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Typhoon Man-yi leaves 7 dead in Philippines and worsens crisis from back-to-back storms
Read full article: Typhoon Man-yi leaves 7 dead in Philippines and worsens crisis from back-to-back stormsTyphoon Man-yi has left at least seven people dead in a landslide, destroyed houses and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern Philippines, worsening the crisis wreaked by multiple back-to-back storms.
Emergency fuel waiver issued for Michigan, 3 other states to alleviate soaring gas prices after storms
Read full article: Emergency fuel waiver issued for Michigan, 3 other states to alleviate soaring gas prices after stormsThe Environmental Protection Agency is issuing an emergency fuel waiver to help alleviate shortages in four states whose gasoline supplies have been impacted by the shutdown of an ExxonMobil refinery in Illinois.
Family of Black girls handcuffed by Colorado police, held at gunpoint reach $1.9 million settlement
Read full article: Family of Black girls handcuffed by Colorado police, held at gunpoint reach $1.9 million settlementA Black woman and a group of four young girls who were wrongfully forced out of their car, held at gunpoint and handcuffed by police in suburban Denver in 2020 have reached a $1.9 million legal settlement.
Final trial over Elijah McClain's death in suburban Denver spotlights paramedics' role
Read full article: Final trial over Elijah McClain's death in suburban Denver spotlights paramedics' roleThe last trial in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain after he was stopped by police in suburban Denver is expected to delve into largely uncharted legal territory.
List of events going on around Metro Detroit this Thanksgiving weekend
Read full article: List of events going on around Metro Detroit this Thanksgiving weekendThe weekend is starting early for many because of Thanksgiving, so we want to make sure you know about the festive events on tap in and around Detroit.
What to know about Elijah McClain's death and the cases against police and paramedics
Read full article: What to know about Elijah McClain's death and the cases against police and paramedicsA jury has acquitted another Denver-area police officer who put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before the Black man was injected with the powerful sedative ketamine by paramedics and died.
Prosecutors say Elijah McClain was just walking home as jury urged to convict officers in his death
Read full article: Prosecutors say Elijah McClain was just walking home as jury urged to convict officers in his deathProsecutors seeking a conviction of two Colorado police officers in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain have implored a jury during closing arguments to remember that he was just trying to walk home on the night of the fatal encounter.
What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the criminal trial of two officers
Read full article: What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the criminal trial of two officersDefense attorneys for two Denver-area police officers charged in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain are trying to cast doubt on whether a neck hold by police contributed to his death.
Trial begins in Elijah McClain death, which sparked outrage over racial injustice in policing
Read full article: Trial begins in Elijah McClain death, which sparked outrage over racial injustice in policingFour years after Elijah McClain died after being stopped by police in Colorado, two of the police officers charged in his death are set to go on trial.
Pentagon says surveillance flights, not counterterrorism ops, have restarted in Niger
Read full article: Pentagon says surveillance flights, not counterterrorism ops, have restarted in NigerThe Pentagon says it has not restarted counterterrorism operations in Niger, a day after the head of U.S. airpower for Europe and Africa said those flights had resumed.
Metal ductwork collapses, injures 6 at Colorado resort pool
Read full article: Metal ductwork collapses, injures 6 at Colorado resort poolFire officials say six people were hurt when part of a heating and ventilation system collapsed at a resort pool in Colorado, and two people have been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
EPA to tighten nitrogen oxide limits for new heavy trucks
Read full article: EPA to tighten nitrogen oxide limits for new heavy trucksIn a little over four years, new heavy truck makers will have to cut harmful nitrogen oxide pollution more than 80% under standards released Tuesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Mass shooters exploited gun laws, loopholes before carnage
Read full article: Mass shooters exploited gun laws, loopholes before carnageThe suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18 when authorities say they bought the weapons used in the attacks.
22 mass shootings. 374 dead. Here's where the guns came from
Read full article: 22 mass shootings. 374 dead. Here's where the guns came fromThe suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18 when authorities say they bought the weapons used in the attacks.
Suspect in church killing dead after Colorado cops shoot him
Read full article: Suspect in church killing dead after Colorado cops shoot himColorado authorities say a man wanted for shooting and killing a woman last week in a suburban Denver church and wounding two churchgoers has died after he was shot by police officers.
