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In AP interview, Zelenskyy warns of dire consequences for Ukraine if it loses battle of Bakhmut to Russia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:08:18 GMT

ON A TRAIN FROM SUMY TO KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In AP interview, Zelenskyy warns of dire consequences for Ukraine if it loses battle of Bakhmut to Russia.Source

Greeley family claims dog was shot and killed by neighbor

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:08:18 GMT

GREELEY, Colo. (KDVR) -- A Greeley dog owner claims a neighbor shot and killed her dog after first, perhaps, trying to steal the canine.Angela Perkins said the crime happened last Thursday, in the alley, behind the family home on 8th Street.Perkins says the dog, named “Beast,” would never dig under a back fence or be able to scale its height.Yet, she claims a neighbor with a questionable history was able to either coax or pull her 1-and-a-half-year-old pup out of the backyard and into the alley, where, she claims he was shot and killed. 81-year-old accused of violently murdering his wife, daughter She believes the suspect was there with his own dog.“My suspicion,” she said, “is he [the neighbor] tried fighting [Beast] and when Beast got too scared, and he tried digging his way back in [the yard]. That’s when he decided to shoot him.”A Greeley Police spokesperson confirmed an incident did occur.Perkins said she and her husband will continue checking to see if neighboring businesses...

Denver Police Chief addresses SROs and possible solutions at community discussion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:08:18 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) - The Denver Police Chief and Colorado Attorney General joined an auditorium of concerned families for a community conversation on youth gun violence.A panel of those in charge of protecting Denver’s youth, supporting them in school and studying their minds took part in the discussion at New Hope Baptist Church Tuesday night. The panel formed to answer questions following the latest double shooting at East High School included:Phil Weiser, Colorado Attorney GeneralRon Thomas, Chief of Police, City and County of DenverKym Perkins, Dean of Students, East High SchoolDr. Marjorie Lewis, PhD., D. Min., LMFT, LAC, Behavioral Economist/Public Policy Analyst, Behavioral Health AcademyDr. Anthony Young, President of Denver-Rocky Mountain Association of Black Psychologists Herman White Jr., Chairman of the Board of Pirates Youth Football ProgramLakeisha Hodge, Founder of Struggle of Love FoundationMembers of the Young Black Men group at East High School“I'm less concerned a...

How to protect yourself from uninsured drivers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:08:18 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- How protected are you on the road? The latest numbers from the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association show more than 16% of Colorado drivers are uninsured, four percent higher than the national average.Insurance experts said it is important to maintain proper coverage to ensure protection against expenses associated with accidents.Regina Valdivia’s car was struck by another driver near Jewell Avenue and Decatur Street in Denver.She expected the driver's insurance company to cover her expenses, which amounted to more than $1,700 dollars. However, he could not be located by his carrier. Colorado catalytic converter thefts spiked nearly 8,000% since 2019 “We do everything the right way and I carry [insurance], don’t go anywhere without it and it’s just frustrating that other people don’t live by the way you know the way you do,” said Valdivia.The Rocky Mountain Insurance Association tells the Problem Solvers insurance companies are required by law to offer ...

Navy doctor pleads guilty to $2 million military scheme

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:08:18 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A U.S. Navy doctor from Coronado pleaded guilty Tuesday to defrauding the military branch, prosecutors said.Dr. Michael Villarroel, 51, admitted that he and others conspired to defraud the Navy by faking or exaggerating injuries to obtain insurance payments intended to help service members recovering from traumatic injuries, Kelly Thornton with the Office of the United States Attorney Southern District of California stated in a news release."Participants in the scheme obtained about $2 million in payments from the Traumatic Servicemembers Groups Life Insurance (TSGLI) program which is funded by service members and the Navy. Villarroel personally obtained more than $180,000 in kickbacks," Thornton said.Villarroel, the tenth defendant to plead guilty to crimes committed under the scheme, says he signed off on applications for a share of the insurance payments, knowing the claimed injuries were false or exaggerated, according to officials. South American theft ring targe...

