AUSTIN, Texas. (KEYT) - Nathan Aceves pitched six strong innings and UCSB smacked three home runs in a 9-5 win over Tarleton State in an elimination game.

The Gauchos advance to the Austin Regional Final to face host Texas at 3 p.m. Pacific Time. If UCSB wins they will force a winner-take-all game against the Longhorns on Monday.

Aceves allowed just two runs and struck out four.

After scoring two unearned runs in the first inning UCSB hit back-to-back home runs in the second inning as Cole Kosciusko and Noah Karliner both hit tape measure blasts for a 4-0 lead. Kosciusko was a triple shy of hitting for the cycle as he went 4-for-5 with 3 runs scored.

The Texans pulled to within 5-3 with two runs in the bottom of the seventh but the Gauchos put the game away with four runs in the top of the eighth, the big blow was a 3-run home run by Rowan Kelly.

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By Taylor Galgano, Zoe Sottile, CNN

A police officer in Shelby, North Carolina, was fired Saturday after a viral video captured on a home security camera showed him wrestling a Black woman to the ground and repeatedly punching her.

As officers tried to handcuff her after the incident, the woman asked for mental health care, said she was off her medication, and repeatedly asked officers to call her father.

The video sparked protests in Shelby – a small city near North Carolina’s southern border – and calls for the officer’s dismissal. It comes after years of scrutiny and protests over police use of force in the US, particularly against African Americans.

Her father identified the woman in the video as his 34-year-old daughter.

“I was so upset … Why is this man doing this to my daughter? What reason? And she’s sick,” Gregory Moore told CNN, referencing her mental health issues.

The officer, who was not named by the department, was fired following an administrative investigation, according to Shelby Police Chief Brad Fraser. An arrest warrant for the woman shows an officer named Karson Hyder was trying to arrest her. CNN is attempting to reach Hyder for comment.

“As a lifelong resident of this community, I care deeply about the residents we serve and the reputation of this department,” Fraser said in a news conference Saturday. “While this incident does not reflect the values of the Shelby Police Department, it does reinforce the importance of holding ourselves to the highest standards of conduct.”

CNN has reached out to the Shelby Police Department and police unions in the state for comment on the officer’s firing.

It is unclear what happened in the moments before the video began. The camera was motion-activated and only started recording when it detected the officer and the woman, according to the homeowner, whom CNN agreed not to name due to their concern for privacy after the story went viral.

The video starts with the officer and the woman standing, their hands touching. The officer then wrestles the woman to the ground. She is heard saying, “I don’t have a warrant” and asks, “What are you doing?” The officer then punches her multiple times, apparently in the face and upper body.

A second officer then steps in to pull them apart as the first officer continues punching her. The second officer says, “Let go,” repeating, “I got her.”

A third officer then arrives and the officers try to handcuff the woman. She asks if she could receive mental health care and asks the officers multiple times to call her father.

Michael Alcazar, a retired New York City Police Department detective and current adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who reviewed video of the incident, told CNN the officer in the video “employed force far beyond what the situation required.”

He noted the officer continued punching the woman even after a second officer arrived, which “appears to violate basic use-of-force principles,” he said.

The incident “will forever impact the life” of the woman and her family, her attorney Ronald Haynes Jr. told CNN. “This has devastated our community and furthered the distrust between the African American community and the police.”

Investigators ask for patience after video sparks protests

The police department provided the findings of the investigation to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation for an independent review of any criminal violations, Fraser said.

“We understand the community has questions and concerns, and we take that very seriously,” Chip Hawley, director of the bureau, said Read more

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Una explosión el domingo en un edificio del noreste de Myanmar que, según se dijo, almacenaba explosivos para minería, mató a más de 45 personas, según trabajadores de rescate e informes de medios independientes.

Unas 70 personas más resultaron heridas en la explosión, que tuvo lugar alrededor del mediodía en la aldea de Kaungtup, en el municipio de Namhkam.

La zona, ubicada a unos 3 kilómetros al sur de la frontera china, está bajo el control del Ejército de Liberación Nacional Ta’ang, un grupo armado étnico que ha mantenido enfrentamientos esporádicos contra el Gobierno central de Myanmar.

Un trabajador de rescate que acudió al lugar de la explosión dijo a The Associated Press que, hasta la noche del domingo, se habían recuperado 46 cuerpos, incluidos seis niños, y que fueron llevados para su cremación.

El rescatista, que habló bajo condición de anonimato por razones de seguridad, dijo que 74 heridos habían sido trasladados al hospital del municipio y que las operaciones de rescate continuaban.

Otro rescatista en Namhkam, que también habló bajo condición de anonimato, aseguró que unas 40 personas murieron y que más de 100 casas cerca del lugar de la explosión resultaron dañadas.

Medios de Myanmar, incluida la agencia de noticias en línea Shwe Phee Myay del estado Shan, informaron cifras de muertos que oscilaban entre 50 y 55. Publicaron fotos y videos que mostraban humo de la explosión y edificios dañados y escombros tras el estallido.

