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Israeli Cabinet approves cease-fire with Hamas that includes release of some 50 hostages

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:31 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved a cease-fire deal with the Hamas militant group that would bring a temporary halt to a devastating war that has stretched on for over six weeks and release dozens of hostages being held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli prisons.Under the deal, Hamas is to free 50 of the roughly 240 hostages it is holding in the Gaza Strip over a four-day period, the Israeli government said Wednesday. It said it would extend the lull by an additional day for every 10 hostages released.The government said the first hostages to be released would be women and children.Ahead of Wednesday morning’s Cabinet vote, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would resume its offensive against Hamas after the cease-fire expires.It was not immediately clear when the truce would go into effect.Netanyahu convened his Cabinet for the vote late Tuesday. The meeting stretched well into the early hours Wednesday, underscoring the sensi...

Road rage suspected in Wheat Ridge shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:31 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Police were investigating a possible road rage shooting in Wheat Ridge on Tuesday afternoon.It happened in the area of West 44th Avenue and Youngfield Street, according to the Wheat Ridge Police Department."A driver in a dark sedan fired a gun into another vehicle," the department posted at 4:50 p.m. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox Police said the male victim was able to drive farther west and called 911 at 4:20 p.m. The victim was not hospitalized.The road was reopened before 6 p.m. Police said the investigation is ongoing.

Coloradan's young doodle dies from unidentified respiratory illness

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:31 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Dog owners across Colorado are being warned by local veterinarians who are seeing an increase in a deadly respiratory disease sweeping across the state."We've had cases that require oxygen, some require surgery and there have been fatalities with this throughout the region, unfortunately," said Dr. David Israel, medical director of the Veterinarian Emergency Group on Colfax Avenue. Denver dog becomes ill, tests positive for meth after walk in RiNo Israel said that right now, his clinic and other emergency clinics around Colorado are seeing multiple cases of this infection daily. "We are seeing one or two or three or even more of these cases coming up," Israel told FOX31.Over the past several months, Israel said the clinic has seen dogs with a respiratory disease similar to kennel cough, but this year, the regular treatments aren't working. "It's progressing to pneumonia, which is infection in the lungs, and getting much sicker than we’ve seen in the past," Israel...

Prima Pasta makes pumpkin martini as Deco’s Shireen Sandoval’s annual Thanksgiving cocktail

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:31 GMT

One of the things Lynn loves most about Thanksgiving is my yearly creative cocktail.Usually, I come up with a new recipe every year… But I just got married, moved and somehow forgot to get my drink on.Never fear, the Prima pumpkin martini is here.Shireen Sandoval: “Happy Thanksgiving Deco Drive peeps, I am so excited to be celebrating with you this year, I have everything I need, I’m totally ready for my Thanksgiving feast.” Hot pink dinner jacket, check.Matching “Loubie’s,” check.Pouty pink lips, double check.Yep, I’m serving Thanksgiving Day glam.Shireen Sandoval: “All this beauty stuff and getting ready makes me parched. Speaking of drinks, I forgot about my annual Thanksgiving day cocktail.” OMG, I know exactly who to call.Shireen Sandoval: “I forgot all about my annual Thanksgiving day cocktail, I was thinking you could make me the Prima pumpkin martini so I can serve it to my guests.”Prima Pasta to the rescue.My...

Israeli government agrees temporary cease-fire and hostage-release deal with Hamas: reports

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:31 GMT

The Israeli Cabinet voted overnight to accept a temporary cease-fire and prisoner-exchange deal with Hamas, according to local media reports.Haaretz reports that under the deal, Hamas is expected to release 30 Israeli children and 20 women, of the around 240 hostages its militants kidnapped during their October 7 mass attack on Israel. In exchange, Israel would release 150 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails. An official told Haaretz that Hamas may also release foreign national hostages under deals reached with their countries.Under the deal, which was brokered with officials from Qatar acting as intermediaries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said hostages who are not released will receive medicine and be visited by the Red Cross.According to Haaretz, the cease-fire is expected to last for five days, but Netanyahu dismissed the idea the fighting could halt for a longer term. “There is nonsense out there suggesting that we will halt the war after the ce...

