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Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova says she is pregnant with her first child

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:43:57 GMT

Two-time Grand Slam champion Petra Kvitova started the new year by announcing she is expecting her first child.“ On the first day of 2024 I wanted to wish you a happy new year and share the exciting news that Jiri and I will be welcoming a baby into our family this summer!” the Czech player wrote on social media.Kvitova married Jiri Vanek, her long-time coach, in July 2023.The 33-year-old Kvitova, currently ranked 17th, won Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014. Kvitova was included on the Australian Open entry list when the tournament released it in early December. It was not immediately known if her pregnancy news would change her plans for the first Grand Slam tournament of the year which begins Jan. 14.___AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennisSource

Denver weather: Mild with sunshine to start the new year

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:43:57 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Even with a few clouds, the new year will start along the Front Range with mainly sunny skies and comfortable highs in the Denver weather forecast.Weather today: Comfortable startSunny skies are here to start the year with extra clouds in the high country. 5 families in Superior rebuilding 2 years after Marshall Fire destroyed their homes Temperatures will be above average in the lower 50s on Monday. Winds are light all afternoon.Pinpoint Weather: Daily forecast on Jan. 1 Weather tonight: A few extra cloudsThe extra clouds stick around overnight, giving Denver partly cloudy skies. Winds stay light Monday night with just above average highs in the middle 20s.Pinpoint Weather: Overnight forecast on Jan. 1 Looking ahead: Snow chances?The sunny skies are still here on Tuesday afternoon with more seasonal high temperatures in the middle 40s. Wednesday keeps the clear skies and just above average highs in the upper 40s. Person, dog die in Poudre house fire Clouds bui...

The Air Force said its nuclear missile capsules were safe. But toxic dangers lurked, documents show

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:43:57 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A large pool of dark liquid festering on the floor. No fresh air. Computer displays that would overheat and ooze out a fishy-smelling gel that nauseated the crew. Asbestos readings 50 times higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety standards. These are just some of the past toxic risks that were in the underground capsules and silos where Air Force nuclear missile crews have worked since the 1960s. Now many of those service members have cancer. The toxic dangers were recorded in hundreds of pages of documents dating back to the 1980s that were obtained by The Associated Press through Freedom of Information Act requests. They tell a far different story from what Air Force leadership told the nuclear missile community decades ago, when the first reports of cancer among service members began to surface: “The workplace is free of health hazards,” a Dec. 30, 2001, Air Force investigation found.“Sometimes, illnesses tend to occur by chance alone,” a follow...

Revelers ring in 2024 with First Night festivities in Boston

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:43:57 GMT

Hundreds of people came together on City Hall Plaza on Sunday to kick off Boston’s First Night festivities, which drew residents from across the area who were looking to ring in 2024.This year’s celebration was moved to City Hall Plaza due to ongoing construction at Copley Square.The free and family-friendly event featured performances, ice sculptures, fireworks, and more. The City is a partner of the New Year’s Eve event, which is formally run by Boston Celebrations, Inc, and managed by Conventures, Inc. All parties are taking steps to ensure public safety as Boston celebrates the New Year. “First Night is a beloved tradition in Boston and beyond, having created delightful experiences for neighborhood residents and visitors from around the world,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said in a statement. “Our newly renovated City Hall Plaza is the perfect venue to welcome families from all over to ring in the New Year. I encourage all our residents to celebrate safel...

Reckitt/Mead Johnson voluntarily recalls specialty infant formula due to possible bacterial infection

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:43:57 GMT

(CNN) — On Sunday, the US Food and Drug Administration warned consumers of possible bacterial contamination of Reckitt/Mead Johnson’s Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Powdered Infant Formula Products. The specialty formula is a hypoallergenic infant formula used by infants allergic to cow’s milk.The manufacturers voluntarily recalled 675,030 cans of the formula on December 29 after the FDA was notified that exported formula tested positive for Cronobacter sakazakii by the Israeli Ministry of Health. The Cronobacter bacteria can cause rare but potentially deadly infections in newborns. It’s present in the environment but is also known to contaminate powdered infant formula. The recalled cans of formula had been distributed in the US and additional product exported.The agency notes that no illnesses have been reported to date and that most of the product distributed in the US has likely already been consumed.“All product in question went through extensive testing,” the company ...