Woman arrested after boy dies in Denver-area apartment fire
Read full article: Woman arrested after boy dies in Denver-area apartment fireA woman is facing murder and arson charges after a fire swept through a three-story apartment building in suburban Denver, killing a 5-year-old boy and displacing more than 30 people.
Bone in SUV is from Ohio mom missing since 2002 with 2 kids
Read full article: Bone in SUV is from Ohio mom missing since 2002 with 2 kidsDNA testing has confirmed that a bone found in an SUV pulled last fall from the Ohio River in Indiana is from an Ohio woman who vanished with her two young children in 2002.
Denver suburb to pay $15M to settle Elijah McClain lawsuit
Read full article: Denver suburb to pay $15M to settle Elijah McClain lawsuitThe Denver suburb of Aurora has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the parents of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after suburban Denver police stopped him on the street and put him in a neckhold two years ago.
Officials: Police in Elijah McClain hometown racially biased
Read full article: Officials: Police in Elijah McClain hometown racially biasedColorado’s attorney general says a civil rights investigation begun amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has found that the Aurora Police Department has a pattern of racially biased policing.
Activists see hope after charges in Elijah McClain's death
Read full article: Activists see hope after charges in Elijah McClain's deathPolice reform advocates say the indictments of three suburban Denver officers and two paramedics in the death of Elijah McClain could be a pivotal step toward meaningful accountability for law enforcement.
Ex-Nevada inmate convicted in 1984 Colorado hammer killings
Read full article: Ex-Nevada inmate convicted in 1984 Colorado hammer killingsA former Nevada prison inmate has been convicted of first-degree murder in the 1984 hammer and knife slayings of three Colorado family members, including a 7-year-old girl.
AP source: MLB moving All-Star Game to Denver's Coors Field
Read full article: AP source: MLB moving All-Star Game to Denver's Coors FieldMajor League Baseball plans to relocate the All-Star Game to Coors Field in Denver after pulling this year’s Midsummer Classic from Atlanta over objections to sweeping changes to Georgia’s voting laws, according to a person familiar with the decision.
Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful history
Read full article: Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful historyOn Wednesday, Reinfeld was reeling from the latest mass shooting even closer to home, after authorities say a 21-year-old gunned down shoppers at a local grocery store. “I could see at some point leaving because of all this,” said Reinfeld, a gun control activist. But it's also been haunted by shootings that have helped define the nation's decades-long struggle with mass violence. The Aurora shooting brought that terror from schools to a movie theater. After each of Colorado's biggest massacres, the local gun control movement has gained heartbroken new recruits.
NASA space probe spots northern lights on Jupiter
Read full article: NASA space probe spots northern lights on JupiterIf you thought the northern lights were a rare sight for us earthlings, you may want to think again. Those beautiful colors most visible in the Arctic and Antarctic are not only found on Earth: Jupiter has northern lights, too. Northern lights here on Earth result from charged particles from the sun that interact with the earth’s magnetosphere to create that glow that we see. AdPrevious missions did not really provide a good look at the Jovian aurorae, but Juno is a polar-orbiting spacecraft, so these images are our first real deep dive into the planet’s northern lights. New revelations on Jupiter, combined with those recently discovered on Mars, have made for an interesting year of space exploration so far!
Cops fired over photos tied to Elijah McClain not reinstated
Read full article: Cops fired over photos tied to Elijah McClain not reinstatedThe Aurora Civil Service Commission issued a decision Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, upholding the firings of officers Marrero, Dittrich and Jason Rosenblatt over this and similar photos. Police Chief Vanessa Wilson fired the three officers last year over two photos taken at a memorial to McClain two months after his death. AdDittrich texted the photos to two officers who stopped McClain — Rosenblatt and Nathan Woodyard — to try to cheer up Woodyard, authorities said. Besides the neckhold, McClain was injected with the sedative ketamine. Rosenblatt initially tried to put McClain in the neckhold but couldn’t because of his position, so Woodyard did, authorities said.
