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Denver weather: Summer heat returns before more rain chances

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:59:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — While the work week started with below-normal temperatures in the Denver weather forecast, the remainder of the week includes a return to the hot 90s. There will be plenty of sunshine until a few showers return to the forecast by the weekend, according to Pinpoint Weather, Colorado’s Most Accurate Forecast.Rain chances for Denver for the next week from Pinpoint WeatherWeather tonight: Clear and coolIt will remain clear for the overnight hours across Denver and the Front Range. The wind will be light from the southwest with speeds generally below 10 mph. Temperatures will cool into the 50s across the plains, including metro Denver. There will be even cooler temperatures in the 40s overnight in the Colorado mountains, especially the high valley locations like Gunnison.Overnight lows by Tuesday morning across ColoradoWeather tomorrow: A much warmer dayThere will be plenty of sunshine on Tuesday for metro Denver. There will be some high clouds drifting across the area la...

Young environmental activists prevail in first-of-its-kind climate change trial

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:59:27 GMT

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Young environmental activists scored what may be a groundbreaking legal victory Monday when a Montana judge said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by allowing fossil fuel development.The ruling in this first-of-its-kind trial in the U.S. adds to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change. New study says even 4,000 steps a day has major health benefits If it stands, the ruling could set an important legal precedent, though experts said its immediate impacts will be limited and state officials pledged to seek to overturn the decision on appeal.District Court Judge Kathy Seeley found the policy the state uses in evaluating requests for fossil fuel permits — which does not allow agencies to evaluate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions — is unconstitutional.Judge Seeley wrote in the ruling that “Montana’s emissions ...

Miami Dade PD search for elderly man missing from Little Haiti

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:59:27 GMT

Miami Dade Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a 73-year-old missing man.Jean Regis stands at 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs approximately 150 pounds and was reported to be missing from the Little Haiti area. Officials urge anyone with information on their whereabouts to call 305-603-6300 or 305-579-6111.

Broward County teachers are getting ready to welcome students back to school

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:59:27 GMT

Broward County teachers are back in the classroom preparing before students head back to school next Monday. Nori Suarez is one teacher who’s prepared her board for the first day of school. “It’s electric, the anticipation of the new human beings that I’m going to get to affect, to mold, to maybe change their life for the better and even the most minute way,” said Suarez.Suarez teaches honors anatomy and physiology at Fort Lauderdale High School and has been teaching for 34 years. She feels thrilled to welcome students back to their “happy place.”“How many jobs do you have that you get children in front of you that for 90 minutes have your undivided attention, that you get to work with and share things and grow,” she said. “I learn something new every day from them, so I feel that I’m very blessed.”Dan Katz is a teacher who teaches a multitude of subjects“Order in the court, we are ready for the first day ...

Police: Florida woman stabbed roommate to death, dumped Mountain Dew on herself in effort to remove DNA

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:59:27 GMT

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (WESH) — A Daytona Beach woman is accused of killing her roommate.According to court documents, 35-year-old Nichole Maks is charged with first-degree premeditated murder.According to an affidavit, an officer was flagged down on July 1 due to a fire at 622 Clark St. in Daytona Beach. A victim was found inside the home with multiple stab wounds to his torso and blunt force trauma to the back of his head.The victim was identified as 79-year-old Michael Cerasoli.Inside the victim’s bedroom, detectives found a knife covered in blood near the victim’s body. Police say there were two cell phones inside the victim’s bedroom: one belonging to the victim and one belonging to Maks.The victim’s landlord told police that Maks lives at the Clark Street residence with the victim.Early the next morning, officers found Maks in Holly Hill. Police say when they made contact with her, she dropped a knife and a hammer. Police say she had blood on her ...