Quentyn Dulin’s late-game heroics lift Brighton past Tech Boston at Fenway

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:31 GMT

For most high school football players, this week could be the last time they ever put on the pads, the final time they stroll out onto the field.As Brighton’s Quentyn Dulin strapped up Tuesday evening, he realized he had a unique opportunity, playing his last game with the Bengals at America’s most historic ballpark.The senior quarterback (three rushing touchdowns) closed his high school career with a bang, sprinting five yards for the winning score with 18 seconds remaining as Brighton rallied for an epic 20-14 comeback victory over City League rival TechBoston at the annual Fenway Thanksgiving series.“It’s awesome,” Dulin said. “It’s like a dream come true. I don’t know how to put it into words. The ending … I dreamed of this, honestly. I hope to play in the future.”Dulin finished his evening 6-for-9 passing with 133 yards to go with 88 yards rushing, as Brighton (5-4) captured the Boston City League (South) crown. For the majority of the opening quarter, however, the local rivals...

House Republicans issue a subpoena to federal prosecutor in Hunter Biden’s case

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:31 GMT

By FARNOUSH AMIRI (Associated Press)WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans issued a subpoena Tuesday to a federal prosecutor involved in the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, demanding answers for what they allege is Justice Department interference in the yearslong case into the president’s son. Rep. Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, called on Lesley Wolf, the assistant U.S. attorney for Delaware, to appear before the committee by Dec. 7, according to a copy of the congressional subpoena obtained by The Associated Press. “Based on the Committee’s investigation to date, it is clear that you possess specialized and unique information that is unavailable to the Committee through other sources and without which the Committee’s inquiry would be incomplete,” Jordan wrote in an accompanying letter to Wolf. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The subpoena to Wolf is the latest in a series of ...

Police: Kentucky bank shooter wrote in journal about ease of buying assault weapon before killings

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:31 GMT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The man who fatally shot five coworkers at a Louisville bank in April wrote in his journal that he wasn’t sure if his mental health struggles would preclude him from purchasing a gun and then later, after acquiring one just days before carrying out the mass shooting, remarked on how easy the transaction turned out to be.The journal writings by Connor Sturgeon were contained in a 64-page report released Tuesday by Louisville police, where authorities say they have now closed the investigation into the actions of the 25-year-old who also died that day in an exchange of gunfire with authorities. Sturgeon wrote that it “was so easy” to purchase the assault rifle, a Radical Firearms RF-15, from a Louisville gun store, according to the police file. He bought the rifle, 120 rounds and four magazine cartridges for $700 six days before the shooting, and the process took about 45 minutes, he said.“Seriously, I knew it would be doable but this is ridiculous,” he wrote. H...

Accuser sues Bill Cosby for alleged abuse dating to 1980s under expiring New York survivors law

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:31 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who worked as a stand-in at “The Cosby Show” in the 1980s said in a lawsuit Tuesday that Bill Cosby drugged and sexually abused her after offering to mentor her in her acting career. It is the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against Cosby under New York’s expiring Adult Survivors Act, which has given victims of sexual abuse a one-year window for claims that would otherwise be barred by time limits. That window closes on Thanksgiving.The anonymous accuser said that soon after meeting Cosby while working on his show, he started offering style tips and performing acting exercises with her in his dressing room. When he invited her to his home, she accepted, she said, in part because of “Cosby’s wholesome image as `America’s Dad,'” according to the lawsuit.Once there, she said she blacked out during an acting exercise after drinking wine apparently laced with an intoxicant. She awoke “partially undressed and vomiting into a toilet,” according to the law...

Kai Thomas wins Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for debut novel

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:31 GMT

TORONTO — Debut novelist Kai Thomas took home the top fiction prize at the Writers’ Trust Awards on Tuesday evening for his story of two Black women at the northern end of the Underground Railroad.Thomas, who is from Ottawa, won the $60,000 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for “In the Upper Country,” published by Penguin Canada, at a ceremony in Toronto.“I’ve obviously never done this before and having guides like you all is fantastic,” he said after thanking his editors and publisher.Thomas’s novel was also shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.Writers’ Trust jurors praised the book as a “mesmerizing, lyrical testament to the power of storytelling.”“Thomas deftly and compassionately braids deeply engrossing stories within stories that explore a little-known aspect of Canadian history,” they wrote in their citation.Mea...