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'It is unbearable': This is the smelliest place in Denver, according to complaints

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:13 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- If you are ever driving through the Mile High City, there is a good chance your nose will take in a variety of different scents.From marijuana to food to manufacturing, you never know what smells will fill your nostrils. Police stop driver with tags from 2020 in Wheat Ridge The City of Denver has an odor ordinance. The Denver Department of Public Health and Environment is responsible for regulating nuisance odors as a part of the ordinance. What are the biggest offenders for smellFOX31 submitted a Colorado Open Records Act request with the DDPHE in March to determine what odor complaints were filed in the City of Denver from January 2022 to March 2023.While the complaints varied, the biggest standouts were marijuana and pet food manufacturing.The Nestle Purina plant located at 4555 York St. led the way with violations.What were the complaints about Purina?Many of the complaints filed about the Purina plant were that it smelled bad or the smell was stronger than no...

Why did Colorado get so expensive? College degrees

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:13 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — If you've wondered how anyone can live in Colorado without a golden ticket job in tech or finance, you're not far off the mark. Colorado is one of the most educated states in the U.S. Almost 43% of its residents have a bachelor's degree or higher, the second highest share in the country. That highly educated workforce also has one of the highest concentrations of degrees with high earning potential - science, engineering and business. Coloradans who stayed in their jobs make 8.1% more now than last March Different college majors translate into vastly different lifelong earnings. Even at entry levels, degrees in STEM, business or health fields outearn degrees in humanities, arts or education by tens of thousands of dollars a year, depending on the specific major.In each of Colorado's metro areas, the highly educated workforce is also highly educated in STEM-related fields or in business. Of the residents with bachelor's degrees or higher, 69% of the Denver-Aurora-L...

SWAT standoff in Plantation ends with multiple people detained

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:13 GMT

A total of 7 people were escorted out of a unit at the Spectra at Plantation apartments, Thursday morning. Three women and four men were detained after a SWAT standoff. 7SkyForce hovered over the scene as officers used a crowbar to gain entry inside an apartment located in the 4300 block of Northwest 10th Court. The SWAT standoff has ended as Plantation Police remain on the scene gathering information. It is unknown what led to the standoff.Some of the people detained have now been released. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Michael Jordan’s 1998 NBA Finals sneakers are expected to smash auction records

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:13 GMT

(CNN) — In 1998, Michael Jordan laced up a pair of his iconic black and red Air Jordan 13s to bring home a Bulls victory during Game 2 of his final NBA championship — and now the sneakers are going on sale and expected to smash auction records.Sotheby’s in New York will offer up the game-winning sneakers next month, for a high estimate of $4 million, with open bidding to take place online from April 3 to 11. The current record from 2021 — a pair of Nike Air Ships that Jordan wore early in his career — is $1.47 million, which marked the first time a set of sneakers sold for more than $1 million.The sale arrives during “Jordan Year” — a reference to the NBA star player’s iconic jersey number 23. In January, Air Jordan partnered with Sotheby’s to auction off 13 pairs of retro pairs of sneakers that were designed in memory of The Notorious B.I.G. All lots outsold their high estimates of $5,000 by multiples, with the highest selling for more than $32,0...

Fort Pierce surfer recalls shark attack while in recovery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:13 GMT

FORT PIERCE Fla. (WSVN) — A Fort Pierce resident was hospitalized after being bitten by a shark while surfing. On March 12, Matt Picarelli was in the water and suddenly felt a strong bite on his foot. He looked down to see a large shark swimming away from him.“I saw the shark after it bit me,” said Picarelli. “It was a surreal experience. There was a big animal next to me, coming towards me, and then once it bit me, it took a chomp out of my foot and immediately left.”After being pulled out of the water, Picarelli received help from bystanders who applied pressure to the wound and provided water. He was subsequently transported to a hospital where he underwent surgery to repair a broken tendon and a chipped bone, requiring 50 stitches.“Every night I’ve been having nightmares about sharks,” he said. “[In my dream], whether I’m in the water or in a room, the shark comes towards me and attacks me.”Although shaken by the ...

