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2 homicides on South Platte River Trail may be linked

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:18:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- After two possibly related homicides on the South Platte River Trail last week, Denver police are hoping to get more information about a suspect.A woman was shot and killed after midnight on Sept. 6 near East 45th Avenue and North Washington Street. Three days later, a man was shot and killed after midnight near South Platte River Drive and West Florida Avenue.A map shows where 2 unhoused people were found dead in Denver just days apart, both are believed to be homicides. (Credit: Metro Denver Crime Stoppers)According to a release, police believe a male suspect is involved and the deaths are connected. Both victims are believed to be unhoused, however DPD said neither incident took place at or near an encampment. Get the FOX31 App: Breaking news alerts & Pinpoint Weather "The preliminary findings from these homicide investigations lead detectives to believe the incidents may be connected, though we are unable to publicly provide the details supporting this the...

Colorado deputies fired after repeated Taser use on man

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:18:51 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Two Colorado sheriff's deputies were fired after an investigation found their repeated use of Tasers against a man, including in his lower lip, was unjustified, the Las Animas County Sheriff's office confirmed Monday.Deputy Mikhail Noel and Lt. Henry Trujillo violated a number of agency policies, including inappropriately using a Taser against Kenneth Espinoza while he was handcuffed and inaccurately reporting what happened, according to the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office. Prisoner had drugs 4 days before he escaped, sources tell FOX31 Investigators also recommended referring the matter for a criminal probe, alleging that Noel’s and Trujillo’s actions during the traffic stop escalated the use of physical force, bodily injury and false arrest. It is unknown if a criminal investigation has been launched.“The existence of excessive and unlawful force was so apparent here that there’s really only one conclusion,” said attorney Kevin Mehr, who's representing Esp...

Denver weather: More soggy showers on the way

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:18:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Thanks to a cold front that arrived on Sunday, needed showers delivered a quarter inch of rain to Denver's weather, with higher totals south of the city.That rain helped bring Denver closer to the average rain totals for this time in September. According to Pinpoint Weather, Colorado’s Most Accurate Forecast, there's a good chance to pick up even more rain later this week.Rain chances for the week ahead in metro DenverWeather tonight: Skies clearThere will be a few evening showers that will drift south and end early Monday evening. That will be followed by clearing skies across metro Denver. Photos: 1st snowfall on Colorado peaks Temperatures will be very cool with upper 40s and low 50s for the Front Range. It'll be chilly again in the Colorado mountains, with readings in the low 40s and even 30s.Overnight low temperatures across ColoardoWeather tomorrow: Warmer with isolated rainThere will be more sunshine on Tuesday with some late-day passing clouds. There is a v...

Robbins: Celebrating the rich legacy of ‘the giving Irish’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:18:51 GMT

The phrase “fighting Irish” did not originate with Notre Dame’s football team, but with the Irish immigrant soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. It was Confederate General Robert E. Lee himself who is said to have coined the term, a testament to the bravery and effectiveness of the so-called “Irish brigades” that helped save their new nation.When Irish statesman Eamon de Valera came to America in 1919 to generate support for the Irish cause, he naturally came first to Boston. There he told a huge rally in Fenway Park what the phrase meant. “What we actually mean when we talk about it,” he explained, “is an indomitable spirit, a commitment, never tentative, always fully committed, to life itself…..that’s really the spirit of ‘the Fighting Irish.”Ireland’s magic is plain to anyone who visits the Emerald Isle, but it is hardly the country’s physical beauty alone that furnishes the magic. Since time immemorial the Irish have been gifted at community – at nurturing and...

Chicago White Sox option OF Oscar Colás to Triple A to continue working on fundamentals

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:18:51 GMT

The Chicago White Sox were hoping Oscar Colás would be the answer this season to the team’s revolving door in right field.Instead, the rookie is headed back to the minors.The Sox optioned Colás to Triple-A Charlotte, one of four roster moves announced Monday. The Sox also optioned reliever Edgar Navarro to Charlotte while calling up pitcher Deivi García and catcher Carlos Pérez from Charlotte.“He’s an impactful player,” manager Pedro Grifol said of Colás. “He obviously has got the tools to impact this team. However, fundamentally he still needs a lot of work. He’s got to go down there and take care of those fundamentals.”Colás is hitting .216 with nine doubles, five home runs, 19 RBIs and 32 runs in 75 games. It’s the second time this season he has been sent to the minors.“We want to play a fundamental style of baseball,” Grifol said. “We want to eliminate mistakes and details are extreme...

