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Denver starts new wastewater tests to learn more about COVID-19

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:59 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver has started a new pilot program testing wastewater at specific locations across the city for signs of COVID-19. In March, Denver’s Department of Public Health and Environment began collecting samples from the raw sewage at two elementary schools. Samples are taken twice per week and tested at the state lab for COVID.  Prosecutors to argue that accused King Soopers shooter is competent “Wastewater testing is not new. We were using it throughout the course of the pandemic but it was happening at the state level,” Courtney Ronner, Denver’s COVID-19 public information officer, said.According to Ronner, Colorado health officials did their testing at wastewater facilities that contained mixtures of wastewater from multiple different areas. Denver’s program aims to focus on a few specific locations like schools, jails, shelters for those experiencing homelessness and living facilities for older adults.“I think we all have to come to terms with COVID is not going aw...

Teen plotted Colorado school shootings: affidavit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:59 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office filed formal charges against a 19-year-old who allegedly planned shootings at multiple schools within Academy School District 20.On Thursday, April 6, William Whitworth, who identifies as “Lilly Whitworth,” was formally charged with the following offenses: Criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder (two counts)Criminal mischiefMenacingInterference with staff, faculty or students of educational institutionsThe defendant's preliminary hearing is slated for May 5 at 2:30 p.m. Her bond is set at $75,000. Prosecutors to argue that accused King Soopers shooter is competent A statement from an ASD20 spokesperson explained Whitworth attended three ASD20 schools over two years, but only for nine months:August 2014 - February 2015: Prairie Hills ElementaryJanuary 2016 - February 2016: Home School AcademyAugust 2016 - October 2016: Timberview Middle SchoolInvestigation detailed in affidavitAccording to an ...

Tow truck driver caught on video ransacking SUV near South Beach lot faces burglary, petty theft charges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:59 GMT

A Miami Beach tow truck driver is facing serious charges after he was caught on video rummaging through the contents of an SUV that was illegally parked in a South of Fifth municipal lot, and police said he stole cash and valuables from the vehicle.Cellphone video obtained exclusively by 7News shows the two truck driver moments after he drove away from the lot with a woman’s Mazda SUV back in January.The footage shows the tow truck driver parking along a bike path next to the lot, then getting out of the truck, walking toward the SUV and opening the front passenger door.While the owner of the SUV, who was working across the street at the time, was expecting her vehicle to be towed, what the driver was seen doing after he removed the Mazda from the lot made her furious.“Oh, my God, he’s going into my car,” she is heard saying in the video. “He’s going in my car to see what the [expletive] is in my car.”The police report states in part, “At her place of employment, [...

Lyon solid in goal as Florida beats Ottawa 7-2

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:59 GMT

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Alex Lyon set a franchise record for saves in a regulation game and Aleksander Barkov scored twice as the Florida Panthers beat the Ottawa Senators 7-2 on Thursday night for their fifth consecutive victory.Florida remains tied with the New York Islanders for the top wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference but holds the tiebreaker with more wins.Lyon got his fifth consecutive win in place of Sergei Bobrovsky and ended with 56 saves — surpassing the regulation record of 53 set by Craig Anderson on March 2, 2008.The record for most saves total in a game of 57 was set in a overtime loss to Detroit by Hall of Famer Roberto Luongo on Feb. 27, 2002. Lyon’s 56 saves is second all-time in Florida history.“Things just worked out tonight. I was feeling good early and made some good-feeling saves early and that set the table for the game,” said Lyon, who has spent much of the season with Florida’s AHL team in Charlotte. “It has been great, has been awesome. I am just tryin...

The secretive committee wiring Europe’s finances: An unlikely duo exits the stage

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:59 GMT

It’s a tale of intrigue, improbable friendship and backroom deal-making that gets to the heart of where political power in the EU really lies.And it concerns one of the bloc’s most secretive — yet influential — bodies, and two of its leading members who have just been booted off it.You’ve probably not heard of the body, and you’ve almost certainly never heard of the pair of officials, yet a clearer example of power-behind-the-throne you’re unlikely to find. Backstage, the strings they pulled helped steer the bloc through choppy economic waters.The twin departures of the Italian and German senior treasury officials, Alessandro Rivera and Carsten Pillath, leave a gap at the center of EU decision-making at a time when governments are battling record inflation, facing a potential banking crisis, and bickering over how to change EU spending rules.Rivera and Pillath sat on the Economic and Financial Committee, and its smaller eurozone-only cousin, the Eurogroup Working Group. No public ag...

