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Douglas County commissioners unanimously pass public camping ban

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:51 GMT

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Douglas County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously passed a public camping ban.The ban will limit camping and ban temporary structures on public property in the area "without written approval.”Commissioners questioned how those words could affect enforcement.“Would anything in this ordinance inherently prohibit that an organization like Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts or some other youth camping organization from attempting to get and receive a camping permit?” Commissioner George Teal asked before voting Tuesday. Human case of plague found in Montezuma County “No, written permission of any kind permits any organization or party to use public property. It’s just the process of getting that approval,” Douglas County Attorney Jeff Garcia said. Anyone who ignores the measure could face a fine of up to $1,000 if shelter space is available.“It is important to note that a party cannot violate this ordinance if there is no other alternative shelter available,” Gar...

Contaminated Denver land to be cleaned up for housing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Housing Authority announced plans to clean up and redevelop the former Zuni tank farm in the Sun Valley neighborhood. The Environmental Protection Agency announced a $1.04 million grant to assist with cleanup. "This is an area that has historically been disenfranchised residents have a power plant and tank yards in their backyard," said Christina Wilson with EPA Region 8. Douglas County commissioners unanimously pass public camping ban The plan is to convert the site into energy-efficient affordable housing units and a riverfront park, which will include a water-feature play area, play fields and courts and multi-use trails. But given the site's history, it needs to be decontaminated before anything can be built. "The tank farm was just recently demolished but it left behind significant contamination in the soil," Wilson said. "There's heavy metals, there's lead, there's asbestos, so before any redevelopment can take place we need to clean up the soils that ...

South Florida native Alexa Santos shares her experience as contestant on new Hulu cooking series ‘Secret Chef’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:51 GMT

You never really know who prepares your food when you’re at a restaurant is it a world-renowned chef or is it Joe Blow from down the street?Now think about that same concept but make it a competition, that’s what Hulu is doing for its new cooking competition series.Get ready all of you food critics.Hulu’s aiming to keep you on edge with their new cooking competition, “Secret Chef”Alexa Santos: “I’ve never been a part of anything so remarkably interesting in my entire life”South Florida native and social media influencer, Alexa Santos is a contestant on the new cooking series and she’s giving Deco all the details of what the experience was like.Alexa Santos: “On the show when I found out that they were executive chefs, sous chefs, and private chefs of a much more professional caliber, I was not happy about that”Guided by an animated talking hat, 10 chefs from different walks of life have to perform a series of cooking ...

Men In Kilts: South Florida cleaning service adjusted Miami’s heat by making it hotter with kilts

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:51 GMT

It’s that time of year, again you start sweating the second you open your front door!But one outdoor cleaning service in South Florida has really adjusted to the heat by making things even hotter with kilts!Deco’s Alex Miranda, who’s wearing pants for some reason, has more.Men in kilts are like men in general just better, which is why the ‘Men In Kilts’ company has figured out how to improve the view in more ways than one.And invited me to feel truly free from labor, it turns out.I’ve got three words for you.Carlos Ponce: “This is it, we wear our kilts all time.”Men In Kilts!Alex Miranda: “Everybody loves a man in a kilt, right? Am I wrong?Carlos Ponce: “Absolutely, Always.”All ways, all days, baby.Carlos Ponce: “There’s a funny aspect to it and the first thing that they say is, omg, you actually wear kilts!”Well, yeah, that’s the name of this business which also employs women and offers.Andrea...

Waltham residents come together to discuss frustrations with Eversource after surge

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:51 GMT

Waltham residents came together Tuesday night to discuss their frustrations with Eversource with city leaders after a power surge caused smoke and fire problems across the community.“I just don’t know what happened,” said Raimondo Alonge, whose home caught fire on Monday after the surge. Alonge was among the dozens of Waltham residents who shared their experiences from the surge, which included losing appliances, electrical damage, and other issues.But the bigger message was the lack of communication, with residents saying they want answers about what happened.Along said Eversource gave him and his tenants $100 gift cards but he’s looking for more support from the utility company.“That’s not going to recuperate all the memories, my mother’s things and my things and my wife’s things… it’s priceless that stuff… and I don’t feel safe now,” he said.

