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Denver mayor's race centers on crime, housing, homelessness

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:30 GMT

DENVER (AP) — As Denver faces a rising crime rate, growing homeless encampments and dizzying housing costs, voters on Tuesday are expected to whittle down an unusually large and divergent field of 16 candidates for mayor — including a former boxer, an investment banker, a state lawmaker and a former Crenshaw Mafia Gang member.The fear that undergirds the wide-open race is clear. Denver — the fast-growing, relatively young, business and tech hub of the U.S. Mountain West — is tumbling toward a fate similar to that of other major cities.“The San Franciscos or the Portlands or Seattles ... have not been able to turn the tide on things like homelessness and affordable housing and public safety,” said candidate Mike Johnston during a recent debate. Denver Election Results 2023: Results go live starting at 7 p.m. Johnston, a former state senator, is among candidates seeking the political post as Denver’s CEO, a position that has become a stepping stone for ambitious politicians.Former M...

Loveland WWII bomber pilot named Hero of the Month

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:30 GMT

LOVELAND, Colo. (KDVR) – You can tell how much David Landers thinks about World War II by his book shelf. It’s overstuffed with scrapbooks, filled with photographs and memories from his time at war.“I knew flying is what I wanted to do,” Landers, 100, told FOX31.At age 19, he left his Wyoming home and headed off to war, joining the Army Air Corps. Soon, he found himself behind the controls of a B-25 bomber, piloting a dozen bombing runs over the Pacific while stationed in Okinawa, preparing for a possible invasion of Japan. Thankfully he wasn’t injured.“All we got was bullet holes in our plane,” he said. Greeley woman who served in WWII named Hero of the Month When the war ended days after two nuclear bombs were dropped over Japan in 1945, Landers soon was headed back home, though with some regrets.“I should’ve stayed in the Army, but I didn’t.”He also wished he’d kept flying. He never flew a plane again after the war, though he wishes he had.“But my wife didn’t think so,” he joke...

Colorado homes are getting smaller and more expensive

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:30 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Colorado housing development is not only getting denser - homes are shrinking, as well, despite costing more than ever.The Centennial State's growing population over the last decade stressed the housing market as the number of units being built failed to meet demand. Prices exploded as deep-pocketed investors, buyers and renters moved in and less wealthy residents were pushed out. ‘Meth contaminated’ condo in Denver could be yours for $252,000 Across the state, local and state elected officials have promoted a vision of a more tightly packed and highly stacked population to bring housing prices back down toward Earth. Since 2016, the housing market has already naturally led to smaller Colorado homes. The St. Louis Fed tracks the median home size in Colorado by square foot since 2016. Homes were largest in July 2016 and June 2017 - between 2,530 and 2,570 square feet. Since mid-2017, home size has been reduced. By February 2022, the median size for a Colorado home ...

Police searching for missing 16-year-old from Deerfield Beach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:30 GMT

Police need the public’s help in locating a missing teen in Deerfield Beach.Kyle Andrews was last seen early Tuesday morning on Southwest 15th Street and Ninth Avenue.The 16-year-old is described as standing 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds.He has black hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a gray jacket, black pants and gray shoes.If you have any information, please call 954-764-HELP.

Families left with nothing, asking for community’s help after fire at Sunrise townhouse complex

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:30 GMT

A fire that broke out at a South Florida townhouse complex Monday has left multiple families without a place to live, and now they are asking for the public’s help. Construction crews were seen Tuesday boarding up the townhouses, as the families that were affected went through their belongings. Eighteen adults and six children are now without a home. Juliette Assam lived in one of the eight townhouses that were affected, she was working when she saw flames coming through her glass door.“I don’t know what’s going to happen right now,” said Assam, who is a single mother of two. “When I looked, the fire was coming from the outside area, and I have a hose back there, so I went to pick up the hose and something popped back there,” said Assam. She attempted to put out the fire with no luck. “It was so hot and blazing. I panicked, I was trembling, I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t even think of taking anything,” said Assam...

