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Colorado offers Uber discount on Thanksgiving eve, AKA 'Blackout Wednesday'

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:22 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- With the night before Thanksgiving being one of the most dangerous nights for drunk driving, Colorado transportation leaders are hoping to encourage more people into rideshares.The Colorado Department of Transportation and nearly 80 law enforcement agencies across the state are cracking down on drunk drivers this holiday weekend. What to expect from the Black Friday snowstorm in Denver “We call it 'Blackout Wednesday,' (young people) call it 'Blackout Wednesday,'” Sam Cole, traffic safety manager at CDOT, said. “It's something we here at CDOT and law enforcement agencies are very concerned about."Cole said this is the first year CDOT will offer a code encouraging those drinking to take an Uber home. The code "SAFETHANKS" will give riders $10 off. The goal is to keep drunk drivers off the road. “We see 20,000 arrests for DUI every year in Colorado," Cole said. "So if you make the decision to drive drunk over the holidays, you will likely be arrested." Cole said "B...

Deco’s Lynn Martinez tries out preeminent shot glasses inspired by TikTok

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:22 GMT

Lynn, I understand this year, you’re giving thanks to TikTok.That’s right. I actually found a use for the app that didn’t involve me sitting there in a trance swiping and swiping with drool.But, you know how they make everything look easy with those quick edits? Yeah, everything’s not easy.Lynn Martinez: “OK, for Thanksgiving in our home, we like to get Christmas started.”So this year we’re gonna make something I’ve never made before.Lynn Martinez: “We’re gonna make peppermint shot glasses. I saw this on a TikTok and it looks so easy.”You need a silicone mold and a bag of peppermint candy.Lynn Martinez: “The recipe said that you could put this in the oven but it’s rubber, how’s that gonna work? I hope there’s no fire, do we even have a fire extinguisher? OK, so 350.”While the oven is warming, shove the candy in the mold. I mean, guess.Lynn Martinez: “Again, TikTok says it works.I ...

Enjoy 350 tons of real snow in South Florida at Snow Carnival at Aventura Mall

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:22 GMT

It’s a Thanksgiving miracle. They say that Alex Miranda is a really warm guy, but apparently he has a cold heart tonight. Alex is at the Snow Carnival at the Aventura Mall.It’s a winter wonderland.It’s a real snow day in South Florida. Immerse yourself in the ultimate winter experience at Snow Carnival. Alex Miranda: “How chilly is it inside? And this is by design because you guys have thought of everything and you’re really making it feel real.”Aly Ramos: “It’s going to be in the 50s. So South Florida, get ready to be cold at the Snow Carnival.”At Aventura Mall, bringing, listen to this, 350 tons of real snow.Aly Ramos: “Under 30,000 square foot tents.”Alex Miranda: “When you say snow, I hear it’ll be like pieces of paper, is this real snow?”Aly Ramos: “This is real snow. How chill, the kids are going to get wet, they’re going to have snow on them just like in any other snow situation. T...

South Boston forfeits annual Thanksgiving football game against East Boston High

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:22 GMT

This year’s Thanksgiving clash between South Boston High School and East Boston High School football teams has been canceled, East Boston’s headmaster announced Wednesday. The game had been scheduled for Thursday. In a statement shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday, though, East Boston High School Headmaster Phillip Brangiforte said South Boston told officials that they plan to forfeit. In place of the originally scheduled game, Brangiforte said East Boston will hold an intersquad scrimmage Thursday morning.“It is with a heavy heart that I deliver this sad news,” Brangiforte said. “We all know our annual East Boston High School vs South Boston High School Thanksgiving day game has been an important part of our school’s tradition for the past 105 years.”Brangiforte continued, saying he is “deeply saddened” for East Boston High School, players, coaches, “and especially our seniors.” “I know it will not be the same,” Brangiforte said of the now-planned scrimmage, “but pl...

After ceasefire agreement, Israeli official says talks continuing, hostage release won’t take place before Friday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:22 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas on Wednesday agreed to a four-day cease-fire in the war in Gaza — a diplomatic breakthrough that will free dozens of hostages held by militants as well as Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and bring a large influx of aid to the besieged territory.The truce raised hopes of eventually winding down the war, which was triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7 deadly rampage into Israel. Now in its seventh week, the war has leveled vast swaths of Gaza, fueled a surge of violence in the occupied West Bank, and stirred fears of a wider conflagration across the Middle East.But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a nationally televised news conference that the war would resume after the truce expires. Israel’s goals are to destroy Hamas’ military capabilities and return all 240 hostages held captive in Gaza.“I want to be clear. The war is continuing. The war is continuing. We will continue it until we achieve all our goals,” Netanyahu said, adding h...