Uber, hard-hit by pandemic, sells its robot-vehicle division
Read full article: Uber, hard-hit by pandemic, sells its robot-vehicle divisionSAN RAMON, Calif. – Uber is selling off its autonomous vehicles development arm as the ride-hailing company slims down after its revenues were pummeled by the coronavirus pandemic. Self-driving vehicle technology company Aurora will acquire the employees and technology behind Uber's Advanced Technologies Group in an stock transaction, the companies said Monday. Uber will also invest $400 million into Aurora, and Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will join Aurora's board of directors. After the transaction, Aurora will be worth $10 billion and Uber will hold 26% stake in the company, Aurora CEO Chris Urmson said in an interview. San Francisco-based Uber will lose a critical piece of its company after the pandemic cut into its finances by suppressing demand for shared rides.
A look at a Colorado Black man's death in police encounter
Read full article: A look at a Colorado Black man's death in police encounterMcClain, a 23-year-old Black man in the Denver suburb of Aurora, died in August after police officers confronted him as he was walking to a store. McClain was a massage therapist who planned to go to college, his younger sister, Samara McClain, told The Denver Post. According to a report by District Attorney Dave Young, Aurora officers responding to the report said McClain was uncooperative when they confronted him. Federal authorities also said they were considering an investigation into photos of Aurora police released last week. WHAT IS THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING THE PHOTOS TAKEN AT MCCLAIN'S MEMORIAL?
Police chief defends pepper spray at Elijah McClain vigil
Read full article: Police chief defends pepper spray at Elijah McClain vigilWilson said in a statement that the suspended officers were "depicted in photographs near the site where Elijah McClain died." Aurora Interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said the officers were responding to a small group of agitators among the largely peaceful crowd Saturday. Three white officers stopped McClain as he walked down the street last August after a 911 call reported him as suspicious. The officers who stopped McClain were cleared by prosecutors and returned to the force, but the governor has ordered the state attorney general to reopen the case. A separate internal police investigation is underway into photos of Aurora officers taken near where McClain died.
Officers put on leave over photos tied to Elijah McClain
Read full article: Officers put on leave over photos tied to Elijah McClainThe interim police chief of the city of Aurora, Vanessa Wilson, said in a statement that the suspended officers were "depicted in photographs near the site where Elijah McClain died." In McClain's case, police body-camera video shows an Aurora officer getting out of his car, approaching McClain and saying, Stop right there. The chief's decision could be appealed by the officers under investigation, which would delay the results being released, he said. The three officers who stopped McClain did not face any criminal charges after an investigation by the district attorney, but Democratic Gov. Who didn't do it the right way were those agitators who were arming themselves, that were putting on helmets and gas masks and throwing rocks at my officers, Wilson told KUSA-TV.
What the potential Beaumont-Advocate Aurora merger could mean for patients, employees
Read full article: What the potential Beaumont-Advocate Aurora merger could mean for patients, employeesWednesday brought big news for the 38,000 employees working for Beaumont Health. If you need help with the Public File, call (313) 222-0566.
Beaumont Health announces plan for partnership with Advocate Aurora Health
Read full article: Beaumont Health announces plan for partnership with Advocate Aurora HealthBeaumont Health and Advocate Aurora Health announced Wednesday that the two health systems are exploring a potential partnership.The organizations say they signed a non-binding letter of intent that paves the way to deeper discussions to create a leading health care system that would span across Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. We are excited to explore this option with an organization as highly regarded as Advocate Aurora Health known for their track record in health outcomes, population health and consumer experience, said John Fox, president and chief executive officer, Beaumont Health, in a news release. Advocate Health Care and Aurora Health Care organizations merged in 2018 to create Advocate Aurora Health. The health systems say they will work closely with state and regulatory agencies throughout the process, which began with notifications to all three Attorneys General earlier this week. Advocate Aurora Health is one of the 10 largest not-for-profit, integrated health systems in the United States and a leading employer in the Midwest with more than 70,000 employees.
