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Maryland woman makes it into Pro Football Hall of Fame

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:55:24 GMT

Kelce’s custom-made shoes. (Courtesy Donna Kelce)A Gaithersburg, Maryland, business owner who has never taken an NFL snap is now a part of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.The light-up shoes Donna Kelce wore as she cheered for her sons’ Super Bowl dreams are now in Canton, Ohio. Monica Blakely, the woman who made them, got to visit them in the Hall last week.“You look at that building … to be able to walk in and see my stuff amongst other legends,” Blakely told WTOP. “That was my Lombardi Trophy.”Blakely contacted Donna Kelce once her two sons were Super Bowl-bound. It was the first time in history a mother had a son on each team in the game.The pair of shoes they created light up. One represents the Eagles, complete with the logo. The other is red, along with an arrowhead. Kelce is written on the back of both.“She really liked them. Apparently, everybody else liked them,” Blakely told WTOP, speaking about a social media post Donna Kelce had made that garnered millions of views.#...

La razón por la que Biden ha evitado hablar sobre el caso contra Trump

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:55:24 GMT

WASHINGTON DC – Es raro que un mandatario del mundo libre guarde silencio, pero es evidente que el presidente Joe Biden ha resuelto decir lo menos posible sobre la acusación presentada contra su predecesor Donald Trump por la justicia federal.La Casa Blanca esquiva las preguntas al respecto. Su campaña no las responde. Y Biden mismo no quiere tener nada que ver con ello. “No tengo nada que decir sobre lo sucedido”, dijo a la prensa el viernes 9 de junio en Rocky Mount, Carolina del Norte.Esta reticencia refleja la situación precaria y sin precedentes en que se encuentra Biden: así como Trump es el primer expresidente acusado de un crimen federal, Biden es el primer presidente cuyo gobierno ha acusado a su principal rival político. En vivo: Trump se declara no culpable de 37 cargos por caso de documentos clasificados ¿Por qué el caso contra Trump se procesa en Florida? Aunque de ninguna manera fue imprevista, la acusación a T...

What's getting cheaper or more expensive in Denver?

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:55:24 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- It costs a lot more for shelter in the Denver metro than it did a year ago, but at least a summer road trip is cheaper. U.S. inflation rates remain stubbornly high as of Tuesday’s release of the latest Consumer Price Index data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In May 2023, the index was 4% higher than in the year before for the average U.S. city. So-called core inflation, which does not include volatile food and energy prices, was even higher at 5.3%. Nuggets’ championship parade will be Thursday: Here are all the details In the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metro statistical area, inflation was slightly higher than the national rate at 5.1% for all items and 5.6% for core inflation. It is mainly fuel prices that have gotten cheaper in the last year. Among all the categories and subcategories of consumer spending, only three fell in price in the last year — used cars and trucks, motor fuel and medical care. Motor fuel prices fell 17.4% over the last year, while ...

Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he illegally kept classified documents at Florida estate

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:55:24 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former president to face a judge on federal charges as he pleaded not guilty in a Miami courtroom Tuesday to dozens of felony counts that he hoarded classified documents and refused government demands to give them back.The history-making arraignment, centering on charges that Trump mishandled government secrets that as commander-in-chief he was entrusted to protect, kickstarts a legal process that will unfold at the height of the 2024 presidential campaign and carry profound consequences not only for his political future but also for his own personal liberty.Trump approached his arraignment with characteristic bravado, posting social media broadsides against the prosecution from inside his motorcade and insisting as he has through years of legal woes that he has done nothing wrong and was being persecuted for political purposes. But he sat scowling inside the courtroom with his arms crossed as a lawyer entered a not guilty plea on his behal...

Trump pleads not guilty in classified documents case

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:55:24 GMT

MIAMI — Donald Trump arrived at a federal courthouse Tuesday afternoon to be arraigned on criminal charges that he hoarded classified military secrets at his estate in Mar-a-Lago after leaving office.Trump has indicated he intends to plead not guilty to all 37 felony charges, including 31 counts of willful retention of national security records and six counts for allegedly obstructing the federal effort to recover those documents.At the courthouse, authorities booked Trump and his co-defendant, longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta. That booking was expected to include Trump getting fingerprinted, but he was not expected to have a mug shot taken.Trump was set to appear before a federal magistrate judge at a 3 p.m. hearing and enter his “not guilty” plea. The arraignment will trigger a lengthy pretrial process as prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers attempt to hammer out agreements on evidence in the case and schedule a trial.If found guilty, Trump could face a lengthy prison term. Yet he has al...

