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Pettersen: 90% fentanyl comes into US through ports

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:21 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — New data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows fentanyl seizures are starting to decrease as we head into fall.Back in April, authorities seized more than 3,100 pounds of fentanyl, but now the number is closer to 1,700 pounds. That is slightly less than the same time last year. Some Colorado Republicans on Capitol Hill, including U.S. Rep. Ken Buck and U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, blame the influx of fentanyl on our streets to migrants crossing the border. Buck previously told Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, “When people die of fentanyl poisoning, it’s your fault.” Denver Mayor Mike Johnston responds to criticism over closing encampment U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen reacted to the data this week on "Colorado Point of View," months after her first bill was introduced to investigate cartels bringing fentanyl into the U.S. The Democrat said that what Buck addressed was stigma rhetoric and misinformation. She added, “We absolutely need security at t...

Surfside Planning and Zoning Board approves proposal to develop luxury condominium

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:21 GMT

Officials are moving forward with a plan to construct a new condo building at the site of the Surfside collapse.Surfside’s Planning and Zoning Board approved a proposal by a Dubai-based developer to build a luxury condominium at 88th Street and Collins Avenue.But some of the families of the victims are not happy with the plan because, they said, the proposal calls for a garbage pickup site and a loading dock next to an area designated for a permanent memorial.Ninety-eight people died when the Champlain Towers South building collapsed back in June 2021.The proposal now moves to the Town Commission for approval.

Orioles prospect Colton Cowser ready to contribute for Baltimore after ‘reset’ in Triple-A

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:21 GMT

Grayson Rodriguez’s first stint in the major leagues didn’t go well. Adley Rutschman struggled for his first month as a big leaguer. Gunnar Henderson started his first full MLB season slowly.Orioles prospect Colton Cowser is hoping he’s able to bounce back the way his friends did.“It definitely gives you confidence,” Cowser said about his predecessors’ success after their early stumbles.Cowser, who was recalled Friday as rosters expanded from 26 to 28 players, made his MLB debut July 5, and while the 23-year-old had a couple big moments, he largely struggled at the plate. In 77 plate appearances across 26 games, Cowser slashed .115/.286/.148 for a .433 OPS. By the end of his stint, he rarely played, totaling just 10 at-bats in the Orioles’ 12 games in August before he was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk.“I don’t think I necessarily did anything wrong. I think that I was trying to do too much, I guess I would say, putting a little bi...

Mets Notebook: Dominic Leone back in New York for second time this week

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:21 GMT

Typically the term journeyman refers to players who have played for several organizations throughout their career. Dominic Leone took that term to another level by playing in four of them this season alone, including the Mets, who he faced for the second time in five days this weekend with the Seattle Mariners at Citi Field for three games.The right-hander started the season with the Texas Rangers this spring and was assigned to Triple-A Round Rock out of camp. He pitched so well that it got him a job with the Mets. But then the Mets traded him to the Angels at the deadline on Aug. 1, and the Halos placed him and all of their other trade-deadline acquisitions on waivers WednesdayThe organization that drafted him claimed him Thursday, which meant he was right back on a plane to New York.“We literally had just landed,” Leone told the Daily News on Friday at Citi Field. “So we went to Philly after this series with Anaheim. And we had just landed back in San Francisco,...

All this time, Jasson Domínguez has been tuning out the hype: ‘I was just really focused on what I was doing’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:21 GMT

HOUSTON — The day Jasson Domínguez signed his first professional contract, the outfielder returned to his academy in the Dominican Republic and gave all his equipment away to his teammates.With a $5.1 million deal freshly inked, Domínguez, only 16 at the time, could afford new bats and gloves. Still, that act spoke to why the Yankees were willing to invest such a lump sum of money on a kid barely old enough to drive.When you’re talking about contracts that big, skills aren’t the only thing taken into consideration.“What I didn’t know the first day I saw him, but I learned over time, was that his makeup was just absolutely off the charts,” Donny Rowland, the Yankees’ director of international amateur scouting, told the Daily News. “Very humble, engaging, friendly, never wanting to attract attention to himself. When you’d give him a compliment, he would kind of give you a sheepish grin and shake his head back and forth. N...

