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As DC’s 911 agency aims to fill shortage of call-takers, director suggests texting instead

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:06 GMT

D.C.’s 911 agency is in need of more people to train to take emergency calls. And its director said while they try to fill those positions — depending on what you need — texting may be a better way to get through to a dispatcher.It’s a difficult job with long hours, and that requires a lot of training. It’s not easy to fill the many vacant positions at the Office of Unified Communications, which has come under scrutiny in recent years for delayed responses and misdirected emergency responders during life or death situations.More Local NewsMore DC NewsBut while hosting Mayor Muriel Bowser at the agency’s headquarters this week, director Heather McGaffin noted that in comparison to before the pandemic, the agency is getting more calls and the nature of the calls has changed.“The types of calls that we are taking are now requiring us to stay on the phone longer if someone’s calling with a mental health emergency,” McGaffin said at a news confer...

Forense revela la causa de muerte de Coolio, rapero de Gangsta’s Paradise

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:06 GMT

(CNN) — El médico forense del condado de Los Ángeles publicó los resultados de la autopsia de la muerte de Coolio más de seis meses después de que el rapero de “Fantastic Voyage” fuera encontrado inconsciente en una casa de Los Ángeles.El informe enumera los efectos del fentanilo, la heroína y la metanfetamina como la causa de muerte. Coolio murió a los 59 años en septiembre.Otras “afecciones significativas” enumeradas en el informe incluyen “cardiomiopatía no especificada, asma y uso reciente de fenciclidina”.Coolio, el rapero de Gangsta’s Paradise, muere a los 59 añosHace siete años, Coolio habló con el locutor de radio Sway en su programa “Sway in the Morning” sobre la lucha contra la adicción a la cocaína.“Mi némesis era la cocaína”, dijo Coolio. “Solía consumir coca en los años 80 y dejé de hacerlo durante 12 años. Y luego comencé de nuevo”.En 2009, Coolio se declaró culpable de posesión de cocaína y accedió a ingresar a un ...

Back in black; McCutchen mixes nostalgia and hope in return

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:06 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The echoes of that electric October night nearly a decade ago when PNC Park shook and the Pittsburgh Pirates exorcised a generation of futility remain fresh to Andrew McCutchen.Johnny Cueto dropped the ball. Russell Martin homered and McCutchen and the Pirates celebrated a 2013 wild-card victory that rekindled a city’s love affair with a franchise that spent decades in Major League Baseball’s wilderness.The veteran outfielder still holds the moment close. Just not too close. He’s wary of getting too steeped in nostalgia, one of the reasons he’s repeatedly stressed his second stint with the club that drafted him in 2005 and helped mold him into a five-time All-Star is not a farewell tour.So consider the way McCutchen approached Friday’s home opener against the Chicago White Sox — his first appearance at PNC Park as a member of the Pirates since Sept. 27, 2017 — as more of a history lesson.There was McCutchen’s mother Petrina singi...

2 brush fires spark along I-70 near Denver International Airport

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:06 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Fire crews worked to put out two separate brush fires that sparked Friday afternoon near Interstate 70 and Peña Boulevard.The two "slow-moving" fires were reported around 2 p.m., according to tweets from Aurora Fire Rescue. Both Denver and Aurora fire crews responded. Denver International Airport pinpointed a fire location near 40th Avenue. Above-normal snowpack helps drought conditions in Colorado Aurora Fire Rescue said that crews had containment on both fires by about 2:35 p.m. One was east of the intersection and one was west. They were about an acre each."No buildings were threatened and no injuries occurred," Aurora Fire tweeted. An investigation into the cause was ongoing.A view of the fire from Colorado Department of Transportation cameras showed a stretch of charred grass beside the interstate.

Colorado taxpayers paid how much for weddings in Vail?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:06 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Tying the knot was 10% easier for dozens of Colorado couples in the last two years. First reported by Colorado Public Radio, the state has subsidized hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of weddings in the last two years. State subsidies are funded with taxpayer dollars. The Colorado Tourism Office executes the program.The program was part of a broader COVID pandemic push to keep economies afloat or to bounce them back - in this case, accommodation-based economies and their employees. The event subsidy program offered rebates of up to 10% of the total cost as long as they followed certain parameters. Here’s what the average cost was in 2022 for a wedding in Denver The weddings must cost at least $35,000 and have enough of a guestlist to create 25 nights' worth of hotel stays. Thirty-five were approved between July 2021 and October 2022, totaling almost $300,000.In effect, Colorado has ended up subsidizing expensive weddings in the state's most expensive venue l...

