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Children take cover in basement as tornado rips home apart

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:25 GMT

YUMA COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — The three children who scrambled to safety in their home near Yuma said it sounded like a bomb exploded as the twister ravaged their home Tuesday.Their parents were at a nearby hospital when they saw a storm chaser's live video of the tornado heading for their home. They ran out of the hospital, where they were visiting a relative, and headed for their children hiding in the basement. Photos: Tornado damage in Yuma County “We were watching that live feed.  And I was watching him drive, because we know the roads out here real well, and I was like, dude that's coming by our house. I called my kids, 'Go get your helmets,'" Clint Monk said“We got a phone call from my daughter, and we heard the house just cracking and creaking. So my husband and I busted out of the hospital as fast as we could,” Amanda Monk said.A tornado in Yuma County, Colorado on Aug. 8, 2023 (Credit: twitch.tv/stormchaserirl)Tornado 'was like a bomb exploding'Kennadee Monk, 16, and ...

Who is cutting the tails off these horses?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:25 GMT

KEN CARYL, Colo. (KDVR) — Megan Morrison loves to spend loving moments with Eleanor, her 5-year-old Holsteiner and partner in hunter/jumper competition. "Just a peace, the calm that they bring," Morrison said. Colorado teen among sick at World Scout Jamboree in South Korea The condition of a horse’s tail can affect a rider's standing in competition, so Morrison carefully cares for Eleanor’s appearance. “We all want a nice full, long tail, especially with a hunter jumper discipline that I do," Morrison said. When Morrison visited the Ken Caryl Equestrian Center this week, she was shocked to discover someone had cut a large portion of Eleanor’s tail off during the night.Horses rely on their tails“Horses, they communicate by their behaviors, and mostly their ears and their tails, and you’re taking that away from them. So it just hurts you to the core knowing that's happening to someone, something that you love and you’ve invested a lot of time and money into," Morrison said. A horse ...

Neighbors on edge after knife-wielding tenant is allowed to stay

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:25 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — At the Modera Art Park apartments in Denver's River North Art District, boarded-up windows and shards of glass still line the street, the result of a Sunday night rampage, according to tenants.Video and photos show a man throwing rocks through windows and slashing tires in the apartment garage. But tenants say this wasn't just any random person — instead, a tenant who's still being allowed to live at the complex. Who is cutting the tails off these horses? "It's just become a nightmare," Lacey Enlow said. "How he is still allowed to come here is baffling."Records show the man has been arrested multiple times since mid-July on counts including burglary, assault and felony menacing. Denver Police are declining to comment because of pending cases.A broken window at the Modera Art Park apartments in Denver on Aug. 9, 2023. (KDVR)A media contact for the apartment complex said the man has been issued a "three-day notice to quit," meaning he has three days to vacate the pr...

United Way of Broward hosts backpack giveaway for military vets and their families

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:25 GMT

The United Way of Broward County held its annual backpack giveaway for military veterans and their families.The gear handed out at Wednesday afternoon’s distribution in Fort Lauderdale was provided by area businesses.https://twitter.com/UnitedWayBC/status/1689401112552419328?s=20Volunteers distributed more than 750 bags filled with school supplies to prepare children for the upcoming school year.

No global security without net zero, Grant Shapps warns Tories

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:25 GMT

LONDON — There can be no global security unless the world hits its climate targets, the U.K. Energy Secretary has said, as he announced plans to host an international summit on energy security next year.Grant Shapps told POLITICO that the London conference on energy security, penciled in for spring 2024 to coincide with the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, will focus on averting another global energy crisis like that experienced in 2022 or the oil shocks of the 1970s.It will also include discussions about the need to “diversify from fossil fuels,” he said.“We can’t have global security without net zero,” Shapps said. “There’s no global security if millions of people are having to uproot because of weather patterns.”His comments will reignite tensions within the ruling Conservative Party about the wisdom of Britain’s 2050 carbon neutrality target, which has been the subject of much internal debate following a parliamentary by-election l...

