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High-tech wheelchair allows police officer to pursue his passion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:50 GMT

BRIGHTON, Colo. (KDVR) — A Brighton Police officer involved in four job-related car crashes is now permanently disabled. But thanks to a high-tech wheelchair provided by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, he is able to continue to enjoy the outdoors.Bill Holder has ridden in many vehicles in his life. Jeeps and patrol cars are his favorite. Holder was a police officer for the Brighton Police Department for 14-and-a-half years. Loveland artist gets his inspiration from the Colorado outdoors Today at Barr Lake State Park, he is jumping in another vehicle. It’s called a trackchair, a specially modified wheelchair fitted with tank-like treads instead of wheels.It is a challenge for Holder to walk these days. A series of car crashes that began in 1993 put an end to his career in law enforcement.“I already was parked in an alleyway looking for drunk drivers when one found me. He hit me head-on at probably 55 mph," Holder said.Bill Holder in his trackchair at Barr Lake State Park (KDVR)Incredi...

Fort Lauderdale Beach hotel guest fatally shot, leaving tourists stunned; man arrested, charged with murder

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:50 GMT

Police have arrested a man in connection to the fatal shooting of a guest at a Fort Lauderdale Beach hotel that left other visitors in shock.Cellphone video showed Fort Lauderdale Police officers and paramedics with Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue as they surrounded the Ocean Mile Hotel, early Wednesday morning.“Rescue, respond to a shooting. Caller advising someone got shot,” a dispatcher said in radio transmissions.Investigators said the victim was found in the breezeway of the hotel with a gunshot wound to the chest.“I was terrifying, like, our first night in Florida,” said hotel guest Izzy Blakey.Detectives said that bullet was fired just after midnight at the hotel, located along A1A, near Northeast 41st Street, adding that the shooting appears to have been a random attack.Blakey and Meg Gill, who are visiting from England, said they were staying on the third floor when they heard the chaos.“We were frozen for a minute, looked out the window and then l...

I know what MPs did last summer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:50 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher .st0{fill:#EB8A23;} .st1{fill:#FAC617;} .st2{fill:#612368;} .st3{fill:#3792C4;} .st4{fill:#C33727;} Acast With Westminster largely empty during the summer recess, host Aggie Chambre heads out of London to watch MPs in different parts of the country meet the people who really matter — the voters.At constitu...

US, Europe officials: Prigozhin’s death leaves Putin stronger, for now

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:50 GMT

U.S. and European officials assessing the fallout from the death of mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin say it’s likely to strengthen Vladimir Putin’s short-term grip on Russia but weaken his standing over time.Outside governments are still trying to ascertain exactly what caused Prigozhin’s plane to crash in Russia on Wednesday, two months after he led a brief mutiny and clashed with Russian forces over grievances about the Kremlin’s approach to the war in Ukraine. Russia’s civil aviation agency said Wednesday that Prigozhin was one of 10 people killed when the flight crashed, and Putin spoke of him in the past tense Thursday.Western officials reached Thursday argued that Prigozhin’s death could temporarily strengthen Putin’s hand, or at the very least leave his level of power unchanged.“Putin has a pretty clear track record of at least operating within his own country with impunity,” a U.S. official familiar with Russia policy said. “I don’t get the sense t...

Crack cocaine floods Brussels as alarm sounds over safety in EU capital

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:50 GMT

BRUSSELS — Around here, no one wants to work the night shift. Karim H’Didouane has been a receptionist at Park Inn by Radisson next to Brussels Midi railway station for two years. The area is changing, he said — and not for the better.“There’s an increase of drug dealers, vandalism, stealing,” H’Didouane said. “It’s not safe at any moment.”Park Inn sits across the road from one of Brussels Midi’s entrances, in an area of the city’s Saint-Gilles district which has garnered a reputation for violence and crime, particularly when darkness falls.H’Didouane isn’t the only one who feels unsafe. A few feet from Park Inn, Mostafa Abdelazim, receptionist at Euro Capital hotel, has had his wallet stolen five times in five years.“[It’s] not the best image for when international travelers arrive at the station,” he said. “Most of them arrive [at the hotel] already with a problem: ‘someone stole my bag’ … or ‘I’ve been attacked.’”On a warm summer afternoon, the station — Belgium’...

