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Gumbel to receive Sports Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:30 GMT

Bryant Gumbel will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 44th Annual Sports Emmy Awards on May 22 in New York, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Tuesday.Gumbel’s career has spanned more than 50 years on NBC, CBS and HBO. He has hosted “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” on HBO since 1995. It has received 36 Sports Emmys.“It’s very humbling. I’ve been a fortunate, lucky guy,” said Gumbel, who is the first Black journalist to receive the award. “It makes you stop and take stock. You take a look at the guys who I admire a great deal who received this award, people like Vin Scully, Jim McKay and Howard Cosell. You never want to put yourself in their company, but it’s heady stuff.”Gumbel started as the sports anchor at KNBC in Los Angeles before joining NBC Sports in the fall of 1975. He served as host of the network’s NFL, baseball and NCAA Tournament coverage, including the famed 1979 title game between Magic Johnson’s Mic...

Police still looking for man missing since June 2022

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:30 GMT

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Police are looking for any tips in a missing persons case from June 2022. According to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office, investigators are looking for 41-year-old Jance Wesly Varela who was last seen in June 2022. Varela's family members reported him missing in July 2022 after not being able to contact him.LCSO said Varela was staying in Loveland at the time of his disappearance. Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run in west Denver Investigators have exhausted many leads and have spoken to Varela's friends looking for tips on his whereabouts. Due to the information they received, investigators are worried about his well-being. Varela is described as:6 feet, 4 inches tallWeighs 140 lbs.Gray/brown hairBrown eyesMay have facial hairHas tattoo of the pi symbol on left handJance Wesly Varela has been missing since June 2022, and investigators need help locating him. (Larimer County Sheriff's Office)Jance Wesly Varela has been missing since June 2022, and i...

The 10 most expensive homes in Denver

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:30 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Here are the 10 most expensive homes listed for sale in Denver's real estate listings, or MLS. They range from $15 million at the highest to just under $5 million. On average, they contain 8,600 square feet of living space. 1. 400 Saint Paul St. (Cherry Creek) - $15 million4 bedrooms8 bathrooms 13,656 sq. ft.Interesting fact: The three-car garage includes a lift that lowers cars to the basement with room for 10 additional cars2. 460 Saint Paul St. (Cherry Creek) - $10,987,0005 bedrooms8 bathrooms11,885 sq. ft.Interesting fact: This home features an al fresco deck and koi pond courtyard3. 300 S. York St. (Washington Park) - $7.9 million5 bedrooms9 bathrooms9,899 sq. ft.Interesting fact: Designed by Burnham “Bernie” Hoyt who planned Red Rocks Amphitheater4. 2301 E. Alameda Ave. (Washington Park) - $6,785,0004 bedrooms7 bathrooms7,696 sq. ft.Interesting fact: This home was a wedding gift commissioned by Gov. Jo...

Police: No threat after reports of armed person at medical center in SW Miami-Dade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:30 GMT

A medical center was turned upside down following reports of an armed and dangerous person but police said, there is no threat. The incident occurred at the Capital Plaza Medical Center at 10700 Southwest 88 Street in Southwest Miami-Dade, Tuesday. According to authorities, they received at least one phone call indicating that there was somebody armed with a gun on the premises after someone on the property noticed them on a security camera just before noon. The incident was captured by 7SkyForce from above where police could be seen around the building.Police immediately responded to the scene around 11:15 a.m. and began clearing every level of the building. The evacuation process began on the fourth floor, and all evacuees were escorted across the street to a nearby gas station where a command post was set up.During the search, police detained one man for questioning who matched the description of the person with the gun that was described to them. However, at 12:30 p.m., police d...

Visitors flock to see David sculpture after Florida uproar

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:30 GMT

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Visitors flocked to see Michelangelo’s David sculpture in Florence on Tuesday, following an uproar over a Florida school’s decision to force the resignation of the principal over complaints about a lesson featuring the Renaissance masterpiece.Tourists, many of them Americans on spring break or studying abroad, posed for selfies in front of the giant marble statue, which features the Biblical David, naked with a sling over his shoulder and a rock in his hand, ready for battle with Goliath.Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia, which houses the sculpture, reopened Tuesday after its weekly Monday closure, and both tourists and locals alike couldn’t get over the controversy.“It’s part of history,” said Isabele Joles from Ohio, who is studying French and Italian art with her school group. “I don’t understand how you can say it’s porn.”She and other visitors were reacting to the decision by Tallahassee Classical School board to pressure Principal Hope Carrasquilla...