La cadena estatal china CCTV informó que la explosión causó varias muertes y heridos, y que muchas viviendas resultaron gravemente dañadas, pero no dio cifras.

Indicó que, según investigaciones preliminares, la explosión ocurrió en un lugar donde se almacenaban grandes cantidades de explosivos utilizados para operaciones mineras.

Las autoridades locales están proporcionando actualmente ayuda, atención médica y asistencia de reasentamiento a los residentes afectados, señaló el informe.

El Ejército de Liberación Nacional Ta’ang, o TNLA, dijo en un comunicado difundido en su canal de Telegram que la gelignita había sido almacenada por el departamento económico del grupo para su uso en sitios de minería y canteras de piedra, y que está en marcha una investigación sobre la causa de la explosión.

La gelignita se usa ampliamente en minería y voladuras de roca, pero puede volverse altamente inestable con el tiempo y si se almacena de manera inadecuada.

El Ejército de Liberación Nacional Ta’ang, o TNLA, es miembro de la alianza rebelde de los Tres Hermanos, y ha controlado la zona de Namhkam desde que la alianza y sus aliados lanzaron una gran ofensiva contra los militares en el noreste de Myanmar a finales de 2023. Los miembros de la alianza y otros grupos armados étnicos han luchado durante mucho tiempo por una mayor autonomía.

El TNLA firmó un cese del fuego con el ejército de Myanmar tras conversaciones mediadas por China en octubre del año pasado, pero las relaciones siguen siendo tensas.

Myanmar ha estado sumido en el caos desde que el ejército tomó el poder del Gobierno electo de Aung San Suu Kyi el 1 de febrero de 2021, lo que desencadenó una amplia oposición popular. Después de que las manifestaciones pacíficas fueran reprimidas con fuerza letal, muchos opositores al gobierno militar tomaron las armas, y grandes partes del país están ahora envueltas en el conflicto.

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

(CNN) — The biggest two movies in America right now, “Backrooms” and “Obsession,” come from twentysomething filmmakers who honed their craft on YouTube.

Their films were made with relatively low budgets and were marketed online. Now that they’re filling theaters with teens and young adults who rarely show up at the movies, all of Hollywood is paying attention, with experts predicting that studios will copy this moviemaking model many times over.

“Obsession,” directed by 26-year-old Curry Barker, opened in theaters May 15. Filmed for roughly $750,000, the darkly funny horror film has made almost $150 million to date, a jaw-dropping return on investment for Focus Features and Blumhouse Productions.

Then came “Backrooms,” directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons, who developed the project for years on his YouTube channel.

Parsons had a bigger budget — about $10 million — and famous actors like Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass. But it was still astonishing to see “Backrooms” dominate the box office so thoroughly in its opening weekend.

The psychological horror film took the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office, raking in about $80 million in North America and $120 million worldwide, with ticket sales fueled by Gen Z.

The studio A24, which has been trying hard to boost young directors, said Parsons now ranks as the youngest filmmaker in Hollywood history to release a film that finished No. 1 at the weekend box office.

“Obsession” was No. 2 for the weekend, pushing “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu,” which opened a week earlier, to No. 3.

For most movies, the opening weekend is the most lucrative, with ticket sales tapering off from there. But “Obsession” keeps growing: Focus Features said Sunday that “exclusive of Christmas, ‘Obsession’ is the first film since 1982 that went up in box office over its second and third weekends.”

So what does this hot streak mean? Well, it means young people are actually willing to buy movie theater tickets if they know and relate to the YouTube-era talent.

And it means Hollywood studios are going to chase the success of “Obsession” and “Backrooms” by scouring online video sites for the next great auteur.

It might even mean that some studio bosses will place a few more bets on original concepts rather than predictable franchises and sequels.

Duplass, who plays a scientist in “Backrooms,” said in a social media video that the two films were giving the movie business a “glimmer of hope.”

“We’ve got an example of creators woodshedding things, putting them online, building an audience,” he said. “And now the people with the purse strings are going to notice … because they see what they can do at the box office, you know, in the form of these two films that are over-performing.”

Producers and agents have been building a YouTube-to-Hollywood pipeline for a while now. And last winter’s robust ticket sales for YouTuber Mark Fischbach’s self-financed film “Iron Lung” demonstrated the potential for success.

Still, as screenwriter Zack Stentz wrote on X, “This feels like a genuine cultural moment in moviegoing, watching Zoomers who honed their craft doing YouTube shorts breaking into features the way the MTV directors did in the ’80s and Sundance kids did in the ’90s.”

The Hollywood Reporter’s Steven Zeitchik wrote that the YouTuber hits are “a teetering, if not the first hints of a collapse, of a legacy-driven studio system.”

This moment, Zeitchik wrote, is about a lot more than discovering fresh talent. The Alphabet-owned YouTube platform makes filmmakers famous, streams their work, helps them strike b