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Woman hospitalized after car plummets into ravine in Rock Creek Park

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:07:34 GMT

A woman is in the hospital after her car fell down a ravine in Rock Creek Park Tuesday afternoon.D.C. Fire and EMS said the car left the road around 5 p.m. on Piney Branch Parkway — east of Beach Drive in Northwest D.C.Update crash with entrapment Piney Branch Parkway NW. Using a rope pulley system & ladders, Special Operations personnel lifted patient to roadway. Adult female to be transported with serious injuries. A 2nd patient who was not trapped has already been transported. #DCsBravest pic.twitter.com/73QhW9HhUt— DC Fire and EMS (@dcfireems) April 25, 2023Crews had to rappel down into the ravine to rescue the woman trapped inside her crushed car.D.C. Fire said she is expected to recover from her injuries.Only one car was involved in the crash, and U.S. Park Police will be investigating the crash throughout Tuesday evening.Source

Denver weather: Rain, snow into Wednesday morning

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:07:34 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will stay soggy Tuesday night into Wednesday with scattered showers and storms, cool temperatures and mostly cloudy skies. Tuesday and Wednesday will be a Pinpoint Weather Alert Day, and there's another chance for precipitation later in the week.Weather tonight: Storms, lightningThe rain on Tuesday afternoon will start as thunderstorms due to warm temperatures and will transition to rain showers by Tuesday evening as temperatures cool.The biggest threat during the afternoon in the lower elevations will be lightning. Some of the rain showers will turn to snow in the foothills and south across the Palmer Divide overnight. Temperatures will fall into the 30s on the Front Range. Weather tomorrow: Morning snow, rainScattered snow showers will continue above about 6,000 feet Wednesday morning, with rain showers in the lower elevations. There will be some slushy road conditions along the Palmer Divide and into the foothills and mountains. Most of the Denver...

Storm chaser captures image of landspout near Keenesburg

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:07:34 GMT

KEENESBURG, Colo. (KDVR) — A storm chaser captured an image of a local landspout on the Eastern Plains. Jennifer Walton started the initiative Girls Who Chase in January 2022. The Broomfield woman said she has been storm chasing for about seven years. On Tuesday afternoon, she said, she predicted what she would see.“I knew it was a landspout, because you can tell from the behavior of the clouds above it, and what is going on," Walton said. Elevation is the main reason Denver won’t see snow. Here’s why Walton said she can't wait for what the weather has in store for Wednesday. “It just reminds me how small we are,” she added. “And how powerful Mother Nature can be, and the ability to get to share that with other people, just gets me up in the morning." Heavy hail and street flooding were spotted in the town of Keenesburg. So far, there have been no reports of injury or property damage.

Nuggets eliminate Wolves 112-109 behind Murray, Jokic

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:07:34 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic had a triple-double and Jamal Murray scored 35 points as the Denver Nuggets eliminated the Minnesota Timberwolves 112-109 in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series on Tuesday night.The Nuggets had a slow start, trailing by 15 points in the first quarter and rallying to trail by 7 by halftime. The team stayed in a close game against the Timberwolves into the fourth period, when they blew a tight lead in the final minutes of the game. 7 people have won at least $1 million in Colorado Lottery this year Anthony Edwards, who led Minnesota with 29 points, hit the back iron on a 27-foot 3-point attempt at the buzzer that would have sent the game into overtime.Jokic overcame a slow offensive start to finish with 28 points, 17 rebounds and a dozen assists. He made just 8 of 29 shots, but scored eight points down the stretch to help the Nuggets fend off the pesky Timberwolves.Michael Malone passed Doug Moe with his 25th playoff win as Nuggets head coach.The t...

Out-of-town couple watches armed home burglary through surveillance camera

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:07:34 GMT

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (KDVR) -- A Westminster woman is hoping someone can recognize an armed burglar caught on camera Monday rummaging through her apartment.That woman, who asked not to be named, said she was out of town when she received an intruder alert on her phone."My phone went off with a camera alert that someone was in the apartment," she said. "I looked at it and I see an armed burglar enter my apartment, gun first." Victims identified in double homicide at Denver restaurant She said she called 911, but because she was out of state, it took about 10 minutes to reach Westminster dispatchers. By that time, she said he had stolen dozens of rings, bracelets and necklaces from relatives who have passed away."I've lost a lot of people, and that's all I have left of them," she said. "He stole my loved ones."Surveillance video shows the man escaping from a second-story kitchen window, just moments before Westminster police officers arrive on the scene."Looks like he might have gone ...

