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Love of hunting keeps best friends in the Colorado wilderness

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:42 GMT

MORGAN COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Always breaking stereotypes and preconceived notions are best pals Donnelle Johnson and Lisa Thompson.They are hunters. They’ve been chasing game side-by-side in Colorado for over 10 years."When we met each other, it was like hunt at first sight," Thompson said. Is hunting beneficial for the environment? But what about their husbands? Don’t they ever get jelly?"I was told once I was living his dream. So I would say, jelly, maybe," Johnson said. Thompson said hunting with her friend is more than hunting."She is my best friend. She is very important to me. I love her like a sister," Thompson said.Hunting along the South Platte RiverThis morning, their adventures take them east of Denver on a stretch of land that hugs the South Platte River where they will pursue the elusive mourning dove.Dove hunting in Colorado has been enjoyed by men and women, young and old, for generations. Every year on Sept. 1, they eagerly take to the field. Colorado fall color...

10 of the most notable performances at Red Rocks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:42 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — From $6 tickets to a ban on rock concerts, Red Rocks Amphitheatre has hosted some truly remarkable performances. While no one can count the thousands of amazing stars that have come through the venue, Red Rocks has kept track of some of the most notable performances dating back to the early 1900s. Full list of concerts at Red Rocks in fall of 2023 These artists had some of the best, bizarre and insane Red Rocks performances throughout the years:The Beatles (1964)In the summer of '64, The Beatles played at Red Rocks. But they weren't a huge hit — only three-fourths of the seats sold. Tickets sold for $6.60, according to the amphitheater. This was the only concert on The Beatles’ initial American tour that didn't sell out. Johnny Cash (1965)It's said that Johnny Cash, along with the Tennessee Three, were the first country and western musicians to perform at Red Rocks.Jimi Hendrix (1968)September 1968 was Hendrix's one and only show at Red Rocks. However, there is no...

Fort Lauderdale Police seek public’s help to locate subject in smoke shop burglary

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:42 GMT

Police seek the public’s help in locating the subject responsible for the burglary of a smoke shop. The burglary occurred along the 3200 block of West Broward Boulevard on Aug. 8, at around 12:47 a.m. According to Fort Lauderdale Police, the subject had previously scouted the smoke shop three days earlier. Surveillance footage shows the subject wearing a red shirt and camo shorts with orange sandals. https://twitter.com/ftlauderdalepd/status/1699879202395218198?s=20On the night of the burglary, the subject was captured on camera wearing a black hoodie, black pants and similar orange sandals. An investigation into the incident is currently underway, and anyone with information is urged to contact Fort Lauderdale police to aid in locating the subject.If you have any information on this burglary or the subject’s whereabouts, call Detective Taylor Hall at 954-828-5509 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may b...

Mass. school districts cancel classes, dismiss students early as hot, humid weather continues

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:42 GMT

Soaring temperatures and a lack of air conditioning continue to drive school districts to either let classes out early or cancel them altogether this week.Woburn Public Schools was one of them, announcing Thursday that due to excessive heat and safety concerns, the school district would have early releases on Friday, just a day after the school year started.“We are writing to let you know that due to the oppressive heat and safety concerns at some of our buildings without air conditioning, we will be having an early release tomorrow, Friday, September 8th for all schools,” officials said in a statement to the school community. “Our early dismissal times are as follows: 11:30 a.m. for WMHS, 12:00 for Middle Schools, and 12:30 at our elementary schools. Our Kindergarten students will still have the delayed start time, and be dismissed at 12:30.”The decision came after a day of brutal temperatures, with hot, humid and hazy conditions plaguing the state, with are...

Hurricane Lee is ‘rapidly strengthening’ toward a Category 5 monster. New England will ‘need to keep a close eye on’ the forecast track

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:42 GMT

The most powerful and potentially dangerous hurricane of the year is quickly gaining steam in the Atlantic Ocean’s record-warm waters, as meteorologists tell East Coast residents to “keep a close eye on” the major storm’s forecast track over the next several days.Hurricane Lee strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph on Thursday while the storm remained far east of Puerto Rico. Forecasters were predicting that Lee would become a major hurricane by Thursday night.Lee is expected to gain strength to a monster Category 5 hurricane, which would be the first storm to hit that highest hurricane intensity level this year.“It looks like Lee is rapidly strengthening right now, and we expect it to continue to quickly strengthen,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist John Feerick told the Herald on Thursday.“It’s difficult to say this far out, but there’s potential for this to impact the East Coast from t...

