia has been getting a little work done over the past year, and the people doing it aren't charging a penny. According to the newsletter of the Friends of the Mount Vernon Trail, volunteers have logged 3,304 hours trimming low-hanging branches, filling