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Central 70 express tolls begin Tuesday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:50:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Beginning Tuesday, you will have to pay to drive the express lanes of Central 70 through Denver.The I-70 tolls were supposed to begin in February for the 10-mile stretch of rebuilt roadway from Interstate 25 to Chambers Road, but the Colorado Department of Transportation ran into some problems. However, CDOT said it has corrected the problems and the grace period is now over. Colorado father, son killed in Florida crash The rates will vary by the time of day.If you’re driving at night, the charge will be $1.50. But in the morning during the rush hours of 6-9 a.m., that jumps to $4.50.If you don’t have a transponder, charges will range between $4.26 to more than $10.  Those driving on the express lanes will be billed by a license plate scanner.  The lanes are free to motorcycles and cars with three passengers. 

$1M Powerball ticket sold in Colorado while jackpot continues to grow

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:50:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The Powerball jackpot continues to grow as no one has been able to match all six numbers. However, one person in Colorado is a million dollars richer after matching five numbers.As of Tuesday, the jackpot now stands at an estimated $725 million.While tickets are still being sold and printed ahead of Wednesday's drawing, a ticket sold in a small Colorado town has turned one person into a millionaire. Powerball jackpot climbs to $725 million after no winner chosen According to the Colorado Lottery, a ticket purchased at the Murphy Express in Elizabeth matched all five numbers from Saturday night's drawing, delivering the ticket holder a $1 million prize. The Town of Elizabeth is located just west of Castle Rock in Elbert County with a population of just over 2,000 people.The lucky ticket holder in Elizabeth isn't the only one to make it big during this run of the Powerball. Four others across the state won up to $200,000 in the past three weeksJuly 7 - Lee M. won $5...

Crocs sues Denver-based rival Joybees, claiming stolen trade secrets

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:50:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Two Colorado-based footwear retailers have filed competing claims over trade secrets and intellectual property.Crocs claims competitor stole trade secretsAccording to a lawsuit filed on July 6 in federal court in Colorado, Boulder-based Crocs is suing Denver-based rival Joybees over claims of misappropriation and use of Crocs' trade secrets and other highly confidential information, which Crocs claimed was used to develop, manufacture and market "knockoff" products.Joybees was launched by Kellen McCarvel in 2020. Kellen is the son of John McCarvel, who worked as Crocs' chief operating officer and then as the CEO from 2010-2014. Kellen also worked in a midlevel management position at Crocs, according to Crocs' complaint. Colorado pilot charged for illegal helicopter landing at Grand Teton National Park Crocs alleges that Kellen stole several thousand documents that contained highly confidential business information, as well as the contents of a Crocs email account...

Ohio man faces battery charges after being removed from United Airlines flight at FLL

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:50:41 GMT

An Ohio man was charged with battery and was escorted off a flight at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport.Shawn Levan, 48, was accused of being a problem passenger on a United Airlines flight to South Florida. 7News spoke with another passenger, Claudia Mondelo who was on the same flight, Saturday. Claudia Mondelo captured the video of the man, who was escorted off of the flight before deputies took him to the Broward County jail.Mondelo said Levan had been a less-than-ideal passenger.“He didn’t want to go back to his seat, he didn’t want to put on his seatbelt, he just wanted to cause a scene,” said Mondelo. Mondelo said the drama began at the counter in Washington DC, where she was waiting for her Fort Lauderdale flight.“He was screaming at the ticket counter lady, pretty much everyone heard him because he was extremely loud, so I was surprised when I saw him on the flight,” she said. Mondelo said during the commotion on the flight, ...

Biden administration plans to cap how much families pay for child care through a government program

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:50:41 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that the government plans to put a cap on how much families pay for child care as part of the Child Care & Development Block Grant program.Speaking to reporters, Harris went through the details of a proposed rule by the Department of Health and Human Services that follows an executive order on the issue that President Joe Biden signed in April. Families would pay no more than 7% of their income for child care through the program and child care providers would find it easier to be paid on time. The proposal also wants to encourage states to let families apply online for care.Harris touted the possible savings for families.“Let’s take a family in Montana making $46,000 a year—they could save about $80 every month, or almost over $1,000 a year,” the vice president said. “That money could go to gas and groceries or to fix a leaky roof.”The program currently supports 1.5 million children. In 2016, the government established ...

