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Super maxi LawConnect is first out of the harbor in annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:16:52 GMT

SYDNEY (AP) — Super maxi LawConnect was the first out of the harbor in a close and dramatic start to the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race on Tuesday.Rival 100-foot yachts SHK Scallywag and defending champion Andoo Comanche followed in that order as light winds made for a challenging start to the race. LawConnect has been runner-up in the last three Sydney to Hobart races.Comanche flew a protest flag from the start, accusing Scallywag of tacking too close to her as the yachts made their way out of the harbor and through Sydney Heads. If Comanche follows through with the protest and it is successful, Scallywag will need to complete a 720-degree penalty turn or risk being disqualified from a line honors win on arrival in Hobart.The fleet of more than 100 yachts will sail down the New South Wales state south coast and across the often treacherous Bass Strait to the island state of Tasmania. The finish line of the 628-nautical mile (720-mile, 1,170-kilometer) race is at Constitution Do...

Man arrested for attempted murder of 60-year-old

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:16:52 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A man was arrested and accused of attempted murder in a case that prompted a shelter-in-place notification last week near Portico Lane in unincorporated Boulder County.According to a release from the Boulder County Sheriff's Office, a 911 caller asked for medical assistance shortly after midnight on Dec. 19. Blizzard, high wind warnings in Eastern Colorado When first responders arrived, BCSO said they found a 60-year-old victim who had sustained blunt force trauma injuries in an apparent attempted murder.The man was taken to a local hospital in an ambulance and then was flown to a Level 1 Trauma Center for further medical care with life-threatening injuries.BCSO said the suspect, identified as Michael Joseph Lucky, 32, was quickly identified and a search began. BCSO said the suspect had a previous criminal history which made investigators believe that the victim was specifically targeted. Lucky was out of custody at the time on bond for a case involving the victi...

Veteran helps family out of flipped car with ironic date to his own similar accident

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:16:52 GMT

ESTES PARK, Colo. (KDVR) -- Some parts of Colorado on Christmas Eve saw a good amount of snow, including many parts in the high country. Jason Smiley and his family saw all that snow as they traveled back down from Estes Park to Parker, but all the powder made driving conditions a little dicey on US Highway 36. Denver snow: Colorado snow totals for Christmas Eve "There had been a big snowfall from the night before," Smiley, a veteran and current Federal Agent said. "It was almost instant the road conditions changed like that." Smiley said they were coming around a turn on the two-lane highway when they saw a car turned over off the road. He said at first he thought it was from the night before but his wife noticed the lights were on and the car was still running. Smiley said he knew he needed to go and help. He climbed up on the top of the car and started to figure out what he needed to do to help. "There was snow all over and the airbags deployed, so I couldn’t see what was insi...

Authorities on the lookout during deadliest time of year for DUIs

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:16:52 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Agencies across the state are on the lookout, searching for impaired drivers as holiday celebrations wrap up.  The Colorado Department of Transportation reported 48 deaths on Colorado roads last December, half of those due to an impaired driver. Colorado law enforcement agencies on lookout for DUIs this holiday season This time of year is known for being the deadliest season when it comes to impaired driving according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.On Dec. 14, 1997, Brittany Lamb said she was heading home to Littleton with her aunt after seeing the Nutcracker in Denver when they were hit by a suspected drunk driver.    “We were going south on Santa Fe and a driver who had been at the bar crossed over the median and hit my aunt’s car head-on,” Lamb said. Her aunt died in the crash, and moments later the life flight helicopter carrying the suspected drunk driver along with two nurses and a pilot went down. Lamb sa...

How Mann, Driver revved up ‘Ferrari for big screen

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:16:52 GMT

Somehow, the Adam Driver who plays Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann’s definitive portrait of the illustrious Italian car maker is distinctly not an Adam Driver we’ve ever seen before.Lean, with short grey hair, quietly commanding in impeccably tailored Italian suits, Enzo in 1957 knows that to avoid the collapse of his automotive business only a new – and winning – race car can provide the boost that will, virtually overnight, spark sales.That year was essential, said “Ferrari” director Michael Mann (“Heat,” “The Last of the Mohicans”). “Because during this one year of 1957, the dynamics going on in his life all collide at this particular time.“The company’s going broke. But more importantly, he’s just lost his son Dino, so he’s in a state of grief. His marriage with Laura (Penelope Cruz) is falling apart and they’re both handling it in different ways. Everything about the history and what the future is going to be is happening at this particular moment.“These conflicts happen to all of...

