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Community members celebrate Juneteenth in Boulder

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:32 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — Communities across the nation celebrated Juneteenth Monday. It is the holiday celebrating the emancipation of freed slaves and is recognized as a national holiday and a state holiday here in Colorado.Many celebrate Juneteenth with activities like parades and cookouts. While some of those events took place over the weekend, one group of Coloradans used Monday to educate instead.Students and community members of all backgrounds gathered at the University of Colorado Boulder on Monday to celebrate the emancipation of freed slaves in the United States."I better not hear no more Black folks, White folks or otherwise coming to tell me, talking about, 'Juneteenth is a Black holiday,'" said Alice Faye Duncan, guest speaker at the Juneteenth celebration. Colorado voters keep getting less partisan, according to their registrations "Imagine only knowing slavery and then one day, one day, that is no longer your reality or perceived reality. Because we understand the co...

Vegetation from recent rains could become fire fuel

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:32 GMT

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- Mike Amdur is a firefighter at the Foothills Fire Protection District around Lookout Mountain.He said the grasses in the area are green and several feet high after all of the recent rain."There's good moisture content right now, but we worry when those grasses dry out, they create a very large, heavy fuel load for us and can generate pretty intense and fast-growing fire behavior," he said.Amdur said grasses dry out much faster than trees and it doesn't take long.According to Zach Hiris, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Boulder, the rest of June looks to be pretty dry."For places like the plains where it is predominantly grass, it just takes a couple of weeks of really dry conditions to get those fuels available to burn again," Hiris said. When was Denver’s last 90-degree day? He said there would be reason for concern if the area moved into an extended dry period, after a very wet period."We did that a couple of years ago where th...

How moose came to live in Colorado

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:32 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- You might think that moose were always in Colorado, but you'd be wrong. In fact, there weren't any permanent populations of moose in the state until just over four decades ago.As of 2023, there are nearly 3,000 moose across the state of Colorado. 'He had a hoof print on his chest': Man attacked by moose while walking dogs However, moose aren't considered to be native to the Centennial State at all, and until recently were a very rare site to see.Moose weren't always in ColoradoAccording to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, there were reports dating back to the 1850s of solitary moose moving into the state from Wyoming. These strays never came in large enough numbers to establish a stable population in the state, however.That changed in 1978 when wildlife managers arranged for a transplant of 12 moose from Utah to the state's North Park region near Walden. The next year, another 12 were moved from Wyoming to the same region. Moose dies after jumping from 2nd-story dec...

47-year-old naked man gets accused of aggravated battery on an officer in Miami Beach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:32 GMT

A man baring it all on Miami beach and it wasn’t just to get an even tan.Police said he was caught stealing when he made a run for the water.Now he’s facing some serious charges. 7’s Sheldon Fox has the exclusive.You’re watching one of the weirdest takedowns you’ll ever seeBody camera footage obtained exclusively by 7news shows the wild reeling in of a big, buck-naked man accused of aggravated battery on an officer. The battery on civilians and other charges connected to when cops said, he is 6 feet and 2 inches tall and weighs around 300 pounds gentleman attempted to steal a Jetski in the area of 23rd Street and the beach on April 2.“Do you wanna go on a boat ride?,” said Marine Patrol from the boat.One of the first official views of the suspect from Miami Beach Marine Patrol.The move here was to try convincing him out of the water.“Where you want to go, bro, I’ll take you,” said Marine Patrol.Splashing and singing in Hebrew, he doesn’t wan...

House goes up in flames, thousands left without power after power surge in Waltham

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:32 GMT

First responders and power crews have been working throughout Waltham after the city experienced a power surge on Monday, leading to widespread outages.A house also went up in flames in the aftermath of the fire.Waltham Fire Chief Andrew Mullin told 7NEWS his department received around 40 phone calls from residents within 30 minutes around 9 a.m. He said the calls ranged from homeowners reporting power outlets smoking to the full-blown house fire on School Avenue.A 15-year-old boy was believed to be the only person inside of the home at the time and was able to get out safely, according to officials.“I heard a loud commotion and then all of our hard-wired alarms were going off,” said Tricia Hurley, a neighbor who called 911. “Smoke just billowing from the top of the house – one of my neighbors did show me a picture [showing] that the flames were shooting out the front.”An Eversource spokesperson said its crews worked as quickly as possible to resolve th...