Ocean Beach Pier to remain closed until early 2024

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:22 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The Ocean Beach Pier, which has been closed since Oct. 20 from recent high surf damage, will remain off-limits through the early part of 2024 due to potential structural impairment from the upcoming storm season, local officials said.Ongoing damage has plagued the pier since 2019 when it was closed for five months, costing an estimated $430,000 to repair the railings and utilities, José Ysea with the City of San Diego said in a press release Wednesday. In 2021, the pier was closed from January to July to once again repair damaged railings that costed nearly $1 million.This year, the pier's railings and buildings suffered $230,000 in damage, prompting the pier to shut down from January to early July."Over the past five years, the City has spent approximately $1.7 million to repair the pier, not including the cost of staff time and additional resources, and it has been closed to the public approximately 30% of the time due to damage," Ysea said. Fire erupts at San Diego...

Incumbent Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall wins bid for second term

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:22 GMT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Incumbent Erin Mendenhall has won her reelection bid for mayor of Utah’s capital in a ranked-choice contest that included a challenge by Salt Lake City’s former Mayor Rocky Anderson.Ballot returns released Wednesday, which included all scannable ballots in the Salt Lake County clerk’s possession, showed Mendenhall with 58% of the vote to Anderson’s 34%, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.“As seemed pretty clear last night, these more final results clearly indicate that Mayor Mendenhall has won reelection,” Anderson said. “I wish her the very best and I hope she and her team succeeds.”Mendenhall’s campaign said Anderson called the mayor Wednesday afternoon to concede. Though the position of mayor is officially nonpartisan, the city is largely Democratic in a mostly Republican state.At her election night party Tuesday, Mendenhall told her supporters she would “regroup for a second term” with new energy and urgency.“This election ends with voters saying lo...

REVIEW: Napoleon is old fashioned, expensive movie magic

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:22 GMT

In the 1970s, Stanley Kubrick wanted to make a gigantic film about one of the biggest figures of French history. His film about Napoleon would’ve starred Jack Nicholson as the Emperor and Audrey Hepburn as his wife Joséphine, but the cost grew too large and the film was cancelled. While elements of the film were reused for Kubrick’s 1975 masterpiece Barry Lyndon, and Steven Spielberg is still attempting to make a miniseries about him, Napoleon hasn’t received the biopic treatment in a major motion picture in several decades. While Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure does show the often forgotten water park-loving side of him, we haven’t seen a proper take on the Emperor of France since the Golden Age of Hollywood.Vanessa Kirby and Joaquin Phoenix in Napoleon, courtesy of Apple Studios.Luckily Ridley Scott (the director of Alien, Blade Runner, and Gladiator) is here with another banger featuring incredible battle scenes using realistic effects. At 2 hou...

More than 43,000 people went to the polls for a Louisiana election. A candidate won by 1 vote

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:22 GMT

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In the northwest corner of Louisiana, a candidate for parish sheriff demanded a recount Wednesday after losing by a single vote in an election where more than 43,000 people cast ballots. The tight race shines a spotlight on Louisiana’s recount process and its outdated voting machines, which do not produce an auditable paper trail that experts say is critical to ensuring election results are accurate. States’ recount abilities have proven to be exceedingly important, especially following the 2020 presidential election when multiple battleground states conducted recounts and reviews to confirm President Joe Biden’s victory.“This extraordinarily narrow margin … absolutely requires a hand recount to protect the integrity of our democratic process, and to ensure we respect the will of the people,” John Nickelson, the Republican candidate who trailed by one vote in last week’s election for Caddo Parish Sheriff, posted on social media Wednesday. Henry Whitehor...

Nevada judge rejects attempt to get abortion protections on 2024 ballot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:22 GMT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A judge has struck down an effort to enshrine reproductive rights, including abortion, in Nevada’s constitution, as abortion rights advocates in the western swing state attempt to follow other states in putting the question before voters in 2024.Judge James T. Russell in Carson City District Court concluded on Tuesday that the proposed ballot initiative is too broad, contains a “misleading description of effect” and has an unfunded mandate.The petition, if passed by voters, would have amended the state constitution to include the “fundamental right to reproductive freedom,” including prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, vasectomy, tubal ligation, abortion and abortion care.“This is probably the clearest case I have seen that I think there is a violation of the single-subject rule,” Russell said on Tuesday, according to KOLO-TV Reno, which first reported the ruling. “I’ve seen a lot of them over the years and in respect to this particular matte...