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Ivy League football coaches praise conference’s stability (and wish they weren’t so alone)

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:04:13 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — There’s one college football conference sitting out the reshuffling going on among its big-money brethren: The Ivy League will start the season with the same eight members it has had since it formed in 1956.“It’s lunacy going on nationally right now,” Brown coach James Perry said on the Ivy League Media Day Zoom on Monday. “This league has always put the student-athlete first, his interests first, making him the best ballplayer he can be while still being a student. … In the changing landscape of college athletics, that’s how you do things right over a very, very long period of time.”Conference realignment has been going on for decades, but the pace accelerated this year with moves that bulldozed longtime league affiliations and the regional rivalries they fostered. By next season, the traditional Midwestern power Big Ten will have 18 members from UCLA and Southern California on the West Coast to Rutgers and Maryland in the East.The root of the problem: An influx...

Autoridades de Veracruz encuentran restos humanos en congeladores

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:04:13 GMT

(CNN Español) — La Fiscalía General de Veracruz informó este lunes el hallazgo de restos humanos en congeladores en dos inmuebles en la ciudad de Poza Rica, ubicada en el sureste de México.En un comunicado, la dependencia indica que los restos podrían ser de al menos 13 personas, pero la cifra final y las identidades se tendrán una vez que termine el trabajo del personal de la Dirección General de los Servicios Periciales, que está a cargo de efectuar las pruebas correspondientes desde el domingo cuando se inició la investigación del hecho.Las autoridades informaron que seis personas fueron detenidas por su presunta vinculación en el caso.Detienen a presunto responsable de la muerte de Milagros Monserrat en Guanajuato, México, dice el gobernadorLa fiscal general de Veracruz, Verónica Hernández Giadáns, detalló que “fiscales, peritos y policías ministeriales realizan las investigaciones correspondientes a partir de los indicios encontrados en ambos inmuebles, así como con otras...

Bulletproof vest saves Adams County deputy's life

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:04:13 GMT

ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Officers fanned out near an Adams County intersection late Sunday night, where a suspect on the run allegedly shot a sheriff’s deputy.Police officials say the deputy was not hurt, thanks to a bulletproof vest.There was chaos and a frantic search at 74th Avenue and Federal Boulevard just around midnight. Officers from several agencies were searching for a suspect who they said shot a deputy. The Adams County Sheriff's Office sent a tweet just after midnight warning people to watch out for a man on the run not far from Westminster. He was considered armed and dangerous. Police search for missing Florida woman in Grand County A worker told FOX31 that officers rushed into her workplace, scouring the place in search of him. "The officers came in and were looking everywhere — the restrooms, the kitchen — and we were afraid. We didn’t know what was going on," Paola Ramos said.FOX31 was able to access surveillance video from across the street. It shows officer...

1 killed, another hurt after falling 300 feet at Rocky Mountain National Park

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:04:13 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A woman was killed and a man was critically injured after falling hundreds of feet at Rocky Mountain National Park Saturday night.A 21-year-old woman from Severance and a 25-year-old man from San Angelo, Texas, were coming down in the Flying Dutchman couloir, located between Longs Peak and Mount Meeker, according to a press release from RMNP. Abandoned building fire ‘suspicious,’ likely human-caused: ACSO At some point in their descent, RMNP said the two fell some 300 feet. Other park visitors notified park rangers and began assisting the man. Rangers and paramedics rendered advanced medical care on the scene, according to RMNP, but the woman died and the man was rescued and airlifted to the Medical Center of the Rockies.RMNP said that because of weather conditions, the woman's body had yet to be recovered as of Sunday evening. RMNP said her body will be recovered Monday as long as weather and resources permit.The Boulder County Coroner's Office will release her i...

Tickets for Nathaniel Rateliff's holiday show start at $25

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:04:13 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats will be back at Ball Arena for their 19th Annual Holiday Show, and tickets start at just $25.The band will be joined by Mt. Joy and Jaime Wyatt. The holiday show will be on Friday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. Full list of concerts at Ball Arena for 2023 The holiday show supports local organizations. This year, money will be raised for the Harm Reduction Action Center and EarthLinks, two Denver organizations Nathaniel Rateliff and his Marigold Project are passionate about.In 2022, the show raised $100,000 that went to various organizations.Rateliff is based out of Denver and has been a staple in the music scene since 2015. His band Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats have become quite the force in contemporary rock 'n' roll. "Since 2015, Rateliff has led his denim-clad, horn-flanked Night Sweats, supplying the zeal of a whiskey-chugging Pentecostal preacher to songs about this world’s shared woes," said AEG.How to get tickets to the...

