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NHL expands All-Star Weekend in Toronto, adding a women’s 3-on-3 event among the changes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:15 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The NHL has expanded its upcoming All-Star Weekend in Toronto to add a women’s 3-on-3 event and bring back the popular player draft.The league announced the new “NHL All-Star Thursday” in a press release Monday.Members of the new Professional Women’s Hockey League will take part in a game at Scotiabank Arena on Feb. 1. Four All-Star captains matched with celebrities will draft their teams for the skills competition on Feb. 2 and 3-on-3 tournament on Feb. 3.The NHL also will honor the 1967 Maple Leafs, Toronto’s last team to win the Stanley Cup, as part of the festivities.The women’s hockey involvement continues a recent trend of involving some of the best players in the world in NHL All-Star Weekend. Canada’s Sarah Nurse scoring on New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin was a highlight of the skills competition in 2023, and Kendall Coyne shined in the fastest skater event in 2019.The PWHL is set to start its inaugural season in January.“We can’t wait...

Driver wanted in deadly Denver hit-and-run on Speer Boulevard

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:15 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Police in Denver are looking for the driver who crashed into and killed a man riding a motorcycle home from work.Nick Cordova was killed in the crash, which happened just after midnight on Saturday, Nov. 18. A driver was traveling westbound on North Speer Boulevard and crashed into Cordova, who was headed eastbound from his job at Blue Pan Pizza."The driver fled the scene of this crash without stopping, rendering aid, or leaving information required by law," Metro Denver Crime Stoppers said in a release.Police say the driver was in a white Chevrolet Trailblazer SUV with an estimated model year between 2002-09. It's missing the front bumper and should have front-end damage.A stock image of a Chevrolet Trailblazer distributed by Metro Denver Crime Stoppers, which seeks a similar vehicle in a deadly Nov. 18, 2023, hit-and-run crash (Metro Denver Crime Stoppers)The vehicle was last seen traveling southbound through the alley between North Grove and Hooker streets toward ...

Out-of-state group files civil rights complaints against University of Colorado

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:15 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A group based out of Rhode Island is bringing a legal complaint against the University of Colorado in Boulder and Denver, claiming the universities violated people's civil rights by participating in a federal program for students from underrepresented groups."We just started in February of this year, and we filed about 20 complaints wherever we see programs that, by their terms and conditions, discriminate on the basis of race," William Jacobson said. Suspended Aurora officer back to work after acquittal in Elijah McClain’s death Jacobson is the founder of the Equal Protection Project, a project within the Legal Insurrection Foundation based out of Rhode Island. The group brought civil rights complaints against each of the schools."If a student is Black, Hispanic, Native American in one or two other categories, that student is automatically eligible to apply. That doesn't mean they'll get the scholarship, but they're eligible. But if a student is not one of those c...

Boston City Council, Mayor Wu exploring cash payments to low-income families

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:15 GMT

The Wu administration is exploring a guaranteed basic income program for low-income families in Boston — basically cash payments — but concerns about cost, sustainability and the risk of creating a “benefits cliff” for qualifying applicants is giving the cabinet pause.Segun Idowu, the city’s chief of economic opportunity and inclusion, said Monday that there have been “a lot of discussions” about the potential policy shift, which would involve dishing out money every month to families living below the poverty line, but there are no plans in place for a pilot program.Data from other municipal pilot programs across the country, including how successful a short-term income boost is in lifting people out of poverty and whether it hurts or helps the local economy, will inform whether Boston moves forward with a similar effort, Elijah Miller, the city’s director of policy, said.“If guaranteed income is a way that we determine with our colleagues here is the way to go, it is so...

LEGOLAND California loses power, forced to close early

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:15 GMT

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- LEGOLAND California in Carlsbad closed early Monday after losing power for about an hour, theme park officials said.Around 2:40 p.m., the power went out at the park, but it was restored an hour later, Christina Fillippis with LEGOLAND California emailed FOX 5 in a statement."There were no injuries or damage reported and any guests who were on rides at the time were safely evacuated," Fillippis said. Naked guy spotted on iconic Disneyland Ride The outage prompted the theme park to close an hour earlier (4 p.m.), according to the park.The City of Carlsbad posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that a power outage was reported in parts of northwest Carlsbad due a car accident.Guests will be able to return to the park within one year as part of its “Rainy Day Promise.”SEA LIFE Aquarium in LEGOLAND was also shut down temporarily on Monday, but it is now open until 6 p.m.

