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5 gray wolves released into Colorado

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:50:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Monday that five wolves were successfully released onto public land in Grand County.This is the first round of wolves released in Colorado after voters approved a ballot measure for reintroduction in 2020. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox A video shared by CPW shows Gov. Jared Polis personally opening one of the cages that housed one of the wolves."I am proud of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff for their hard work to make this happen," Polis said in a statement. "The shared efforts to reintroduce wolves are just getting started and wolves will rejoin a diverse ecosystem of Colorado wildlife."The wolves were captured in Oregon. Before being released, they were weighed and measured and genetic material was taken. Veterinarians also determined that they were fit for relocation.Colorado Parks and Wildlife releases a gray wolf on Dec. 18, 2023, as part of the voter mandate to reintroduce the an...

Denver weather: Near record warmth Tuesday ahead of weekend showers

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:50:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will stay mild with highs in the 50s and 60s for the rest of the workweek. The next big change moves in over the weekend with cooler temperatures and the chance for snow showers by Christmas Eve. Weather tonight: Clouds, mildMonday night, clouds will linger alongside a light southwest breeze. This combination will help to keep temperatures mild, only falling to the low to mid-30s, which is 15 degrees above average. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up for alerts from the Pinpoint Weather team Weather tomorrow: Near record highs Tuesday, Denver will see plenty of sunshine. This paired with a southwesterly breeze will help to boost high temperatures to the mid-60s, which is more than 20 degrees above normal for this time of year and just shy of the daily record of 67 degrees. Looking ahead: Mild before weekend showers Wednesday, Denver will see more clouds and cooler but mild conditions. Highs will climb to the upper 50s, followed by sunshine and temperatures ...

Greenwood Village serial bank robber convicted by jury

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:50:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A jury convicted Jonathan Martin Bell, 30, of robbing four banks around Denver during four months last year.Bell, of Greenwood Village, was convicted following a nine-day trial, where a jury found him guilty of 15 counts of aggravated robbery, three counts of kidnapping, nine counts of menacing, four counts of theft and one count each of reckless endangerment and attempted manslaughter, according to the 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office. Colfax Avenue near large Aurora fire will stay closed indefinitely Bell is now convicted of robbing banks between Sept. 1-Dec. 1, 2022, in Greenwood Village, Aurora and Denver, stealing roughly $85,000 in cash.“This defendant terrorized innocent employees who were just doing their jobs,” Senior Chief Deputy District Attorney Darcy Kofol said in a release. “In one of the bank robberies, the defendant pointed the barrel of his gun directly at a branch worker’s head. Fortunately, surveillance video, eyewitness accounts, and a ...

Emma Stone comes back from the dead in star-studded film ‘Poor Things’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:50:41 GMT

Well coming back from the dead is no piece of cake, trust me. I know cake. It must be horrible if it’s anything like coming back to life after a rough Saturday night. In “Poor Things,” Emma Stone is a woman fresh back from a dirt nap. Brought back from death in a Frankenstein-like experiment. Behold, Frankenstone. Emma Stone isn’t pulling any punches in her new film “Poor Things.”In the Frankenstein-like movie, Emma plays Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist. A role that the actress admits was a first of it’s kind for her. Emma Stone: “Because she is such an unusual an interesting being, it was really fun to try to figure out her sort of staging and here development and all of that because it didn’t feel comparable to anything.”And challenging as it may be, taking on the role was an absolute no brainier for Emma.Emma Stone: “There is nothing I don’t like about Bella. She&#...

Orbán welcomes Erdoğan to his Mojo Dojo Casa House

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:50:41 GMT

What a couple of Kens.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Monday gifted Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a horse, during the Turkish leader’s trip to Budapest. Erdoğan had first lavished a Turkish-made electric vehicle on Orbán during the strongman love-in.Orbán described the horse-for-car tradeoff as “The best deal I’ve ever made. For one horse power, I got 435,” as he greeted Erdoğan.In the Hollywood blockbuster “Barbie,” horses symbolize the epitome of masculinity — at least according to Ryan Gosling’s occasionally delusional character Ken, as he set up his deranged Mojo Dojo Casa House in Kendom. (Spoiler alert: Barbie got the last word.) Orbán has been bucking the EU over Ukraine, and largely resisted European leaders’ efforts to rein him in at the European Council summit in Brussels last week.Orbán and Erdoğan have been stablemates in slow-walking Sweden’s accession into NATO, which has prompted the military alliance’s top boss to...