9th graders from Nova University School in Davie pack 2,000 backpacks with essential supplies for children in need

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:04:13 GMT

South Florida high school students learned a lesson in generosity.Ninth graders from Nova University School in Davie helped children in need. They packed 2,000 backpacks with essential supplies for them.The bags will be sent to homes in the non-profit Food for the Poor Angels of Hope program.“This backpack means hope,” said Pennie Stagnitta with Food for the Poor. This backpack gives them the realization they are going to school, and that they are going to be able to learn and hopefully make a better life for themselves and for their families.”Each backpack contains 13 items, which includes notebooks, folders, pens, pencils, rulers and more to make sure the kids are ready for the academic year, which begins next week in Broward County.Students head back to campus later this week in Miami-Dade County.

Woman recalls tense moments after boat went up in flames in Braintree

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:04:13 GMT

A woman who sprang into action to assist terrified boaters during a boat fire in Braintree on Saturday morning is recalling the blaze that left five people hospitalized.The 18-year-old woman, who asked to be identified only as Caitlin for privacy reasons, said she and her father, a retired police officer, were on the dock when the family boat caught fire while loading up with gas.Caitlin was the attendant on shift and said at first the boat’s engine wouldn’t turn over and then it burst into flames.“I yelled out, ‘Did you turn your blowers,’ and before I could say ‘on’ I heard the explosion,” she recalled.Fire officials say 10 people, including children, were on the boat at the time of the explosion. Several suffered serious injuries.Caitlin said she prioritized helping those who were suffering from severe burns until paramedics arrived and she was glad her father was there to step in and help.

Tuesday Troubles

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:04:13 GMT

What a great Monday! If only we could stack two of three days in a row of sunny summer days…but alas, tis not our destiny this summer (see what happens when I write the blogs? I get all Shakespearean on you!) We have a Troubling Tuesday inbound as we track yet another storm headed for New England.Tonight (Monday night) that storm system is located over Chicagoland with a warm from extending through Michigan and Pennsylvania. This warm front and Low Pressure will left toward New England by early Tuesday morning. Understand that these fronts are great producers of clouds, showers and thunderstorms. Here is how I think the future radar will appear through the day with 7am being the first timestamp…Widespread rain with some thunderstorms along the South Coast/Cape/Islands. Some of the storms could contain brief, heavy rain, strong gusty wind and even a brief/weak tornado. The locations prone to these stronger storms will be along the South Coast as well as the Cape/Islands&#...

‘Disgrace’: Trump blasts Georgia court

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:04:13 GMT

ATLANTA — A list of criminal charges in Georgia against former President Donald Trump briefly appeared on a Fulton County website Monday, but prosecutors said Trump had not been indicted in their long-running investigation of the 2020 presidential election and the list quickly disappeared.A Fulton County grand jury began hearing from more witnesses Monday. Shortly after 12 p.m., Reuters reported on a list of several criminal charges to be brought against Trump, including state racketeering counts, conspiracy to commit false statements and solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer.Reuters, which later published a copy of the document, said the filing was taken down quickly. A spokesperson for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the report of charges being filed was “inaccurate,” but declined to comment further.Fulton County courts clerk Che Alexander’s office later released a statement that seemed to only raise more questions, calling the po...

Hawaii's governor warns that scores more people could be found dead following wildfires on Maui

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:04:13 GMT

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii's governor warned that scores more people could be found dead following the Maui wildfires as search crews go through neighborhoods where the flames galloped as fast as a mile a minute and firefighters struggled to contain the inferno with what some officials complained was a limited water supply.The blazes that consumed most of the historic town of Lahaina, are already the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, with a death toll of at least 96. The cause was under investigation.“We are prepared for many tragic stories,” Gov. Josh Green told “CBS Mornings” in a recorded interview that was aired Monday. "They will find 10 to 20 people per day, probably, until they finish. And it’s probably going to take 10 days. It’s impossible to guess, really.”As cellphone service has slowly been restored, the number of people missing dropped to about 1,300 from over 2,000, Green said.Twenty cadaver dogs and dozens of searchers are making their way through block...