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Denver Zoo says goodbye to okapi after significant health decline

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:41:26 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Denver Zoo announced Friday that it said goodbye to a 14-year-old okapi after a "significant decline in her health last week."While its striped markings resemble that of a zebra, the Denver Zoo said the okapi is a relative of the giraffe. They can reach higher vegetation than most other hoofed animals thanks to their size and their versatile tongue. According to the Denver Zoo, okapi are one of the few mammals that can lick their own ears. 2 Colorado zoos named among best in US The zoo said that veterinarians and animal care teams anesthetized Kalispell, the okapi also known as Kali, to examine her and understand her health decline. Despite efforts and treatments, the zoo said she died on Dec. 19 surrounded by those who loved her.Kali, born in June 2009, was part of The Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan. She had a breeding recommendation with Sekele, a 14-year-old male okapi at the Denver Zoo, and was described as a fierce mother of two ...

Denver weather: Mild temperatures to cool over New Year's weekend

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:41:26 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Under the influence of high pressure, skies remained sunny in Denver weather, allowing temperatures to warm 10-15 degrees above normal. The weekend will start off with more abundant sunshine as temperatures stay very mild for this time of year. However, Pinpoint Weather, Colorado’s Most Accurate Forecast, is tracking slightly cooler temperatures to arrive by the end of the weekend.Forecast metro Denver highs on Saturday from Pinpoint WeatherWeather tonight: Few high clouds and coldThere will be some high thin clouds spilling across northeast Colorado overnight. The wind will be light and it will be cold again. There will be single digits for overnight lows in some Colorado mountain towns. However, most places across the higher elevation will stay above zero unlike the last few nights when temperatures crashed into negative territory. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up for alerts from the Pinpoint Weather team The eastern half of the state will be cold with temperatures di...

Porch pirates target North Miami neighborhood; longtime resident has message for thieves: ‘get a job’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:41:26 GMT

Police are looking for a pair of thieves who, they said, are going around a North Miami neighborhood and stealing packages from people’s front porches.Surveillance video shows two individuals carefully creeping up to a home Friday morning that had a go-cart parked out in the front.The homeowner said they heard noises coming from the outside of his property and turned the lights on, prompting the subjects to run away. But this is not the first time this North Miami home, located in the area of Northeast 125th Street and Fourth Avenue was targeted. Just a month prior to Friday’s incident, the same house was hit by a package thief. This porch pirate got away with $280 in Christmas gifts.Area residents said they are not a bit surprised.“Nope, absolutely not,” said Myron Roberts.Roberts, who has lived in the area 1997, said that in the past 26 years, he’s had three break-ins. “I had several packages stolen from my front door, and then I had my car whic...

Miami, Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale to host multiple free New Year’s weekend celebrations

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:41:26 GMT

The cities of Miami and Miami Beach will host multiple free New Year’s weekend celebrations, including free concerts, a holiday festival of lights and two New Year’s Eve firework extravaganzas to ring in 2024.According to study by WalletHub, Miami is considered the sixth best place to party on New Year’s Eve out of 100 cities in the United States.And there is so much to do in the Magic City. Phenomenal restaurants? Check. Great nightlife? Cheap. Things that are cheap? Try free.Fireworks shows in downtown Miami begin around 6 p.m., and they will even go past the clock striking midnight.That’s why Miami Police Chief Manuel Morales said there’s absolutely no reason for revelers to pop off anything of their own.“As always, we please encourage everyone not to engage in celebratory gunfire, ’cause the bullets that come up absolutely have to come down,” he said. “It might be your life or someone of your loved ones that you might be saving.”In...

WATCH: Revere storeowner describes chasing down suspect behind botched robbery attempt

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:41:26 GMT

The owner of a furniture store in Revere says he’s grateful an attempted robbery ended without serious injuries after he and his friends ran after and captured a suspect.Thaier Tuffaha, the storeowner of B.D.’s Furniture Outlet on Squire Road, shared surveillance video with 7NEWS showing the incident and described how he and a group of friends snapped into action to foil the attempt.Surveillance video captured the moment the suspect tried to rob the store, with him leaping over a counter and attempting to lunge at the cashier, only to slip on the floor and fall on his side as the employee ran away.All the while, several others, including Tuffaha, were watching.“I was in the back, looking at the camera – I have to,” Tuffaha explained, noting how he immediately thought to protect the employee by the register. “He’s attacking the girl – I didn’t care about the money then – I thought of the girl.”He said he never thought ...