History as written by Vladimir Putin

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:50 GMT

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. The decade-long wait wasn’t worth it. It was inevitable that Russia’s new official history textbooks would just advance the Kremlin’s dreary weaponization of memory, that they would tighten its control over the historical narrative presented to the nation’s schoolchildren. We knew this would be the case.And, of course, the four new textbooks Russian high-schoolers will be cracking open at the start of the school year next month — covering the period from 1945 to the present day — are also focused on justifying the invasion of Ukraine, placing it in the context of “demilitarization” and “denazification,” while casting Russia as a victim of so-called Western aggression.How could it be otherwise when Russia’s pseudo-historian-in-chief, President Vladimir Putin, ordered the rewrite himself, and the drafting was overseen by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, the chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission on Historical Education...

Brexit Wars part II: Tories plot British exit from Europe’s human rights treaty

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:50 GMT

LONDON — For years, U.K. Conservatives seeking right-wing support have floated idle threats to pull Britain out of Europe’s top human rights treaty. This time, they might actually mean it.As a steady stream of undocumented migrants continues to arrive on U.K. shores, British ministers are running out of ideas on how to deliver Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s totemic promise to “stop the boats” crossing the English Channel.And with Sunak’s flagship deterrence plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda still snarled up in the courts after a flurry of human rights claims, an increasing number of Conservatives want Britain to take a more radical step — leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) altogether. It would be a seismic decision. Britain was one of the driving forces behind the drafting of the ECHR in 1950, with Winston Churchill hailing its charter as “central to our movement.” Today, the only European nations that are not members are Russia — expelled last ye...

Inflation? This man holds the key

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:50 GMT

One man may be about to make the difference to how the globe’s central banks deal with inflation.As Jerome Powell, the chair of the U.S’s Federal Reserve, prepares to speak at its annual shindig at Jackson Hole on Friday, he could signal whether he’s ready to perform a major shift. The world is watching.After America’s worst inflation in 40 years, and similar patterns in Europe and the U.K., he may indicate that an intense period of raising interest rates to get price rises under control is over. Yet that’s difficult while it still isn’t as low as he’d like it to be. So the big question that Powell’s speech needs to address is really: how long can it afford to keep rates this high given increasing signs that they may be contributing to an economic slowdown? And if the answer is not very long, then will they just change their inflation targets?Finessing the approachTwo clear strands of thought have emerged in the days running up to the getaway in Wyoming. One says the Fed should keep...

14-year-old boy shot in the face in Fall River

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:50 GMT

A 14-year-old boy was taken to an area hospital Thursday night with an apparent gunshot wound to the face, Fall River police said. Detective Sergeant Moses Pereira in a statement said officers first responded to the Maple Gardens Housing Development around 8 p.m. for a report of shots fired. Pereira said officers found the injured teen on scene. The teen was then rushed to HASBRO Children’s Hospital with what Pereira described as “potentially life-threatening injuries.”“The investigation is extremely fluid at this time as investigators attempt to determine the circumstances surrounding the injury,” Pereira said. “Early indications suggest that this incident likely did not occur in the manner in which it was initially reported to police.”Investigators were spotted in the area with crime tape in place for several hours after this incident. No further information was immediately available. This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest ...

Kyle Gibson’s eight innings, Cedric Mullins’ tool set lead Orioles to series-clinching 5-3 win over Blue Jays

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:50 GMT

This is why the Orioles signed Kyle Gibson.With their rotation in flux, the Orioles called upon Gibson, temporarily their lone veteran starter, once again, a day earlier than expected. He delivered Baltimore’s lengthiest start of the season Thursday, going eight innings in a series-clinching 5-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.The outing, supported by home runs from Anthony Santander and Cedric Mullins, kept the Orioles’ lead on the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League East at two games. Baltimore (79-48) ends the season with a 10-3 record against Toronto, leading the Blue Jays — at 70-58 the best team in the AL not in playoff position — by 9 1/2 games.Gibson, signed to a one-year, $10 million contract this offseason, has often provided dependability in the Orioles’ rotation, even as his surface-level numbers have been less than stellar. After Thursday’s eight innings of three-run ball, Gibson has a 5.84 ERA in his past 14 starts, but nine of ...