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Denver City Council weighs $3 million payment program to boost immigrant families impacted by COVID

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:31:32 GMT

Roughly 2,000 Denver families may soon receive one-time cash payments under a $3 million program being considered by the City Council primarily to help immigrant families impacted by the pandemic.A council committee gave initial approval to the program last week, setting it up for a full vote before the body later this month.The program would provide payments of between $1,000 and $1,500 to low-income families impacted by COVID-19 with at least one juvenile child at home and who meet other qualifications, like housing insecurity or living in certain areas of the city. The $3 million program will be paid for through federal COVID-19 recovery dollars and would be open through June 30, 2024.While areas primarily in western and northern Denver are specifically named in the proposal, anyone in the city who can’t receive certain government assistance — as many immigrant families can’t — and otherwise qualifies would also be eligible, city officials told the council...

Rockies Mailbag: Orioles and D-backs turned it around. Can Colorado do it by 2025?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:31:32 GMT

Denver Post sports writer Patrick Saunders with the latest installment of his Rockies Mailbag.Pose a Rockies — or MLB — related question for the Rockies Mailbag.What’s especially frustrating for Rockies fans is that at least five teams in the majors were as bad or worse than Colorado just two years ago, but are now enjoying success. Most notable are playoff contenders Baltimore and Arizona, both with miserable 52-110 records in 2021. Two years from now in 2025, what’s there to believe that the Rockies can turn things around and become a winner?— Dom, LongmontDom, I was curious to see which teams were worse than the Rockies in 2021. The Rockies finished 74-87 and there were actually nine teams worse: Orioles (52-110), D-backs (52-110), Rangers (60-102), Pirates (61-101), Nationals (65-97), Marlins (67-95), Cubs (71-91), Twins (73-90) and Royals (74-88).As you can see, the Rangers (now leading the AL West) have also made a dramatic turnaround. They did it...

Kazakhstan and Luxembourg triple number of weekly cargo transit flights 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:31:32 GMT

Kazakhstan and Luxembourg signed a memorandum on regular air transportation to triple the number of cargo transit flights per week at an event held to mark the 77th flight by the Cargolux airline at the Astana International Airport on 29 June.According to Kazakh Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development Marat Karabayev, the key agreement was to increase the number of cargo flights from Luxembourg from 7 to 21 a week. Flights that used to be charter now have become regular, he added.“After France and Finland, Luxembourg is the third country with which we sign the fifth level of openness within the open skies policy,” he said.The minister noted that this agreement opens up new opportunities for Kazakhstan’s aviation industry, positioning the country as a key transit hub between Europe and Southeast Asia.New transit flights provide additional opportunities for Kazakh aviators’ professional growth and entrepreneurs, Karabayev said. The goods unloaded in Kazakhstan can find dem...

Elias: Solution to some of California’s housing problems at hand

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:31:32 GMT

Remember Fry’s Electronics, the warehouse-style stores that shut down completely in 2021? Those stores joined 41 California Bed, Bath & Beyond locations, 17 Disney stores and more than a dozen Best Buys in the state that shuttered just in the last year.Related ArticlesLocal Opinion | Milpitas mayor cites housing, economic growth as priorities in speech Local Opinion | Elias: California insurance chief mustn’t cave in to industry he regulates Local Opinion | Elias: Newsom should appeal decision to free Manson Family member Local Opinion | Opinion: Valley Water project protects Milpitas residents, businesses from flooding Local Opinion | Opinion: Saratoga mayor offers safety tips for summer They joined hundreds of locations once occupied by Borders Books & Music, KMarts, K-B Toy stores, Linens-N-Things warehouse-style stores, Mervyn’s stores, Circuit City, Radio Shack, Sport Chalet and Blockb...

Alcaldía de Cúcuta reporta hechos de violencia en corregimiento de San Faustino

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:31:32 GMT

(CNN Español) — La Alcaldía de Cúcuta informó este miércoles a través de un comunicado que se registraron hechos violentos en el corregimiento de San Faustino.El alcalde de Cúcuta, Jairo Yáñez, no indico si hay muertos o cuantos heridos se produjeron en este corregimiento.Yáñez agregó que el equipo de emergencias y desastres a través de la Secretaría de Salud activaron de forma inmediata todas las conexiones correspondientes y una red de primer nivel está disponible para apoyar con ambulancias el traslado de las personas que así lo requieran.La alcaldía indico también que instalaron un puesto de mando unificado para coordinar el desplazamiento de las ambulancias, en compañía de la Cruz Roja, y verificar si se habilita un corredor humanitario.Noticia en desarrollo.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

