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Could Denver put the brakes on right turns on red?

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:48:35 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Some members of Mayor Mike Johnston's transition team on transportation are proposing the city ban all right turns on red within his first 100 days."It's an easy policy change that can be done relatively quickly by the Mayor and city council," said Molly McKinley with Denver Streets Partnership.Right turns on red weren't legalized until the 1970s, according to Denver Streets Partnership, as a way to save gas during the oil prices, but research shows it hasn't made a huge impact. According to Denver Streets Partnership, allowing right turns on red increases pedestrian crashes by 60 percent and bike crashes by 100 percent."If you think about your experience as a driver if you're at a stop light and you're trying to make a right turn on red you're usually looking left you're looking for oncoming vehicle traffic, but drivers aren't always looking both ways in those occasions," McKinley said. Failing to obey Colorado’s new roundabout law could cost you The Department o...

Prime effect: 8.7M viewers watched Colorado defeat Nebraska

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:48:35 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The nation's eyes were truly on Boulder for the University of Colorado Buffaloes home opener. FOX Sports said 8.73 million viewers watched CU take down the Nebraska Cornhuskers in Deion Sanders' home turf debut.Saturday's electric game was record-breaking in more ways than one. The game was sold out with 51,241 people in attendance. It was the highest attendance at the field in 15 years, according to the team on social media. Celebrities spotted in Boulder for CU vs. Nebraska game Coach Prime's Buffaloes beat longtime rival Nebraska with a final score of 36-14. And according to FOX, it had the highest viewership for a Pac-12 regular season game on the network. The network was ready for the attention as FOX's "Big Noon Kickoff" pregame show was broadcast from the university's Farrand Field. The pregame show will be back for a second week in a row for the Rocky Mountain Showdown between CU and Colorado State University. Aside from being the most-watched Pac-12 game o...

Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney, former presidential candidate and governor, won’t seek reelection in 2024

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:48:35 GMT

Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he will not run for reelection in 2024, creating a wide-open contest in a state that heavily favors Republicans and is expected to attract a crowded field.Romney, a former presidential candidate and governor of Massachusetts, made the announcement in a video statement. The 76-year-old said the country is ready for new leadership.“Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders,” he said. “They’re the ones that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in.”Romney easily won election in reliably GOP Utah in 2018 but was expected to face more resistance from his own party after he emerged as one of the most visible members to break with former President Donald Trump, who is still the party’s de-facto leader.Romney in 2020 became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president from their own party in an impeachment trial. Romney was the only Republican to vote agains...

Mission: Impossible — Transparency? EU closes a chapter on Qatargate

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:48:35 GMT

EU politicians are acting as if they’re ready to move on from Qatargate.MEPs wrapped up a slate of transparency enhancements on Wednesday after Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the European Union speech earlier in the day made no reference to repeated breaches in trust that have plagued Brussels institutions. With a vote of 505 to 93, MEPs in Strasbourg approved changes to their own rules that would require them to declare their assets and log more of their meetings with interested representatives, including diplomats. They also agreed to implement a clearer definition of conflict of interest and publish considerably more detail about income from side jobs that pay more than €5,000. The broad majority was anything but assured: MEPs from the center-right European People’s Party and other more conservative groups rejected a version of the measure in a committee vote last week.“Proud that in record time, we took unprecedented decisions to strengthen integrity,...

Shelter-in-place alert lifted in Lynn as police continue to search for shooting suspect

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:48:35 GMT

Police in Lynn say they are still searching for a suspect wanted in connection with what they believe was a targeted shooting on Wednesday.The Lynn Police Department announced it finished an extensive search for the suspect in the area of Commercial Street after shots were fired around 11:30 a.m., leading to officials issuing a shelter-in-place alert for the surrounding neighborhood and schools.“The Lynn Police have completed an extensive search of the area with the Mass State Police. The suspect has not been located,” the department stated on Facebook. “We encourage residents to be vigilant and to keep your doors locked. We ask everyone that has security video to check their cameras during and after this incident that occurred at 11:31 AM this morning on Commercial Street.”The shelter-in-place alert was later cancelled at 2 p.m., with the department saying officers and Massachusetts State Police troopers would remain in the area.Authorities initially told lo...