Week 1 of Stauch trial ends with physical evidence, texts

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:06 GMT

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Week one of the Letecia Stauch trial wrapped up Friday with evidence and expert testimony about 11-year-old Gannon Stauch’s body found 1,300 miles away under a bridge.Plastic covered evidence presented in the courtroom Friday included a large green suitcase. Defendant Letecia Stauch kept her head down and had hair over her face as the suitcase passed by her in the courtroom. Police testified about finding 11-year-old Gannon Stauch’s body inside of the suitcase under a bridge in Pensacola Florida on March 17, 2020.“This is going to be the bullet extracted from the victims head and the two plastic pieces found in there,” Santa Rosa County Crime Scene Technician Kelly Smith testified.Smith said, during the autopsy, they uncovered one bullet in Gannon’s head and two other bullets in a pillow found with him in the suitcase. Smith testified that Gannon’s clothes on his body showed “defects” that matched injuries on his body.  ‘You’re trying to pu...

Juvenile drowns in Northwest Miami-Dade lake; 2nd juvenile rushed to hospital

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:06 GMT

One juvenile has died and another has been rushed to hospital after they were pulled from a lake in Northwest Miami-Dade. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the drowning at 1180 NW 99 St., Friday afternoon. 7Skyforce hovered over the scene where rescue crews surrounded the area to rescue the juveniles. According to MDFR, three divers were in the water searching for the children. One of the children was rescued first and transported to the hospital. After searching further, divers were able to find the second child, who was also transported to the hospital. Ultimately, one of the juveniles did not survive. A witness at the scene told 7News that one of the children had foliage or some sort of plant wrapped around their leg. 7News spoke to witnesses who saw the rescue attempt. “That lake has a lot of weeds, and they took out the kid, and then that’s when they took him to the hospital,” a witness said. “They are very upset, very upset,”...

Police searching for driver involved in hit-and-run that injured 1

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:06 GMT

Police are searching for a driver in connection to a hit-and-run in Miami.City of Miami Police units responded to the scene if the crash in the area of Northwest 32st Avenue and 11th Street, Friday.According to investigators, the driver ran a stop sign, slammed into a pickup truck and took off. One of the passengers in the pickup truck was injured.If you have any information on this hit-and-run or the driver’s whereabouts, call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a reward of up to $5,000.

Lithuanian man attempts to break rowing record from Spain to Miami in 110 days or less

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:06 GMT

Imagine rowing all by yourself from Spain to Miami. That’s just what a young Lithuanian man is doing right now. 7’s Kevin Ozebek is putting the adventure of a lifetime in tonight’s 7 Spotlight.Meet Aurimas Valujavičius. He has been at sea by himself since he left Spain the day after Christmas.  His goal is to break a rowing world record for speed and distance from the coast of Spain to Miami in 110 days or less.Aurimas Valujavičius: “It will be world record as the fastest row unsupported and solo row from Europe mainland to North America.”When the journey is done, Valujavičiūs will have rowed his single-seat boat, the Lituanica, 5,000 miles.Aurimas Valujavičius: “This is a lifetime experience when you can be with yourself like more than three months. No people, no physical contact, nothing.”Valujavičiūs prepared for the trip for two years.He rows a brutal 12 to 14 hours every day. He only stops to sleep in his cabin.Aurimas Valujavičius: ...

Police searching for man caught on video hitting 2 employees at 7-Eleven in Brickell

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:06 GMT

Police are searching for the man who was caught on camera roughing up two employees at a 7-Eleven in Miami’s Brickell section.The security footage captured the subject as he pushed down and kicked one of the workers at the store located on Brickell Bay Drive, Sunday.Investigators said the subject tried to leave the convenience store without paying for merchandise.A co-worker tried to intervene, but the subject struck him repeatedly with a bicycle before taking off.If you have any information on this incident or the subject’s whereabouts, call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a reward of up to $5,000.