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After harrowing journey to Denver, Venezuelan family helps others

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:05 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Juan Carlos, a migrant living in Denver, said he was an orphan in his native Peru. As a child, he received medical care in the United States for a cleft lip.Juan Carlos learned English. Later, he had a child with his wife, Arianna, in Venezuela. Now he's using his English language skills to help other migrants in the city. How you can help migrants in Denver A month ago, Juan Carlos and his wife brought their son, 2-year-old Kurt, from Venezuela and across Colombia to the deep jungle that separates Central and South America."On foot, with the baby," Juan Carlos said. "I take the baby here like a kangaroo."Family journeys 2 continents to the USThe family had to trek dangerous and steep terrain to cross from one continent to another.The descent was treacherous. The family contemplated giving up."The children would get restless. They cried, they screamed," Arianna said. "It would make the parents very nervous."A new life for him and his family in the United States mot...

$150K reward offered for suspect information in mail carrier robbery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:05 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information on two suspects who allegedly robbed and assaulted a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier. According to the USPIS, the alleged robbery and assault happened on Sept. 1 at noon near the intersection of South Peoria Street and East Florida Avenue in Aurora. The area is near the Cottonwood Grove Park. Parker teacher fired after showing footage of school tragedies during lockdown drill U.S. Postal Service officials say the worker who was attacked was simply eating her lunch when the duo assaulted and robbed her and her carrier truck. The alleged getaway driver is in custody, but the USPIS is looking for two more suspects. According to the USPIS, the two suspects are affiliated with a gang. They may go by the following street names: "Traffic," "Emerald Seven," "Emperor Seven," "Almighty" or "Twin."The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is looking to identify these two suspects who allege...

Psych patient held against will discharged after Problem Solvers inquiry

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:05 GMT

LOUISVILLE, Colo. (KDVR) — When Jonathan Delgado-Concepcion checked himself into Centennial Peaks Hospital on Oct. 18, he thought he might be there for a few days — a week at the most.Instead, the 28-year-old found himself trapped at the behavioral health hospital in Louisville, unable to leave even after he said he felt his mental health was better."Suddenly, everything started to turn to a nightmare when they started to basically hold me against my will," Delgado-Concepcion said in a phone call from the hospital on Monday, Nov. 13.'Please do not give me any more drugs'Delgado-Concepcion admitted checking himself into the psychiatric hospital following a DUI arrest that he said led to a nervous breakdown. What he said he did not expect was to be given a combination of psychiatric drugs three times a day, long after he felt he was doing better and asked to be released."I started asking them, 'Please, do not give me any more drugs,' because I was already feeling good," Delgado-Concep...

Miami Bee Experts share their efforts to keep bee population alive — and how you can help

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:05 GMT

Bees, bees, bees — they help make the world go ’round. But with their numbers on the decline, our future doesn’t look so sweet.That’s where the Miami Bee Experts come in. They can teach you how to become a beekeeper and an ecosystem hero at the same time. Deco’s Alex Miranda is buzzing about the story.They will give you bees, or they will take your bees away. No matter what, the Miami Bee Experts do it ethically, because they love these little workers almost as much as I love Beyoncé.In the music world, Beyoncé is queen bee, but the queen of this beehive…Stephanie Smith: “He can’t possibly sting you.”Alex Miranda: “Can you guarantee that?”Stephanie Smith: “I promise.”…has no idea who she is.Stephanie Smith: “This is honey.”Alex Miranda: “Is that the queen, or is she sort of like voluptuous?”Queen Bubble Bee is her own boss babe and too busy for Bey.Stephanie Smith: “The queen is lay...

Association taking her mobile home?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:05 GMT

She was told she had 30 days to get out of a mobile home she owned, and if she didn’t her trailer, the association would take it and sell her home. Is that legal? To find out, she called Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.Dianellys’ mobile home was a gift. Literally.Dianellys Molina (translation): “The trailer was initially purchased by my children’s grandfather. Then he put it in my name.”This is the only home Dianellys’ two children know. A place they love.Dianellys Molina: “It’s been practically my whole life here with the children.”Twenty years after moving in, it all changed when she was walking her dog and her bosses’ dog, who she was pet sitting.The property manager came out.Dianellys Molina: “I was walking, she passed me by, and she told me, ‘You know that you can’t have two dogs here,’ and I said, ‘OK, I didn’t know that, but hey, that’s fine. In a little while, this dog is...

