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I-70 runaway ramp to close for months near Genesee

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:44 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — An Interstate 70 runaway truck ramp will close for months, leaving truckers with no emergency escape on a stretch of the mountain corridor headed toward Denver.The Mount Vernon emergency escape ramp will be rebuilt, and work was scheduled to start Monday, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. It's at milepost 257 in Jefferson County, just east of Genesee. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox The project will "make the ramp more visible and robust for truck drivers to use in the event of an emergency, such as failed brakes or a mechanical failure," CDOT said in a release.Closure is set for the end of November until late May or early June 2024. During that time, there will be no eastbound escape ramp from the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel to Golden. "Truckers must make sure their brakes and vehicles are in safe working order before heading down the steep grade," CDOT said.CDOT said the project was planned for winte...

DA refers Federal Heights Police Department for investigation

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:44 GMT

FEDERAL HEIGHTS, Colo. (KDVR) — The 17th Judicial District attorney is expressing major concerns about the Federal Heights Police Department.FOX31 obtained an Oct. 31 email from District Attorney Brian Mason to interim Federal Heights Police Chief Robert Grado. In the email, Mason breaks down the findings of a review of the department’s cases, finding serious failures and concerns for community safety. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox Mason's office shared the following statement with FOX31 about the review:“On April 13, 2023, the Interim Police Chief for the Federal Heights Police Department asked our office to conduct a review of cases within his department. The Interim Police Chief requested this because of concerns related to his department’s backlog of serious felony cases.Despite the unusual nature of this request, our office agreed to conduct the review in the interest of public safety. A Senior Deputy District Attorney and a Senior Investi...

Hay bales hit minivan on Colorado highway, leaving it undrivable

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:44 GMT

WELD COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — A Hudson family is warning drivers after bales of hay fell off a truck in front of their main family vehicle, leaving it undriveable."A couple of hay bales flew off and I hit one and clipped the other that flew at me," said Kayla Davis, who was driving when the hay bales hit. "I was able to make it safely on the side of the road, but I was shaking." FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox Davis said this unfolded around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, when she was driving to Dacono on state Highway 52, near County Road 14."I’m thankful I was in this big vehicle and not the small car behind me, because they could have died," Davis said.Davis said the driver of the truck left the scene, and she doesn't know if they were aware the hay bales fell off. But she said once she was pulled over, she called the Dacono Police Department for help."My husband's dad said it’s almost like hitting a deer," Davis said.A Colorado family's minivan was left u...

Domestic violence victim can’t break lease to escape accused attacker

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:44 GMT

Her abusive partner was arrested after being accused of hitting her with a gun. When she tried to break the lease and move out of the apartment they shared, her landlord told her. Can a victim of domestic violence break a lease? It’s why the call went out to help me Howard with Patrick Fraser.When Stephanie was a teenager, she met who she thought would be the love of her life.Stephanie Velez: “He was really nice to me at first, and, you know, he was very, like, treating me like a princess.”Stephanie and her partner had two beautiful children. What people may not know, their father was abusing their mother.Stephanie Velez: “He was for like almost five years and I thought he was going to change, but it just eventually, progressively got worse.”You may have noticed Stephanie doesn’t even have a picture of her with her ex, Rashaad Jenkins. Understandable after the last attack.Stephanie Velez: “He choked me and I woke up under my work desk and I ...

Demonstrators set to march in rally for Israel in Washington D.C

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:44 GMT

WASHINGTON (WSVN) –Demonstrators are preparing to hold a march for Israel in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. At the National Mall, a stage has been set up as final preparations are underway. The Jewish community, both in the U.S and in Israel, have different beliefs in regards to how the war should be conducted. The purpose of Tuesday’s rally is to bring those different communities together. “Absolutely, to Jews around the world,” said Robert Berrin, former board chair of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. Berrin, however, is an optimist.After years in leadership with the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, he said that the attacks of Oct. 7 have rocked every part, every faction of the Jewish community and has compelled a need to unite.“It was hard to believe, it was hard to fathom, and then, as you heard the details, it was horrendous,” he said.Berrin and tens of thousands of others are expected to gather at the National Mall in Washington on Tuesday at at...

