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Spirit Airlines to end service at Denver International Airport

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:02:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Spirit Airlines told FOX31 Thursday that it will no longer provide flights in or out of the Denver International Airport starting next year.The airline said its final day with travel at DIA after Jan. 9, 2024. New lounge in Denver airport to open Friday According to a statement, Spirit Airlines will offer refunds to customers with reservations after Jan 9."As we continue to learn more about how Pratt & Whitney’s GTF engine availability impacts our fleet and operations, we’re forced to make some tough choices. After considering those constraints and the underperformance of our routes through Denver International Airport (DEN), we’ve made the difficult decision to discontinue service at the airport, effective Jan. 9, 2024."The airline told FOX31 that the change will affect three routes at DIA.

Study: Coloradans are more interested in snowboarding than skiing

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:02:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Snow sports season is officially underway in Colorado.Snowmakers have been making snow for weeks and Mother Nature brought several inches of snow to the mountains and along the front range, allowing many ski areas and resorts to open for the season. 2023 Colorado ski areas opening dates With the heightened interest in snow sports, Snow Season Central, an online resource for those interested in the ski industry, looked at what people are searching for related to snow.The study analyzed Google search data for 6,000 ski-related terms to find out which U.S. states were most obsessed with snow sports.Vermont had the most snowsport-related searches per capita, making it the most snow-sport-obsessed state in the country. Colorado was the second most snow-sport-obsessed state, with 194,885 searches per 100,000 people. New Hampshire and Utah followed closely behind.Of those interested in snow sports in Colorado, most were interested in snowboarding over skiing, according t...

FLPD investigating home invasion; 1 suspect shot, 1 still at large

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:02:51 GMT

Fort Lauderdale Police are investigating following reports that multiple suspects forcibly entered a home and physically assaulted a man inside. According to authorities, the incident occurred just before 12:30 p.m. at the Progreso Point Apartments, located at 619 North Andrews Avenue. Police said once the unknown suspects entered the home, in an act of self-defense, the victim managed to retrieve a firearm and shoot one of the intruders. Before the police could arrive at the scene, the suspects fled the area in an unknown vehicle. The victim sustained serious injuries during the attack and was transported to Broward Health Medical Center.Shortly after, the injured suspect, along with another suspect, arrived at BHMC for medical treatment, with the latter driving the vehicle. FLPD officers on-site took both suspects into custody. The injured suspect is currently receiving treatment for serious injuries.However, one suspect remains at large, and police are actively working to locate...

Authorities seek Lowell man in connection with death of woman found in Logan Airport garage

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:02:51 GMT

State police detectives are working with authorities in Kenya to find a man wanted for the death of a woman found in a Logan Airport garage Wednesday night. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s office and Massachusetts State Police announced the developments Thursday afternoon, hours after officials said the woman was found dead in the garage.The woman has been identified as Margaret Mbitu, 31, of Whitman. Officials said 40-year-old Kevin Kangethe, 40, is now wanted for her homicide. While authorities have an arrest warrant, officials said investigators determined Kangethe had boarded a flight to Kenya. Officials noted Kangethe and Mbitu are believed to have known each other, adding this homicide is not believed to have been a random act.“There is no threat to the public or to Logan Airport travelers,” officials said.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Green Day plans Fenway Park tour date

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:02:51 GMT

The band Green Day will come to Boston next year with a new tour date announced at Fenway Park. Green Day is scheduled to take the stage on Aug. 7. The band will be joined by special guests Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and the Linda Lindas. Green Day announced its Fenway concert on Thursday. The show will be part of the band’s larger Saviors Tour, with sixteen European shows planned before a 27-stop run across North America. Thursday’s tour announcement promised a “larger-than-life, career-spanning celebration” of Green Day’s music. “With blazing guitars and electrifying vocals, Green Day are ready to bring their mind-blowing collection of hits to stadiums across the country, along with plenty of additions from their newly announced album, ‘Saviors,’” the announcement said. Green Day formed in 1986 and has released two new singles to date from its upcoming Saviors album. The album, which will be the band’s 14th studio album, is scheduled for a Jan. 19, 2024 rel...

