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Timbers fire coach Giovanni Savarese after 5-plus seasons as MLS returns from 5-week break

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:11 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Timbers fired coach Giovanni Savarese on Monday, parting ways with the winningest coach in franchise history a day after a shutout loss to the Houston Dynamo.Savarese was named Portland’s coach before the 2018 MLS season and went on to lead the Timbers to the MLS Cup finals in 2018 and 2021, two of the four times he guided the team into the postseason. The 52-year-old from Caracas, Venezuela, had a record of 74-62-47 in over five seasons and was let go after a 5-0 loss to Houston as the MLS returned from a five-week break for the Leagues Cup tournament.The team said assistant coach Miles Joseph will serve as interim coach for the rest of the season as the Timbers (6-10-8, 26 points) try to improve on their 12th-place standing in the Western Conference with 10 regular-season matches remaining.“Gio has been an exceptional coach for the Timbers and a joy to work with,” owner Merritt Paulson said in a statement. “He has achieved some fabulous res...

Polis signs executive order on housing

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:11 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Gov. Jared Polis took executive action on Monday in hopes of spurring more housing development across Colorado.The move comes after the governor's major proposal to create more types of housing throughout Colorado — an effort known as the land use bill — failed to make it out of the Capitol this past legislative session. Denver is nation’s 5th most coveted rental spot Polis said the executive order is all about making sure Colorado uses existing resources to get more housing built quickly."There's things that we're able to do to deliver more housing sooner, and that's exactly what today's executive order is all about," Polis said at a news conference for the order's signing.Polis housing order aims for speedThe governor's six-page executive order does a few key things to remove some of the bureaucracy that slows housing production across the state.The first step is getting the Department of Local Affairs to turn grants around faster."This action helps address this ...

Man wanted for sexually assaulting woman near Lakewood park

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:11 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Police in Lakewood are looking for a man who allegedly assaulted a woman running near Walker Branch Park.Lakewood Police said on Aug. 6 at 12:45 p.m., the victim was on her way back home from her run when she passed the park, located at 5825 W. 16th Ave., a few blocks west of Sloan's Lake Park.An unknown man saw the woman and started to follow her, police said.According to police, the suspect followed the woman on southbound Harlan Street for nearly two blocks. When the woman reached 14th Avenue and Harlan Street, the suspect allegedly attacked the woman from behind with both arms and fondled her. Charges reduced for 2 officers in Elijah McClain death case The suspect fled northbound on Harlan Street and eastbound on 16th Avenue.Lakewood Police said the man is described as:HispanicIn his 20s to 30sThin build5 feet, 8 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches tallHas black facial hairPolice in Lakewood are looking for this man who allegedly assaulted a woman who was running near ...

Colorado cannabis leader tapped to head New Mexico regulators

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:11 GMT

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A manager with one of Colorado's largest cannabis companies will serve as the next director of New Mexico’s Cannabis Control Division.New Mexico announced the hiring of Todd Stevens on Monday, saying he has years of experience working in Colorado’s marijuana industry. He most recently served as the manager of training and development at Native Roots Cannabis Co. Colorado marijuana tax revenue higher than alcohol, cigarettes Stevens’ appointment follows a year of turnover at the division and comes as regulators try to ramp up enforcement against non-compliant businesses. Most recently, a state district judge granted the division’s request to halt operations at an Albuquerque business that regulators claimed was unlawfully selling out-of-state cannabis products and manufacturing extracts without a proper license or permit.Stevens said in a statement that he wanted to help the industry become an economic driver while protecting consumer safety.“In the past year,...

New travel trailer leaks and company won’t repair It

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:11 GMT

They love to camp and so they bought a brand new travel trailer. Bad news; the roof leaked. Worse news; the dealer wouldn’t fix it. Do they have to? Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser has the answer.To borrow from an old line, the Dingman’s are proof a family that plays together, stays together.Andrew Dingman: “I just feel at peace when I’m out on the water fishing and we’re out in the woods camping. It’s just so peaceful.”Peaceful quiet, missing just one thing: a nice camper. So Andrew and Kim decided to take care of that.Andrew Dingman: “We decided to drive over there and take a look.Kim Dingman: “It was just beautiful. Like I could just see where everybody would be sitting,camping and laughing.”It was a brand new travel trailer, just what they needed. But financing it was $69,000 dollars. Andrew hooked it up to his truck and brought it home.Andrew Dingman: “And it had a full kitchen. It was perfect.”Until it ...