‘Max Payne’ and ‘Rescue Me’ actor James McCaffrey dies at 65

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:50:41 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — James McCaffrey, who voiced “Max Payne” in the popular video game franchise and also starred in television shows including “Rescue Me,” has died, according to his agent. He was 65.McCaffrey’s talent agent David Elliot confirmed Monday that the New York native passed away Sunday surrounded by family and friends.His wife, actor Rochelle Bostrom, told The Hollywood Reporter that he died at home in Larchmont, a New York suburb of Manhattan, following a battle with myeloma, a form of cancer that affects white blood cells. Fellow New York actor and “Entourage” star Kevin Dillon was among those who took to social media to honor McCaffrey. “#rip James McCaffrey we were lucky to have known you,” he wrote Sunday in an Instagram post that included a photo of the two. McCaffrey had a 35-year career in television and film that also included roles in the television shows “Blue Bloods” and “Suits.”O...

Warren: Feds need to step up as housing woes worsen

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:50:41 GMT

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren threw her weight behind Gov. Maura Healey’s housing plan on Monday morning, and said the federal government will need to step up to help the state address its housing affordability and availability crisis.As many as 200,000 housing units will need to be built in Massachusetts over the next six years to keep up with housing demand, Warren said at an event hosted by the New England Council at the UMass Club in Boston on Monday.“The problem is bad and the problem is getting worse,” she said. “Do you think that housing is in short supply in Massachusetts right now? Do you think that rents are already rising like a hot air balloon? Well buckle up for a rough ride.”Warren praised Healey’s five-year, $4.12 billion housing bond bill, a plan that has idled before the Legislature since Healey filed it in October.The bill seeks to kickstart housing production, upgrade the state’s aging and neglected public housing stock, and ...

3 World Series champions, pioneering executive to enter Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2024

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:50:41 GMT

For the first time since 2020, there’s a new Red Sox Hall of Fame class in session.On May 30, 2024, Trot Nixon, Jonathan Papelbon, and Dustin Pedroia will return to Fenway Park and join the ranks of the franchise’s greatest. Pioneering front office executive Elaine Steward, who broke barriers as a woman and person of color, is the only non-player inductee. Billy Rohr, who had a no-hitter going until the last remaining out of his Major League debut in ’67, will also be recognized.“It is an honor to be inducted to Red Sox Hall of Fame today with Trot and Dustin, two of the best teammates you could ask for, who played every out with integrity and respect. Blessed and Thankful,” Papelbon posted on social media.The trio of homegrown stars overlapped for just one season – Pedroia debuted in ’06, Nixon’s last with the club – but their combined impact on the team was significant: three championships in a decade.NixonBoston’s first-round pick (...

Maura Healey expects Massachusetts to spend $915 million on emergency shelters in FY25

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:50:41 GMT

The Healey administration expects it will need to spend $915 million on emergency assistance shelters in Massachusetts in fiscal year 2025, according to a report executive officials prepared for the Legislature’s two budget writing committees.The report from Administration and Finance Secretary Matthew Gorzkowicz and Housing Secretary Ed Augustus lays out in detail many financial aspects of the shelter system that were largely unknown, including a blueprint for how Gov. Maura Healey expects the state to continue handling a struggling shelter system moving forward.The estimated nearly $1 billion spend takes into account shelter and associated services, staffing, intake sites, clinical and safety risk assessment sites, school district reimbursements, immigration and refugee health, community, and workforce supports, and municipal supports, according to the report, a copy of which was provided to the Herald Monday afternoon.“While $915 million represents projected fiscal year 2025 cost...

Robbins: Recklessness, ignorance go viral in America

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:50:41 GMT

“There’s a recklessness in the air in America” was the elegant yet apt way ABC News journalist Terry Moran put it on Friday evening. Moran made the observation in the context of Rudy Giuliani’s misbegotten belief that he could egregiously defame two Georgia poll workers and get away with it. He didn’t. The “say anything” ethos Giuliani appears to have absorbed from Donald Trump backfired spectacularly on New York’s former mayor, who was hit by a defamation verdict against him of $148 million, and that’s a whole lot of hair dye.That recklessness, that disregard for either truth or consequences, afflicts both sides of the political divide. A Harvard/Harris poll released last weekend showed that a majority of Americans aged 18-24 are sufficiently untethered to tell pollsters that it would be good and just for Hamas, an internationally acknowledged terrorist organization which slaughtered 1,200 Israelis in cold blood on Oct. 7, to displace the state of Israel. That this cohort receives ...