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Uber launches new safety feature in Denver metro

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:39 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A ride-sharing company is now offering an added safety feature for riders and drivers in the Denver metro area.Uber announced its implementation of the audio recording option in the app. Denver is one of several new cities the company launched the new feature. Riders and drivers can add the safety feature in the app's Safety Toolkit section. After it's enabled, the option to "record audio" can be initiated by hitting "start." Both parties can begin or end a recording at any time during a trip. The feature automatically shuts off after a trip is completed.“We’re committed to investing in innovative technology to enhance safety on the platform. We hope that by expanding this tool, we can continue to help give riders and drivers peace of mind and encourage more comfortable interactions while on trips,” Andi Pimentel Dunn, product manager at Uber, said in a release. ‘Just cause’ eviction bill passes Colorado House The company said the technology protects both parties...

Police arrest 18-year-old homicide suspect, find guns, cash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:39 GMT

ARVADA, Colo. (KDVR) — Northglenn and Arvada police arrested an 18-year-old in connection to a deadly shooting and discovered multiple weapons and a large amount of cash. According to the Northglenn Police Department, on Tuesday, with the assistance of the Arvada Police Department, 18-year-old Camron Enrique Acosta was taken into custody for first-degree murder in connection to a deadly shooting.Camron Enrique Acosta was arrested on charges of first-degree murder following a deadly shooting back in January. (Northglenn Police Department) NPD said the shooting happened on Jan. 7 at 11: 20 p.m. in the 1300 block of Regina Lane. When officers arrived on scene, they located 21-year-old Leon Lorenzo Dean Guerra with a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital where he later died. Wheelchair amputee left in the cold by hospital security guards NPD and APD located Acosta at around 1:54 p.m. Tuesday after they attempted a traffic stop at 50th Avenue and Kipling Street. Officers said Ac...

Miami man wins $1 million from $5 scratch-off ticket

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:39 GMT

A Miami-Dade County man hit the jackpot when he won $1 million off a scratch-off ticket.William Burns, of Miami, claimed a $1 million prize from the FLORIDA 50X THE CASH Holiday Edition scratch-off game at the Lottery’s Miami District Office, the lottery said in a news release. He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $695,000.00.Burns purchased his winning ticket from Queen Supermarket, located at 3601 Grand Avenue in Miami.The retailer will receive $2,000 for selling the winning scratch-off ticket.The $5 game features a top prize of $25 million. The game’s overall odds of winning are 1-in-4.50.

FedEx delivers hundreds of pairs of sneakers to students at Earlington Heights Elementary School in Northwest Miami-Dade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:39 GMT

Hundreds of South Florida students got off on the right foot thanks to FedEx. FedEx employees on Thursday were at Earlington Heights Elementary School in Northwest Miami-Dade to give out 200 pairs of free shoes to students. “All throughout the United States, between the months of March and April, we’re going to be at 28 different schools, and we’ll have been delivering 8,400 pairs of shoes for children across the country,” said Stephanie Seberg, FedEx Spokeswoman for Operation Warm. FedEx partnered with the non-profit called Operation Warm, which provides shoes and coats to kids in need across the country. “What we can get, we’re grateful for it and we take it, so as long as we have people on the outside that are willing to come in, the doors of Earlington are always open,” said Jackson Nicolas, principal of the school.The diverse International Baccalaureate school welcomed the volunteers with open arms.The students looked for the perfect fi...

College of Europe to open new campus in Albania

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:39 GMT

The EU’s favorite university is in for a Balkan enlargement.  The Commission’s neighborhood czar Olivér Várhelyi announced that the College of Europe — the training ground for aspiring Eurocrats — will open a new campus in Tirana, Albania, in a sign that the Balkan country is edging closer toward EU membership. This move is seen by regional experts as an attempt by the bloc to increase its soft power in a key geopolitical region.Albania is an EU candidate country and is in the process of aligning with the EU’s rules and carrying out reforms to meet the bloc’s accession criteria.The new campus will be funded by the Commission and applications for students will open in September 2023, according to Várhelyi. He added: “The only thing we need now is a building, a nice site [for the college].”Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama hailed the news as a “great gift” and something “exceptionally important and significant for us” in a joint news conference in Tirana with the EU’s forei...

