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Ukraine fights for key eastern village as Zelenskyy marks the nation’s statehood in rebuke to Putin

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:01:34 GMT

By FELIPE DANA and JIM HEINTZ (Associated Press)KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces on Friday pounded a key village in southeastern Ukraine that Kyiv claimed to have recaptured in its grinding counteroffensive.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, marked Ukraine’s Statehood Day by reaffirming the country’s sovereignty — a rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who used his claim that Ukraine didn’t exist as a nation to justify his invasion.“Now, like more than a thousand years ago, our civilizational choice is unity with the world,” Zelenskyy said in a speech outside St. Michael’s Monastery in Kyiv. “To be a power in world history. To have the right to its national history – of its people, its land, its state. And of our children – all future generations of the Ukrainian people. We will definitely win!”He also honored servicemen and handed out first passports to young citizens as part of ceremonies in t...

Opinion: With the White House as a set, Trump will settle his score “Apprentice” style

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:01:34 GMT

Hell hath no fury like a man who believes he’s been scorned.This twist on an old, sexist adage, however, is no joke because the man is Donald Trump.The Republican frontrunner is not hiding what he’ll do if elected for the second time to the most powerful office in the land; he’ll make it more powerful in order to trample on constitutional rights.Voters should be clear that Trump doesn’t just admire Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin, he wants to be them.Our Constitution means nothing to the man who says out loud that he wants to terminate the document upon which American democracy gets its oxygen.That suggestion alone is enough not to vote for Trump.But let’s look at other reasons for rejecting the authoritarian wannabe.He’s boasted about granting pardons to himself and anyone else convicted in connection with the January 6 bloody riot.Therefore, pardons will flow faster than the mighty Mississippi if he is sworn in on January 20, 2025.Don’t look for Trump’s second inaugural address to ...

Avalanche Journal: Are middle-six centers Ryan Johansen, Ross Colton an upgrade from JT Compher, Alex Newhook?

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:01:34 GMT

Avalanche fans can spend the 2023-24 season paying attention to an extended game of 2-on-2 hockey if they want to risk torturing themselves.Ryan Johansen and Ross Colton vs. J.T. Compher and Alex Newhook. Note: The four contestants will be playing separately, in three different cities, across seven months.The Avalanche’s 2022-23 second-line center, Compher, moved on in unrestricted free agency this offseason. The team traded away the rights to its third-line center, Newhook, who negotiated his new contract with Montreal. Rather than run it back with last year’s fulcrum in the middle of the lineup and in the middle of the ice, the Avs went in a new direction.They emerged with Johansen (likely 2C) and Colton (3C) via trades.If the decline from Stanley Cup champs to first-round losers stemmed from the disappearance of forward depth behind Nathan MacKinnon, then Colorado’s bounce-back hopes reasonably hinge on whether Johansen and Colton turn out to be upgrades.Especia...

Tickets and arrests didn’t increase when SROs were reinstated at Denver schools, police data shows

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:01:34 GMT

Tickets and arrests of students at 13 Denver Public Schools campuses were lower when police officers were not stationed inside the school buildings than when they were, according to state and local data from the 2019-20 and 2022-23 school years.The data backs a key criticism of school resource officers, which is that they increase tickets and arrests and feed the school-to-prison pipeline.Related ArticlesEducation | Here’s what we learned from the closed-door school board meeting that DPS fought to keep secret Education | Denver school board reverses 2020 ban on police in schools, paving way for long-term return of SROs Education | DPS board votes unanimously to put armed police back in Denver high schools for rest of year But when SROs were reintroduced on those 13 campuses for the last two months of the 2022-23 school year, after a shooting inside East High School, the monthly average of tickets and arrests did not go up, accor...

Wildfire near Temecula explodes to 500 acres; 10% contained

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:01:34 GMT

A brush fire reported Thursday afternoon near Temecula has exploded and has burned hundreds of acres as of Friday morning.The Bonny Fire was first reported around 2:45 p.m. Thursday near the 44000 block of Bonny Lane in Aguanga, a city about 20 miles east of Temecula. A brush fire was reported near Aguanga, California on Thursday, July 27, 2023. (OnScene.TV)The blaze initially covered five acres in medium fuels but was burning at a moderate to critical rate of speed, the Riverside County Fire Department stated on its Facebook page. The blaze had spread to 500 acres with 10 percent containment as of Friday morning, according to the Fire Department.Evacuation orders are in place for areas south of Silver Star Drive, east of Sunset Avenue, north of Wilson Street and west of 16th Street. Search team finds body of hiker who went missing in Monrovia Canyon Park Evacuation warnings have also been issued for areas south of Tulle Peak, south of Ramsey, west of Terwilliger, and east of - an...