Paul Dzavik, solid defense lifts Hingham past Marshfield

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:43:57 GMT

KINGSTON – It’s been a brutally difficult slate so far for the Hingham boys hockey team, but another strong showing on New Year’s Eve day has its heads held high entering 2024.Behind two goals from Paul Dzavik and their typically stout defensive game, the No. 5 Harbormen (3-3-1) scrapped out a 3-1 win over No. 6 Marshfield in their second annual Hockey Fights Cancer matchup.Dzavik’s second goal gave Hingham the lead with a minute left in the second period after the defense’s only blemish allowed the Rams (4-2) to tie it, and the entire group did a stellar job disrupting Marshfield opportunities to allow just 14 shots on goalie Mike Karo.To end 2023 with such a win, along with losing all three of its games by one goal, has morale high in the Hingham locker room.“It’s great, I tell them not to worry about the record,” said Harbormen head coach Tony Messina, who expects injured top scorer Travis Rugg to make his debut soon. “We’re getting better every time. We’re trending in the right ...

Lucas: From a smuggler’s den to diplomatic calling

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:43:57 GMT

Uran Ferizi is my kind of illegal immigrant.Twenty-seven years after the penniless 15-year-old boy from Albania snuck into the United Kingdom clinging to the undercarriage of a truck ferried over the English Channel, Ferizi is now set to meet with King Charles.Ferizi, 42, is Albania’s new ambassador to the U.K.And he is now also rubbing shoulders with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and foreign Minister David Cameron.How he got there from where he came from is the stuff that dreams are made of.Ferizi grew up in Albania at a time when his parents lost most of their savings—as hundreds of thousands of Albanians did—when unregulated Ponzi schemes swept the country in 1997.People who lost money rioted against the government and toppled it. Armories were raided and some 2,000 people were killed before the UN authorized a 7,000-member armed force to enter the country and restore order.A year later Ferizi was in Belgium planning to sneak into the U.K. as thousands of other young Albania...

Kimberly Palmer: Overspent in December? Here’s how to battle the January blues

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:43:57 GMT

The first workday in January after the holidays hits a little bit differently: The parties are over, debt payments are soon due and it can feel like there’s nothing to look forward to.You may be able to minimize the doldrums with some planning and other steps to turn things around, financial experts say.“Financial stress can be temporary,” says Tonya Rapley, financial educator and founder of the millennial money and lifestyle blog My Fab Finance. She suggests focusing on small steps such as paying this month’s bills, then reminding yourself that you can recover from December’s overspending.Here are a few more ways to fight this month’s financial downers:MAKE OR UPDATE A BUDGETThe new year is a great time to create or update a budget, which can give you back a sense of control, says Mike Croxson, CEO of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, a nonprofit financial coaching organization.The popular 50/30/20 budget, for example, suggests putting 50% of your take-home income towa...

‘I am done’: Amid rider woes, is Ottawa’s transit system a victim of its own success?

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:43:57 GMT

OTTAWA — It didn’t feel like the glory days at the time, climbing onto a crowded bus and pushing into the crush of bodies, riders sweating into their wool coats and parkas.But despite the cramped rides and the occasional backpack to the face, April Lesnick said those days in the early 2000s were the ones when she felt she could most rely on the transit system in Canada’s capital city.These days, she often finds herself alone in a snowbank next to a stop, bundled up against the cold wind, waiting for a bus that never comes at all. “Sometimes it shows, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes there’s notifications on the app, sometimes there’s not,” Lesnick said. She started taking the bus at just nine years old, but this year, at age 45, the lifelong transit user said she’s had enough and is planning to buy a car for the first time.“I am done,” she said. For years, students, public servants and other workers boarded packed buses that...

‘Unimaginable excess’: Bid to attract showy superyachts to Cape Breton under scrutiny

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:43:57 GMT

HALIFAX — Not so long ago, the largest community in Cape Breton was best known as home to one of the most toxic waste sites in North America: the infamous Sydney tar ponds.Containing one million tonnes of oozing sewage and industrial sludge — left behind after centuries of steelmaking — the site has since been capped with concrete and transformed into a sprawling urban park that opened 10 years ago.“It’s a transformation from what was an industrial economy to one that is more service-based with tech businesses and education, ” says Terry Smith, CEO of Destination Cape Breton, the island’s tourism marketing organization.With memories of the tar ponds receding, the port city is now trying to cultivate an upscale vibe — one that includes appealing to billionaires and their toys. It wants to become a destination for superyachts, the most expensive, luxurious boats in the world, which have become the ultimate status symbol for A-list celebrities, dot-com titans and lesser-kno...