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20-year-old killed by rock thrown at car in Jefferson County

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Police say they have found a pickup truck and identified its owner in connection to a string of crimes Wednesday night that resulted in the death of a 20-year-old after she was struck and killed by a large rock while driving.The crimes occurred on Wednesday night starting at 10 p.m.According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, 20-year-old Alexa Bartell of Arvada was driving northbound near the 10600 block of Indiana Street. JCSO believes the suspects threw a large rock either from a vehicle or the side of the road at Bartell's car. Warning: Picking up folded money could be dangerous Investigators say the rock hit Bartell, and she was killed. Moments before she was killed, Bartell was on the phone with a friend when the call went silent. "Her friend was worried, so her friend used an app to track her phone, drove to the location where it looked like Alexa's phone was just sitting, just sitting still," JSCO Public Information Officer Jacki Kel...

How much do fees tack onto a Colorado short-term rental?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Anybody who's ever stayed in an Airbnb or Vrbo for a weekend knows how cleaning and service fees can stack up — but almost half seems overboard. Business and finance magazine Forbes analyzed Airbnb data from 32,000 rental properties in 100 cities to find out which had the highest fees and taxes on short-term rentals. Cleaning and services fees and taxes can add anywhere between 23% and 48% to the listing price of a rental. 2 Colorado towns among best places to visit in US On average, fees and taxes will tack an extra 36% onto short-term rentals. MarketNightly rateRatingCleaning feeService feeTaxesTotal feesAdded cost per nightBreckenridge$2974.716%16%11%43%$127.71Vail$3424.513%16%11%40%$136.80Denver$2734.311%15%9%35%$95.50Telluride$82548%14%11%34%$280.50Aspen$6524.47%15%15%32%$208.64In Aspen, Breckenridge, Denver, Telluride and Vail, fees and taxes will add anywhere between 32% and 43% to the listed rental price.On a nightly basis, this stacks up quickly, conside...

Environmental group claims responsibility after dozens of cars left with deflated tires in Beacon Hill

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

An environmental group has claimed responsibility after dozens of cars in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood had their tires deflated on Wednesday night. The group Tyre Extinguishers said it targeted gas-guzzling SUV’s. Speaking on Thursday, neighbors were left bewildered. “I’m flabbergasted,” area resident Jim Nally said. “It solves nothing.”  Tyre Extinguishers said it deflated tires on 43 luxury SUVs, saying the cars are dangerous to the environment, especially in cities where there are sustainable transit options available. 7NEWS found deflated tires and leaflets left by the activists on several streets in Beacon Hill, including Mount Vernon Street, and Brimmer Street, where five vehicles in a row were hit. In each case, a leaflet read “Your gas guzzler kills.” Tina Truedson said one of her friends who drives a Jeep had her car’s tires flattened. “Actually she was very good about it and said ‘My car does use a lot of gas,’” Truedson sa...

Prosecutors dismissing charges against Alec Baldwin in ‘Rust’ shooting

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

(CNN) — Involuntary manslaughter charges will be dismissed against actor Alec Baldwin, according to a statement from the New Mexico special prosecutors overseeing the cases in the “Rust” shooting.Citing “new facts” in the case, special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis said they could not “proceed under the current time constraints and on the facts and evidence turned over by law enforcement in its existing form.“We therefore will be dismissing the involuntary manslaughter charges against Mr. Baldwin to conduct further investigation,” their statement continued. “This decision does not absolve Mr. Baldwin of criminal culpability and charges may be refiled.”The prosecutors added that their follow-up investigation “will remain active and on-going.”The decision to dismiss charges against Baldwin is being made after new evidence came to the attention of investigators indicating the gun us...

Plans underway for Biden to announce bid for second term next week

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

(CNN) — Plans are in motion for President Joe Biden to formally announce his bid for a second term as soon as next week, with a campaign-style video set to be released to definitively answer the question of whether he will run again and igniting an aggressive fundraising effort to help Democrats hold the White House.Biden’s small circle of close-knit advisers and allies are preparing for a video announcement Tuesday that would coincide with the anniversary of Biden’s 2019 campaign announcement, according to four sources familiar with the matter.Advisers inside and outside the White House caution that timing could still change, pending unforeseen events, but a decision has been reached that it is “no longer helpful or necessary to not just say the obvious: He’s running,” a senior Democratic official told CNN.Both sentimental and fond of an anniversary, Biden has signed off on a plan to formalize his intentions as soon as Tuesday...