Bebe Rexha shares photo and says ‘I’m good’ after she was hit in the head by a phone on stage

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:32 GMT

(CNN) — Bebe Rexha has shared an update after she was rushed off stage at her concert in New York City when someone threw a cell phone that hit her in the head on Sunday.“I’m good,” Rexha wrote in the caption of two photos she posted to her Instagram page that showed a closeup of the injury the singer suffered to her eye.According to People magazine, a man in attendance was subsequently arrested and charged with felony assault for using his cell phone as a weapon.CNN has reached out to the New York Police Department for comment.Video of the incident shared by concertgoers on social media, Rexha grabbed her face and fell to her knees after she was hit while the crew at the Rooftop at Pier 17 rushed to help her.Rexha has been on her “Best F’n Night of My Life” tour since May.One concertgoer took to Twitter to write about the incident, saying, “This is Bebe Rexha being rushed out of the concert venue here in NYC after someone threw a f—ing p...

Hospital officials hold meeting to address safety after nursing staff member stabbed on the job

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:32 GMT

Hospital officials held a meeting Monday to address safety issues after a nursing staff member was recently attacked on the job in Gardner.The meeting came a week after officials said David Nichols, 76, allegedly stabbed a nurse with a pocket knife while he was a patient in an emergency room at Heywood Memorial Hospital on Monday, June 12. The nurse was taken to a hospital in Worcester to be treated and is recovering. Speaking on Monday morning, Heywood Hospital Director of Emergency Services Dr. Ellen Ray said their workplace is unsafe. “We work kind of in the trenches, as we call it,” Ray said. “And, basically on a daily basis, we are exposed to physical threats and violence.”Ray said, over the past few years, the Heywood Hospital Emergency Department has seen a significant increase in violence. Hospital administrators have emphasized a no-tolerance policy regarding violent behavior within the hospital.Last week’s incident happened around 8 p.m. last Monday. In...

Unsettled June continues… for now

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:32 GMT

Editor’s Note...We have a meteorological intern with us this summer and one of their tasks is to develop their storytelling skills. The weather blog is an excellent medium to fine tune your meteorological storytelling. So without further ado, here is Tyler Hughes with tonight’s blog!…Take it away Tyler! ~JeremyThanks JR! A bit of an introduction first – I was born in Boston and grew up just down the road in Hampton, NH. New England’s sometimes unique weather inspired me to pursue it as a career, and now I’m a rising junior in Penn State’s meteorology program. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my time here so far over the past few weeks, but the weather has been a different story. We’ve been stuck in a cool, drizzly pattern for June so far – not exactly a beachy start to Summer.As a matter of fact, we’ve had 12 days on the calendar so far with below average temperatures, with averages this time of year running right around...

Juneteenth celebrations in Roxbury gather community, commemorate Boston’s Black history

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:32 GMT

Dozens gathered in Roxbury on Monday for a joyful annual Juneteenth parade through the neighborhood and the following Boston Juneteenth Emancipation Observance, scored through the day with an array of music and waving flags emblazoned with bursting stars.“We’re living in a time in which Juneteenth is bringing about an awakening,” said National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation founder and local activist Ben Haith, also known as “Boston Ben,” before organizers raised the Juneteenth flag he created in 1997 at the historic Dillaway-Thomas House.Attendees gathered for the holiday celebrations at the Dillaway-Thomas House — one of the oldest-building in Roxbury and a Revolutionary War headquarters — at noon before marching in a parade to the National Center of Afro-American Artists for the observance.Speakers during the events emphasized the importance of remembering Boston’s Black history during the holiday, which commemorates the day in 1...

Robbins: Classic musical puts rise of hate center stage

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:32 GMT

The Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts are as uplifting a place as there is to find oneself in June, and hardly someplace that summons to mind the bitter battles for America’s soul presently being waged. There’s a kind of moral hand-to-hand combat going on within the country. Which side ultimately prevails – rededication to tolerance and truth-telling, on one hand, or venom and conspiracy theories, on the other – remains very much a jump ball.The Berkshires are known for the explosion of performing arts during the summer months. Among the artistic institutions that attract the highest quality talent is Pittsfield’s Barrington Stage Company, which chose to begin the season by staging a revival of the musical “Cabaret,”’ a deeply sobering portrayal of Germany’s descent into Nazism during the 1930s. It centers on two characters, Clifford Bradshaw, an American who has come to Berlin to write, and Sally Bowles, an English entertainer who headlines a raunchy nightclub. It is pri...