Fatal construction accident at site of Brockton Hospital under investigation

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:55:24 GMT

Police in Brockton are investigating after a construction worker was killed in what officials are calling an accident at the site of Brockton Hospital on Tuesday. Emergency crews were called to the backside of the hospital for a reported construction accident just after noon, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office. The DA said that upon arriving at the scene, first responders found the worker already lifeless, and that he was pronounced dead at the scene. “At 12:06 p.m., Brockton police received a 911 call for a report of a male trapped by a Bobcat Skid-Steer Loader operating off of Quincy Avenue on the backside of [the] Brockton Hospital construction site,” said District Attorney Timothy Cruz. “Upon arrival, Brockton police, Brockton fire and emergency workers found an employee apparently trapped in a work area. He had been levelling out gravel.”The victim was later identified as 63-year-old Roger Porter of East Sandwich. Cruz note...

State Joint Committee on the Judiciary takes public testimony on proposal to legalize magic mushrooms

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:55:24 GMT

A drug debate continued on Beacon Hill Tuesday with the state Joint Committee on the Judiciary taking public testimony on psychedelic drugs. Several political leaders and local doctors are looking to decriminalize such drugs by legalizing magic mushrooms and certain other plants and fungi containing psychedelic compounds. “I think it’s very clear that they offer immense potential benefit for a variety of different conditions,” said Dr. Franklin King of the Mass. General Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics. “It’s almost impossible to overdose on any psychedelics and it’s biologically impossible to become addicted to them,” King continued. “So, the legal structure that surrounds them is completely inaccurate.” Pending legislation would allow any person 18 years or older to grow, eat or share magic mushrooms in Massachusetts. Public testimony on the topic of psychedelic drugs came alongside other testimony before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary on dozen...

Middleboro student seeks action from judge after school bans ‘There are only two genders’ shirt

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:55:24 GMT

A seventh grade student in Middleboro has asked a judge to step in after his school ordered him to take off a shirt that said “There are only two genders.” The student wore the same shirt after the school asked him to take it off but covered a part of the statement to make the shirt instead say “There are genders.”The student is seeking an order from the judge to stop the ban from the school. Speaking on Tuesday, his attorney said the restrictions go against the student’s first amendment rights. “Schools can restrict speech when it actually disrupts what’s going on in school because, obviously, they have to run a school,” said lawyer Logan Spena. “But it can’t restrict speech just because it disagrees with the student’s viewpoint or thinks that it’s offensive or the like.”“The school is actually targeting and disparaging Liam, himself, when he’s not doing that to anybody else,” Spena said. School officials have made a sta...

June Gloom

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:55:24 GMT

Has June seemed overly cloudy to you? Well it’s not your imagination. June 2023 is (so far) the cloudiest June we’ve had since 2009. But as we talked about in yesterday’s blog, that doesn’t necessarily correlate to high rainfall amounts — just rainy days. If you missed it, here’s yesterday’s blog: Another Unsettled Week.The unsettled pattern rolls on this week but thankfully it’s a mild and unsettled pattern the next few days, unlike last week’s cool and unsettled pattern. Temperatures will try to hit 80° each day for the rest of the week, but it does look like the page will turn on that as we head into the weekend.Rain chances will spike the next couple of days but no day is a complete washout. Most of our rain and storm chances will be in the afternoon and evening with the morning’s being dry. In Thursday’s case, it’s only just a 10% chance altogether.Tomorrow will start off dry and we’ll have a mix of s...

Fox News tells Tucker Carlson to cease-and-desist

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:55:24 GMT

WASHINGTON — Fox News sent Tucker Carlson a cease-and-desist letter over his new Twitter series, Axios reported Monday, amid reports of a contract battle between the conservative network and its former prime-time host.Carlson was ousted from Fox in late April, less than a week after Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to settle an explosive defamation case. The network provided no explanation for the firing, but a wave of reports on damaging text messages and other statements Carlson made during his time at Fox have since piled up.Since leaving Fox, Carlson kicked off a “Tucker on Twitter” series — arguing that Twitter was “the only” major remaining platform that allows free speech as he denounced news media. The series, which has published two episodes so far, has appeared to escalate contract tensions between Carlson and Fox.Fox has demanded Carlson stop posting videos to Twitter, The New York Times also reported Monday — as the ne...