Aaron Hernandez’s brother, Dennis, ordered re-arrested on brick-throwing charges at ESPN

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:50:41 GMT

A judge has ordered the re-arrest of Aaron Hernandez’s brother, Dennis, after he failed to appear in court last week on charges related to throwing a brick at the ESPN campus in Bristol, Connecticut.The 37-year-old, who was known as DJ Hernandez when he played quarterback and wide receiver at UConn in the mid-2000s, was originally arrested in March. Police said he went to ESPN in a car, possibly an Uber, and threw a bag containing a brick and a note over a fence and onto the property before leaving.The note said: “To all media outlets, It’s about time you all realeyes the affect media has on all family members. Since you’re a world wide leader maybe you could lead how media and messages are delivered brick by brick. Clean it up! Yours truly, Dennis J. Hernandez,” according to police.Hernandez, the older brother of the late New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, was scheduled to enter a plea on July 7 to a misdemeanor charge of breach of peace. He did not show up for that...

BofA hit with $250 million in fines, penalties, refunds for ‘double-dipping’ fees, fake accounts

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:50:41 GMT

Bank of America must reimburse customers more than $100 million and pay $150 million in fines for “double-dipping” on overdraft fees, withholding reward bonuses on credit cards and opening accounts without customer consent.It is one of the highest financial penalties in years against Bank of America, which has largely spent the last 15 years trying to clean up its reputation and market itself to the public as a bank focused on financial health and not on overdraft fee income.BofA will need to refund $100 million to customers, pay $90 million in penalties to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and $60 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. “Bank of America wrongfully withheld credit card rewards, double-dipped on fees, and opened accounts without consent,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, in a statement. “These practices are illegal and undermine customer trust.”Bank of America had a policy of charging customers $35 after the bank declined a transaction ...

Cold temperatures to continue in South Africa but no further snowfall is predicted

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:50:41 GMT

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African weather officials warned on Tuesday of continued extremely cold weather, but said no further snow was predicted for the rest of the week after parts of the country experienced unusual flurries.In Johannesburg, residents experienced snowfall on Monday for the first time since 2012.Snow was reported in the provinces of Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and the Free State starting Monday morning, according to the South African Weather Services.On Tuesday, parts of Johannesburg remained very cold, with temperatures falling to 1 degree Celsius (34 F).“We will have these extremely cold weather conditions for the rest of the week,” forecaster Puseletso Mofokeng said.He said no further snow is expected for the rest of the week.“In parts of Mpumalanga we still have snow on the ground, but it will melt over the next few days. We are not expecting any more snowfall this week,” he said.Officials were still determining how much snow fell, since amounts varied ac...

NATO membership offer falls short of Ukraine’s hopes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:50:41 GMT

VILNIUS — NATO leaders on Tuesday said they would invite Ukraine to join the alliance only when conditions are met and allies agree — a move intended as a gesture of support for Ukrainians but which was met with disappointment in Kyiv. “We will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance when Allies agree and conditions are met,” the leaders wrote in a summit communiqué, published Tuesday evening.The carefully-crafted sentence is the outcome of intensive negotiations among the alliance’s 31 members. While all allies agree Ukraine cannot join NATO while the war against Russia is ongoing, many of Kyiv’s partners had pushed for a strong political gesture at the summit, saying that it is on the path toward membership. Washington and Berlin, however, opposed giving Kyiv concrete pledges. In the summit communiqué, the allies stressed that Ukraine is developing a closer relationship with the alliance and that Tuesday’s wording represents a step f...

Ukraine says cluster munitions will be ‘game changer’ against Russia

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:50:41 GMT

VILNIUS — Kyiv sees cluster munitions as the next “game changer” in its battle against Russian forces, Ukraine’s defense minister said Tuesday.Speaking on the sidelines of the NATO summit, Oleksiy Reznikov rejected disapproval from some countries and humanitarian groups over the U.S. government’s decision last week to send Ukraine the controversial weapons. “As we got in May 2022 155-millimeter artillery systems, it became a game changer. In July, we got different types of [Multiple Launch Rocket Systems] it became [the] next game changer … And I hope that cluster munitions [become] a next game changer as weaponry or ammunition for liberation of our temporarily occupied territories,” he said.Reznikov insisted the use of these weapons would be limited to non-urban areas within Ukraine’s territory. Ukraine’s partners will also be informed about the use and effect of the cluster weapons, he said.Earlier, U.S. Secretary of State...