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1 injured in shooting involving Aurora Police officers

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:35:32 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Aurora Police are investigating a shooting involving officers that sent one person to the hospital.Just before 4 a.m. Wednesday, the Aurora Police Department tweeted about a shooting near the intersection of Colfax and Havana in the Delmar Parkway neighborhood.According to police, no officers were injured, but one person was taken to the hospital. The investigation is in the early stages, and police have not said how many shots were fired. Denver to clear homeless camp after downtown shooting All westbound lanes of Colfax are open, but eastbound remains closed, alternate routes are advised. This is a developing story. FOX31 has a crew on the way to learn more and speak with the Aurora chief of police. This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

Sunshine and Some Onshore Showers this Week

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:35:32 GMT

A much nicer and drier week has been the story so far in South Florida and that trend continues the next several days as drier air feeds in from the north and east while most of the moisture remains confined to our south.The persistent easterly breeze will gradually lessen the rest of this week and won’t be as strong today as yesterday, allowing for better marine conditions. This breeze will drive some showers onshore throughout today but will be brief. This Wednesday overall will feature lots of sunshine with near-normal highs into the low 90s.Thursday and Friday also look fairly similar with isolated to scattered showers and storms, especially across inland areas during the afternoons. Highs will remain steady near average.By the weekend, there aren’t any big changes to the forecast with high pressure in control to the north. There will still be some moisture in place to allow for the development of sea breeze showers and storms but this activity won’t be widespr...

Russia downs 3 drones over Moscow, in 6th straight day of attacks

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:35:32 GMT

Russia said it shot down three Ukrainian drones flying toward Moscow and its surrounding regions on Wednesday, in the sixth consecutive day of attacks on the capital region. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Russian air defense systems shot down two drones over the Mozhaisk and Khimki districts, the country’s defense ministry said on Telegram. A third drone was jammed with electronic warfare and lost control, hitting a building under construction in the Moscow City district. According to the ministry, there were no casualties.“City emergency services are inspecting the area in the perimeter of the City for the consequences of the strike,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his Telegram channel. “Several windows in two neighboring five-story buildings were blown out.”Russian state-owned media outlet RIA Novosti reported that the third drone damaged the glazing of a Moscow tower and windows on two floors of a residential building. Wreckage of the drone that fell over the Khim...

Person transported by medical helicopter after industrial accident in Holliston

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:35:32 GMT

A person injured in an industrial accident in Holliston was transported to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston late Tuesday night.A post shared on X showed a helicopter landing at Stoddard Park to transport the patient.No additional information was immediately available.https://twitter.com/HollistonFD/status/1694195411588706467This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Thaksin moved from prison to a hospital less than a day after his return to Thailand from exile

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:35:32 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s divisive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was transferred from prison to a hospital early Wednesday, less than a day after he returned from 15 years of exile and started serving an 8-year sentence.He returned to Thailand on the same day a party linked to him won a parliamentary vote to form a new government. Thaksin was then sent to prison to serve sentences from several criminal convictions in absentia that he had decried as politically motivated.The prison reported Thaksin had high blood pressure and low oxygen, he could not sleep and felt tightness in his chest, according to a statement from Sitthi Sutivong, deputy director-general of the Corrections Department.Doctors at the prison’s hospital said he should be transferred to prevent life-threatening risks, the statement said. Corrections officials previously had said Thaksin, 74, was considered vulnerable due to his age and chronic conditions of his heart and lungs, high blood pressure, an...

Tropical Storm Franklin makes landfall and dumps heavy rain on Haiti and Dominican Republic

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:35:32 GMT

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Tropical Storm Franklin made landfall Wednesday on the island of Hispaniola amid warnings of landslides and heavy flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Tropical Storm Franklin chugged toward the island of Hispaniola shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti early Wednesday, bringing fears it would trigger deadly landslides and heavy flooding in both countries. Franklin was expected to swirl above the island for most of Wednesday, with forecasters warning the storm could dump up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain, with a maximum of 15 inches (38 centimeters) in isolated areas.By early Wednesday morning, the storm was centered about 120 miles (190 kilometers) southwest of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. It had maximum winds of 50 mph (85 kph) with higher g...

Two tankers have collided in Egypt’s Suez Canal, disrupting traffic in the vital waterway

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:35:32 GMT

CAIRO (AP) — Two tankers carrying oil products and liquefied natural gas collided in the Suez Canal, disrupting traffic through the global waterway, Egyptian authorities said Wednesday. The Suez Canal authority said in a statement that the BW Lesmes, a Singapore-flagged tanker that carries liquefied natural gas, suffered a mechanical malfunction on Tuesday night and ran aground while transiting through the canal. The Burri, a Cayman Island-flagged oil products tanker, collided with the broken vessel.The collision disrupted traffic, the statement said. The two tankers were part of a convoy transiting through from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.“We’ve immediately handled the breakdowns … and traffic will go back to normal in both directions within the coming hours,” said Adm. Ossama Rabei, the head of the canal authority, in the statement.The canal services firm Leth Agencies said Wednesday the incident delayed the transit of 21 southbound vessels.About 10% of world trade ...

Rogers expands 5G service for customers in parts of downtown Toronto subway network

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:35:32 GMT

TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc. has rolled out its high-speed 5G wireless service to its own customers in core parts of Toronto’s downtown subway network, as it continues to feud with the other major carriers over access for all transit riders.The company said it has also upgraded the cellular network to provide all subway riders with more reliable access to 911 service in the same areas.Rogers chief executive Tony Staffieri called the launch an important milestone.“We’re working hard to modernize and expand the network so all riders can reliably access 911 and connect to 5G everywhere across the subway system, including underground,” he said in a statement.As of Wednesday, Rogers says its customers can connect to its 5G network while in the Line 1 stations and tunnels in the Downtown U, plus Spadina and Dupont stations.Users will also be able to access the 5G network in 13 stations on Line 2 from Keele to Castle Frank, plus the tunnels between St. George and ...

OPP says it’s ‘referred’ Greenbelt matter to RCMP

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:35:32 GMT

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) says it will be up to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to decide if their will be a police investigation into Ford government’s plans to open up parts of the Greenbelt for housing development.“The OPP has received a number of inquiries regarding an investigation into the Greenbelt,” the OPP said in a release.“To avoid any potential perceived conflict of interest, the OPP referred this matter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).”It comes a day after the resignation of Ryan Amato, the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, following a scathing report from Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk that found developers who had access to Amato wound up with 92 per cent of the land that was removed from the protected Greenbelt.“The Premier’s Office has accepted Ryan Amato’s resignation as Chief of Staff to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, effective immediately,” ...

Kosovo inaugurates ‘Wall of Honor’ statue for 23 Albanians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:35:32 GMT

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A statue bearing the names of 23 Kosovo Albanians who rescued Jews from the Holocaust during World War II was inaugurated Wednesday in the capital, Pristina.The “Wall of Honor” statue was placed in a park in Pristina in the presence of some of the rescuers’ descendants, political leaders, and the U.S. and German ambassadors. Some 500 Jews lived in Kosovo, then part of former Yugoslavia, at the beginning of the war. Many were arrested, deported to nearby prisons or Nazi-managed camps and almost half of them died.Local Albanians helped scores of Jews to escape, usually taking them to neighboring Albania.Leke Rezniqi’s great-grandfather Arslan rescued Jewish physician Chaim Abrabanel, who was working in Skopje, now in North Macedonia. Arslan Rezniqi sheltered him and worked with another Albanian, Arif Alickaj, to prepare false documents and take Abrabanel safely to Albania. “That shows only the example of the uniqueness of Albanian rescue,” Leke Rezn...