Authorities looking to ID person sought in connection with attempted break-in in Brighton

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:02:51 GMT

Boston police are asking for the public’s help as they investigate an attempted breaking and entering incident in Brighton.The Boston Police Department shared several images of an individual they say was connected to a B&E attempt that happened Sunday, Oct. 1, around 2:50 a.m. on Pratt Street.In the images are an individual who can be seen standing on a building’s stairwell and, at one point, looking directly at a security camera. Police only described the person as wearing a baseball cap with flowers on it.As police continue to investigate the incident, they ask that anyone with information contact the department’s District D-14 detectives at (617) 343-4256.Anyone who wishes to contact Boston PD anonymously can do so via the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-(800)-494-TIPS or by texting the word ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463).https://twitter.com/bostonpolice/status/1720118752740516165

Massachusetts ‘open to time limits’ for families staying in emergency shelters, Healey says

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:02:51 GMT

State officials are “open to time limits” for the thousands of homeless families living in emergency shelters, Gov. Maura Healey said Thursday, a potential move that drew mixed reactions from shelter providers and resettlement agencies working on the ground.Days after her administration released rules that grant the power to curtail shelter stays, and only a day after a judge cleared the way for the state to cap the system at 7,500 families, Healey raised the possibility of cutting short families’ time in one of the hundreds of sites across Massachusetts, including a sweeping net of hotels and motels.“We’re open to time limits, whatever the moment requires,” Healey said at an unrelated event inside the State House. “We’ve been talking as a team, and we’ll have more information about that. Again … I don’t want to see people out on the street. I understand people’s vulnerability.”Healey has repeatedly said the emergency shelter system — strained this year by a surge of newly arr...

Jimmy Buffett’s band looks to continue as new album comes out

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:02:51 GMT

The party may not be over for Parrotheads, even if Jimmy Buffett’s gone.The majordomo of Margaritaville died Sept. 1 at the age of 76 of complications from Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare skin cancer that was diagnosed back in 2019. It would seem to bring an end to more than five decades of boat drinks, cheeseburgers in paradise, fins to the left and right, and everything else that’s part of Buffett culture.But members of his Coral Reefer Band may have other plans — as did Buffett himself.“There’s definitely talk about doing something to keep it going,” says Michael Utley, 76, who worked with Buffett for 50 years, including scripting the annual summer shows. “(Buffett) would’ve wanted that. He always wanted that.”Related ArticlesMusic and Concerts | Listen to the last new Beatles’ song with John, Paul, George, Ringo and AI tech: ‘Now and Then’ Music and Concerts | Depeche Mode goes big at TD Garden Music and Concerts | Depeche Mode goes big a...

Would Siskel and Ebert give thumbs up to this new book about them?

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:02:51 GMT

Rick Kogan | Chicago Tribune (TNS)I do not know Matt Singer, the author of “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever,” which was published Oct. 24 and which the Tribune’s Michael Phillips recently praised, calling it “a good story, told adroitly and often movingly.”To a point, that assessment is true. But I wanted more. And that’s my problem.Again, I do not know Singer but I knew Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert (and worked and socialized with both), as well as many of the other people who played parts both prominent and minor in the lives of this remarkable pair, and who pepper the 352 pages of this book.Singer told Phillips that as he was preparing to present his literary agent with a proposal, he “looked back at Ebert’s memoir and thought: That’s a great book. But there are only three chapters on Siskel and Ebert. So maybe there’s room for a book like mine to exist.”That “maybe” convinced Singer’s agent and G.P. Putnam’s Sons, which published the book. It has 12...

‘Priscilla’ review: The starry road to Lonely Street — and the Presley movie we needed

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:02:51 GMT

Michael Phillips | Chicago TribuneThere’s a lot of quiet — in an empty living room save for one woman, at Graceland, in other spaces, a few seconds of solitude representing minutes and hours and years — in the new film “Priscilla,” from writer-director Sofia Coppola.The movie couldn’t tell its truth without it. We’re witnessing a version of Priscilla Presley’s singularly strange and wondrous life in the eye of the hurricane known as Elvis Presley. Last year’s Baz Luhrmann “Elvis” biopic had little interest in the eye; the movie was all hurricane and fancy packaging. “Priscilla” opens a different and, I think, far more intriguing package.Coppola has made a generation’s worth of features by now, since “The Virgin Suicides” in 1999. This is her eighth, not counting her staging of an Italian opera production of Verdi’s “La Traviata.” “Priscilla” is one of her best, as well as her latest, most carefully considered evocation of celebrity, intimacy and the tantalizing, precarious intersect...