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Why are flags at half-staff on Tuesday, Dec. 19?

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:24 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- You may notice flags flying at half-staff across the state Tuesday, and there's a good reason. Gov. Jared Polis ordered flags to be flown at half-staff on all public buildings to honor Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who died Dec. 1 at the age of 93.O'Connor was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. She was appointed to the court in 1981 and served until she retired in 2006. WATCH LIVE: Funeral of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court "Justice O’Connor brought Western values to the nation’s highest court and fiercely advocated for preserving freedom for all and furthering civil discourse," Polis said in a statement after O'Connor's death.Polis' order was made in tandem with President Biden's declaration that all flags at federal buildings be flown at half-staff to honor Justice O'Connor.O'Connor's funeral was held on Tuesday at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.The flags will stay at half-staff until sunset.

You'll pay this much for tolls on E-470 next year

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:24 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Next year, you will still have to pay the ExpressToll on E-470, but it won't cost you much.E-470 circles the east Denver metro area and connects the I-25 and C-470 interchange in the south to the I-25 and the Northwest Parkway interchange in the north.It uses ExpressToll, which is an all-electronic toll collection system. Why bridges, overpasses are more dangerous in the winter E-470 has tolls because it relies on the profit for maintenance. It doesn't receive state or federal funding, so the tolls go towards paying debt service, operations and roadway improvement projects.  While it's highly unlikely that these tolls will get removed, they're at least not increasing for the upcoming year.Toll rates are reviewed and set annually by E-470’s Board of Directors, except this year, the eight jurisdictions voted to freeze the toll rate.Currently, E-470 has $1.3 billion in outstanding bond debt, but the board decided to freeze the cost of tolls to keep the road...

Former Haitian senator sentenced to life in prison in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:24 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami on Tuesday sentenced a former Haitian senator to life in prison for conspiring to kill Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, which caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation.John Joel Joseph is the third of 11 suspects detained and charged in Miami to be sentenced in what U.S. prosecutors have described as a plot hatched in both Haiti and Florida to hire mercenaries to kidnap or kill Moïse, who was 53 when he was slain at his private home near the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince on July 7, 2021.Joseph, a well-known politician and opponent of the slain president’s Tet Kale party, was extradited from Jamaica in June to face charges of conspiring to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States and providing material support resulting in death, knowing or intending that such material support would be used to prepare for or carry out the conspiracy to kill or kidnap.The sentencing came two months after Joseph signed a plea agr...

Barrington Irving’s Aviation School propels graduates into high-flying careers

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:24 GMT

A group of 15 newly minted graduates from Barrington Irving Technical Training School are ready to soar to new heights after their recent graduation ceremony at Opa-locka Airport. Owned by Captain Barrington Irving, the youngest person and first black pilot to fly solo around the world, the school is providing essential skills for careers in aviation. Captain Irving, who once started his aviation journey at Opa-locka Airport with three holes in his shoes, is now extending the same opportunities to students from diverse backgrounds. Some have overcome troubled pasts, while others lacked any prior experience in aviation.“I am so proud of them, and to know what they started from,” said Irving. “Opa-locka Airport is where I got my start.” Victor Zupiera, one of the graduates, has secured a position as a Line Service Technician with Atlantic Aviation. “Working here for Barrington truly changed my whole perspective on that and my whole career path nd what I w...

France and Germany confident of EU spending rules deal

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:24 GMT

PARIS AND BRUSSELS ― France and Germany are confident that last ditch talks on an overhaul of the EU’s public spending rules will result in a deal despite lingering disagreement between the bloc’s biggest governments.On the eve of a virtual meeting of all 27 finance ministers on Wednesday, France’s Bruno Le Maire and his German counterpart, Christian Lindner, spoke to reporters before sitting down to dinner in Paris where they hoped to wrap up a compromise.“It’s now possible in the next few hours to have an agreement on fiscal rules,” Lindner said. The ambition had always been to find agreement before the end of the year. After weeks of fraught negotiations, governments hope to agree to the reformed framework that will set out a laxer pace of debt and deficit reduction than had previously been the case.  The talks had pitted a group of countries led by Germany who wanted tougher targets against others from southern Europe, particularly France and Italy...