DeSantis to visit Israel to speak at Jerusalem museum

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:30 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will travel to Jerusalem next month and speak at a museum event as Israel faces a spiraling domestic crisis, giving the potential 2024 presidential candidate a stage to tout his foreign policy credentials.The Jerusalem Post and Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem say DeSantis will deliver a keynote speech at an event that will address the tensions in Israel, a key U.S. ally. The governor’s office confirmed the travel plans, noting the visit coincides with the 75th anniversary of Israel’s independence.“At a time of unnecessarily strained relations between Jerusalem and Washington, Florida serves as a bridge between the American and Israeli people,” DeSantis is quoted in a press release announcing his visit.A controversial judicial overhaul plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked waves of unprecedented street protests in Israel. Netanyahu delayed the plans earlier this week, saying he wanted to “avoid civil war,” and rival political fac...

US suspends sharing nuke information with Russia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:30 GMT

The U.S. has stopped sharing information about its strategic nuclear stockpile with Russia in response to Moscow’s decision last month to suspend its participation in a treaty that limits the deployment of atomic warheads.The decision was conveyed to Russia on Monday, the Pentagon’s Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John Plumb told the House Armed Services’ Strategic Forces subcommittee on Tuesday.The move comes after Russia said it was suspending participation in the post-Cold War nuclear agreement, and throws the future of Washington’s participation in the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty into question at a time of heightened tensions with Moscow. Last weekend, Vladimir Putin said he plans to stage tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus as his troops suffer staggering losses in his 13-month old war in Ukraine.New START, which was reupped at the beginning of the Biden administration, caps the number of deployed nuclear warheads at 1,550 and places other limits on...

Mike Pence must testify about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, judge rules

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:30 GMT

 (CNN) — A federal judge has decided that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, 2021, according to multiple sources familiar with a recent federal court ruling.But the judge said — in a ruling that remains under seal — that Pence can still decline to answer questions related to his actions on January 6 itself, when he was serving as president of the Senate for the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to one of the sources.Pence still has the ability to appeal. Trump has repeatedly lost executive privilege assertions he’s tried to make in the special counsel’s investigation.It’s another win for special counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating the Trump-aligned effort to subvert the 2020 election. Smith subpoenaed Pence for testimony and documents earlier this year.Days after news broke of the subpoena, Pence and his advisers indi...

Mass. Schools Still Have More Than $1.4 Bil In Fed Aid Funds

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:30 GMT

More than half of the roughly $2.6 billion in emergency education aid the federal government steered to Massachusetts during the pandemic remains unspent, according to a top Department of Elementary and Secondary Education official.DESE Chief Financial Officer Bill Bell told the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on Tuesday that “plenty of federal money” is still uncommitted and ready to be used with deadlines approaching this fall and next fall.The federal government awarded tranches of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) aid in three rounds. The first batch of about $215 million, deployed via the March 2020 CARES Act, has been fully expended, Bell said.In December 2020, a second round of ESSER awards made $740 million in grants available to Massachusetts districts. Bell said about 71 percent of that money has been used so far ahead of the Sept. 30, 2023 deadline.The third and largest pot of money, $1.7 billion authorized in April 202...

Scratch Ticket Rebound Lifts Lottery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:30 GMT

Sales at the Massachusetts Lottery were up more than 20 percent in February, due in large part to a sizable bump in sales of a key product that Lottery officials have been concerned about in the last year.The Lottery sold $513.3 million worth of its products last month, an increase of $88.5 million or 20.8 percent over February 2022.Scratch tickets accounted for about 71 percent of February sales, or $363.8 million, up $82.3 million or just more than 29 percent, according to a report that Interim Executive Director Mark William Bracken planned to give Tuesday morning at a meeting of the Lottery Commission.The month’s sales combined with a $23.9 million decrease in scratch ticket grand prizes paid out during the month to help the Lottery turn a monthly profit of $94.3 million, $23.5 million more than in February 2022.The Lottery also paid out a smaller percentage of its revenue in prizes last month, 74.72 percent compared to 76.26 percent in February 2022.Treasurer Deborah Gold...