Ohtani has 'the greatest day of baseball that anybody’s ever seen'

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:01:34 GMT

'The greatest day of baseball that anybody’s ever seen'Shohei Ohtani threw his first shutout in Major League Baseball in one game and hit two homers in the next, helping the Los Angeles Angels beat the Detroit Tigers twice on Thursday to sweep a three-game series.Ohtani, though, gave the Angels a scare when he left the second game of the doubleheader due to cramps that led to him grimacing after hitting his 38th homer in the fourth inning.“He’ll get some fluids in him and he’ll be fine,” manager Phil Nevin said.He had a one-hitter and struck out eight as the Angels beat Detroit 6-0 in the first game and then cleared the fences twice in an 11-4 victory for the surging team's ninth win in 11 games.Ohtani became the first major league player to throw a shutout in one game of a doubleheader and hit a homer — much less two — in the other.“He probably had the greatest day of baseball that anybody’s ever seen today,” said right-hander Matt Manning, who gave up both homers to Ohtani. “It’s ...

Boy severely injured in traffic collision reunited with parents

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:01:34 GMT

The Los Angeles Police Department has reunited the 10-year-old boy who was severely injured in a traffic collision in the Wilshire Center neighborhood of Los Angeles with his parents. According to the LAPD, the unidentified boy was riding a rented scooter around 5 p.m. Thursday evening when he collided with a vehicle at the intersection of Vermont Avenue and 7th Street. LAFD paramedics responded to the scene and transported the boy to a nearby hospital where he remains in critical condition.  An LAPD statement said that the boy's phone had Cyrillic writing, indicating that he may been of Russian descent. Cook fatally shot at Wilmington anti-gang violence event The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and cooperated with authorities. No foul play is suspected, LAPD said. Anyone with information about this collision is urged to contact the West Traffic Division Watch Commander at 213-473-0222. During non-business hours or on weekends, calls should be direc...

People in these states live the longest, and its good news for California

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:01:34 GMT

New data shows Californians live longer than people in most other U.S. states.According to the CDC, American life expectancy dropped in 2021 for the second year in a row and represents the largest two-year decline since 1921-1923. The average life span across the entire population is 76.1 years—the lowest since 1996. Life expectancy can be affected by numerous factors, from genetics to air quality to economic opportunities.Stacker used data from the 2023 County Health Rankings to determine the 25 states where people live the longest. The 2023 County Health Rankings values were calculated using mortality counts from the 2018-2020 National Center for Health Statistics. The U.S. Census 2021 American Community Survey and America's Health Rankings Senior Report 2023 data were also used to provide demographics on the senior population of each state and the state's rank on senior health care, respectively. Please note that in the data below...

Homeless man charged with attempted murder in stabbing

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:01:34 GMT

A 41- year-old unhoused man from Northern California is facing charges of attempted murder after stabbing a person in Riverside, authorities announced earlier this week.  On July 21, officers with the Riverside Police Department responded to the area of Central Avenue and De Anza Avenue at around 7:25 a.m. on reports of a stabbing that had just occurred.  At the scene, officers located an adult male victim suffering from stab wounds. The man was treated by paramedics at the scene and rushed to the hospital where he remains in critical condition, according to a news release from Riverside PD. Not long after, the suspect, identified as Adam Edward Chang was found and detained by officers, who also recovered the weapon used in the attack.  Adam Edward Chang, 41, of Northern California was arrested on July 21, 2023 for attempted murder. (Riverside PD)Detectives with the department's Robbery-Homicide Unit, along with specialists from the Forensics Unit, assumed the in...

Colorado leaving Pac-12 and returning to Big 12

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:01:34 GMT

Colorado is leaving the Pac-12 to return to the conference the Buffaloes jilted a dozen years ago, and the Big 12 celebrated the reunion with a two-word statement released through Commissioner Brett Yomark: “They’re back.”“The landscape of collegiate sports is ever-evolving, and the University of Colorado Boulder has determined the Big 12 is the best future fit for our athletic teams,” CU President Todd Saliman said after the board of regents voted 9-0 in a special remote meeting Thursday to approve the conference switch in 2024. Another university looks to leave Pac-12 Colorado becomes the third school to leave the Pac-12 in the last year; UCLA and USC are joining the Big Ten next year, leaving the Pac-12, at least for the moment, with only nine member schools for the 2024-25 season.Colorado is expected to take in $31.7 million in annual television revenue over the course of the Big 12's new deal, but Chancellor Philip DiStefano and athletic director Rick George insisted that mon...