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This Denver Christmas light display named one of best in US

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:49 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- There are plenty of light displays around Denver to check out, but this location was named one of the best in America.This display is located in the heart of Denver and it's covered head-to-toe in Christmas lights. Picture trees dazzled in color, light tunnels and winter displays, all lit up at night.U.S. News & World Report named Denver Botanic Gardens' Blossom of Lights as one of the 25 best Christmas light displays and tours of 2023. List: Christmas light displays around Denver metro Here's the full list of locations, in no particular order:Gardens Aglow at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens: Boothbay, MaineDyker Heights light displays: Brooklyn, New YorkZooLights at the Smithsonian's National Zoo: Washington, D.C.Koziar's Christmas Village: Bernville, PennsylvaniaGarden of Lights at Brookside Gardens: Wheaton, MarylandFantasy in Lights at Callaway Resort & Gardens: Pine Mountain, GeorgiaLouisiana Holiday Trail of Lights: Various cities in LouisianaNights ...

Colorado State Patrol providing funds for car, catalytic converter theft victims

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:49 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Colorado State Patrol is beginning to facilitate a program for victims of auto or catalytic converter theft funds to offset victims' secondary costs associated with those thefts.CSP will specifically be able to help motor vehicle and catalytic converter theft victims with secondary costs associated with a stolen vehicle — but none of the primary costs associated with vehicle repair or replacement qualify. Mayor Mike Johnston’s car stolen in Denver, recovered in Aurora The goal is to lessen the financial blow of an auto theft or catalytic converter repair by paying for secondary costs, like alternative transportation, towing and storage fees of a recovered vehicle, cleaning and sanitizing of a stolen car and vehicle and catalytic converter hardening to prevent further victimization. "These secondary costs, such as the price of getting around without your vehicle, can feel like a re-victimization," state patrol said in a release. "Life doesn’t stop when your car...

Colorado received $9.3M in federal funds for wildfire resilience work

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:49 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Colorado received $9.3 million in the 2023 fiscal year for wildfire resilience work and fuel management projects, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday.The funds are part of a $468 million allocation for wildfire risk reduction, impact mitigation and burn area rehabilitation across the country. The influx of funding allowed the DOI to complete fuel management projects on over 2.5 million acres of land during the 2023 fiscal year — a 30% increase over the 2022 fiscal year. Police sniper cleared in killing of barricaded man in Northglenn The U.S. government's fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. The 2024 fiscal year began on Oct. 1.“As wildfire seasons become longer, more intense and more dangerous, investments from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda are helping provide for a more strategic approach to wildland fire management and mitigation, greater support of wildland firefighters, and much-needed equipment and preparedness methods,” said DOI ...

Franklin Pierce University football player to receive mental health evaluation after stealing Massachusetts ambulance

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:49 GMT

The father of the 21-year-old Spencer man who stole an ambulance at a Gardner hospital on Wednesday says he’s “heartbroken” as a judge has ordered his son to be sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for mental health treatment.“This was never what I expected to happen to my son,” Harrison Barjolo Sr., told reporters Thursday, less than 24 hours after his son, Harrison, initiated a police chase through multiple central Massachusetts towns in the stolen ambulance.Barjolo Sr. said his son, an IT student who plays on the Franklin Pierce University football team, began making delusional statements which spurred his parents to take him for a mental health evaluation at a local hospital recently.Judge Mark Goldstein, during a Thursday arraignment at Gardner District Court, ordered the younger Barjolo to be sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for mental health treatment for no more than 20 days.Goldstein also set a $25,000 cash bail, as recommended by Worcester Assistant District Attorney Adam ...

MIAA Tournament Management Committee listens to new football proposal

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:49 GMT

The MIAA Football Committee took the first step in hopes of convincing the state it had a better playoff proposal.Football Committee chairman Jay Costa and Milton football coach Steve Dembowski joined in on the two-hour MIAA Tournament Management Committee meeting Thursday morning and laid out plans for a revamped football structure. Costa said the goal was to open some dialogue and create a sub-committee made up of football committee and TMC members to look at the proposal.“We are here to propose some modifications,” Costa said of the plan, which would go into effect for the 2025 season if accepted. “We’ve had the statewide system and after a few years of evaluation, we feel there can be some tweaks to it. We feel that, more from a regular season aspect, the sport is hurting a bit during the regular season.”Among the major modifications are an 11-game regular season, in which the regular season would end and the top eight teams in each division qualify for the postseason. Sch...