What the potential Beaumont-Advocate Aurora merger could mean for patients, employees
Read full article: What the potential Beaumont-Advocate Aurora merger could mean for patients, employeesWednesday brought big news for the 38,000 employees working for Beaumont Health. READ: Beaumont Health announces plan for partnership with Advocate Aurora HealthBeaumont announced it is in merger talks with Advocate Aurora Health, a major health care system in other parts of the Midwest. Advocate Aurora has a strong presence in Illinois and Wisconsin -- the merger could change the face of health care in Metro Detroit. Beaumont has 38,000 employees and Advocate Aurora has about 70,000. Beaumont serves about 178,000 inpatient discharges and Aurora works with an estimated 3 million patients a year.
Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep fly to new heights in new films this weekend!
Read full article: Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep fly to new heights in new films this weekend!Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep lead two new films this weekend that are sure to bring excitement to your weekend! "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" is a sequel to the 2014 hit film, "Maleficent" and is jammed packed with A-list actors. As Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) comes face to face with the young prince's mother (Michelle Pfeiffer), she has to conquer the complex obstacles that attempt to force her and Aurora apart. "The Laundromat" is a drama comedy starring some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Gary Oldman, Sharon Stone, and Meryl Streep. Greg also had his giveaways of promotional items for the movies "The Addams Family" and "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil."
Could 'Joker' Controversy Hurt Film's Opening?
Read full article: Could 'Joker' Controversy Hurt Film's Opening?There was heavy security at Wednesday night's New York opening of the controversial new movie "Joker." All New York theaters showing the movie will reportedly have a police presence. In the movie, Joaquin Phoenix plays a downtrodden loner who adopts the Joker persona to inflict extreme violence. Some critics fear the movie may prompt violence after the 2012 shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, where The Dark Knight Rises was being shown. Reviews were mostly positive and at last months Venice Film Festival, the film received a seven-minute standing ovation.
Air Force Academy's longest-serving falcon mascot dies
Read full article: Air Force Academy's longest-serving falcon mascot dies(CNN) - Aurora, a falcon that served the Air Force Academy as mascot for 23 years, has died, the school announced Wednesday in a statement posted on Facebook and Twitter. The bird was a fixture at Air Force Academy sporting events as well as military and community events. Aurora was the school's longest-serving live mascotThe Air Force Academy's first class, which began courses in 1955, chose the falcon as a mascot, as they felt the species channeled the Air Force's fighting spirit. Other mascots to serve the school were named named Atholl and Baffin. A successor, Glacier, served the school from 1980 to 1995, becoming the longest-serving mascot up to that point.
Relatives of Aurora Shooting Victims Worry 'Joker' Could Inspire Violence
Read full article: Relatives of Aurora Shooting Victims Worry 'Joker' Could Inspire ViolenceTitled "Joker," Phoenix stars as failed comedian Arthur Fleck, who ultimately becomes the comic book villain. Several victims of the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, are expressing their concerns in particular. The film feels like a "slap in the face," Sandy Phillips, whose daughter was killed in Aurora, told The Hollywood Reporter. "I don't think it's the responsibility of a filmmaker to teach the audience morality or the difference between right or wrong," Phoenix told IGN. Relatives of those killed in the Aurora shooting are asking Warner Brothers, the studio behind the film, to donate to anti-gun violence causes.
5 Toddlers Born Within 2-Week Span Have Adorable Photo Shoot Every Year
Read full article: 5 Toddlers Born Within 2-Week Span Have Adorable Photo Shoot Every YearA group of five toddler girls born within a two-week span of one another get together each year for an epic photo shoot. The girls Aurora, Olive, Haven, Lyla and Aubrey are all 3 years old and their moms all know each other and happened to give birth around the same time. Photographer and mom Alex Bolen, 26, shot the groups photographs every three months for the first year of their lives. I would like to introduce you to the cutest group of gal pals ever. The little girls get along as well and two of them, Olive and Haven, are best friends born on the same day.
On this day: July 20
Read full article: On this day: July 202012: Gunman James Eagan Holmes opens fire in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater during a midnight showing of the Batman sequel "The Dark Knight Rises," killing 12 and wounding 70 others. Holmes was arrested outside the theater minutes later. In the summer of 2015, Holmes was convicted on 24 counts of murder and 140 counts of attempted murder and sentenced to 12 consecutive life sentences plus 3,318 years without parole. Hide Caption