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Denver weather: More sunshine through the weekend

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:08:04 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver’s weather pattern will stay sunny through the weekend and into the start of next week.Plan for sunshine to bring warm temperatures fit for this weekend's Pride festival, going on a hike and whatever outdoor activities await you. Colorado farmers markets near you The warm weather is the beginning of a new weather pattern after months of thunderstorms in the Denver metro broke rainfall records in May and even June. Weather Sunday: Sunny & breezySunday’s weather will look very similar to Saturday’s. High temperatures will climb up to the lower 80s alongside plenty of sunshine.Sunday, June 25 will bring warm temperatures throughout the state. First-ever stretch below 80-degree high Looking ahead: Sunny and hot start to the workweekSunshine and warmer temperatures are in the forecast for the start of the workweek. The workweek ahead of June 25 will bring warm temperatures with sun possibly reaching the 90s.Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will hit hi...

Officials report 1 person dead, 1 hospitalized after boat crash near Port of Miami

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:08:04 GMT

The coast guard closed off a section of the Port of Miami after a fatal boat accident. The crash involved two vessels in the channel early Sunday morning.Miami Fire Rescue and their dive team responded to the incident, where one person was reported to be dead and another was rushed to a Ryder Trauma Center after colliding with a Fisher Island Ferry, according to officials. https://twitter.com/USCGSoutheast/status/1672958287736721408Port of Miami also tweeted that the closure will affect the arrival time and disembarkment of passengers on Carnival Celebration, MSC Seascape and Norweigan Cruise Line Escape. Florida Fish and Wildlife continues to investigate the cause of the crash.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

China praises Putin’s leadership, calls for stability in Russia

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:08:04 GMT

China moved to bolster Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday — praising his “strategic guidance” and calling for stability — but not until the dust had settled over a short-lived mutiny challenging his rule. Beijing sat silently throughout Saturday as the mercenary Wagner Group seized the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and moved to storm Moscow with demands for military leadership changes from Putin. Western governments, meanwhile, were issuing concerned statements assuring they were monitoring the fast-evolving situation in Russia.It was only well after the Russian leader reached a deal late Saturday with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and ended the military rebellion that Beijing spoke out.“This is a matter of Russia’s domestic affairs,” the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said in a statement on Sunday. “China supports Russia in safeguarding national stability and delivering development and prosperity.”Hosting Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Ru...

5-car crash in Nashua caused by wrong-way driver, sent five to hospital

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:08:04 GMT

A wrong-way driver allegedly caused a 5-car crash Saturday night that sent five people to local hospitals.Around 10:42 p.m., the wrong-way driver was headed down F.E. Everett Turnpike Southbound near Exit 7. Nashua Fire Rescue reported five vehicles involved, including “one ejection.”Additional ambulances had to be called to the scene, Nashua Fire Rescue announced. Two patients were transported to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center and three were sent to St. Joseph’s Hospital.NH State police said the investigation is ongoing.

Trooper injured, hospitalized after roadside crash near Canton

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:08:04 GMT

Overnight traffic on Route-93 was restricted to single lane after a Massachusetts State Trooper was injured while responding to a crash.According to the state police, an unnamed trooper assigned to the Milton Barracks was responding to a crash between exits 3 and 4 when a “secondary crash” occurred, injuring the officer.“The Trooper was standing outside his cruiser, in the process of investigating the initial crash, when he was struck by the approaching vehicle. The driver of that vehicle was transported to a local hospital with non life threatening injuries,” a state police spokesman wrote in a release.The trooper was transported to a Boston hospital where he remains in stable but serious condition. His family and other troopers are by his side, according to the spokesperson.“This incident serves as a reminder of the dangers law enforcement officers face every time they leave home and assume their role as public safety professionals,” State Police Colonel John Mawn Jr. said i...