Former Patriots quarterback Ryan Mallett has died in an apparent drowning

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:51 GMT

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett, who also played for New England, Houston and Baltimore during five seasons in the NFL, has died. He was 35.Mallett died in an apparent drowning, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. Mallett was a football coach at White Hall High School in his native Arkansas, and the school district also confirmed his death in a post on its website on Tuesday.Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek said the university “lost an incredibly special person.”“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and teammates of Ryan Mallett,” Yurachek posted on Twitter.Mallett played for the University of Michigan for one season before finishing his college career at Arkansas. He passed for 7,493 yards and 62 touchdowns in two seasons with the Razorbacks.Mallett was selected by New England in the third round of the 2011 NFL draft. He appeared in four games with the Patriots during the 2012 season, complet...

Garrett Whitlock gets crushed as Red Sox lose to Marlins 10-1

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:51 GMT

Garrett Whitlock has shown this year he’s capable of being an effective starting pitcher, but so far he’s lacked the consistency that made him such a dominant weapon out of the bullpen.Case in point, his forgettable showing Tuesday night.Whitlock got rocked in the series-opening 10-1 loss to the Miami Marlins, who tagged the Red Sox starter for six runs on 11 hits over a laborious 4.2 innings of work. Whitlock allowed a pair of home runs, including a two-run shot by Bryan de la Cruz in the first and later a solo homer by Jean Segura in the fifth, and struggled to keep the Marlins off the base paths.The Marlins kept pushing even after Whitlock came out, and by the end they’d recorded 19 hits, the most allowed in a game by the Red Sox since allowing 21 against the Toronto Blue Jays on Oct. 1 last season.Whitlock started off on a strong note, becoming the first person to strike out Marlins leadoff hitter Luis Arraez in nearly two weeks, but then things quickly went so...

Maine lawmakers are a single vote from approval of bill to allow later abortions

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:51 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine House voted Tuesday night to enact a bill to expand access to abortions, putting the proposal one final vote away from going to the governor for her signature. The Senate, which supported the bill in an initial vote Tuesday, must cast a final vote on the legislation that’d give the state one of the least restrictive abortion laws in the country.The House vote, 73-69, capped an emotional day that included demonstrators against the bill holding signs, singing hymns and chanting “kill the bill!” in the State House hallways.Current state law bans abortions after a fetus becomes viable outside the womb, at roughly 24 weeks, but allows an exception if a mother’s life is at risk. The bill would allow later abortions if deemed medically necessary by a doctor. Opponents said the proposal goes too far.“This bill is so extreme that the very thought of it being enacted crushes my soul,” said Rep. Tracy Quint, R-Hodgdon, one of about 30 lawmakers to speak on the H...

2,700 people tricked into working for cybercrime syndicates rescued in Philippines

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:51 GMT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police backed by commandos staged a massive raid on Tuesday and said they rescued more than 2,700 workers from China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and more than a dozen other countries who were allegedly swindled into working for fraudulent online gaming sites and other cybercrime groups.The number of human trafficking victims rescued from seven buildings in Las Pinas city in metropolitan Manila and the scale of the nighttime police raid were the largest so far this year and indicated how the Philippines has become a key base of operations for cybercrime syndicates.Cybercrime scams have become a major issue in Asia with reports of people from the region and beyond being lured into taking jobs in countries like strife-torn Myanmar and Cambodia. However, many of these workers find themselves trapped in virtual slavery and forced to participate in scams targeting people over the internet.In May, leaders from the Association of Southeast Asia...

Court gives the rights to the works of Argentine literary giant Borges to his widow’s nephews

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:51 GMT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A court has granted the rights to the works of the late Jorge Luis Borges, considered Argentina’s most internationally significant author of the 20th century, to five nephews of the author’s widow who died in March.Borges’ wife, Maria Kodama, had devoted much of her life to fiercely protecting his legacy and it surprise many in Argentina’s literary circle that she did not leave a will, even though she was battling breast cancer.The absence of a will had put the rights to his works into limbo. But on Tuesday a court in Buenos Aires ruled that the five nephews would receive the rights “in their capacity as universal heirs.”Borges died in 1986 at age 86 and left Kodama, a translator and writer whom he had married earlier that year, as his only heir. They never had children. She died March 26, also aged 86.Kodama’s longtime lawyer, Fernando Soto, said in April that Kodama’s nephews went to court to declare themselves her heirs after her death, seeking to g...