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Veteran group ‘deploys’ into DC for community service in Wards 7 and 8

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:04 GMT

Volunteers with The Mission Continues at a service deployment recently. Volunteers with The Mission Continues at a service deployment recently. A military veterans’ nonprofit group is in the midst of a weeklong community service “deployment” in D.C. called “Operation District Drilldown.”The aim of the group’s operation is to help beautify underserviced areas in community, while also giving their volunteers purpose in their post-military life.“We’ve got folks who are ready to serve and have an enormous amount of potential energy, and we’ve got communities that need them,” said president and CEO of The Mission Continues, Mary Beth Bruggeman. “So we...

3 injured after ziplining collision in Castle Rock, 2 in critical condition

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:04 GMT

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (KDVR) -- Three people -- including two children -- were injured in a ziplining incident at Philip S. Miller Park in Castle Rock on Sunday. All three were taken to a local hospital, and one adult and one child were in critical condition.Castle Rock Fire said both the children were under the age of 10. First responders were dispatched to the incident around 6:15 p.m.

Denver weather: Sunny and warmer weather to start the week

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:04 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will stay sunny and warmer than normal for the first half of the workweek ahead of afternoon thunderstorms returning to the forecast Thursday and Friday. Weather tonight: Mostly clear, seasonalDenver will stay mainly clear and breezy tonight with wind gusts reaching up to 20 mph out of the south. Temperatures will stay seasonal and fall to the mid 50s. Weather tomorrow: Sunny, warmerMore sunshine is on the way Monday. This will help temperatures to quickly climb to the upper 80s, which is a few degrees warmer than normal for this time of year. Looking ahead: More sunshine and hot temperatures Sunshine and warmer temperatures will stick around for the first half of the workweek. This will put Denver on track to hit the first 90 degree day of the year on Tuesday, and stay near 90 degrees again on Wednesday. The weather pattern will shift on Thursday and Friday. Both days will start with a partly to mostly sunny sky, followed by the chance for...

Members of Aurora City Council visit D.C. for homeless resource funding

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:04 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) - Even with a camping ban, there are issues facing the City of Aurora and people experiencing homelessness there.Recently, FOX31 covered an encampment along Interstate-225 on the shoulder of a busy on-ramp.Two members of Aurora's City Council sat down with FOX31 about the outlook for the issue of homelessness in Aurora.Danielle Jurinsky and Dustin Zvonek talked about what they view as a solution or at least a path to a solution to homelessness and they're saying it only works if other communities join in."The hope would be to have a regional solution where all municipalities would have a similar camping ban where we could really try to get these people off the side of the sides our streets and into shelters where they could access services," Zvonek said. Large encampment appears on shoulder of I-225 ramp "I think one of the biggest problem we have in Aurora is addressing the C-DOT property along 225," Jurinsky said.C-DOT told FOX31 the encampments are not so e...

‘It was chaos’: Cruise ship passengers report long waits, disorganized crews after fatal boat crash off PortMiami led to delays

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:04 GMT

Cruise ships in PortMiami encountered delays when a boat wreck that left a man dead and sent another to the hospital forced authorities to shut down the waterway for hours, sparking frustrations among passengers.7News cameras captured the 30-foot boat involved in Sunday morning’s crash as it was pulled from the depths of Government Cut.Radio transmissions captured the moment first responders were alerted about the crash.“The far east side of Dodge Island reference a boat collision,” said a dispatcher.Just before 4 a.m., investigators said, the boat crashed into a Fisher Island ferry, just off the port.One man who was found in the water was rushed to Ryder Trauma Center. The second boater did not survive; his body was later recovered by the dive team.The investigation and subsequent salvage of the vessel involved shut down the North channel for hours, forcing cruise ships inbound to remain at sea.By mid-afternoon, the port was back open, and the ships were allowed t...

Prigozhin’s Wagner mutiny is over. What happens now?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:04 GMT

Vladimir Putin’s strongman mask is slipping — and Ukraine sees opportunity in the chaos.Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin’s short-lived mutiny over the weekend exposed Putin’s tenuous grip on the levers of power, the disunity within his ranks and the weakness in Russia’s own border defenses. The ease with which Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenaries were able to take control of Russian territory and march to within 200 kilometers of Moscow — and the videos of Russians cheering for them — showed Putin’s regime is far from invincible.“Today the world saw that Russia’s bosses do not control anything,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening address late Saturday. “In one day, they lost several of their million-plus cities and showed all Russian bandits, mercenaries, oligarchs and anyone else how easy it is to capture Russian cities and, probably, weapons arsenals.”Switching from Ukrainian to Russian, Zelenskyy continu...

Belgian government in crisis over fate of foreign minister in Iran visas dispute

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:04 GMT

BRUSSELS — Belgium risks starting another episode of its well-known political turmoil. This time, it’s Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib who could upset things. When Lahbib is grilled by Belgian lawmakers on Monday, some of her coalition partners hope for apologies for how she handled an Iranian delegation that attended a summit in Brussels earlier this month. If none are forthcoming, it would risk consequences beyond her own possible resignation. “Hadja Lahbib’s survival is a question of the government’s survival,” said a Belgian official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue. Lahbib is under fire over the delivery of visas to 14 Iranian officials, including Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani — a regime hard-liner — to attend the Brussels Urban Summit last week. The saga has already led to the resignation of Brussels Secretary of State Pascal Smet. An earlier appearance by Lahbib in the Belgian parliament did not convi...

To reduce dependence on China, more of us need to work in factories

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:04 GMT

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and adviser at Gallos Technologies.As deglobalization and its recently born sibling, derisking, have policy wonks excited, even free-trading political leaders are concluding that Western countries need to reduce their manufacturing dependence on China by moving it home or to friendlier countries. But who’s going to work in all the factories that could now be built on Western shores?If the West is serious about friendshoring, many more will need to carry out manual work — albeit aided by robots. And yes, that means university graduates.Last week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented her proposal for a new economic security strategy for the European Union, which, as reported by POLITICO, promises to be “an exercise in this new economic thinking.” Now set to be discussed by the bloc’s national leaders, the strategy takes the approach that “an economic power like the EU must pay greater heed t...

Residents urged to remain vigilant after 3 elderly people found dead in apparent homicide in Newton

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:04 GMT

Authorities are warning Newton residents to remain vigilant and check their door and window locks after three elderly people were found killed on Sunday in an apparent triple homicide. Officers responding to a 911 call from a person known to the victims who was reporting three people believed to be the elderly residents of a home on Broadway Street around 10 a.m. found them inside suffering from apparent stab wounds and blunt force trauma, according to a statement issued by Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Newton Chief of Police John Carmichael.A preliminary investigation suggests there were signs of forced entry into the home.Investigators from the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, Massachusetts State Police Detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office and Newton Police have been actively investigating and following leads throughout the day including investigating another attempted break-in at Brookside Avenue, about a half-...

Body of missing kayaker recovered from Merrimack River in Haverhill

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:04 GMT

Emergency crews conducting a joint search on Sunday after a man went missing while kayaking the Merrimack River in Haverhill have recovered the man’s body, officials said.The name of the man, whose body was located around 6:30 p.m., has not been released.A death investigation is now being conducted by state police detectives assigned to the Essex District Attorney’s Office, Haverhill Police and the State Police Crime Scene Services Section. This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.