Column: Red-hot Chicago Cubs walking on air as they begin a homestand against the LA Dodgers. ‘The team is playing like we hoped.’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

The Chicago Cubs returned to Wrigley Field on Thursday on the heels of a 5-1 West Coast trip, looking very much like a team determined to prove its hot start is not a fluke.While it’s easy for fans to get excited about the 11-6 record, how many games will it take for President Jed Hoyer to feel this is who the Cubs really are?“One (hundred) forty,” Hoyer said with a laugh.That would be another 123 games, or well into the playoff race in September. By that point the Bears will be back and hogging the spotlight again, as happens in Chicago even if one or both of the baseball teams are contenders.When Hoyer turned serious, he said the thing that encouraged him most about the start was the fact the team believes in itself and comes into each game prepared to win.“They come in every day prepared, they’re talking about baseball all the time, there’s real intensity there all the time,” Hoyer said. “The effort level to me I know isn’t go...

Man accused of shooting girl, parents arrested in Florida

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard was arrested in Florida Thursday afternoon, authorities said.The violence was the latest in a string of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial circumstances.Robert Louis Singletary, 24, was arrested in the Tampa area by Hillsborough County deputies, according to online jail records. He was being held without bail on a fugitive warrant. He’s scheduled to appear in court Friday.Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill said at a news conference Wednesday that his department and the U.S. Marshals Service’s Regional Fugitive Task Force had been conducting a broad search for Singletary, who fled after the Tuesday night shootings near Gastonia, a city of roughly 80,000 people west of Charlotte. Singletary had been out on bond in a December attack in which authorities say he assaulted ...

Oregon secures 3-year supply of abortion-inducing medication

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said Thursday she has directed the state to obtain a supply of the most commonly used abortion medication in the U.S. amid fears that a court ruling could restrict access to it. The Democratic governor said regardless of the court’s decision about mifepristone’s availability, patients in Oregon will have access to it for years. “I will make sure that patients are able to access the medication they need and providers are able to provide that medication without unnecessary, politically-motivated interference and intimidation,” Kotek said in a statement. According to Kotek’s office, the state is partnering with Oregon Health & Science University to obtain 22,500 doses of mifepristone. The state joins Washington, California, New York and Massachusetts in buying bulk amounts of abortion medication in recent weeks.Maryland’s governor announced Friday that his state was doing the same, while New Jersey’s governor has said he’s considering...

Christie: Trump reruns would be worse than original show

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

HENNIKER, N.H. (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivered his opening arguments against Donald Trump on Thursday, sounding like the prosecutor he once was and the presidential candidate he might become again.“Tonight is the beginning of the case against Donald Trump,” Christie said in New Hampshire, where he devoted his entire opening remarks at a town hall meeting to pounding on the former president he once supported. “You’re not going to beat someone by closing your eyes, clicking your heels together three times and saying, ‘There’s no place like home.’ That’s not going to work,” he said. “In American politics you want to beat somebody? You have to go get them.”Christie called out several Republican candidates and potential candidates — including former Vice President Mike Pence and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley — for barely uttering Trump’s name and argued that Trump’s policy and character failures would only grow if he returns to office.“Donald Trump is a TV...

Families fear more delays in 2018 Texas school shooting case

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Family members of those killed and wounded during a 2018 attack on a Texas high school in which 10 people were fatally shot expressed concern Thursday that the already delayed case against the accused gunman could be further held up pending the possible removal of the trial judge, facing allegations of bias and prior legal ties to the defendant.“We don’t even have any confidence we’re ever going to trial at this point,” said Scot Rice, whose wife Flo was one of another 13 people shot and wounded during the attack at Santa Fe High School on May 18, 2018.Scot and Flo Rice, who was a substitute teacher, spoke after a court hearing over motions filed by lawyers for 22-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the accused shooter, who has been at a Texas state hospital since December 2019, when he was found mentally incompetent to stand trial.Pagourtzis has been charged with capital murder in the shooting that left eight students and two teachers dead at the school some 35 m...