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Denver to clear homeless camp after downtown shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The city of Denver is giving people who live in a downtown homeless encampment less than a day's notice to leave. It comes a day after a shooting on the same street sent two people to the hospital.The encampment is on Logan Street between 17th and 18th avenues. Property tax relief measure cleared for November ballot Mayor Mike Johnston has said his administration would give a seven-day notice before clearing an encampment, but the city said that decision will be circumstantial."The city makes decisions about encampments based on specific facts and circumstances," said Jordan Fuja, a spokesperson for Johnston's office. "In response to significant public health and safety concerns at 17th and Logan on Monday, Aug. 21, we are proceeding with an emergency closure of this encampment. People were given a day’s notice to vacate the encampment.""The city strives to provide seven days' notice ahead of a cleanup," Fuja continued. "Due to unsafe conditions associated with the...

Denver weather: Another hot day before rain chances return

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — There are still a few more days of summer heat in Denver weather with forecast highs in the 90s. But the best chance for rain in August arrives along the Front Range by the weekend to cool it down, according to Pinpoint Weather, Colorado’s Most Accurate Forecast.Tuesday was a Pinpoint Weather Alert Day with a heat advisory in effect for the Denver metro area and northeastern Colorado.Rain chances for the next week from Pinpoint WeatherWeather tonight: Another mild and breezy nightThere will be a few clouds drifting across the area during the overnight hours. It will be breezy at times with southerly winds up to 15 mph. Temperatures will be warm again across the Eastern Plains and in metro Denver. More refreshing overnight lows will be in the Colorado mountains.Overnight lows by Wednesday morning across ColoradoWeather tomorrow: Still hot with passing cloudsTemperatures look to return to the 90s in metro Denver on Wednesday. That would make the 27th day this...

Brighton Police break into hot car to save dog

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Brighton Police Department said Tuesday that officers broke into a car to save a dog from hot temperatures.The heat in a car can be deadly within minutes, even if the temperature is in the 80s. Is it legal to break a car window to save a person or dog from heat in Colorado? BPD said it was just 84 degrees outside that day, but the internal temperature of the car read to be 113 degrees. The dog was in the car for over 20 minutes, according to police.Officers broke through a window to get the dog out and issued a summons for animal neglect to the owner. Police said the owner was understanding and thanked officers for the teaching moment.Now, BPD reminds others that going into a store for a few minutes can be fatal for a dog in a car."How long is it okay to leave your pet in the car during the summer months? The answer is zero minutes," BPD tweeted. If it’s 90 degrees outside, how hot is it for your dog inside the car? If it is 90 degrees outside, how hot is my...

Off-duty officer hospitalized after accidentally discharging weapon in SW Miami-Dade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:48 GMT

An off-duty officer was hospitalized after she accidentally discharged her weapon. Miami-Dade Police and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units arrived at the scene of the shooting in the area of 10855 SW 72nd St., Tuesday evening. According to MDPD, the female officer was shot in the lower extremity but appeared OK. She was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital in an abundance of caution. 7News cameras captured officers arriving at the hospital.The street has been closed as police continue to investigate. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Celebrate National Dog Day with your furry friend in Miami with party and pamper

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:48 GMT

National dog day is right around the corner… This Saturday to be exact.We have a couple of goings on around town so you can show your dog just how much you “woof” them.There’ll be no crying for these furbabies. It’s National Dog Day!Over at the Cadillac Hotel and Beach Club in Miami Beach, they’re celebrating with a paw pool party.Oscar Morales: “On National Dog Day on the 26th, we’re going to have a full-on event for our puppy friends. There’s going to be a puppy psychic here visiting us. There’s going to be ice cream for the pups.”K’Alma Spa will pamper your fur bestie with calming back and belly rubs right on the beach cabana.And you can get in on the action too.Oscar Morales: “We’re not necessarily only a pet-friendly hotel, we’re a pet-loving hotel.”Phillip Zakaira: “He did just get a massage, ate some ice cream today, played with other dogs. He had a lot of fun today. I think he enj...

