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People found living in tunnel under highway flyover

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:42:39 GMT

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. (KDVR) — Police say they found people living in a tunnel beneath a highway flyover in Wheat Ridge, and now the state is working to clean out the encampment.The Wheat Ridge Police Department released a video showing cluttered conditions inside the tunnel, located under the Highway 58 flyover at Interstate 70. Police said an officer found the encampment after spotting someone climbing into the tunnel. Pothole blamed in I-70 trailer crash had been an issue for weeks "It turns out people have been trespassing, living there and storing excessive amounts of trash and property throughout the length of the flyover," the department said in a release.In the video released Thursday, officers navigate through piles of boxes and other clutter, alongside hanging clothes, canned goods and other pantry items lined up on a table.People were found living in a tunnel under the Highway 58 flyover in Wheat Ridge (Credit: Wheat Ridge Police Department)The Colorado Department of Trans...

Yet another student hit by car near Aurora high school

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:42:39 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Frustration is growing over a dangerous intersection in Aurora, right near Smoky Hill High School.Video obtained by the Problem Solvers from neighbors in the area shows a student walking in the crosswalk before she was hit by a car. It happened Tuesday morning near South Mobile Way and Smoky Hill Road. People found living in tunnel under highway flyover There was no word on her condition as of the airing of this story. Officials with the Aurora Police Department confirmed officers responded just after 8 a.m. The crash involved three vehicles.Students hurt in crash at same intersectionAs FOX31 began gathering elements for this story, they ended up hearing from another neighbor, whose daughter was hit by a car at the same intersection two years ago.“So it was actually right there, that crosswalk,” said Nikki Miguel, a senior at Smoky Hill High School. She shared pictures of what happened to her. "I was waiting at the light for my turn to walk … out of nowhere,...

Man accused in shooting of MDPD officer in Miami is son of Miami-Dade School Board member; 5 arrested

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:42:39 GMT

Police said they have made five arrests in connection to the shooting of a Miami-Dade Police narcotics officer who was making an arrest in Miami, including the man who pulled the trigger.7News cameras captured 32-year-old Steve Gallon IV as he was led inside the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade, Thursday night.The alleged gunman, who faces a charge of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer with a firearm, is the son of Miami-Dade School Board member Dr. Steve Gallon III.https://twitter.com/fox_sheldon/status/1634007860714651649?s=20According to investigators, Gallon IV ambushed the victim while he was arresting another man in the area of Northwest 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, just after 4 p.m., Wednesday.The shooting kicked off an intense manhunt that led officers to set up a large perimeter in the Buena Vista West neighborhood. Officers in tactical gear from multiple agencies went door-to-door in search of the suspects.Wednesday night, police co...

Video shows 2 restraining man accused of stealing 18-wheeler at Medley truck stop; suspect arrested

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:42:39 GMT

Two men turned into crime fighters after a crook took off with their 18-wheeler at a truck stop in Medley.Medley Police officers took 24-year-old Exon Gonzalez Caceres into custody after, they said, he stole a tow truck at the Pilot Travel Center located at 12200 NW South River Drive, Thursday.The arrest came at the end of a chaotic chain of events that began when the owner of the tow truck parked it at a gas pump and left it unlocked and unattended.As the truck’s owner was inside the gas station, police said, a witness told him that his truck driver did not know how to drive. It was at that moment, when the victim realized his vehicle was being stolen.Investigators said the truck’s owner, along with an employee and other witnesses, ran out to confront the suspect, but it was too late.Police said Gonzalez Caceres crashed into a car that someone had positioned to block his path in order to prevent him from fleeing.Detectives said the suspect fled west along Northwest Sout...

Meet Fiona Hill: Inside the collapse of Theresa May’s government

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:42:39 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher .st0{fill:#EB8A23;} .st1{fill:#FAC617;} .st2{fill:#612368;} .st3{fill:#3792C4;} .st4{fill:#C33727;} Acast Co-host Aggie Chambre sits down for a rare interview with former Downing Street chief of staff Fiona Hill to talk about her central role in Theresa May’s first government, the astonishing highs and di...

