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Homeless camp cleared out, but where will they go now?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:16 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Friday morning, crews and first responders arrived at 22nd and Stout streets downtown for a sweep of a homeless encampment.This sweep was the first of new Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's term. He said the encampment was rat-infested, and health and safety necessitated the move. Johnston, alongside the district's first-year Council Member Darrell Watson, visited the encampment Thursday, a day before this sweep, to ensure people knew this would be happening and to provide resources. Related: Mayor Mike Johnston declares emergency over homelessness in Denver The issue for some was that the city did not have a permanent place or shelter for these people to go to."This is a temporary Band-Aid on a much bigger solution," said Justin Paris, one person advocating on the scene.Sweeping the encampment without ensuring housing for the people involved is something Johnston said he wouldn't do."I think that’s very shameful, because he said he would not sweep people unless he had s...

An unclaimed $50K Colorado Powerball ticket expires Sunday. Is it yours?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:16 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Do you have an old Powerball ticket sitting at home? You might want to double-check the numbers, because the Colorado Lottery has an unclaimed winning ticket that is worth $50,000.According to the lottery, a Powerball ticket purchased back in February has been sitting unclaimed for several months. Per the lottery rules, players have 180 days to claim their winnings, and this specific ticket expires this Sunday, Aug. 6. $11.5M Colorado Lotto+ ticket sold in Centennial The ticket was purchased on Feb. 6 at the Huck Finn Exxon at 1517 Florida Road in Durango. So, if you happened to be traveling down south and purchased a ticket, you could be $50,000 richer.The winning numbers for the Powerball drawing were: 5-11-22-23-69, PB: 7, PP: 2, Double Play numbers: 14-19-58-59-68, PB: 16.At that time, the Powerball jackpot was $747,000. However, the Powerball jackpot continued to grow until July 20 when one ticket sold in California claimed the $1.08 billion prize. What happen...

NTSB releases report on February runway scare at Logan Airport, says charter jet pilot took off without permission

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:16 GMT

Federal investigators said Thursday that the pilot of a charter jet took off without permission, creating a “conflict” with a JetBlue plane that was preparing to land on an intersecting runway at Boston’s Logan International Airport in February.A screen grab from video shot from the JetBlue cockpit captures the moment that the Learjet operated by charter service Hop-A-Jet crossed the runway just in front of the JetBlue plane.Pilots of the JetBlue Embraer jet estimated they were about 30 feet (9 meters) off the ground when they saw a plane cross in front of them — the captain said he couldn’t estimate how close they were to the smaller plane, according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board. The JetBlue pilots were able to pull up and circle around and land safely.The captain of the Hop-A-Jet said he heard air traffic controllers tell him to line up and wait before taking off — and even repeated the order back to the controller — “but in his m...

Column: Hollywood is spending more than ever. Where is the money going?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:16 GMT

Nina Metz | Chicago Tribune (TNS)Streaming platforms have been spending more on television programming than at any other time in history. And yet, as the Hollywood actors and writers strikes have made clear, that money isn’t going to most of the workaday people who make these TV shows. So where is the money going? Let’s make some educated guesses.In 2022, Netflix spent $16.7 billion on content. Over at Warner Bros. Discovery, that number was $18 billion.How does that compare to what TV networks were spending 25 years ago? A 1997 report on the FCC’s website titled “TV Programming Costs” gives us a snapshot. The cost is broken down by licensing fees paid per week, or what TV networks were paying to license shows from the studios that actually made them (for example, NBC licensed “Friends” from Warner Bros).For the ‘97-’98 TV season, NBC was spending the most, with $29 million a week in licensing fees. If we assume those shows had 22-episode seasons, the total spend on scripted program...

Patriots’ Mac Jones, Bill O’Brien enjoying strong QB-coach relationship

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:16 GMT

Bill O’Brien can joke about what he’s been through in the 12 years since his last tenure as Patriots offensive coordinator.“A lot of water under my bridge,” O’Brien said smiling Friday during a video conference call about his time served as Penn State and the Houston Texans’ head coach and Alabama’s offensive coordinator that might not have been quite as funny in the moment.Tom Brady, Brian Hoyer and Ryan Mallett were the Patriots’ quarterbacks the last time O’Brien was offensive coordinator in New England.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Patriots extra points: Undrafted rookie learning second new position New England Patriots | Patriots open second roster spot by waiving injured linebacker New England Patriots | Patriots training camp Day 9: Jack Jones stops practicing, Mac Jones keeps rolling, Kendrick Bourne catches on New England Patriots | How Julian Edelman is helping Patriots QB Mac Jones in ‘interesting&#...

