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Nearly 300 snowplows ready to work through Colorado's winter storm

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:38:21 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — In the Denver metro area, crews are fueling up and preparing for the first snow of the season. “We’ve been watching the forecast all week,” said Nancy Kuhn with the Denver Department of Transporation and Infrastructure. “We’re switching gears now. We put the plows on the trucks that we’ve been using for other programs, and now we’re readying the trucks to plow tonight or address the roads in any way that’s needed." How much snow will Denver get this weekend? Kuhn said they have crews coming in at 10 p.m. on Friday and plan to rotate throughout the weekend."We’ll ramp up overnight. We’ll watch the bridges and overpasses,” Kuhn said. “They tend to get icy first, so they’ll be monitoring conditions, and then we’re going to ramp up even more tomorrow to prepare for snow to potentially accumulate.”The city of Denver uses a liquid and granule material to deice the streets if needed.  "Downtown is part of our air quality efforts,” Kuhn said. “We minimize ou...

Denver Police address 2 officer shootings, including at Whole Foods

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:38:21 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Denver Police addressed two separate incidents involving police firing their guns at suspects carrying suspected weapons.The department discussed a shooting in the area of East 46th Avenue and North York Street, where a suspect thought to be holding a firearm was shot; and a confrontation in a store with an individual carrying a knife, who was eventually struck with a stun gun. ‘You feel violated’: Truck thief takes 50 guns, 3,000 rounds ammo from home The department released bodyworn-camera footage of both incidents and held a briefing at 2 p.m.Whole Foods stand-offOn Thursday, Oct. 19 officers were called to a Whole Foods store near Union Station for a report of someone brandishing a knife. According to DPD Commander Matt Clark, several officers were inside the shop as they were employed as off-duty officers, but were in uniform. A suspect entered the store around 6:15 p.m., and appeared "out of it," according to Clark. The commander said the suspect went to the...

After infant’s death, FDA sends new warning about probiotics for premature babies in the hospital

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:38:21 GMT

(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration is sharing a new warning about the risks of probiotics for hospitalized preterm infants. The products have been linked with over two dozen reported adverse events since 2018 and one death in 2023, the agency said.On Thursday, the agency announced it had sent a warning letter to Abbott Laboratories for its Similac Probiotic Tri-Blend product, which the FDA described as an unapproved new drug and unlicensed biological product based on statements on its website and in marketing materials. The company agreed to discontinue sales of the product, the agency said.In a statement on Friday, Abbott said that the issue “pertains to a single probiotic additive” for Similac Probiotic Tri-Blend, and that the probiotic is used by fewer than 200 hospitals. It does not apply to Abbott infant formula products.“Parents and caregivers can continue to find and use Similac infant formulas nationwide. This Warnin...

Franks: Can ‘dead’ people vote in your town?

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:38:21 GMT

How do you know if your town or city has dead people voting in it? In the spirit of the season, let’s call them “Halloween voters.”If your town or city does not abide by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 in its entirety, it is more than likely leaving the door open for dead folks to walk into the voting precincts. Or better yet, these folks could vote absentee – well, they are “absentee voters” in a sense – after all they are dead or no longer live where they once lived. But for the overly ambitious political operative, they are votes to be had.Both parties potentially could take advantage of this situation. The political machines of each party learn this early on. I did. Because back in the early 1980s I got my very first volunteer job as a political “worker bee.” Years later, I realized I was helping to build the foundation for such practices.It must be noted that, even at its worst, this practice would only affect close elections. Not too close, because the bad politica...

Jazzmyn RED brings hip hop deep dive to Harvard

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:38:21 GMT

Jazzmyn RED walked into the United African Alliance Community Center in Tanzania and the first song she heard was Common’s “I Used to Love H.E.R.” Then a student at Bridgewater State University on an academic study tour, RED had traveled halfway around the world to hear a DJ in Arusha spin a hip hop classic from the States.“I am in a whole other part of the planet and they’re playing Common, and not only Common, but old school Common,” RED told the Herald. “It was the first time I had been to Africa, returned to the motherland so to speak, and hip hop followed me there.”Since college, Jazzmyn RED has become one of Massachusetts’ smartest, sharpest, boldest MCs — listen to recent single “The Feminist” to hear her spell it out as she booms, “brain, beauty, and bars, that’s a deadly combination.” But she’s also an activist and educator who has spent years digging into the history of hip hop. Over the next few weeks, RED will present a series of workshops, “The Hip Hop Experience,...

