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Hundreds already ticketed for speeding in school zones this year

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:13:49 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Within two weeks of school picking back up, Northglenn Police Department officers already caught over a hundred people speeding in school zones.On "X," formerly known as Twitter, the Northglenn Police Department posted a video of officers conducting speed enforcement checks in school zones. Since schools started on Aug. 14, officers have issued over 100 speeding tickets. Going 45 in a school zone is cause for jail time This isn't the first year where people are speeding near schools. In 2022, police clocked someone driving almost 70 mph in a school zone near Colfax Elementary. And it's not just at the start of the year either. This past February, the drivers in Aurora were clocked driving 40 to 50 mph in a school zone. A Colorado State Patrol report showed Jefferson, El Paso and Adams counties were at the top of the list when it came to school zone crashes in 2022. Traffic accidents were three times more likely to happen during school pick-up and drop-off hours.So...

Flipturn band explains why Red Rocks is a 'dream venue' for artists

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:13:49 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Red Rocks Amphitheatre is admired by more than just Coloradans. Some artists dream of performing there, and when they do, they say it's an honor.Flipturn, an indie band from Florida, recently opened at Red Rocks for two back-to-back nights of sold-out shows with Mt. Joy. The band told FOX31 why performing at Red Rocks was a dream come true. Full list of concerts at Red Rocks in fall of 2023 "Red Rocks is always the venue that I think any band would say it's their dream to play there," bassist Madeline Jarman said.Why do artists say performing at Red Rocks is a dream come true?The Colorado staple venue has a long history of performances dating back to 1941. The drummer, Devon Vonbalson, said that the history behind the iconic venue makes it a "real honor" to perform at.It's a venue that the singer Dillon Basse said it is hard not to know about as an artist because so many notable bands and musicians have played on that stage. "For a long time whenever people have as...

Yevgeny Prigozhin — hot dog tycoon, warlord and mutineer — dead at 62

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:13:49 GMT

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s days seemed numbered the moment he had the audacity — some would say recklessness — to raise a mutiny two months ago and start his march on Moscow.The paramilitary boss’s demise hardly comes as a surprise to anyone who closely follows Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin — opponents of all types have met mysterious and untimely deaths, with a thud or a crash, poisoned, shot or tumbled out of windows. A neat suicide in a dacha is probably the best an adversary can hope for — and you only get that when a mess isn’t warranted. This time a mess would seem to have been officially authorized as a graphic warning to others — as a signal that Putin calls the shots. “A gangster killed by another gangster gangsta style,” was the laconic take of Adrian Karatnycky of the Atlantic Council when news broke Wednesday that a private jet with Prigozhin on board crashed near Moscow, killing him and another nine people, including one of his top paramilitary field commanders, Dmit...

6 new countries to join BRICS, including Iran and Saudi Arabia

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:13:49 GMT

Leaders of the BRICS group have decided to invite six more countries to join their alliance.Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have all been invited to become members of BRICS, said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who hosted a three-day summit of the emerging markets group in Johannesburg this week.Their membership will take effect January 1, 2024.“We value the interest of other countries in building a partnership with BRICS,” Ramaphosa said. “We have tasked our Foreign Ministers to further develop the BRICS partner country model and a list of prospective partner countries and report by the next Summit.”The decision to broaden the grouping reflects a lack of progress in deepening the existing BRICS alliance, which despite representing a third of global GDP has diverging interests — ranging from China’s rise as a global superpower, to India’s nonalignment, to Brazil’s status as a farm exporter. Some of the new m...

Police investigating shooting in Lowell that left juvenile hospitalized

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:13:49 GMT

Authorities are investigating a shooting in Lowell overnight that left a juvenile hospitalized. Officers responding to a reported shooting in the area of Jewett Street and Hampshire Place around 12:30 a.m. found a juvenile male suffering from a gunshot wound, according to Lowell police. He was taken to a nearby hospital then taken by medical helicopter to a Boston hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.No arrests have been made in connection with the shooting.A preliminary investigation suggests this was an isolated incident, police said.Anyone with information is asked to call Lowell police at 978-937-3200.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Gunfire at a California biker bar kills 4 people, including shooter, and wounds several others