Farmers find some relief from flooding in the form of donated funds

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:42 GMT

It was clearly hard for Bay State farmer Jim Lattanzi to recount just how devastating unseasonal frost and ceaseless rains have been for businesses like his.Lattanzi, flanked by Gov. Maura Healey, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern and community group leaders, at times struggling to speak through his emotions, explained from inside his Hollis Hills Farm stand the damage done by mother nature this year and the unexpected response he received from the state and his community.“As a farmer, you have to be resilient, but I’ll tell you it takes the wind out of your sails when you work so hard and watch it wash away,” he said. “To know that we have the support of our governor, our legislators, our business partners, to kind of come out of nowhere and say ‘hey, we’re here to help,’ it blows a little wind back in your sails. We can do this.”In July, the Healey Administration joined United Way of Central Massachusetts in soliciting fund donations to help farmers impacted by flooding or unexpected cold sn...

Marty Walsh backs Ruiz over Arroyo, Wu-pick Pepén for Boston City Council

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:42 GMT

Former Mayor Marty Walsh and Mayor Michelle Wu are both passing on the embattled incumbent Ricardo Arroyo in District 5, but differ on who they want to see replace him on the Boston City Council.Walsh said he’s backing Jose Ruiz, a retired Boston police officer. The decision puts him at odds with the city’s current mayor, who announced two weeks ago that she was endorsing her former employee, Enrique Pepén.“Jose Ruiz has been an amazing mentor to so many youngsters in the city as a youth coach and he’s an amazing person,” Walsh told the Herald Thursday. “His whole life has been devoted to being engaged in the community.”Walsh, who left the Biden administration to run the NHL Players Association, said he has worked with Ruiz over the years when he was a youth coach and Boston police officer.“He would bring all of that vital experience to the City Council,” Walsh said. “That’s why I’m backing him.”Walsh’s decision to endorse Ruiz was first reported by the Dorchester Reporter. He is al...

Trump says migrant influx ‘destroying’ the country

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:42 GMT

The migrant waves crippling New York City and now the Bay State is just the start, warns former President Donald Trump.“Forget Fifth Avenue and New York City, it’s coming to everywhere in the country,” Trump said on Howie Carr’s radio network Thursday.“This is a poisoning and destroying of our country,” he added, when asked to comment on New York City Mayor Eric Adams saying the same about the Big Apple.“People are just pouring into our country,” Trump said less than a day after Adams said he doesn’t “see an ending to this” migrant meltdown.The flow of migrants crossing the Southern Border hit a one-month record in August, with 91,000 migrants who crossed as part of a family group, according to the U.S. Border PatrolThe Border Patrol made more than 177,000 arrests along the Mexico border in August, up from 132,652 in July and 99,539 in June, according to the Washington Post.

Alabama teen sentenced to life for killing 5 family members at 14

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:42 GMT

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama teenager convicted of killing five family members, including three younger siblings, when he was 14 years old has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. Circuit Judge Chadwick Wise handed down the sentence Thursday to Mason Sisk, now 18. Wise wrote that the crime was “ghastly, disturbing, and draped in unmitigated evil” and warranted the harshest punishment allowed by law.A jury in April convicted Sisk of multiple counts of capital murder for the 2019 shooting deaths of his father, adoptive mother and younger siblings. All five were shot in the head at their home in Elkmont. The youngest was an infant. John Wayne Sisk, 38, and Mary Sisk, 35, were found dead in their home on Sept. 2, 2019, along with their three children — 6-year-old Kane, 4-year-old Aurora and 6-month-old Colson. All had been shot in the head.Authorities said Mason Sisk initially told police he was in the basement playing video g...

2 attacks by Islamist insurgents in Mali leave 49 civilians and 15 soldiers dead, military says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:42 GMT

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Two attacks by Islamist insurgents in the restive north of Mali on Thursday killed 49 civilians and 15 government soldiers, according to a provisional death toll given by the country’s military junta read on state television.A passenger boat near the city of Timbuktu on the Niger River and a Malian military position in Bamba further downstream in the Gao region were targeted, according to the statement, which said the attacks have been claimed by Islamist extremist insurgent group JNIM, an umbrella coalition of armed groups aligned with al-Qaida. The Malian government announcement said its forces, in responding to the attacks, killed some 50 assailants. Three days of national mourning to honor the civilians and troops killed begin Friday.Timbuktu has been blockaded by armed groups since late August, when the Malian army deployed reinforcements to the region. The insurgents are preventing the desert city from being supplied with basic goods. Over 30,000 resi...