Israel’s ambassador to US pans Germany’s idea of a UN-controlled Gaza

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:05 GMT

Israel’s ambassador to the United States is critical of Germany’s suggestion that the UN take control in Gaza, proposing instead that Israel control the Palestinian territory for an “undefined period of time.”“I’m not sure the UN model is the best model because we don’t have a good experience with UN mandated forces,” Herzog said on Wednesday in an interview with POLITICO’s Power Play podcast.“It’s highly political, we all understand that.” Israel retaliated with daily airstrikes and a ground operation in densely-populated Gaza after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people. Israeli strikes have killed more than 11,000 Palestinians — including more than 4,500 children — and injuring tens of thousands of others, according to the Palestinian Authority. Israel also imposed a complete siege on Gaza in the days after October 7, strangling the territory and cutting off food, fuel, water and e...

No Gaza ceasefire: Israel’s US Ambassador says ground campaign will take ‘weeks’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:05 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast Israel’s most senior diplomat – Michael Herzog, the ambassador to the U.S. – is in the eye of a diplomatic storm in the country that is Israel’s most vital ally. He insists that a ceasefire “would invite the next war.”In this week’s edition of Power Play, host Anne McElvoy talks to Ambassador Herzog abo...

Holiday slasher ‘Thanksgiving’ serves up killer spread

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:05 GMT

“Thanksgiving,” Eli Roth’s latest slasher film, begins with a convincing, tense Black Friday sequence.  Outside a Plymouth big box store, an unruly crowd grows restive.The security is minimal and obnoxious teens who are friends of the owners gain early access and pointedly flaunt their VIP status inside the glass-walled building.  Suddenly, all restraint snaps and the crowd storms the store. No one is thinking of the French storming the Bastille but the result is similar:  Dead bodies, injured patrons followed by a pathetic blame game.With this the most riveting sequence in the seasonally appropriate “Thanksgiving,” the saga jumps a year as another Black Friday looms and Plymouth citizens start dying — being exterminated in the most cruel and despicable ways imaginable.There’s a back story here – “Thanksgiving” has its origins in a mock trailer Roth made for the 2007 horror hit “Grindhouse” which had Quentin Tarantino’s instant classic about a killer stuntman “Death Proof” on ...

Few winners in ‘Hunger Games’ prequel

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:05 GMT

Ah, Panem, how I have longed to return to your shores (kidding).Who is responsible for “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” the prequel to those mostly awful “The Hunger Games” films of 2012 through 2015 directed by Gary Ross (“Seabiscuit”) and Francis Lawrence (“Constantine”) and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson based on the novels by Suzanne Collins? Well, director Lawrence is back (as well as series producer Nina Jacobson). But the cast of this latest effort is new.Englishman Tom Blyth of TV’s “Billy the Kid,” who, with his blonde ‘do, bears a resemblance to Irishman Peter O’Toole aka Lawrence of Arabia, plays Coriolanus “Coryo” Snow, the impoverished son of the late Capitol warrior Crassus Snow. “Coryo” lives in genteel poverty with his “Grandm’am” (Irish screen and stage legend Fionnula Flanagan) and cousin Tigris (Hunter Schafer, TV’s “Euphoria”). The older Snow is played by Donald Sutherland is the earlier films...

How to grow your social network as you age

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:05 GMT

Friends sitting around a table, talking and laughing. A touch on the arm, as one of them leans over to make a confiding comment. A round of hugs before walking out the door.For years, Carole Leskin, 78, enjoyed this close camaraderie with five women in Moorestown, New Jersey, a group that took classes together, gathered for lunch several times a week, celebrated holidays with one another, and socialized frequently at their local synagogue.Leskin was different from the other women — unmarried, living alone, several years younger — but they welcomed her warmly, and she basked in the feeling of belonging. Although she met people easily, Leskin had always been something of a loner and her intense involvement with this group was something new.Then, just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, it was over. Within two years, Marlene died of cancer. Lena had a fatal heart attack. Elaine succumbed to injuries after a car accident. Margie died of sepsis after an infection. Ruth passed away after...