Hurricane Lee’s cone turns north

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:18:51 GMT

Hurricane Lee will blow into town this weekend.Just how big a mess the storm will leave behind is still up in the air. But the National Hurricane Center is now predicting tropical winds will pay a visit.The National Weather Service in Boston says they’ll know more come Wednesday or Thursday, until then being wary is always a good idea, they say.“Tropical for winds are likely after 8 p.m. Friday,” the NWS said Monday.Lee is whipping up waves of more than 15 feet as the Category 3 storm cranks through open waters just north of the Caribbean region, the AP reported Monday.The National Hurricane Center also warned of dangerous surf and rip currents for most of the U.S. East Coast this week, but what the hurricane might do beyond that is unclear.“It remains too soon to know what level of additional impacts Lee might have along the northeast U.S. coast and Atlantic Canada late this week and this weekend, however, wind and rainfall hazards will likely extend well aw...

Pursuit crash prompts I-805 traffic delays; suspect arrested

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:18:51 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A law enforcement pursuit crash on Monday afternoon is causing major traffic delays on Interstate 805 in the Sorrento Valley area, authorities said.The pursuit, which started in Orange County, ended in a collision on I-805 southbound near Sorrento Valley Road and Vista Sorrento Parkway, according to California Highway Patrol.SkyFOX was over the scene around 4 p.m., where traffic could be seen backed up for several miles. San Diego homeowners are the least likely to sell homes at loss in the nation: study Authorities confirmed the suspect has since been detained. Their injuries are unknown at this time.No other information has been released. Only two lanes are currently open.Check back for updates on this developing story.

Chinatown stabbing suspect was on day release from psychiatric facility: VPD chief

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:18:51 GMT

VANCOUVER — Carol Lee, chairwoman of the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation, says the neighbourhood is all about resilience.But Lee broke down in tears as she described the impact of a triple stabbing at a festival on Sunday that had been intended to “bring the community together to celebrate the progress” made in a neighbourhood where crime, street disorder and economic decay have been concerns. “[We] thought things were normal, but it’s a good reminder that there are a lot of things that are in play in Chinatown,” said Lee, whose group co-organizes the annual Light Up Chinatown! festival.Lee was speaking at a news conference on Monday with Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer, who said the suspect had been on release during the day from a forensic psychiatric hospital.Palmer said a 64-year-old man is in custody after the attack that left a Burnaby couple in their 60s and a Vancouver woman in her 20s with severe but non-life-threatening injuries. All of the ...

Slave descendants face local vote on whether wealthy can build large homes in their island enclave

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:18:51 GMT

DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Descendants of enslaved people living on a Georgia island are watching anxiously Monday evening as county commissioners consider doubling the maximum size of houses that can be built in their tiny community of modest homes and dirt roads.Black residents of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island sat mostly silent as McIntosh County commissioners scheduled a Tuesday vote on the proposal. The commission’s only Black member implored the others to reject the zoning changes, saying they would favor wealthy buyers and lead to tax increases that would pressure indigenous residents to sell their land.“This plan will be be a giant step in the destruction of the culture of Hogg Hummock,” said Commissioner Roger Lotson, whose district includes Sapelo Island. “It may be inevitable, but let us not be the board that drives the nail in this coffin.”The zoning plan before commissioners would loosen zoning restrictions adopted nearly three decades ago to help Hogg Hummoc...

California lawmakers vote to end travel ban to states with anti-LGBTQ+ laws

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:18:51 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California may soon lift a ban on state-funded travel to states with anti-LGBTQ+ laws and instead focus on an advertising campaign to bring anti-discrimination messages to red states.California started banning official travel to states with laws it deemed discriminatory against LGBTQ+ people in 2017, starting with Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee. Since then, the list has grown to include a total of 26 states, most of them Republican-led, following a surge of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation these past few years. The prohibition has prevented elected officials, state workers and university scholars from traveling to more than half of the country using the state’s money. That has posed a significant challenge to sports teams at public colleges and universities, which have had to find alternative funding sources to pay for their road games in states like Arizona and Utah. It has also complicated some of the state’s other policy goals, like using...