Chinese companies are shipping rifles, body armor to Russia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:39 GMT

Chinese companies, including one connected to the government in Beijing, have sent Russian entities 1,000 assault rifles and other equipment that could be used for military purposes, including drone parts and body armor, according to trade and customs data obtained by POLITICO.The shipments took place between June and December 2022, according to the data provided by ImportGenius, a customs data aggregator.China North Industries Group Corporation Limited, one of the country’s largest state-owned defense contractors, sent the rifles in June 2022 to a Russian company called Tekhkrim that also does business with the Russian state and military. The CQ-A rifles, modeled off of the M16 but tagged as “civilian hunting rifles” in the data, have been reported to be in use by paramilitary police in China and by armed forces from the Philippines to South Sudan and Paraguay.Russian entities also received 12 shipments of drone parts by Chines...

Linebacker Elandon Roberts goes from Dolphins to Steelers in free agency

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:39 GMT

Linebacker Elandon Roberts’ time with the Miami Dolphins is up.The seven-year pro who spent the past three seasons in Miami is headed to the Pittsburgh Steelers on a two-year deal, according to NFL Network.Change was likely coming to the Dolphins’ inside linebacker corps when the team reached a deal with David Long, formerly of the Tennessee Titans. Miami is also re-signing linebacker Duke Riley as the defense transitions to being led by Vic Fangio following Josh Boyer’s tenure as defensive coordinator.The sure-tackling Roberts is coming off his first triple-digit tackle season, collecting 107 with a career-high 4 ½ sacks in 2022. Over three years with the Dolphins, he had 251 tackles. Roberts also played his first four seasons with the New England Patriots, where he won two Super Bowls and had former Dolphins coaches Boyer and Brian Flores on the defensive staff.Miami has Long, Jerome Baker, whose contract for 2023 becomes guaranteed on March 19, Riley and 20...

Ceiling debris falls onto MBTA commuter rail platform

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:39 GMT

A piece of ceiling debris fell on the Forest Hills commuter rail platform, two weeks after a 25-pound ceiling panel nearly hit a rider at a Red Line station.In this instance, the debris was not concrete and weighed less than a pound, according to MBTA spokesperson Joe Pesaturo.“Some crumbled debris, apparently bridge joint felt, which is used as padding near joints and weighs less than one pound, was found on the ground,” Pesaturo said.“Facilities maintenance personnel on the scene observed an area where felt is missing, and, with the felt missing, water has been observed coming down the bridge joint.”He said the area where the debris was found, which was Wednesday morning according to a photo of the material posted on Twitter, has been cordoned off.This incident occurred exactly two weeks after a more serious case of fallen debris at Harvard station, where a 25-pound water-logged aluminum panel collapsed due to what T officials described as corrosion, nearly hitting a woman.A video...

‘We are all Amqui,’ Legault tells Quebec town reeling after pedestrian deaths

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:39 GMT

AMQUI, Que. — Quebec Premier François Legault promised to boost mental health services in the province Thursday as he visited the town where two people were killed and nine injured when a pickup truck crashed into pedestrians.Joined by opposition leaders and other politicians, Legault met with residents of Amqui, the small community in the lower St-Lawrence region. Afterwards, he said the tragedy had prompting soul-searching on what more can be done to prevent a repeat.“We feel a little guilty, me first of all,” he told reporters after the visit. He said the province “has to do more” for mental health.“It’s not always easy because people have to accept to go get help,” he added. “Sometimes we have to, maybe, force them to go seek help.”On Monday, a man drove a truck down one of Amqui’s main streets, allegedly hitting several groups of pedestrians in what police have described as an intentional act. Gérald Charest, 65, and Jean La...

Stocks advance on Wall Street, Treasury yields swing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:39 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks shook off an early stumble and gained ground Thursday amid hopes for help for a bank at the center of Wall Street’s hunt for what’s next to crack in the struggling industry.The S&P 500 was 1.8% higher in afternoon trading after erasing an earlier loss following reports that First Republic Bank could receive financial assistance or sell itself to another bank.The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 364 points, or 1.1%, at 32,228, as of 1:14 p.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 2.2% higher. This week has been a whirlwind for markets globally on worries about banks that may be bending under the weight of the fastest set of hikes to interest rates in decades. The crisis of confidence has been flaring since Friday’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which was the second largest bank failure in U.S. history.Since then, Wall Street has tried to root out banks with similar traits, such as lots of depositors with more than the $250,000 limit that’...