Regulating the machine: Europe’s race to get to grips with AI drugs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:59 GMT

How do you regulate a drug developed by artificial intelligence? That’s the question Europe’s regulators are grappling with as AI medicines speed toward market. At the heart of a regulator’s job is the responsibility to ensure that the benefits of a new medicine outweigh the inevitable risks. But, with AI starting to remake how drugs are developed, they could soon have some very different-looking submissions on their desks. Pharma companies could use algorithms at all stages of the drug-development process: to identify which molecules could best target a specific disease; to select patients for clinical trials based on how they’re expected to respond to a drug; and to extract trial data and complete forms for regulators. AI’s predictive powers could even eliminate the need to test drugs on animals.All this poses a regulatory challenge, raising questions about the transparency of the algorithms, the risk of AI failure and most importantly, the impact...

How to livestream all of Coachella 2023 performances

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:59 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. — This year, promoters of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival are bringing the fans that couldn’t attend the event in-person the most extensive livestreaming coverage it’s ever offered.Goldenvoice has once again teamed up with YouTube to livestream performances during the annual festival, which is taking place April 14-16 and April 21-23 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio with headlining sets by Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Frank Ocean. Unlike in previous years, the 2023 livestream will include coverage of all six stages during both weekends of the festival.Fans will be able to tune in to Coachella’s official YouTube channel, pick which stage they want to watch and, if they can’t watch it live, the performances will be on repeat after the evening’s final performance and until the live show picks up again the next day.There’s also all kinds of exclusive content on the channel, including backstage interviews with artists, behind-the-scenes bits and views of the s...

Pozniak: Stop paging Dr. Google for medical advice

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:59 GMT

A health misinformation storm is raging throughout the country as people use Google to search for help with their medical problems, often leading to unreliable information, inaccurate diagnosis, and inappropriate and costly self-treatments.Dr. Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States, said that health misinformation is a serious threat to the public health of our country as it causes confusion, mistrust, harms people’s health and undermines the efforts of trained and licensed medical professionals.The explosion of false and misleading health information on social media platforms has created a national challenge for the medical profession. Recent data suggests that 80% of internet users search for medical information and cures for themselves or family members. People of all ages are meeting with physicians and presenting their own diagnoses and medication plan based on what they have read on Google. This leads to growing frustration within the medical community. One l...

‘Paint’ dabs at comedy as portrait of quirky TV artist

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:59 GMT

MOVIE REVIEW“Paint”Rated PG-13. At Landmark Kendall Square, AMC Boston Common and suburban theaters.Grade: B-A past-present temporal mashup, “Paint” from first-time feature writer-director Brit McAdams is set in a world that has stood still, or at least been slow to catch up to our present day. The film, which is set in Vermont and is said to be a send-up of pioneering TV artist Bob Ross, is a deadpan, perhaps too deadpan and not-very-funny comedy that paints a portrait (excuse me, it’s contagious) of Carl Nargle (Owen Wilson), a bearded, ‘fro-sporting, pipe-smoking star of the local Burlington, Vermont PBS station. Carl’s show is entitled “Paint,” and on it he, OK, paints pictures, all of them of Vermont’s Mount Mansfield, the highest peak in the state.Carl is a superstar to legions of oldsters and barflies enraptured by his every word (and picture). This includes his coworkers, who are mostly women, as well as the station manager Tony (Stephen Root), who ca...

Graham: Sununu mocks Mass., writes off Trump

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:59 GMT

Gov. Chris Sununu was in classic form Wednesday as he addressed a friendly New England Council crowd, getting laughs, taking shots at Massachusetts tax policy, and declaring a Trump presidential bid dead on arrival.As for his own potential White House run, Sununu demurred as usual. But he pledged to be a player in the 2024 cycle one way or another.“I may or may not run, but I promise you this: I’m not sitting this one out. I’m going to throw my weight behind somebody,” Sununu said.The New England Council event was held at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, where the NEC co-hosts the Politics and Eggs breakfasts that are a mandatory part of any first-in-the-nation candidacy. And Sununu had a clear message for the candidates and the primary voters who’ll pick the nominees.“One of the frustrations of America on both sides is we back leadership that either can’t win in November,” Sununu said, adding, “You can’t govern if you don’t win.”And he repeatedly made it clear he believes f...