VIDEO: Man pets dog before stealing bike in Pacific Beach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:16 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Police on Friday released a video of a man stealing a bike from a garage in the Pacific Beach neighborhood, but what he did before leaving turned out to be a surprisingly sweet moment. The incident occurred on July 15 around 10:40 p.m. when the suspect entered a garage and took a 2019 black Electra three-speed bicycle, the San Diego Police Department said in a Facebook post on Thursday.The bike, which costs around $1,300, featured "8-ball" caps on the tire valves, an "8-ball" logo on the frame and a rear wheel frame marked with a checkered black and white pattern, according to police. High tides cause coastal flooding issues As the man was about to take off with the bike, the video shows the household dog enter the garage and approach the suspect. The suspect then parks the bike in the garage and begins to pet and play with the dog."You're the coolest dog I've ever known, I love you too," the suspect is heard on the video saying to the dog.The man then asks the dog "w...

High tides cause coastal flooding issues

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:16 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Warming temperatures are having unintended consequences.The surf is bigger and coastal erosion is speeding up with the new energy in the water.It’s a fact that is impossible to ignore the temperatures across the globe are rising and climate change is altering things everywhere, according to oceanographers from Scripps.The surf has been getting bigger since the 1970s and big wave events are now twice as more common then four decades ago.“More heat within the earth's system, more heat in the atmosphere, more heat in the ocean, that’s energy and that energy makes things stronger, faster, higher and that’s what we are experiencing,” said Dr. Pat Abbott from San Diego State University.Abbott says as carbon emissions continue creating hotter temperatures, a series of cycles are speeding up. Climber who died on El Cajon Mountain remembered as loving husband, teacher “As waves and water are coming farther onshore, they are going to do even more cutting of the sea cliffs and i...

Oklahoma man pleads guilty to threatening to kill DeSantis, other Republican politicians

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:16 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill several Republican politicians, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.Tyler Jay Marshall, 37, of Enid, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of interstate transmission of threatening communications as part of a plea agreement, according to court documents.In exchange for the plea, prosecutors dismissed a charge of threatening to murder a U.S. official. “I want to take responsibility for my actions and acknowledge the evidence against me,” Marshall wrote in a signed agreement.Marshall made numerous threats against the officials on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, including telling DeSantis, “I’ll see you dead in your home,” a little more than a week before the Florida governor launched his presidential campaign in May.Other posted threats included telling Sanders that he would murder her fam...

Black bear shot and killed by Montana man in his living room after break-in

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:16 GMT

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana couple got a late-night wakeup call from a barking dog alerting them that a black bear had broken into their living room before the man shot and killed the animal with a handgun.The confrontation with the large bruin happened in the rural community of Luther at the base of the rugged Beartooth Mountains, where Thomas Bolkcom and fiance Seeley Oblander live with their two dogs.After staying up late the night before — the couple was scheduled to fly that morning to Arizona for their bachelor and bachelorette parties — they awakened about 3 a.m. to their dog Maizey barking furiously upstairs from the house’s main floor, Oblander said.Bolkcom, a commercial painter, went to investigate and tried to coax the lab-pit bull mix downstairs when he turned around “and there’s this black bear standing in the living room five feet away,” Oblander said.Wearing only a t-shirt and underwear, Bolkcom ran back downstairs, got a handgun and returned to the l...

North Carolina Rep. Manning’s office says she has broken sternum after three-vehicle wreck

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:16 GMT

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina congresswoman injured in a serious automobile accident this week is recovering at home from a broken sternum and bone in her foot, her office said Friday.Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning and a staff member who was driving her Thursday morning to an event in her district in north-central North Carolina after a three-vehicle wreck. Another driver was cited.Manning and her aide were discharged Thursday from Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro. Manning’s office detailed the congresswoman’s injuries Friday and said she would keep working from home while she recovers. The U.S. House is in its August recess.“She is very grateful for all the kind words, prayers and well wishes she has received,” the statement said. The State Highway Patrol said troopers responded around 10:15 a.m. to the accident on U.S. Highway 29 in Guilford County. A northbound driver making a left turn struck the southbound vehicle carrying Manning, accord...