South Florida organization serves Holocaust survivors with Passover meals

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:30 GMT

On this Holy Week, a special delivery of kosher meals for Holocaust survivors ahead of Passover.“Thank you so much,” said Adele. “It’s my favorite holiday, with the candles and the people, and everybody’s loving each other.”Ninety-three-year-old Adele was gifted a passover basket by the Goodman Jewish Family Services of Broward County.“They always bring the best things, and I love the food,” said Adele.Included in the meal package is a full seder meal and more.“The meaning of passover is when Jews escaped Egypt and escaped slavery,” said Randy Colman, president and CEO of Goodman Jewish Family Services of Broward County, “and while Adele’s story is different, she escaped other atrocities, being in Poland and Russia and all the survivors who we really celebrate and embrace everyday.”Adele was born in Poland in the 1930s. The war would begin when she was only 9.“A lot of bad things happened,” said Adele, “but thank God, we ca...

Several students in Orange fall ill after being given gum that contained pepper

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:30 GMT

Emergency crews responded to the Dexter Park School in Orange on Tuesday after several students ate gum that contained pepper, officials said in a letter to parents and caregivers that was shared by Orange police. Officials said a student bought the gum online before offering it to other students during recess.The gum caused digestive issues including burning in the esophagus and mouth for some students who ate it, according to officials. Others who touched the gum but didn’t eat it had eye and skin irritation.“Appropriate action was taken to ensure the safety of our students,” officials said. The situation remained under investigation as of Tuesday afternoon.Officials continued, saying “appropriate disciplinary action” will be taken once the investigation is completed.  

Maryland Stadium Authority picks architecture firm to design renovations of Ravens’ M&T Bank Stadium for $18 million

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:30 GMT

State-funded renovations of M&T Bank Stadium could begin as early as next year and the Maryland Stadium Authority has identified Gensler as the architecture firm that will design the project.The stadium authority issued a request for proposal on Jan. 27 and, of the five firms who conducted oral presentations, Gensler was selected to design the renovations for nearly $18 million.Yai Waite, an assistant vice president of procurement for the stadium authority, said during Tuesday’s stadium authority board meeting that Gensler was tied for the highest score among the firms who presented and offered the lowest fee. The board unanimously approved the contract.Gensler, a self-described “global architecture, design and planning firm,” has 53 offices internationally. The firm has designed a wide range of projects, including some sports venues; it is currently working on renovations to Crypto.com Arena — the home of the NBA’s Lakers and Clippers — in Lo...

Trump charged with 34 felony counts in hush money scheme

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:30 GMT

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER, JENNIFER PELTZ and WILL WEISSERT (Associated Press)NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump conspired to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush money payments designed to silence claims that he feared would be harmful to his candidacy, New York prosecutors said Tuesday in unsealing a historic 34-count felony indictment.The charges arose from a series of checks that Trump or his company wrote during the presidential campaign to his lawyer and fixer for his role in making a payment to a porn actor who alleged an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years earlier.The payments were part of “an unlawful plan to identify and suppress negative information that could have undermined his campaign for president,” Assistant District Attorney Christopher Conroy said in court. They were made to “protect his candidacy,” Conroy added.The arraignment in Manhattan, though largely procedural in nature, was nonetheless the...

JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon says bank rules need update after SVB fail

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:30 GMT

NEW YORK  — JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the U.S. and the banking industry should amend regulations following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank last month, saying that the financial system needs to be adjusted so that one bank’s failure does not “cause undue panic and financial harm.”The comments, made in Dimon’s letter to JPMorgan Chase shareholders Tuesday, were his first since the two banks failed. Dimon, the chairman and chief executive of the nation’s largest bank, is a veteran of the 2008 financial crisis, and one of the last senior executives remaining at a Wall Street firm since the industry nearly collapsed 15 years ago.Dimon said in his letter there was plenty of blame to go around for Silicon Valley Bank’s failure. The bank’s management poorly handled the bank’s interest rate risk by buying low interest government bonds and mortgages, leaving it too exposed to the Federal Reserve’s rising interest...