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What is Denver's snowplow protocol?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Most of Colorado saw a decent snowfall overnight and throughout the day Tuesday.Many streets around Denver were back to normal by midday, except for some side streets. FOX31 talked to the city's Department of Transportation and Infrastructure about why some areas will stay icy for a bit."They don't get cleared up, except the main thoroughfares they do pretty good. But you know other than that, they've gotta hit these side streets," said Ron, who has lived in the Capitol Hill neighborhood for about 10 years. On days like Tuesday, he even shovels several blocks for his neighbors. Colorado snow totals for Dec. 25-26 While he said shoveling to make sure older neighbors will not get a ticket is no problem, there is something he feels the city should do."It's just dangerous, you know? You're slipping and sliding, you start running into cars and everything. You know, you cause accidents. If it were nice and clear, everyone would just go along their way. You know, so they...

Crews put out fire at restaurant in Miami Beach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:41 GMT

A fire broke out at a Miami Beach restaurant.Fire rescue responded at the at Carbone, along Collins Avenue, near South Pointe Drive, Tuesday. According to officials, they found an exhaust vent that overheated.The fire was quickly put out and no injuries were reported.

Fire rescue extinguish flames reported in Miami Gardens home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:41 GMT

Miami-dade Fire Rescue responded to a house fire in Miami Gardens.The smoky scene happened along 190th Terrace and Northwest 20th Avenue. Crews have now extinguished the blaze and no injuries have been reported.

Car insurance in Florida is costliest in country. What’s driving the sky-high rates? 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:41 GMT

The high price of things like rent and home insurance are making things tough for people here in South Florida. And now, many are taking another financial hit.The cost of car insurance in our state is sky high. But what’s “driving” the rise in rates?7’s Karen Hensel investigates.At home and on the road, it’s not only expensive to live in South Florida but also expensive to drive here.Mark Friedlander/insurance information institute: “While we’re seeing spikes in auto insurance everywhere, Florida is unfortunately worse than many other states.”Actually the worst, according to the Insurance Information Institute, a research organization that represents the industry.Mark Friedlander says Florida drivers are now paying an average premium of $3,183 per year. That’s 58% higher than the national average of $2,014.Mark Friedlander: “Florida all of a sudden didn’t get bad. It’s always been bad. Now, it might be a little ...

Miami restaurant faces 2nd vandalization after surveillance captures man throwing stone

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:41 GMT

A vandal was caught on camera bashing a South Florida restaurant with a rock on Christmas morning, but it wasn’t the first time that the business was targeted. The man was seen using unconventional methods to vandalize Meson Ria De Vigo, a restaurant along Coral Way in Miami, including a rock and a bottle of hot sauce. “It seems he might’ve been on drugs,” said Fayez Tanous, owner of the restaurant. “Why he did it, I don’t know.”He threw the rock through the front door at approximately 12:30 a.m.But before that, at around 11:30 p.m., surveillance also captured the estranged man spreading hot sauce over a railing across the street from the restaurant. “This place has faced vandalism before, graffiti,” said Tanous. The owner has no speculations on why his restaurant could’ve been targeted. Miami Police were in the area on Tuesday night after receiving a call from someone claiming they saw the vandal but had no luck in finding...

Two in custody following brief car chase in Hollywood

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:41 GMT

Two people are in custody, accused of a carjacking crime. The incident occurred along Washington Street and 54th Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. Video shows police swarming a yellow Camaro after a brief car chase in Hollywood along Hillcrest Drive. Residents pulled out their cellphones to capture the suspects being taken into custody by police. Officials said they found a gun inside the car. It is unclear if anyone was hurt when the car was stolen.

Victims speak out after fighting back against home intruder in Miami Gardens; suspect arrested

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:41 GMT

The victims of a horrifying home invasion in Miami Gardens turned the tables on a man accused of breaking in and tying them up. Now, they’re sharing their story of how they escaped and helped police to arrest the intruder.7News cameras on Tuesday night captured the home’s fence damaged by a bullet, which was fired by the suspect’s gun after one of the victims fled the scene. The husband, who was inside the home the entire time, pinned the suspect down until police arrived. “I hope nobody lives that,” said Jose, one of the victim’s.The incident happened on Monday, which was the worst day for Jose and Gladys. “We’re so afraid, but thank God we’re alive,” Jose said. According to the victim’s, the suspect knocked at their door and was armed. “We opened the door, he said, ‘Don’t move,’ and said, ‘How many people in the house,'” Jose said. Detectives said the suspect, Hiram Tanco Crispin,...

How Westminster became Pestminster

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:41 GMT

LONDON — Is the seat of British democracy really such a pit?Given all the recent reports of bad behavior among its members, you might be forgiven for concluding that it is.Take the case of Geraint Davies, a long-serving Labour MP whose inappropriate conduct was well known in the halls of Westminster long before POLITICO reported last summer that the 63-year-old had been accused of sexually harassing junior female colleagues during his decades in parliament.Davies is currently suspended from the Labour Party while he is investigated over claims of sexual harassment, which he denies.“I vividly remember him galloping along the corridor as I went into my hotel room,” is how a former clerk recalled one of several alleged close encounters with Davies, whom she met when she was working in parliament in the early 2000s when she was in her early 20s. “I got in and shut the door behind me, but I knew he was lingering, hovering just outside,” she said.The former clerk is one of three wome...

Europe is spending millions to trap carbon. Where will it go?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:41 GMT

Tomaž Vuk has the carbon. Now he just needs somewhere to send it. Since 2020, Vuk, who sits on the board of the Salonit cement factory in Slovenia, has been plotting to get in on the ground floor of an industry poised to boom in the coming years: carbon capture. It’s one of the ways carbon-spewing factories like the one Vuk helps run are supposed to keep operating in a greener future. There’s just one problem: Vuk has nowhere to store any carbon he traps at the plant.Salonit sits roughly 50 kilometers off the Gulf of Trieste, an Italian port nestled near the Adriatic Sea’s highest point. From there, Salonit can technically ship the carbon anywhere. But for now, it seems the only options are way up in the North Sea — a protracted (and, most notably, expensive) trip around the Continent. Vuk said he’s willing to send the carbon wherever, but would of course prefer spots along the nearby Mediterranean and the Black Seas. For now, that’s not likely. So the North Sea ...

Poland’s media revolution turns into a political battle

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:41 GMT

WARSAW — Poland’s new pro-EU government has taken sweeping steps to free state media from the political stranglehold imposed by eight years of Law and Justice (PiS) rule — but that’s set off a political war with the old ruling party.The fight over who controls the media has drawn in President Andrzej Duda against Prime Minister Donald Tusk. There are also duelling chiefs of public television; one, Tomasz Sygut, was appointed last week after Culture Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz sacked his PiS-loyalist predecessor, while the sidelined media board appointed former PiS MP Maciej Łopiński to the same post. On Tuesday, a third boss, Michał Adamczyk, was also nominated by yet another body.Sygut’s people are actually putting out broadcasts, but the other chiefs are claiming that’s invalid.The clash, and the way the new government has rammed home the changes at lightning speed, are also raising concerns that, like its predecessor, it may be overstepping the law to ...