Crews work to put out fire at townhouse in South Miami-Dade

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:44 GMT

A townhouse fire in South Miami-Dade on Monday prompted a quick response by rescue crews.The fire broke out at a unit at 28151 SW 142nd Court.The inside of the home had major burn damage and a child also suffered burns.The child was taken to the hospital, but their condition is unknown.

Rishi Sunak’s biggest gamble

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:44 GMT

LONDON — With one shock hire and one brutal sacking, Rishi Sunak has re-established his Conservative credentials. Just not the type many in his party wanted to see. On one level, the British prime minister’s dramatic Cabinet reshuffle — executed Monday after a weekend of speculation — made a lot of sense. This was Sunak’s chance to stamp his authority on a ministerial team he partially inherited from his predecessors, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, and create a unit focused on delivering his own electoral message.The unexpected appointment of former prime minister David Cameron as foreign secretary was designed to transmit seriousness, with the added bonus of drawing headlines away from Sunak’s decision to sack his firebrand home secretary, Suella Braverman.In her stead Sunak appointed the calm and affable James Cleverly, who previously held the foreign affairs brief. A number of younger footsoldiers loyal to Sunak received promotions in the ensuing reshuffle. But with...

Leader of Israel’s Labor: Something is ‘very wrong’ on the global left

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:44 GMT

MÁLAGA, Spain — The leader of Israel’s center-left Labor Party says something has gone “very wrong” with the political left around the world, with supposed progressives now aligning themselves with Islamist militants who oppose the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people.Over a month after Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and captured some 240, Israeli officials revised their death toll downwards as Israel wages a retaliatory war against Hamas in Gaza, which has now killed more than 11,000 Palestinians — according to the Hamas-run health ministry.Mass protests have been held in cities across the EU and U.S. calling for an immediate cease-fire, with many using the slogan “from the river to the sea,” regarded by many Jews and Israelis as a call for the annihilation of the state of Israel but by Palestinians and their supporters as a non-violent rallying cry against the occupation. At the protests and on university campuses, some ...

Spanish turmoil hits EU stage as PM’s camp trades blows with conservatives

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:44 GMT

A political struggle over Spain’s future is spilling onto the EU stage as socialist allies of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez hit back at European conservatives, who accuse him of undermining the rule of law in the bloc via an amnesty offer for Catalan separatists.Following months of political stalemate since a July election, Sánchez announced last week he would seek to form a minority government backed by the Catalan separatist Junts party, whose leader Carles Puigdemont has been living in exile in Belgium since leading a failed independence bid in 2017.Sánchez’s willingness to amnesty Puigdemont and other convicted Catalans in exchange for Junts votes has caused an uproar in Spain, where thousands have joined protests called by the center-right Partido Popular. The head of Europe’s conservative parties, Manfred Weber, waded into the fray on Monday, accusing Sánchez of using the amnesty to weaken the independence of Spain’s judiciary. Weber’s center-right camp ...

David Cameron’s shock return divides UK Tories

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:44 GMT

LONDON — David Cameron’s astonishing, global-headline-grabbing comeback has already divided the Conservative Party.In a surprise appointment Monday, Cameron, who served as prime minister of the U.K. between 2010 and 2016, was made foreign secretary in Rishi Sunak’s Tory government.It was the biggest development in a major ministerial reshuffle that saw Sunak sack right-wing firebrand Suella Braverman as home secretary and appoint many of his closest allies to top jobs.Cameron, who resigned after losing the Brexit referendum in 2016, becomes the U.K.’s top diplomat. He has been handed a seat in the unelected House of Lords to allow him to take the job.From Cameron’s perspective, leading the foreign office has obvious appeal as an opportunity to rebuild his battered reputation after having triggered a Brexit referendum that he lost, and facing stinging criticism of his post-government lobbying work.But Sunak’s decision to bring him back in from the cold has provoked sharp disagreement...