Vandalism damages monument to frontiersman ‘Kit’ Carson, who led campaigns against Native Americans

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:21 GMT

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Police in New Mexico’s capital city on Friday were investigating the partial destruction of a public monument to a 19th century frontiersman and U.S. soldier who had a leading role in the death of hundreds of Native Americans during Anglo-American settlement of the American West.The monument to Christopher “Kit” Carson has been encircled by a plywood barrier for its own protection since 2020, when Santa Fe was swept by the movement to remove depictions of historical figures who mistreated Native Americans amid a national reckoning over racial injustice.The monument’s upper spire was toppled Thursday evening. Photos showed an abandoned pickup truck and cable that may have been used to inflict the damage. Last year, the monument was splattered with red paint by activists on Indigenous Peoples’ Day.Carson carried out military orders to force the surrender of the Navajo people by destroying crops, livestock and homes. Many Navajos died during a fo...

City of Yellowknife says residents may return as early as Sept. 6

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:21 GMT

The City of Yellowknife and a First Nation said in a news release Friday that evacuees will be able to return home as early as Sept. 6.Residents of the Northwest Territories capital and members of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YKDFN) are set to be allowed to return home starting at noon that day, so long as there is no increase in wildfire risk from Friday onwards.The return marks the final phase in a re-entry plan that is currently seeing essential personnel for critical services return.Officials state that critical and basic services will be able to return on Sept. 4 and 5. Critical business and essential have been reached out by the city and YKDFN on Aug. 29.The city and YKDFN will request the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs to replace the evacuation order with an alert at 12 p.m. on Sept. 6.The city says advice from Environment and Climate Change’s Wildfire Incident Commander, the City of Yellowknife, and YKDFN deemed the current status will allow for a c...

Driver in fatal shooting of Washington deputy gets 27 years

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:21 GMT

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A man who drove the getaway car in a stolen firearms trafficking scheme that led to the fatal shooting of Clark County sheriff’s Sgt. Jeremy Brown in southwest Washington has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison. Clark County Superior Court Judge David Gregerson sentenced 30-year-old Abran Raya Leon on Thursday, The Columbian reported. Brown, 46, was shot while he was working undercover and seated in an unmarked police SUV at an east Vancouver apartment complex on July 23, 2021. A jury in August found Abran Raya Leon guilty of second-degree murder, possession of a stolen firearm and first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. He didn’t shoot Brown but was convicted of murder as part of what prosecutors describe as a conspiracy to steal dozens of firearms and thousands of ammunition rounds from a storage unit and then sell them.His brother, Guillermo Raya Leon, shot Brown and Abran Raya Leon’s wife, Misty Raya, initiated the scheme, according to p...

Man shot and killed at Wentworth Gardens

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:21 GMT

CHICAGO — A man is dead after a shooting Friday evening at Chicago's Wentworth Gardens.This shooting happened around 6:15 p.m. in the 3800 block of South Wentworth. Community rallies to support man injured in shooting at nephew's funeral According to information from the Chicago Police Department, the man was outside when three people fired shots at him.No one has been arrested yet and Area One detectives are still investigating.

Iowa woman donates her 'Barbie World' to Ronald McDonald House

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:21 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (WHO) — For some people, Barbie is just a plastic doll, but for Iowa resident Sue Wyatt, Barbie is a collector's item — and after buying her first doll back in the 80s, she was hooked."I went back the next day and they were all gone, and when I saw that I said this is something that's going to be big," said Wyatt. But little did she know just how big her own collection would one day be."I was shocked, we had 475 that were in mint condition and never opened. It was taking over our house, our closets were full and we had 47 tubs already," said Wyatt. "They just kept coming, and I was like there's another tub, and we opened a door to a closet and there's another tub, and the closet we hadn't opened in ten years, that's because it was full of tubs so there's more barbies," said Lisa Nordin, Wyatt's daughter. Now, Sue and her family are donating their combined collection to the Ronald McDonald House in Des Moines. A house that became a temporary home to Sue after her twi...