Istanbul lays bare Turkey’s electoral fault lines

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:42:39 GMT

“Nothing will be the same.”In a country still reeling from last month’s devastating earthquake, these words from Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu highlight how the disaster now entirely pervades and steers national politics — with significant potential consequences for the two-decade-long rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who faces an election on May 14. İmamoğlu is one of the main opposition politicians seeking to eject the sitting president from power in two months time, and it has escaped no one’s attention that Erdoğan before him had used the Istanbul mayorship as a springboard to national office. And while Turkey’s opposition has rallied behind former bureaucrat Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as the unity candidate to defeat Erdoğan in the race for the presidency, İmamoğlu has been identified as a vice-president in the wings. Addressing a crowd that greeted him with rapturous applause, İmamoğlu’s main theme at the March 1 event was the need to steel Istanbul itself —...

Missing! The mystery of Britain’s vanishing workforce

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:42:39 GMT

LONDON — It’s a mystery testing the finest minds in Whitehall.What exactly has happened to more than half a million British workers who have vanished from the U.K. workforce since the outbreak of COVID-19?U.K. Treasury officials have been left scratching their heads by statistics showing that while unemployment is at a historic low, there are 516,000 more working-age Brits classed as “economically inactive” than there were before the pandemic.The collapse in productivity has served a crippling blow to the already-struggling British economy, which the IMF predicts will be the only major Western economy to shrink in 2023.The scale of the problem is such that U.K. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt now plans to make tackling economic inactivity one of the centerpieces of his first budget statement next week. “The U.K. is really quite unique among rich countries in having had a persistent fall in the size of its workforce after the pandemic,” said Xiaowei Xu, senior research econo...

Bravo Poland for supporting Ukraine. Now make nice with Germany

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:42:39 GMT

Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven is a senior adviser at Berlin Global Advisors. He is a former German Ambassador to Poland.As Ukraine’s staunchest supporter, Poland’s place both in Europe and the world has been transformed. And with United States President Joe Biden recently completing his second visit to the Polish capital — even though he’s yet to visit Berlin or Paris — Europe’s heart, so it seems, now beats in Warsaw.Yet, the Polish government’s ongoing nationalist, illiberal policies continue to undermine Europe’s unity at the very same time.From a personal perspective, as a former German Ambassador to Poland, the most painful — and counterproductive — part of Polish policy is its antagonism toward my country. And if Europe is to succeed in beating Russian aggression, Warsaw and Berlin must learn to work together.Before Russia’s invasion, U.S.-Polish relations had hit rock bottom. As a presidential candidate, Biden cited Poland alongside Belarus as a ...

Move over Trump, Johnson and Fabricant, there’s a new terrible haircut in town

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:42:39 GMT

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column.That sound you can hear is Michael Fabricant screaming in anger.Fabricant is a British member of parliament far better known for what we might charitably call his haircut than for any of his political beliefs (although this week he did say that older people are better at spelling, which is competlie nonspence).Imagine someone cosplaying as Boris Johnson never having actually seen Boris Johnson and you’re getting close to the horror show that is Fabricant’s hair do (maybe hair don’t would be better). It looks very much like a wig but he says he isn’t, although he has admitted that “there is some — but only some — enhancement of the follicular area.”Anyway, Fabricant would almost certainly be horrified if he knew that he is now not even close to having European politics’ oddest haircut. Please welcome to the stage Rain Epler, a former government minister from the Estonian nationalist party EKRE, who was...

Submarine scramble: Tech issues could threaten 3-nation megaplan for the Pacific

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:42:39 GMT

On Monday, the leaders of the U.S., U.K. and Australia will gather in San Diego on the edge of the Pacific Ocean to announce how they plan to work together to build nuclear-powered submarines for the Australian navy.The AUKUS agreement, a sprawling military pact first announced 18 months ago, promises to bring seismic changes to how the world’s most secretive military technologies are shared among allies, with strategic implications on how the three longtime friends can band together to stare down China in the coming decades.The three governments have agreed to a highly complex three-part deal that will come in stages to stagger the massive industrial muscle movements necessary to carry it through, according to two people close to the talks. The people, like others interviewed for this story, requested anonymity to speak about the deal before it is formally announced.Most immediately, Australia is expected to serve as a forward base for a small number of U.S. submarines by the end o...