Bodycam video shows Navy vet, 70, speaking to officers after being beaten and robbed at Lincoln Road bus stop

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:11 GMT

Newly released body camera footage captured the moments a veteran became the victim of a brutal beach beating. Now, he is describing exactly what happened to him. The police were at the scene at a CVS minutes after the vicious, unprovoked, sudden attack of a 70-yr-old Navy veteran in Miami Beach.“You tell us what happened,” an officer said.The body camera footage obtained exclusively by 7News showed the moments after the victim was beaten and bloodied at a Lincoln Road bus stop in late June.His face was soaked in blood while waiting inside the CVS where he was first taken as he waited for help.He told officers about his the attack. “This is what happened, I’m waiting over here at the bus stop,” the victim said. “I go to the VA. I volunteer there. I am also a veteran.”The veteran was on his way to help fellow vets at the VA Hospital until his brutal encounter.“He comes by, and he’s on his bike, he gets off his bike, walks around,&...

Time’s up for France in Africa

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:11 GMT

Michael Shurkin is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.I am a long-time watcher of France in Africa. I have published several, often-admiring papers on the subject, and frequently defend the country on social media. I have cheered French efforts to help the countries of the Sahel — most notably Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger — to defend themselves against jihadist insurgencies affiliated with Al Qa’eda or the Islamic State.And yet, the only reasonable conclusion to draw now is that France should close its bases and go.The problem, as has been made clear by recent events in Niger, is that whatever France does, good or bad, provokes an allergic reaction from populations long conditioned to be suspicious of French motives and assume the worst.Whether this anti-French sentiment is fair or not is entirely beside the point. Ties with France have now become a kiss of death for African governments — a phenomenon demonstrated by the fate of Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum.How we got ...

Welcome to post-Brexit Britain: Conference center for the world

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:11 GMT

LONDON — Britain has spent years seeking its place in the world after Brexit. Now it seems to have found a role … as a global conference center, where the great powers gather to talk.Without a seat at the European table in Brussels, and also excluded from power-play summits between the EU and Washington, Britain hopes to wield its own “convening power” as it reboots its foreign policy ambitions. Indeed almost every time a major global issue has raised its head of late — climate change; war in Ukraine, the rise of AI; the energy crisis — Britain’s answer has been to host another world summit.Hot on the heels of this summer’s Ukraine Recovery Conference in London, U.K. government officials are now busy prepping for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s “major global summit on AI safety,” due to be held later this year.That event will be followed next spring by a global energy security conference, timed to mark the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And all...

The Commission’s Green Deal chief to exit Brussels for Dutch politics 

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:11 GMT

The European Union’s rush toward climate neutrality has run into turbulence — and now the pilot is bailing out. Frans Timmermans, the European Commission’s executive vice president in charge of the Green Deal, is all but guaranteed to head back to the Netherlands — at least temporarily — to lead a Labor-Green alliance in November’s national election. On Tuesday, the two parties are expected to confirm him as their lead candidate for Dutch prime minister. Having spent four years transforming how Europeans trade, travel, heat and eat, the bloc’s climate chief will now have to take a leave of absence from the Commission until after the Dutch election. He won’t have to resign and can return should he lose; his alliance currently has a narrow lead in POLITICO’s Poll of Polls. But his departure from Brussels comes at a crucial time for climate action both in the EU and abroad, as political resistance stiffens in the bloc and diplomatic talks gather pac...

Boston couple ready to tie the knot after dog eats passport days before destination wedding

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:11 GMT

A Boston couple is thanking everyone who stepped up to help after their beloved Golden Retriever, Chickie, at several pages out of the groom-to-be’s passport just days before they were set to fly to Italy for their dream wedding.“It’s been extremely stressful,” Magda Mazri said of the couple’s efforts to get an emergency passport in a rush. But thanks to some help from local legislators, she says she expects her soon-to-be husband, Donato Frattaroli, will have his passport in hand when its time to board their flight on Friday.Frattaroli scored an appointment at the passport office on Monday and said everything went well.Their plea for help with their situation was answered by George Regan of Regan Communications, Sen. Ed Markey and Congressman Stephen Lynch, who helped expedite the process of getting the replacement.