Swedish investigators: ‘Difficult’ to confirm who blew up Nord Stream

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:13 GMT

It will be “difficult” to confirm who was behind last year’s attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, Swedish authorities investigating the incident said.In a statement Thursday, Mats Ljungqvist, the prosecutor leading the Swedish investigation, said his team hoped “to be able to confirm who has committed this crime,” but that the circumstances were “difficult to investigate.”Ljungqvist said it was still most likely that a state actor was responsible for the incident. “We don’t rule out anything, but that it is a state actor who is directly or at least indirectly behind this is of course our absolute main scenario,” he said.He also cautioned that the incident had “become an open arena for different influence attempts.”Explosions on the undersea pipelines in September 2022 caused severe damage, and triggered separate investigations in three different countries. The pipelines connect Russia and Germany.The incident, which Swedish authorities have p...

Fear of economic ‘lost decade’ hangs over world leaders in Washington

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:13 GMT

WASHINGTON – Global finance ministers and central bankers will descend on Washington in the coming days amid economic turmoil that could tip the world into recession. And they will struggle to mount a coordinated response.The war in Ukraine, stubbornly high inflation, rising interest rates, a fragile banking system and slower growth in China are all looming threats.There are also growing tensions among nations, with wealthy countries furiously hiking interest rates to kill soaring prices but creating crushing debt burdens in the developing world. China is competing for influence with the U.S. and the EU, which are facing their own conflicts over trade. And Russia’s geopolitical role continues to sharply divide governments.“It’s going to be chaotic,” said Douglas Rediker, who represented the U.S. on the board of the International Monetary Fund from 2010 to 2012.Underscoring the budding fears, the World Bank last month warned of a looming “lost decade” for the economy that could sap m...

Nurse practitioner gets 7 years for cheating insurers out of almost $12M

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:13 GMT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A nurse practitioner who defrauded health insurers and Medicare out of nearly $12 million by seeking payments for patient services that were never performed has been sentenced to seven years in prison.Alexander Istomin, 57, submitted fraudulent claims for in-person patient services that he falsely claimed to have performed at offices in Rhode Island, New York and Florida, the U.S. attorney’s office in Rhode Island said in a statement Wednesday.In some cases, patients that Istomin claimed to have met in person were in another country at the time. Some visits took place at a ghost office in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, that Istomin claimed was part of his medical practice when it was used solely for the purpose of receiving mail, prosecutors said.He also used patient names and other information to get prescriptions filled, which he would keep and then distribute to others, prosecutors said.He also waived copayments for some Medicare patients, which is pr...

Jurors’ names in NH crash trial won’t be released, judge rules

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:13 GMT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge denied a newspaper’s request for jurors’ names in the case of a truck driver who was acquitted of all counts for the deaths of seven motorcyclists, saying Tuesday that the panel endured harsh criticism from many, including the governor, and feared for their safety.The Boston Globe sought the names following the August 2022 trial of Volodymyr Zhukovskyy. The jury acquitted him of causing the deaths in a head-on collision in New Hampshire in 2019 that exposed fatal flaws in the process for revoking licenses across states.New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and Attorney General John Formella criticized the verdict. Sununu said he shared in the “shock, outrage, and anger that so many have expressed” since the crash.“The Fallen Seven did not receive justice today, and that is an absolute tragedy,” he said, referring to the victims.The jury deliberated for less than three hours after a two-week trial during which prosecutors argued that Zhukov...

Man charged after platypus is taken from the wild and onto a train

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:13 GMT

(CNN) — A 26-year-old man has been charged with allegedly removing a platypus from its natural habitat in Morayfield, a town in Australia, Queensland Police said on Thursday following a hunt for the suspect and animal.Police allege that the man, accompanied by a woman, took the platypus from a local waterway on Tuesday and traveled by train to the nearby town of Caboolture where they entered a shopping mall and showed the animal to members of the public.The man, who has not been named, was charged with one count of taking a protected animal and a restriction on keeping or using a protected animal. Such charges can carry a maximum penalty of 431,250 AUD (about $289,000), police added.The platypus’ current condition is unknown. Although police were advised that the animal was released into the nearby Caboolture River, it has not yet been located by authorities.Queensland Police cautioned that a platypus can become sick or die while out of its natural habitat and ...