7 people have won at least $1 million in the Colorado Lottery this year

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:07:34 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Have you ever played the Colorado Lottery and wondered, "Does anyone ever win big?"Well, the answer is yes. In fact, our state has had seven $1 million or more winners in 2023. How this Colorado man plans to spend his $5.5M winning lotto ticket Here is a look at the winners in order of most recent first:$3 millionOn April 6, Ryan P. from Philadelphia won the top prize of $3 million on a $50 Platinum Riches scratch game. The ticket was purchased at Sav-O-Mart in Denver.$2.6 millionOn March 30, James C. won $2.6 million playing the Colorado Lotto+ game. He purchased the winning ticket at Smoker Friendly in Woodland Park.$1 millionOn March 9, Dustin R. won $1 million on a $20 scratch ticket game called, "$1,000,000 Jackpot." The ticket was bought at Maverik in Thornton.Dustin said he plans to use his prize to invest and travel, according to the Colorado Lottery.$11.5 millionOn March 2, Mohamed Y. won $11.5 million playing the Colorado Lotto+ game. He bought his winni...

Lowry: Biden prepares his next basement campaign

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:07:34 GMT

Joe Biden is going to run for reelection.One question this raises: How is anyone going to tell?The basement presidency is about to embark on another basement campaign.Biden’s political genius turns out to be not provoking strong negative emotions because no one particularly thinks of him as being in charge or as having anything interesting to say.President Biden and the people around him are, in effect, conducting a large-scale, ongoing political science experiment: Is it possible to run a left-wing government — with tactics often frankly at odds with our constitutional system — and avoid a massive backlash by having a president at the top who appears ineffectual and out of touch?If Bernie Sanders, the ill-kempt, self-avowed socialist, or Elizabeth Warren, the off-putting, dyed-in-the-wool progressive former academic, presided over exactly the same administration with exactly the same policies, they’d have ignited a political firestorm by now.The cry from the...

Chicago White Sox are off to their worst start since 1986 after getting blanked 7-0 for their 6th straight loss

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:07:34 GMT

One has to go back a while to find a worse start to a Chicago White Sox season.As in 1986.The Sox dropped their sixth straight game Tuesday, getting blanked by the Toronto Blue Jays 7-0 in front of 28,917 at Rogers Centre.The Sox are 10 games under .500. At 7-17, they’ve matched their start in 1986.“It hurts to lose a major-league game,” manager Pedro Grifol said. “It hurts to lose six in a row. It hurts. There’s a lot of care in here. People care about winning.“We’ve just got to work. We’ve got to continue to work. We can’t let this thing break us and it won’t.”The loss guaranteed the Sox won’t win the series. They are 0-7-1 in series this season.Tuesday’s game began to slip away in the second. Sox starter Mike Clevinger walked the first two batters. With one out, Danny Jansen hit a three-run homer.“Got excited after the first inning, felt I was getting back to where I was pre-Tommy John,” Cle...

Graham: Carlson’s Fox exit could liberate Trump challengers

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:07:34 GMT

When Donald Trump, the GOP’s presidential frontrunner, gave his first post-indictment interview, it was to Tucker Carlson on Fox News.When Vivek Ramaswamy announced his candidacy earlier this year, it was on Tucker’s show.And when Russia invaded Ukraine, support for arming Kyiv against Putin’s assault was the same among Republicans and Democrats. Then Carlson began speaking out against Ukraine and America’s support for the Zelensky government. “I don’t care what Putin does in Ukraine,” Carlson said.After a year of Carlson’s messaging, Republican support for backing Ukraine has plunged.Monday’s news that Fox News dropped Carlson in the wake of a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems is technically a media story. But because of the 53-year-old TV host’s influence on the GOP base, it is as much a story about politics as it is about ratings.In the big picture, Carlson’s reach via Fox was relatively small. While he had the top-rated cable news show — indeed, he holds the...

Montana transgender lawmaker faces censure or expulsion

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:07:34 GMT

By AMY BETH HANSON and SAM METZ (Associated Press)HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Republican leaders will vote Wednesday on censuring or expelling lawmaker Zooey Zephyr, a transgender state representative who has been silenced in the House since last week after telling colleagues that if they voted for a bill to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender children they would “have blood on their hands.”On Tuesday night, Zephyr tweeted a letter she received from House leaders informing her of the plan to consider disciplinary action against her during Wednesday’s session. “I’ve also been told I’ll get a chance to speak,” Zephyr tweeted. “I will do as I have always done — rise on behalf of my constituents, in defense of my community and for democracy itself.”Montana’s House speaker canceled Tuesday’s floor session without explanation, the latest development in a standoff over whether Montana Republicans w...