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:13:49 GMT

TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (AP) — Gunfire at a popular Southern California biker bar killed three people and wounded several others, and the gunman — believed to be a retired law enforcement officer — was fatally shot by deputies, authorities said.Hours after the shooting Wednesday evening at Cook’s Corner, in Orange County’s rural Trabuco Canyon, authorities said at a news conference that they were still gathering information and interviewing witnesses. Authorities arrived within two minutes of the first report of a shooting, and the gunman was also soon dead, Orange County Sheriff’s Sgt. Frank Gonzalez said. Dozens of patrol cars and ambulances swarmed the bar. Three other people and the gunman were pronounced dead at the scene. Six others were taken to the hospital, five of them with gunshot wounds, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department posted on social media. Two were in critical condition, according to a statement from Providence Mission H...

Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani has elbow tear, won’t pitch again this season

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:13:49 GMT

Shohei Ohtani, the two-way sensation poised for a historic MLB contract this offseason, has a tear in his right elbow and won’t pitch again this season, the Angels announced.Ohtani will get a second opinion on his injured ulnar collateral ligament (UCL), and the Angels have not determined whether he will require Tommy John surgery for the second time in his career, general manager Perry Minasian said.“Obviously, disappointing news,” Minasian said. “I feel terrible for him, but it is what it is, and if anybody can bounce back, it’s him.”Ohtani left during the second inning of his start Wednesday against the Cincinnati Reds, during which he struck out two batters and hit a home run. He underwent imaging on his elbow, then played in the second game of Wednesday’s doubleheader as the Angels’ designated hitter, going 1-for-5.The 29-year-old leads MLB hitters with 44 home runs this season and pitched to a 10-5 record with a 3.14 ERA and 167 ...

King Charles and Camilla to make up postponed state visit to France in September

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:13:49 GMT

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III and Queen Camilla will visit France in September, Buckingham Palace said Thursday, after their planned state visit in March was postponed amid widespread demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s retirement age reforms. The couple had planned to tour Paris and Bordeaux in March as part of their debut on the world stage as monarch and queen consort. But the trip was shelved after violent nationwide protests rocked France, and Germany, which was originally intended to be the second leg of the journey, became the royals’ first destination instead. Palace officials say a state visit to France will now take place from Sept. 20 to 22. “The visit will celebrate the shared history, culture and values of the United Kingdom and France,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement. Macron said he had asked for the March state visit to be delayed out of “common sense and friendship” because of the risks of violent protests. While Charles and C...

France’s Macron aims to push economic and immigration reforms despite political challenges

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:13:49 GMT

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to make key economic, immigration and education reforms despite France’s divisions and political challenges that have included months of protests against pension changes and recent rioting over a teen killed by police.Macron said in a wide-ranging interview with Le Point magazine published Thursday that he will meet next week with the country’s “main political leaders” for talks about issues confronting France. The talks would be aimed at proposing new bills and possibly referendums, he said.Macron last year lost his majority in the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, forcing him to use political maneuvering to pass any new legislation. That was “no big deal,” he said in the interview, noting that his centrist government managed to pass some new laws since then with support from members of the center-left and the traditional right.Macron wants to avoid a repetition of the major political crisis prompted by the p...

Support grows for sustainable development, a ‘bioeconomy,’ in the Amazon

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:13:49 GMT

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — If all goes according to plan, in a few weeks people will be sipping a shake that Marcelo Salazar has been developing for three years, made from the Amazon jungle’s cornucopia. His company Mazo Mana Forest Food has partnered with communities that live from the forest and gather the Brazil nuts, cocoa beans, acai, mushrooms, fruits and other ingredients that go into the drinks. They have received some backing from a business incubator based in Manaus that focuses on sustainable forest businesses, to counter an economy based on logging and ranching.“To turn the game around, I think it takes a new generation of ventures that combine different business models,” Salazar said. Some hope sustainable ventures like this will be part of a new “bioeconomy,” a buzzword at the Amazon Summit in Belem in early August, where policymakers voiced eagerness to protect the rainforest and provide a livelihood for tens of millions of rainforest residents. But beyond general sup...