Two people died and 12 were hurt in a shooting at a street party that was promoted on social media

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:08:04 GMT

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — A 51-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man were slain and a dozen others wounded during a shooting at a large street party in Michigan that was promoted on social media.The shooting occurred around midnight Saturday in Saginaw, about 102 miles (164 kilometers) northwest of Detroit, state police said.Police initially said about 200 people were in the area of the party and that officers had been dispersing the crowd prior to the shooting, MLive.com reported.Three people also were struck by cars and injured as people quickly fled from the gunshots, WNEM-TV reported. Investigators determined five different guns had been fired in the shooting.No arrests were made.The Associated Press

Police seeking two women wanted in arson investigation in Warden and St. Clair area

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:08:04 GMT

Toronto police are looking for two women wanted in an arson investigation in the Warden Avenue and St. Clair Avenue East area.On June 18 at approximately 2:50 a.m., two women allegedly entered an apartment building in the area and got onto an elevator in the lobby.One woman was carrying a gas can, and when the two women got off the elevator, they set fire to a door of an apartment unit.The suspects fled the building in a 2016 black Lincoln MKC, with an Ontario license plate CYEW 284.There were two occupants in the unit at the time of the fire but no one was injured. Through investigation the two women have been identified.Andrea Jameer, 34 and Dustina Perez, 23, of Toronto, are wanted for arson, arson endangering life, possession of incendiary material for arson, mischief over $5000, mischief endangering life, dangerous weapons and disguise with intent.Jameer is described as female, 5’7″, 170lbs, heavy build, with black hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a black tank t...

Poor air quality warnings issued in three provinces as number of fires increase

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:08:04 GMT

OTTAWA — Smoky, dangerous air is settling over parts of western Quebec and eastern Ontario this morning and the number of forest fires burning across Canada is creeping higher once again.The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre says there are 465 fires burning across the country, including 240 that are out of control.That’s up from 420 fires burning one week ago, largely due to an increase in fires in Alberta and Ontario.Nearly 72,000 square kilometres of forest land has burned this year so far, an area nearly four times the size of Lake Ontario.Residents in Ottawa and its Quebec twin city of Gatineau are being advised to avoid or severely limit outdoor activities today as the air quality index hit the very high risk marker again.Environment Canada also says there will be dangerously poor air quality today in Montreal, Québec City, Laval and Trois-Rivières in Quebec and in Winnipeg and Flin Flon in Manitoba.This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 25, 2023...

US Navy: Hefty salvage system not required in probe of fatal Titan implosion

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:08:04 GMT

The U.S. Navy said Sunday that it won’t be using a large piece of salvage equipment that it had deployed to the effort to retrieve the Titan submersible.The Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System had the capability of lifting an intact Titan back to the surface. The U.S. Coast Guard announced on Thursday that debris from the submersible had been found roughly 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the Titanic in North Atlantic waters. The Titan submersible imploded on its way to tour the Titanic wreckage, killing all five on board. Debris was located about 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) underwater.The Navy would only use the ocean salvage system if there were pieces large enough to require the use of the specialized equipment.“Efforts are focused on helping map the debris field in preparation for recovery efforts and to support investigative actions. Efforts to mobilize equipment such as the Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System have been discontinued,” a Navy official told The Associated Press.The ...

Salman Rushdie and Cheryl Strayed among endorsers of anti-censorship initiative

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:08:04 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie, Cheryl Strayed, Carl Hiassen and Ibram X. Kendi are among hundreds of authors who have endorsed an announcement by the American Library Association and the Association of American Publishers that calls attention to the 70th anniversary of a Freedom to Read Statement issued by book publishers and librarians during the height of the McCarthy era. With book bannings surging nationwide over the past two years, the library and publishing associations are urging “all members of the book community” to affirm their commitment to the June 1953 declaration, which includes such propositions as ”It is in the public interest for publishers and librarians to make available the widest diversity of views and expressions, including those that are unorthodox, unpopular, or considered dangerous by the majority.” Sunday’s press announcement reads in part: “Today, as we grapple with a new wave of censorship in schools, libraries, and bookstores targeting...