Marine pleads guilty to firebombing Planned Parenthood, planning attack at Dodger Stadium

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:49 GMT

A U.S. Marine from Orange County has admitted to his role in a 2022 attack at a Planned Parenthood in which he and another man threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic under the cover of night. He also admitted to planning more attacks at other various sites in Southern California.Chance Brannon, 24, of San Juan Capistrano, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, destruction of property and targeting a reproductive health services facility - a violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The firebombing happened on March 13, 2022, at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa. Brannon was an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton at the time.According to the United States Department of Justice, Brannon admitted to planning attacks with two co-conspirators, 22-year-old Tibet Ergul of Irvine and 21-year-old Xavier Batten of Brooksville, Florida. An image of a Molotov cocktail was provided by the U.S. Department of Justice.On the morning of March 13, 2022, Brannon and Ergu...

Haslam family refutes allegation from Warren Buffett’s company that it bribed truck stop chain execs

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:49 GMT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An attorney for the billionaire Haslam family called bribery allegations leveled by Warren Buffett’s company a “wild invention” Thursday.But a judge didn’t decide immediately whether those allegations will be resolved at a January trial that should help determine the multibillion-dollar price Berkshire Hathaway might have to pay the Haslams for the rest of the Pilot truck stop train.The Haslams and Buffett’s company are accusing each other of manipulating Pilot’s earnings this year to affect the price Berkshire would have to pay for the Haslams’ remaining 20% stake in the company if the family decides to sell.The Haslam family — which includes Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and former Tennessee governor Bill Haslam — accused Berkshire last month of trying to understate Pilot’s earnings this year by changing its accounting practices. Berkshire responded this week with a lawsuit of its own accusing Jimmy Haslam of trying to bribe k...

Police lay additional charges in hate-motivated vandalism probe at Toronto Indigo

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:49 GMT

Toronto police have laid additional charges in a hate-motivated mischief investigation after the Indigo store at Bay Street and Bloor Street West was vandalized with red paint and posters.In total 11 people were arrested in connection to the incident on the morning Friday, November 10, 2023. Police say the suspects glued posters to the doors and windows of the bookstore at the corner of Bay Street and Bloor Street West.Police said the suspects then poured red paint on the windows and sidewalk. Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) called it a “vile antisemitic attack,” and said the posters accused Indigo’s Jewish founder and CEO, Heather Reisman, of ‘Funding Genocide.’ “On Nov. 14, police charged 41-year-old Nisha Toomey of Toronto with mischief over $5,000. On Thursday police said Toomey is now facing an additional charge of conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.The other 10 suspects were all initially charged with mischief Over $5000 and conspiracy to commit an indi...

Florida’s GOP chairman is a subject in a rape investigation

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:49 GMT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The chairman of Florida’s Republican Party is the subject of a rape investigation, though no charges have been filed and his lawyer said he will be exonerated.Still, the investigation into Christian Ziegler comes at a critical time for the Republican Party of Florida: Two Florida Republicans — former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis — are running for president and the state GOP is working to reelect U.S. Sen. Rick Scott. Florida was also key to Republicans winning a slim majority in the U.S. House in 2022 and the party will be defending the newly won seats.The Florida Center for Government Accountability was first to publicly report about the investigation into Ziegler, who is married to Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler. The Associated Press asked the Sarasota Police Department for documents related to an investigation into Christian Ziegler. It provided a heavily redacted incident report. It has several mentions of rape and sexu...

Longtime Kentucky lawmaker Kevin Bratcher announces plans to seek a metro council seat in Louisville

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:49 GMT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky state Rep. Kevin Bratcher announced his plans Thursday to run for a Louisville Metro Council seat next year, which would culminate a long statehouse career that put the Republican lawmaker at the forefront of school safety, juvenile justice and a host of other issues.Bratcher has been a fixture in the Kentucky House since 1997. He was part of House leadership as majority party whip when Republicans took control of the chamber in the 2017 session, following a tidal wave of GOP victories statewide in the 2016 election. That completed the GOP’s control of the Kentucky legislature, since the party already was in charge of the Senate. Bratcher is now chairman of a House committee that wields jurisdiction over election legislation and proposed constitutional amendments. Bratcher becomes the second Louisville-area lawmaker within days to pass up a House reelection run to instead seek a metro council seat in 2024. Democratic state Rep. Josie Raymond anno...