Chianti, steak and a windfall tax fiasco: How Italy botched its raid on banks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:25 GMT

On Sunday evening, the two cantankerous populists at the top of Italy’s government met in a Tuscan trattoria for dinner, with their families in tow. Over glasses of Chianti and rare Florentine steak, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her garrulous deputy, Matteo Salvini, put on a show of unity intended to demonstrate that their frequent arguments were not serious and that the government was heading serenely into the summer break. The next day, everything blew up. In a late-night press conference on Monday, Salvini shocked international markets and his own colleagues by announcing a 40 percent windfall tax on banks’ profits, which have rocketed amid soaring interest rates. In the hours that followed, investors balked, bankers howled in protest as their share prices nosedived, and analysts warned that the knock-on impact on Italy’s precariously-placed economy could be severe. A day later, Meloni’s government was forced into a humiliating climbdown as it tried ...

Luis Severino struggles out of bullpen as Yankees lose series to White Sox

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:25 GMT

A move to the bullpen proved to be no relief for the Yankees’ Luis Severino.The right-hander struggled through yet another rough outing in Wednesday night’s 9-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox, surrendering four runs on five hits over two-plus innings.The Yankees opened the road game with reliever Ian Hamilton, hoping that using Severino out of the bullpen would take pressure off the 29-year-old after back-to-back brutal starts.But Severino ran into immediate trouble when he entered in a scoreless game to begin the second inning. He allowed three runs in that frame — including two on a 430-foot home run by Oscar Colas — before serving up an RBI double to Yoan Moncada in the third inning.Severino issued a leadoff walk in the fourth inning and was removed from the game. The two-time All-Star fell to 2-7, while his ERA inflated to 8.06.“I’m just having the worst year of my life in baseball,” Severino said afterward. “I have to continue. I&#...

Photos: Maui wildfire reduces most of historic town to ash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:25 GMT

Wildfires have devastated parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui, killing at least six people, damaging or destroying over 270 structures and reducing most of a historic town to ash.County of Maui Mayor Richard Bissen Jr. said Wednesday that the number of fatalities could rise. At least two dozen people were injured by the fires. Bissen also said dozens have been evacuated.MAP: Maui wildfires burning in Lahaina and upcountryCounty of Maui spokesperson Mahina Martin says the fire was widespread in the historic tourist community of Lahaina, including on Front Street, a popular shopping and dining area.Acting Gov. Sylvia Luke is discouraging travelers from coming to Maui, saying that right now, it’s “not a safe place to be.”People watch as smoke and flames fill the air from raging wildfires on Front Street in downtown Lahaina, Maui on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. (Alan Dickar via AP)This photo provided by County of Maui shows fire and smoke filling the sky from wildfires on the intersect...

Ball busts Green Monster light, Pivetta shines on short rest in weird Red Sox win

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:25 GMT

A Red Sox game has to be really weird to stand out in this season full of wild weather, baffling errors, and too many injuries.Wednesday night was weird.In the words of Bill Hader’s iconic and delightfully odd “Saturday Night Live” character, Stefon, this 4-3 Boston victory had everything:Yellow Sox, a big anniversary for Rafael Devers, a clutch rookie bomb, Nick Pivetta screaming triumphantly, and a big busted bulb.Let’s review in reverse order.In the top of the second, viewers were treated to the rarest of rare Fenway Park oddities when a 96.6 mph line drive by Kyle Isbel punched through the red cover of the light which indicates the first out of an inning on the Green Monster’s historic scoreboard.The hit was ruled a ground-rule double, but one unlike any seen at Major League Baseball’s oldest ballpark in decades; the most recent incident the Herald could find occurred during warmups in 2015.The venerable Joe Castiglione, who’s been broad...

Biden welcoming Australian leader to White House for state dinner in October

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:25 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will welcome Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to the White House on Oct. 25 for the visit and state dinner that the U.S. promised when Biden had to scrap a stop in Australia earlier this year to focus on debt limit talks in Washington.White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Wednesday that the visit would “underscore the deep and enduring alliance between the United States and Australia and the two nations’ shared commitment to supporting an open, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific.”Biden last May curtailed an Asia-Pacific trip that was to have included stops in Australia and Papua New Guinea because he needed to return to Washington because of the debt limit crisis.The scuttling of two of the three legs of the overseas trip — Biden did visit Japan for a Group of Seven summit with leaders of some of the world’s major economies — was a foreign policy setback for an administration that has made putting a g...