Lowry: Anti-Israel demonstrators hate the West

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:38:21 GMT

The cataract of anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses has been shocking, but it shouldn’t be surprising.It is the poisoned fruit of teaching a generation of college students to despise their own civilization.Jesse Jackson famously led a chant at Stanford University in 1987, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go.” He was talking about the college course, but he might as well have been talking about the thing itself.Jackson and his allies had extraordinary success in extinguishing the teaching of Western Civ. Not only have we largely stopped transmitting the story of our own civilization, we have substituted an alternative narrative that the West is reducible to racism, imperialism and colonialism.It is in this context that the current outburst of anti-Zionism has to be understood. Yes, it has been fed by anti-Israel agitation on campus over the decades and yes, students are susceptible to witless radicalism in the best of circumstances. Yet the loathing o...

Editorial: Will Biden repeat Obama’s ‘red line’ mistake?

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:38:21 GMT

More than 11 years ago, Barack Obama drew his “red line” in the sand.Will the Biden administration make the same mistake?It was August 2012 when Obama, running for a second term in the Oval Office, held a news conference and fielded a question about the ongoing civil war in Syria. The president said that he had so far avoided U.S. military intervention but that his calculations would change if Syria crossed a “red line” and used chemical weapons.A year later, a chemical weapons attack believed to have been carried out by the regime of Bashar al-Assad killed 1,400 people near Damascus. Obama did little about his “red line” but eventually cut a deal with Vladimir Putin and Russia to have Syria turn over its chemical stockpiles to international inspectors. The agreement was a failure, the victim — as The Atlantic later put it — “of Syrian deception, Russian duplicity and American dithering.”Fast forward to this month in the wake of the horrific Hamas terror attack on Israel. As the Jew...

Dear Abby: Pal’s promised craft gift still a no-show

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:38:21 GMT

Dear Abby: I’m having an issue with my longtime best friend. We no longer live in the same state, but we talk several times a week and try to visit every year. We both love crafting, and two years ago, I started making her a big, beautiful counted cross-stitch and had it custom framed. The project took several months, and she knew I was making it.She offered — I didn’t ask — to make me a quilt from T-shirts I had collected over the years from various places I had been. So I cut the logos/graphics off the shirts and mailed them to her. She told me it would take her only a week to make the quilt. That was two years ago. It has been a year since I drove six hours each way to deliver my cross-stitch gift to her, and she still hasn’t made the quilt.I have since moved even farther away. I miss home, and I really want the quilt. I have asked her about it several times. The quilt would mean so much to me, especially now that I’m more than 1,000 miles away...

Chicago Bulls guard Ayo Dosunmu receives NBA’s Bob Lanier award for community involvement

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:38:21 GMT

Chicago Bulls guard Ayo Dosunmu was recognized for his dedication to helping children in Chicago with the NBA Cares Bob Lanier Community Assist Award.The announcement was made in part by several students he’s working to help at his former elementary school, Beasley Academic Center. Dosunmu partnered with the school to offer Bulls tickets to every student who makes the honor roll this year. The incentive program is one of several initiatives that earned Dosunmu the Lanier honor, which three Beasley students presented to him Thursday at the Advocate Center.A Morgan Park product, Dosunmu has been dedicated to community involvement since he gained notoriety as a star guard at Illinois. He spends his summers at home in Chicago and partners with local advocacy groups focused on youth engagement and gun violence prevention.The NBA recognizes eight players each year through the Community Assist program with seven monthly awards and one offseason award.Dosunmu was recognized for his wo...

Woman found dead in hotel room after SWAT standoff; suspect arrested

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:38:21 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A woman was found dead inside a hotel room in the Del Cerro neighborhood where a man barricaded himself for hours, authorities said. Around 10:49 a.m., the San Diego Police Department received a call about a man refusing to pay his bill and arguing with the hotel manager at Days Inn by Wyndham Mission Valley Qualcomm Stadium/SDSU. The man then went back to his room and barricaded himself for hours, police said.Authorities made several attempts to contact the man who was believed to be armed. At one point, the suspect threw a police robot off of the balcony after he was given a cigarette by the machine, per SDPD. Surfers find body floating near La Jolla Shores Beach; man identified Ultimately, the SWAT officers used less than lethal rounds fired into the hotel room and then sent a K-9 named Hondo, who was stabbed several times by the suspect, authorities said.When police arrested the man, they found a woman's body in the hotel room.The homicide unit is currently on sc...