9 shot, including 2 children, in Northeast DC during July Fourth celebration

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:31:32 GMT

Amid Fourth of July celebrations, at least eight shootings took place in the District, including one incident where nine people were shot in Northeast early Wednesday.Among those shot in the 4700 block of Meade Street at around 1 a.m. was a 9-year-old and a 17-year-old, D.C. police Assistant Chief Leslie Parsons said at a news conference.All nine of the victims are expected to survive and police are searching for a dark colored SUV.“As it (the SUV) drove through the street, it stopped and it fired shots in the direction of some of our residents who were outside just celebrating the Fourth of July,” Parsons said.Some of the victims went to the hospital on their own, while others were transported by D.C. Fire and EMS officials.“It appears that the shooting was targeted toward those residents and victims who were struck,” Parsons said.#Update: Assistant Chief Leslie Parsons provides an update on the multiple people shot in the 4700 block of Meade Street, Northea...

PSG fires coach Galtier after disappointing season, linked with move for Enrique

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:31:32 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain fired coach Christophe Galtier after a disappointing season, with former Spain and Barcelona manager Luis Enrique expected to be announced as his successor on Wednesday.PSG in a statement thanked Galtier, who had one year left to run on his contract, “for his professionalism and commitment.” Galtier’s assistants Thierry Oleksiak and João Sacramento have also been fired and won’t be part of the next coach’s staff.PSG has announced a press conference later on Wednesday without elaborating.In its so far ill-fated quest for Champions League glory, PSG will be appointing an eighth coach in 12 years of Qatari ownership, with World Cup top scorer Kylian Mbappé set to play for a fifth coach since joining in 2017.Enrique has been without a contract since Spain’s elimination from the World Cup last year.The 53-year-old coach took over the national team in 2018 to start revamping the squad after its elimination in the round of 16 o...

Las familias de los muertos en el tiroteo en la escuela de Parkland pueden recorrer el sitio

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:31:32 GMT

(CNN) — Algunas familias de los muertos en la masacre de 2018 en una escuela secundaria de Parkland, Florida, tendrán la oportunidad de, a partir de este miércoles, visitar el sitio donde sus seres queridos perdieron la vida, dijo la oficina del fiscal estatal del condado de Broward.A petición suya, algunas familias y algunas de las víctimas sobrevivientes recibirán recorridos privados e individuales del interior del edificio 1200 en la escuela secundaria Marjory Stoneman Douglas, dijo la oficina. El edificio fue el escenario del tiroteo más mortífero en una escuela secundaria de EE.UU., en el que murieron 17 personas, incluidos 14 estudiantes, y otras 17 resultaron heridas el día de San Valentín.Gena y Tom Hoyer, los padres del estudiante asesinado Luke Hoyer, planean realizar el recorrido privado, según su abogado David Brill.Declaran inocente al agente encargado de Parkland que se quedó afuera de la escuela durante el tiroteo masivoEl atacante de Parkland es sentenciado a c...

ANÁLISIS | El dominio de Trump en el Partido Republicano hace que Estados Unidos se prepare para una campaña tóxica

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:31:32 GMT

(CNN) — Mientras Estados Unidos celebraba su independencia, al tiempo que se dividía sobre la verdadera naturaleza de sus valores, también se preparaba para una campaña presidencial tóxica que probablemente ahondará su trauma político y volverá a poner al sistema electoral al límite.Donald Trump, por ejemplo, hizo una demostración de fuerza el fin de semana del 4 de julio, destacando su temprano dominio de la carrera republicana por la presidencia y la dura tarea a la que se enfrentan sus rivales para intentar frustrar su intento de ganar la nominación de su partido por tercera vez consecutiva.El sábado, el ex comandante en jefe atrajo a una multitud en un mitin en el estado clave de Carolina del Sur, que resonó con sus falsas afirmaciones sobre la interferencia electoral y sobre su acusación por presunto manejo indebido de documentos clasificados después de dejar el cargo. Pero el estridente acto en Pickens también demostró el poder duradero de su personalidad y su salvaje at...

Young man dies after fall at a Rocky Mountain waterfall

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:31:32 GMT

ESTES PARK, Colo. (AP) — A 25-year-old Rhode Island man died after falling and being pulled underwater at a waterfall in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday, according to the National Park Service.The man from Providence has not yet been publicly identified and his body was recovered Sunday evening, officials said. 16-year-old among 2 killed in Highlands Ranch crash Rocky Mountain National Park covers over 400 square miles (1,036 square kilometers) of rugged mountains and high tundra, drawing typically over 4 million hikers annually.The deceased man fell at West Creek Falls, on the east side of the park. The body was moved to the Larimer County Coroner, on the northern edge of Colorado, who will determine the cause of death.At this time of year, rivers, streams and waterfalls are dangerous cold and swift, said the National Park Service, warning visitors to stay a safe distance from quick-flowing waters.