Monster waves pound California, Hawaii

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:41:26 GMT

VENTURA, Calif. — Bulldozers built giant sand berms Friday to protect beachfront homes in one of California’s coastal cities hit hard this week by extraordinary waves generated by powerful swells from Pacific storms.Dozens of people watched construction of the emergency barriers in the Pierpont area of the city of Ventura, where a rogue wave on Thursday smacked spectators and vehicles as it overran the beach and flowed into a neighborhood.“We have had water down the lane once before but never like this,” said Karris Kutivan, a 9-year resident of the scenic shoreline city about 60 miles (97 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.“What it has taught me is I want to live by the beach, not on the beach,” Kutivan said.Eight people were taken to hospitals for treatment of injuries after the Pierpont incident, according to Ventura County authorities, who closed beaches, piers and harbors through Dec. 31.Similar waves overran beaches elsewhere Thursday on the California coast, flooding parkin...

Maine secretary of state who opted to keep Trump off primary ballot is facing threat of impeachment

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:41:26 GMT

By DAVID SHARP (Associated Press)PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s top election official could face an impeachment attempt in the state Legislature over her decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the Republican primary ballot.At least one Republican lawmaker has vowed to pursue impeachment against Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows despite long odds in the Democratic-controlled Legislature. Bellows said Friday that she had no comment on the impeachment effort, but said she was duty-bound by state law to make a determination on three challenges brought by registered Maine voters. She reiterated that she suspended her decision pending an anticipated appeal by Trump in Superior Court.“Under Maine law, I have not only the authority but the obligation to act,” she said. “I will follow the Constitution and the rule of law as directed by the courts,” she added.Bellows’ decision Thursday followed a ruling earlier this month by the...

Missing teenager found in man’s bedroom under trap door

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:41:26 GMT

STANFORD, Ky. (AP) — Police in Kentucky found a missing 16-year-old North Carolina girl under a trap door in the bedroom of a 34-year-old man after the man’s mother called authorities to report a domestic dispute between the two, according to arrest reports.When deputies with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the home on Christmas Day, Zachary Jones told them the girl had fled, but his mother disputed that and deputies began searching to check on her safety, the reports said. She was found “inside a bed room in a cut out door in the floor covered by a rug,” the report said. Deputies later determined that she had been reported missing from Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Dec. 6.The girl told deputies that Jones picked her up after making contact a few weeks earlier and that he originally told her he was 19. When they met and she questioned why he looked older, he told her he was 25, but she found out after getting to his home and meeting his family tha...

Trump’s lawyers say he may testify at January trial over defamation damages in sex abuse case

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:41:26 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say he may testify at a mid-January civil trial set to decide how much he owes a columnist for defaming her after she said he sexually abused her three decades ago in a Manhattan luxury department store.The lawyers filed papers in Manhattan federal court late Thursday to request that Trump’s October 2022 deposition transcript in the case not be shown to the jury because Trump “has been named as a witness to testify at this trial.”The lawyers — Alina Habba and Michael Madaio — did not respond to an email Friday seeking comment.The columnist, 80-year-old E. Jean Carroll, is planning to testify at the trial, slated to start Jan. 16, about how her life has been affected and threats she has faced since Trump claimed that he never knew her and that she was making false accusations against him.The former Elle magazine columnist is seeking $10 million in compensatory damages and substantially more in punitive damages after a jury at ...

Quebec provincial police suspend search for girl who fell into river on Dec. 22

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:41:26 GMT

DOLBEAU-MISTASSINI, Que. — Quebec provincial police say they’ve suspended the search for a four-year-old girl who fell into a river one week ago.The child has been missing since Dec. 22, when she fell into the Mistassibi River in Dolbeau-Mistassini, Que.–about 240 kilometres north of Quebec City — while sledding with her mother near the riverbank.Police officers shifted from a rescue to a recovery mission on Boxing Day, but there’s been no sign of the girl.In a statement, police say that specialized units deployed in the past week include officers walking the shorelines, divers in the water and drones and helicopters from above.Police divers will be deployed when the ice cover permits and authorities could mobilize various units if new information emerges.Authorities say an investigation into the event is ongoing.This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 29, 2023.The Canadian Press