Leominster schools to reopen with 2-hour delay Thursday as flood cleanup continues

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:48:35 GMT

Leominster schools will reopen with a two-hour delay Thursday after two days of canceled classes following severe flooding earlier this week, city officials announced. Leominster Mayor Dean Mazzarella first announced the plan for schools at a press conference around 12 p.m. Wednesday. The Leominster Public Schools in a later statement said building principals would be sending out a message to families “with any pertinent details.” The school district said transportation may be slow as buses navigate the city. “Please be patient,” the district said.Cleanup efforts have continued in Leominster after storms dropped more than nine inches of rain Monday night. Floodwaters rose fast, ultimately washing out roads and damaging homes, businesses and city facilities. First responders from numerous state and local agencies rescued residents from flooded homes. As the sun then rose on Tuesday morning, several roads remained closed in Leominster due to sinkholes and othe...

Picasso masterpiece depicting his young mistress could sell for over $120 million at auction

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:48:35 GMT

(CNN) — A Picasso masterpiece entitled “Femme à la montre” is expected to fetch more than $120 million when it goes up for auction this fall.The 1932 oil painting will take center-stage at a two-day event at Sotheby’s in New York in November, when the collection of Emily Fisher Landau goes on sale.The piece, which measures 51¼ x 38 inches (130 x 96.5 centimeters), depicts Picasso’s lover and “golden muse” Marie-Thérèse Walter, who featured in many of his portraits.According to the auction house, the portrait is from one of the most prolific years of the Spanish artist’s career, which was the subject of an entire exhibition organized by the Musée Picasso in Paris and London’s Tate Modern in 2018.In a statement announcing the sale, Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of Impressionist & Modern Art for the Americas, said: “Picasso’s ‘Femme à la Montre’ is a masterpiece by every measure. Painted in 1932—Picasso’s ‘annus mirabilis’—it is full of joyful, passionate ab...

Morgues overwhelmed in Libya as floods death toll tops 6,000

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:48:35 GMT

(CNN) — Libya is racing to bury its dead as bodies pile up in the streets of Derna, the northern coastal city devastated by flooding after a torrential downpour smashed through two dams, washing homes into the sea.The death toll rose to over 6,000 people as of Wednesday morning local time, according to Saadeddin Abdul Wakil, health ministry undersecretary of the Unity Government in Tripoli, one of two rival governments operating in the country.Morgues are full in hospitals that remain out of service despite the desperate need to treat survivors of the disaster, according to staff. In Egypt, the government buried 87 Egyptian victims who died in Libya, according to the country’s emigration ministry.Around 10,000 more are missing, potentially either swept out to sea or buried beneath rubble that’s strewn throughout the city once home to over 100,000 people, authorities say.More than 30,000 people have been displaced by the flooding in Derna, the United Nations’ International ...

Chuck Palahniuk hates cozy British mysteries. So he decided to write his own.

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:48:35 GMT

For Chuck Palahniuk, inspiration for his new novel, “Not Forever, But For Now,” came from his unvarnished distaste for that most genteel of genres: the cozy mystery.“I had bought a whole stack of cozy mysteries,” says Palahniuk on a call from his home in Portland. “Barnes & Noble just always has a giant wall of cozies – these mysteries typically set in England or Ireland where cats and vicars and old ladies solve these grisly mysteries and murders.“And I just hated every single one of them,” he says, perhaps unsurprisingly for the author of “Fight Club” and other tales of horror beyond the milieu of the Miss Marples or Jessica Fletchers of the world.But in them, Palahniuk says he saw something with which he could work.“There was a common quality to them that I really loved,” he says. “Where these mild-mannered people would come across this brutally murdered person and instead of having any kind of shocked reaction it was almost turned into a good thing.“It’s like, ‘Oh, great, no...

Residents can relax after fugitive Danelo Cavalcante is captured and arraigned in rural Pennsylvania

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:48:35 GMT

By MARYCLAIRE DALE, MARC LEVY and MICHAEL RUBINKAM (Associated Press)POTTSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A murderer who brazenly escaped from a Pennsylvania jail was captured Wednesday in the woods by a team of tactical officers, bringing an end to an intensive search that terrified residents as the fugitive broke into homes for food, changed his appearance, and stole a van and rifle during two weeks on the run.Law enforcement’s big break came overnight as a plane fitted with a thermal imaging camera picked up Danelo Souza Cavalcante’s heat signal, allowing teams on the ground to secure the area, surround him and move in with search dogs.“They were able to move in very quietly. They had the element of surprise,” Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said at a news conference. “Cavalcante did not realize he was surrounded until that had occurred.”Cavalcante — still armed with the rifle he stole from a homeowner’s garage — tried...