Parker: Politicized universities part of larger problem

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:16:52 GMT

A free country will always have debate and differences of opinion. But that debate becomes dangerous and destructive when the differences strike at the core premises that define the very existence of the nation. When we can no longer agree about who we are, what we stand for and why we exist, our very existence comes into question.The country is divided today by those who see injustice as a problem to be defined and solved by politics and those who continue to see injustice as evil defined by Scripture and dealt with through repentance and self-correction.When the issue of slavery tore apart our nation, most Americans were church-going citizens. The dividing line then was between those who saw slavery as a sin and those who did not.As Abraham Lincoln said in his second inaugural address, delivered as the Civil War raged, “Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other.”But today the division is between those for whom religion...

Editorial: It’s still the inflation, Mr. President

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:16:52 GMT

Our economy is in great shape, according to President Biden. It’s the media that has it wrong.As The Hill reported, Biden expressed confidence in the economy and ripped reporters for the way it has been portrayed before boarding the presidential helicopter Saturday.“All good. Take a look. Start reporting it the right way,” Biden said when asked about his economic outlook for 2024, according to a transcript released Sunday by the White House.True, the economy has bounced back from the pandemic, thanks in part to Biden’s spending trillions of dollars of economic relief and investments.And the unemployment rate was just 3.7% in November — barely above the pre-pandemic level of 3.5%, which was a five-decade low. Annual inflation has also fallen from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022 to 3.1%  in November.So why are his poll numbers in the basement?Is it because of reporting, or reality?What Biden and other Capitol Hill elites ignore at their peril is that when inflation hit America...

Dear Abby: Adult son blames mom for everything

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:16:52 GMT

Dear Abby: I have two sons in their 50s. My older son is kind, attentive and loving. The younger one, “Scott,” is problematic. Both my boys were raised the same, although when they were in their early teens, I divorced their alcoholic father. At that point, I had to work three jobs to keep them fed and sheltered.Scott constantly returns to the past and accuses me of never having time for him. He no longer speaks to me, which happens often and can last for long periods. His wrath is directed solely at me, and he accuses me of turning the rest of the family against him. He’s negative and controlling, and the truth is, no one wants to be around him. In addition to posting hurtful things on social media, he now refers to me as the “ice maiden.”A close family member advised me to look up the definition of narcissism, and I was shocked to see the description of this disorder fits Scott perfectly. What I have read and researched about narcissism says “st...

Inside Ukraine’s covert Center 73, where clandestine missions shape the war behind the frontline

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:16:52 GMT

KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Their first battle plan was outdated the moment the dam crumbled. So the Ukrainian special forces officers spent six months adapting their fight to secure a crossing to the other side of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine.But it wasn’t enough just to cross the river. They needed backup to hold it. And for that, they needed proof that it could be done. For one of the officers, nicknamed Skif, that meant a Ukrainian flag — and a photo op.Skif, Ukrainian shorthand for the nomadic Scythian people who founded an empire on what is now Crimea, moves like the camouflaged amphibian that he is: Calculating, deliberate, until the time to strike.He is a Center 73 officer, one of Ukraine’s most elite units of special forces — water operations specialists, frontline scouts, drone operators, underwater saboteurs. They are part of the Special Operations Forces that run partisans in occupied territories, sneak into Russian barracks to plant bombs and prepare the ground for ...

The right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:16:52 GMT

LONDON (AP) — For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a banner reading Just Stop Oil off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year sentence. Just for walking slowly down the street, scores of people have been arrested.They are among hundreds of environmental activists arrested for peaceful demonstrations in the U.K., where tough new laws restrict the right to protest.The Conservative government says the laws prevent extremist activists from hurting the economy and disrupting daily life. Critics say the arrests mark a worrying departure.“The government has made its intent very clear, which is basically to suppress what is legitimate, lawful protest,” said Jonathon Porritt, an ecologist and former director of Friends of the Earth.A PATCHWORK DEMOCRACYBritain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, home of the Magna Carta, a centuries-old Parliament and an independent judic...