Bicyclist struck and killed by trash truck in Allston

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:24 GMT

A bicyclist died Tuesday after being struck by a trash truck in Allston, police said. The crash happened in the area of Hano Street and Cambridge Street near 10 a.m. Emergency crews responded and soon closed Cambridge Street between Harvard Street and Union Square. Boston police in an initial post on X described the bicyclist as an adult male and said he had been taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.Police on scene later confirmed the bicyclist had died.Boston police said the driver in this crash remained at the scene. This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

As foundation for ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis cracks, fallout spreads

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:24 GMT

Renuka Rayasam, Markian Hawryluk, Samantha Young | KFF Health News (TNS)When Angelo Quinto’s family learned that officials blamed his 2020 death on “excited delirium,” a term they had never heard before, they couldn’t believe it. To them, it was obvious the science behind the diagnosis wasn’t real.Quinto, 30, had been pinned on the ground for at least 90 seconds by police in California and stopped breathing. He died three days later.Now his relatives are asking a federal judge to exclude any testimony about “excited delirium” in their wrongful death case against the city of Antioch. Their case may be stronger than ever.Their push comes at the end of a pivotal year for the long-standing, nationwide effort to discard the use of excited delirium in official proceedings. Over the past 40 years, the discredited, racially biased theory has been used to explain away police culpability for many in-custody deaths. But in October, the American College of Emergency Physicians disavowed a key p...

Older Americans are now earning almost as much as younger workers

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:24 GMT

Michael Sasso | Bloomberg News (TNS)The share of Americans working beyond retirement age has almost doubled since the late 1980s and the wage gap between them and their younger colleagues is shrinking, according to a Pew Research Center report.Older workers are now as likely to hold college degrees as younger ones and can expect to earn $22 an hour compared to $13 in 1987, a 69% increase in 2022 dollars, according to the Pew report issued last week. That’s in contrast to the 19% boost in median hourly earnings for 25- to 64-year-olds.The trends are reshaping the U.S. workforce, as seniors’ participation in the labor market is expected to rise while the participation rates of most other age groups stall or decline. All told, about 19% of people 65 and older today are employed, compared with 11% of that cohort in 1987, according to the report.A few factors are converging to push older Americans into the workforce, and keep them there longer. Traditional pension plans that often incent...

Map: See where redistricting challenges continue across the US

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:24 GMT

Three years after the last census noted changes in population and demographics in the United States, several states are still wrangling over the shape of congressional or state legislative districts. Redrawn maps are being challenged on grounds they are racially discriminatory, overly partisan or both.Redistricting litigation is ongoing in several states, including Florida, Georgia and Louisiana, where Democrats are hoping to make gains. Most recently, New York’s highest court gave Democrats a chance to redraw the state’s congressional districts, a major victory as the party tries to win control of the U.S. House next year.Democrats also are expected to gain a seat in Alabama, where districts were revised after federal judges ruled that the original map enacted by Republican state officials had illegally diluted the voting power of Black residents.“The parties are fighting these battles district by district in courtrooms across the country that are aimed at giving Democr...

Bruins notebook: Parker Wotherspoon looking to stick in NHL

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:24 GMT

How long defenseman Parker Wotherspoon remains in Boston will no doubt depend on how he plays in the short-term future. When you’re 26 years old and have a grand total of 17 NHL games like Wotherspoon had heading into Tuesday’s game against the Minnesota Wild, you pretty much have to prove yourself on a nightly basis.But in his latest recall from Providence, Wotherspoon showed enough in two tough games games against the Islanders and Rangers to make the B’s decide to keep him on the roster, designating Ian Mitchell to be the one to go back to Providence. And with the expected return to the lineup of Charlie McAvoy, it was rookie Mason Lohrei to be squeezed up to the press box, not Wotherspoon.While Wotherspoon is not exactly huge – he’s 6-foot-1, 195 pounds – coach Jim Montgomery said he brings “snarl” and “jam” that is needed on the B’s, especially on the defense corps with Derek Forbort out. Players like that add to the general good vibe for a team.“O...