Rusty Pelican in Key Biscayne to bring Polynesian cuisine to celebrate 51st anniversary

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:48 GMT

There are places that whisper perhaps, but then there are places that scream “SoFlo;” South Beach, Viscaya, the Guitar Hotel. And when it comes to restaurants, the Rusty Pelican is right up there.This iconic spot is celebrating a major anniversary this week. And we’re checking out what they’re serving up, just for the occasion.The good times are rolling at the Rusty Pelican in Key Biscayne.Jim Pastor: “Here at the rusty pelican, we’re celebrating our 51st anniversary this week.”You heard that right. The iconic SoFlo restaurant is marking its big birthday by going back to its roots.Jim Pastor: “We opened in 1972, and we’re just gonna have some fun.”That means kicking it old school.Jim Pastor: “Rusty Pelican was originally a Polynesian-themed restaurant. So we’re featuring some of the classics that was on original menu.”We’re talking things like the chicken kona kai. It’s got a sweet and sour sa...

Under siege: Nagorno-Karabakh accuses Azerbaijan of throttling supply lines

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:48 GMT

KORNIDZOR, Armenia — Maria Musayelyan gave birth to twin girls on Sunday — now she’s worried about being able to keep them alive.With Azerbaijan accused of blocking all supplies to the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, fears are growing over the fate of the 100,000 people living there.“There were days during my pregnancy when I know I didn’t get enough food. And now it’s not just about food,” the 25-year-old lawyer said in a telephone interview from the region’s capital, Stepanakert. “There’s no toilet paper, no toothpaste, no baby formula, no clothes for the children.”Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenians fought a war against Azerbaijan in the early 1990s; hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis were killed or forced to flee their homes as the Armenians took control and declared the independence of their unrecognized breakaway state — inside Azerbaijan’s internationally-recognized borders but cut off from the rest of the country by tr...

Rishi Sunak’s secret weapon: A land where UK Labour is already in power

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:48 GMT

PEMBROKESHIRE, Wales — If the polls are right, Britain’s Labour Party is on track to win its first general election since 2005. Helpfully, there’s already a corner of Britain where voters can see what that might mean.Since 1999 Labour has led the devolved government in Wales, a nation of 3 million people who have offered majority-support for Labour for the past 101 years — the longest winning streak in the democratic world. Labour leader Keir Starmer last year called Cardiff’s administration “a blueprint for what Labour could do across the U.K.” But with Welsh public services creaking— as they are in other parts of Britain —it’s the Tories who will be shouting loudest about Labour’s record in Wales come election time next year.On the National Health Service, education and housing, Conservative campaign headquarters (CCHQ) is already accelerating its attacks on the performance of what it relentlessly dubs “Labour-run Wales.” Last week CCHQ issued three se...

A Viking funeral? Dwindling Nordics in Brussels blame the EU 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:48 GMT

We’re becoming extinct in Brussels.That’s the existential exhortation from countries like Denmark, Sweden and Finland, which say the European Union has to change its hiring habits or risk virtually eliminating Nordic officials from the European Commission, the powerful EU executive that writes the legislation governing an entire Continent. While these countries are currently relatively well represented among the higher ranks of Brussels bureaucrats, their fear is that the younger generation isn’t coming to Brussels — a concern reflected in the Commission’s own statistics, according to a POLITICO analysis.  The reason, they say: The Commission has a drawn-out recruitment process, an entrance exam poorly designed for certain countries, and jobs that are, well, not that attractive to young Scandinavians. “The Nordics are almost wiped out. They call us the pandas because there are so few of us in the Commission,” said a diplomat from a Nordic country who works to get...

UK urged to give clarity on potential delay to Brexit border checks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:48 GMT

LONDON — The British government is being told to spell out whether new Brexit border checks will still be introduced in October.Gareth Thomas, shadow trade minister for the opposition Labour Party, said the government’s handling of the issue had been “absolutely shambolic,” while business groups told POLITICO that firms desperately need guidance about whether the planned changes will go ahead in six weeks’ time.Britain was planning to roll out the first stage of the new post-Brexit border model from October, with further stages implemented throughout 2024 that would see more checks on food and animal products entering the country from the European Union.It was first reported by the Financial Times earlier this month that the government would delay the rollout of the Target Operating Model (TOM) amid fears that the new red tape will further fuel inflation.The Cabinet Office, the government department leading on the plan, has said for the past three weeks that guidanc...