Conservative deputy calls MP ‘unhinged’ for linking Poilievre and Winnipeg killings

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:15 GMT

SURREY, B.C. — Federal Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman is calling a Metro Vancouver MP “unhinged” for a social media post that questioned if there was a connection between Pierre Poilievre and a weekend shooting in Manitoba that killed four people.Liberal Ken Hardie, who represents the B.C. riding of Fleetwood-Port Kells, posted on Monday that the shooting that left four dead in Winnipeg was “beyond troubling” and asked if it was connected to a “burn everything down” attitude creeping in from the United States.His post on X, formerly known as Twitter, then referred to Conservative Leader Poilievre, asking if he was the “creep” on the Canadian side.Lantsman responded by referring to a previous instance when Hardie said Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels would be proud of Conservative MPs, calling Hardie “unhinged then” and “unhinged now.”Conservative spokesman Sebastian Skamski said in a statement it wa...

Peru’s top prosecutor blames President Boluarte for deaths of protesters as political crisis deepens

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:15 GMT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s attorney general on Monday blamed President Dina Boluarte and her prime minister for the deaths of “several” anti-government protesters earlier this year, and charged them with first-degree murder before the nation’s congress in a procedure known as a “constitutional complaint.”A congressional committee must now review the complaint, which could lead to a trial if the charges are approved by a majority of the nation’s lawmakers.Peru’s constitution protects heads of state from most criminal charges while they are still in office. This means the complaint filed Monday against Boluarte would most likely initiate a trial after she finishes her term or if she is ousted from office through other means, such as an impeachment vote.Peru has had five presidents since 2016, with none finishing their terms, and two of them impeached by the nation’s powerful congress.The charges pressed against Boluarte deepen a political crisis that broke out last year foll...

One year after protests shook China, participants ponder the meaning of the brief flare of defiance

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:15 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — A year ago, Li Houchen was on the streets of Shanghai, hollering “Freedom!” to protest China’s harsh “zero COVID” policy and growing authoritarianism.He was one of thousands of people demonstrating across China in what came to be called the White Paper movement, after the blank sheets of paper protesters used to represent the country’s strict censorship controls.Yet one year later, China has all but forgotten the protests. The state reacted quickly, breaking up the marches with arrests and threats and abruptly lifting COVID-19 controls.The protests were a brief flare of defiance, the most direct challenge to the Communist Party’s authority in decades. For the young people who took part, it was their first protest. Now, many of them are pondering what’s next.Today, Li lives in Tokyo, fulfilling a vow to himself to leave his homeland and go into exile to document the tumultuous events in China last year. He’s written a 448-page book, “Records of the Plague Year: From Th...

Minnesota Wild replace coach Dean Evason with John Hynes after losing 14 of first 19 games

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:15 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild fired coach Dean Evason and replaced him with John Hynes on Monday after losing seven straight games and 14 of their first 19 to start to the NHL season.General manager Bill Guerin announced the moves, including the firing of assistant Bob Woods. Hynes, the former New Jersey and Nashville coach, will take over. The Wild planned a news conference with Guerin and Hynes for Tuesday, prior to their game against St. Louis.Evason, 59, had three full seasons in charge of the Wild, who gave him his first head coaching job in the NHL on Feb. 14, 2020, when Bruce Boudreau was fired and he was promoted from his assistant role. He went 147-77-27 in 251 regular season games and 8-15 in the postseason without winning any series.Hynes, 48, is 284-255-63 in eight NHL seasons. The Predators fired him on May 30, six weeks after missing the playoffs. They lost in the opening round in each of three previous years, starting in 2020 when he was hired midseason to repl...

Charges filed against man accused of armed robbery in Loop

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:15 GMT

CHICAGO — Charges have been filed against a Chicago man accused of robbing a person at gunpoint in the Loop on Sunday morning.Chicago police say 21-year-old Michael Odulaja, a South Shore resident, is facing three felony charges, including robbery with a firearm, attempted robbery with a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. CPD: 14 people robbed at gunpoint in 3 hours According to police, Odulaja allegedly entered a business in the 200 block of North LaSalle Stree just before 9 a.m. and robbed a man at gunpoint. Officers say only minutes later he allegedly attempted to rob a man in the 200 block of North Dearborn Street.Police say they eventually caught Odulaja in the 100 block of West Wacker Drive just after 9:15 a.m. and recovered a weapon during his arrest.Odulaja appeared in court on Monday for a detention hearing.