Residents at condominium in Pembroke Pines told to evacuate after 2 buildings deemed unsafe

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:59:27 GMT

Several tenants only have a few days to move out of their apartments after their building was condemned. Residents at the Heron Pond Condominiums, located at 8400 SW 1st St., were instructed to move out of their units after two buildings were found to have structural issues. City officials on Tuesday told residents at 12:30 p.m. that they need to vacate the building by Aug. 24. “Today, the sheriff came and he knocked, and he said we got to vacate,” said Katline, a resident. According to officials with they city’s Fire and Building Department, buildings three and 10 at the condo community were deemed unsafe. Officials said they gave the condo owners plenty of time to fix and come into compliance with some of the issues they discovered. They claimed “unsatisfactory actions have been taken by unit owners to address this.”7News camera captured unsafe structure notices placed on two doors at the buildings that were deemed unsafe. The property manager, who ha...

Prosecuting ousted president of Niger would be ‘unjustified,’ US says

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:59:27 GMT

The State Department said on Monday that it would be “unwarranted and unjustified” if Niger’s military junta moved forward with its plan to prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum on treason charges over his dealings with foreign leaders and organizations.Military authorities who have taken over the nation, in the Sahel region of Africa, “gathered the necessary evidence” to prosecute Bazoum “for high treason and undermining the internal and external security of Niger,” junta spokesperson Col. Amadou Abdramane said in a statement read on state television on Sunday night, according to Reuters.“This action is completely unwarranted and unjustified, and, candidly, it will not contribute to a peaceful resolution of this crisis,” State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters on Monday. “It is a further affront, in our opinion, to democracy and justice and to the respect of the rule of law, and a threat like this underscores the urgency of respecting the constitutional o...

No bail for man accused of violent sexual assault in the South End

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:59:27 GMT

A 35-year-old man accused of attacking a woman in Boston’s South End over the weekend was ordered to be held without bail.Amos Sykes of Quincy was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court Monday morning, days after his arrest on Saturday night when police responded to the area of W. Canton and Appleton streets for reports of an assault.According to the Boston Police Department, witnesses had heard the sound of a person screaming and saw Sykes allegedly “punching a woman in the head as he sat on top of her.” He also allegedly told witnesses that he had a gun and threatened to shoot, while also trying to remove clothing from the victim.“She was crying, she was covered in blood – she told officers that she was walking down Columbus Avenue towards West Canton Street when the defendant come up from behind her,” the prosecution stated in court. “He grabbed her and forced her to the ground to proceed to hit her with closed-fists to the head and take her...

State Breaks Ground on New Veterans Home in Holyoke

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:59:27 GMT

Three years after a COVID-19 outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home resulted in at least 76 veterans’ deaths, and several investigations, lawsuits and an oversight reform law later, shovels broke ground Monday on a new Holyoke Veterans Home.The $483 million facility will house 234 long-term care beds for the state’s medically vulnerable veteran population, according to Gov. Maura Healey’s office. The new home is expected to be completed in summer of 2028.Rendering of the Holyoke Veterans Home campus.The project to replace the Holyoke home will be funded by a combination of $263.5 million in federal funds through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs State Home Construction Grant Program, and a state bond bill passed in 2021 which sent $400 million to finance the project’s design and construction.“That’s why we are hired to work for you, to go to work, whether it’s in the State House or our nation’s capital, to secure funding, t...

RFK Jr. said he would sign federal abortion ban after 3 months, then campaign says he ‘misunderstood’ question

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:59:27 GMT

After Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the weekend said he would sign a federal abortion ban after 3 months of pregnancy, his campaign said he “misunderstood” the reporter’s question in a noisy Iowa hall.RFK Jr. on Sunday at the Iowa State Fair was asked if he would sign a federal bill to protect the abortion rights from the Roe precedent.“I believe a decision to abort a child should be up to the woman during the first 3 months of life,” Kennedy responded to the NBC News reporter.In a follow-up exchange, Kennedy was asked if he would cap abortions at 15 weeks or 21 weeks of pregnancy.“Yes, three months,” RFK Jr. responded, and the reporter again reiterated his proposed cap on 3 months. “Yes, I would,” he said.The reporter noted that his response was at odds with the Democratic Party platform. Many of Kennedy’s stances do not align with the Democratic Party.“Once a child is viable, outside t...