South Bay 'American Rescue Plan' resources set to combat domestic violence, housing and hunger

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:08:18 GMT

CHULA VISTA, Calif. - Leaders in the South Bay voted to use funding from the American Rescue Plan to help with a variety of issues in Chula Vista: domestic violence, hunger, and housing, all becoming major concerns for people following the pandemic. A green light along the dais Tuesday night could help boost resources for Chula Vista nonprofits and homeless shelters, all thanks to the American Rescue Plan. It's a move one resident tells FOX 5 is a necessity. The city noting while although the height of the pandemic has subsided, issues of housing, domestic violence and food insecurity continue to impact families at rates of pre pandemic levels. Chula Vista City Council approved Tuesday to allocate a total of $700,000 of its nearly $29 million funding given back in August of 2021 from the feds. “I'm happy to see that some of this money is going to the domestic violence program having been a victim of domestic violence in my first marriage..." one resident Delia Dominguez Cervantes sa...

38 dead in Mexico fire after guards didn’t let migrants out

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:08:18 GMT

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — When smoke began billowing out of a migrant detention center in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Venezuelan migrant Viangly Infante Padrón was terrified because she knew her husband was still inside. The father of her three children had been picked up by immigration agents earlier in the day, part of a recent crackdown that netted 67 other migrants, many of whom were asking for handouts or washing car windows at stoplights in this city across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.In moments of shock and horror, Infante Padrón recounted how she saw immigration agents rush out of the building after fire started late Monday. Later came the migrants’ bodies carried out on stretchers, wrapped in foil blankets. The toll: 38 dead in all and 28 seriously injured, victims of a blaze apparently set in protest by the detainees themselves.“I was desperate because I saw a dead body, a body, a body, and I didn’t see him anywhere,” Infante Padrón said of her husb...

China threatens retaliation if Tsai and McCarthy meet

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:08:18 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — China has threatened “resolute countermeasures” over a planned meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Speaker of the United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during an upcoming visit in Los Angeles by the head of the self-governing island democracy. Diplomatic pressure against Taiwan has ramped up recently, with Beijing poaching its dwindling number of diplomatic allies while also sending military fighter jets flying toward the island on a near daily basis. Earlier this month, Honduras established diplomatic relations with China, leaving Taiwan with only 13 countries that recognize it as a sovereign state.Tsai is scheduled to transit through New York on March 30 before heading to Guatemala and Belize. On April 5, she’s expected to stop in Los Angeles on her way back to Taiwan, at which time the meeting with McCarthy is tentatively scheduled. Spokesperson for the Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office Zhu Fenglian at a news conference Wednesday denounced Tsai’...

Pamela Smart, serving life, waits for chance to be heard

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:08:18 GMT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Vanessa Santiago first met Pamela Smart in 2003 as a fellow prison inmate in New York, working with her as a teacher’s aide and participating with her in an arts rehabilitation program. The two became close, and when Santiago, 43, was released from the maximum security Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in 2020, she continued to stay in touch with Smart and support her petition for a sentence reduction hearing.Smart, 55, has served over 30 years of a life-without-parole sentence for plotting with her teenage lover to kill her husband in 1990. She has exhausted all of her judicial appeal options. The New Hampshire Supreme Court is expected to release an opinion Wednesday on whether a state council that rejected her request for a sentence reduction hearing last year should reconsider it.The state attorney general’s office has opposed Smart’s commutation requests — there have been three denied by the council since 2005 — saying she has never accepted full re...

Nashville shooting highlights security at private schools

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:08:18 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An alarm blared and lights flashed as a heavily armed assailant stalked the hallways of The Covenant School.Surveillance footage of the shooting Monday at the private Christian school in Nashville showed many familiar security measures, including the double set of locked glass doors the killer shot their way through before fatally shooting three children and three school employees. “It’s just next to impossible to stop someone with an AR-17 coming through the door,” said George Grant, a leader with the Nashville Presbytery, which is connected with the school. Grant said the presbytery doesn’t have a formal security program for its churches and schools but that members have worked together to share best practices and improve safety. Around the U.S., private schools generally do not face as many requirements as public schools for developing security plans. In Tennessee, laws requiring schools to develop and submit safety plans do not apply to private scho...