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Weld County reports Colorado’s first West Nile virus death of 2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:18 GMT

A 53-year-old in northern Colorado died after contracting West Nile virus, marking the state’s first death from the virus this year, Weld County officials announced Friday.As of Friday afternoon, Colorado health officials have documented 12 cases of the mosquito-borne virus and three hospitalizations from the virus so far in 2023, according to data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.Larimer and Weld county officials have documented three cases each, while Boulder, Adams, Arapahoe, El Paso, Delta and La Plata counties have each documented one case.According to a Friday news release from the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment, the resident was hospitalized and died from neuroinvasive symptoms, a rare complication of the disease.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Colorado had the most West Nile cases in the country last year with 204 cases and 18 deaths from the virus. In 2021, Colorado had the second most ...

Broncos camp rewind, Day 7: An ugly first two-minute drill for Russell Wilson and company, but a productive day

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:18 GMT

Player AttendanceDid not practice: Physically Unable to Perform list – OLB Baron Browning (knee). Non-Football Injury list – DL Mike Purcell (knee).DL D.J. Jones and OL Yasir Durant were in attendance but didn’t participate. They did side-field conditioning work with Purcell at times.WR Marvin Mims (hamstring) got some work but also continues to spend time doing conditioning.LT Garett Bolles started practice but had another light workload. He’s coming back from a fractured lower leg in 2022.Top PlayQuarterback Russell Wilson and the No. 1 offense had a nice, crisp start to the day. Wilson was sharp in a 7-on-7 drill and the highlight came when he hit tight end Greg Dulcich in the deep post for what would have been a touchdown.The top play for the defense came at the expense of the No. 1 offense. More on that below.Thumbs UpNo. 38 keeps popping. Rookie running back Jaleel McLaughlin ripped off another big run. When he gets a seam, he’s through it quickly. He got a big hole during 11-...

Cyberattack may have compromised data of students who attended Colorado’s public high schools, colleges

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:18 GMT

The Colorado Department of Higher Education announced Friday that a cybersecurity breach may have resulted in the theft of personal information from anyone who attended a public high school, college or university in the state over a period of more than a decade leading up to 2020.Teachers licensed by the state and people who obtained GEDs also may have been impacted by the breach, officials said.The department learned on June 19 that an “unauthorized actor” accessed its systems between June 11 and 19 and copied certain data, including names and Social Security numbers or student identification numbers, as well as other education records.Potential impacted victims include anyone who:Attended a public college or university in Colorado between 2007 and 2020Attended a Colorado public high school between 2004 and 2020Held a Colorado K-12 education license between 2010 and 2014Participated in the state’s Dependent Tuition Assistance Program from 2009 to 2013Participated ...

CSU Rams wideout Tory Horton drew double teams last fall. Jay Norvell’s challenge to him for 2023? Draw NFL draft scouts.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:18 GMT

FORT COLLINS — Oh, sure, Tory Horton got calls from other places. Big places. Deep-pocket places. You don’t think tampering is a thing in this certifiably insane college football world of the present?Yet when a reporter asked CSU’s star wideout on the first day of Rams preseason camp Friday morning why he stayed put, the senior walked the convo back to three words: Coach Jay Norvell.“He was the one who gave me a shot and (the chance) out of high school,” the Nevada transfer and Fresno native said. “So I was like, ‘If this man sees that potential me and he put his trust and money on me. I feel like I have to reward him.’“And I always told myself, ‘I can’t let someone down who has so much trust in me.’ And that’s one person who trusted me (when) I told him, ‘No, you gave me a shot and you won’t regret it.’”Norvell hasn’t. During a 2022 season that featured a freshman quarterback and a patchwork — to put it kindly — offensive line, an autumn in which every...

More than 1.4 million residents could leave L.A. County by 2060, study says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:18 GMT

Los Angeles County can lose about 1.4 million residents from 2023 until 2060, newly released data from California’s Department of Finance shows.Currently, the county’s population for 2023 stands at 9.5 million, a decrease from the 10 million population figure the county had in 2020, according to the report. Angelenos who make $70,000 a year are still considered ‘low-income’ Since 2020, when the dataset starts, L.A. County has steadily experienced a population decline. Researchers predict that by 2060 about 8.2 million people will call L.A. County home, which is still a hefty number.However, while L.A. County could lose residents, other areas like Placer, Kern and Merced counties could experience a population increase.Researchers also predict that other counties, like Orange, Sacramento and San Diego, could experience a population decrease but are expected to rebound.Experts didn’t share the reasoning behind the continuous population decline in L.A. County, but in the past, high ho...

Lakers star Anthony Davis agrees to highest annual salary in league history: report

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:18 GMT

Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis has agreed to a contract extension with the team that will make him the highest-paid player per season, according to ESPN.Davis, 30, agreed to a three-year, $186 million extension that will keep him in L.A. through 2028, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.His annual salary — around $62 million — will be the highest in NBA history.Davis had two years and $84 million on his contract prior to the extension. He became eligible to be extended on Friday, Wojnarowski said.The former Kentucky Wildcat was drafted No. 1 overall in the 2012 NBA Draft. He spent seven seasons with the New Orleans Pelicans franchise before being traded to Los Angeles in one of the largest blockbuster deals in NBA history.The trade united Davis with LeBron James, pairing one of the sport's all-time greatest players with one of the league's most versatile big men. LeBron James becomes NBA’s all-time leading scorer In four seasons with the Lakers, Davis has averaged 24.6 p...

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's major act of kindness for UFC's Themba Gorimbo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:18 GMT

Just when you think Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson couldn't be any nicer, he does this. The "Black Adam" star stepped up in a major way for a homeless UFC fighter. Johnson surprised Themba Gorimbo not only with his presence but with a major gift. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson makes massive donation to SAG-AFTRA Foundation Gorimbo had been sleeping at the MMA Masters gym in Miami, Florida, which is where he trains. He had just $7 in his bank account until he won a recent fight that gained him about $7,000. He then sold some of his gear, and instead of finding a home, he used that money to buy a pump for his village back home in Zimbabwe to give them clean water. Dwayne Johnson arrives at the Oscars on March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)That story resonated with The Rock. He famously only had seven bucks when his dreams of playing professional football came to an end, and he decided to take up the family business, professional wrestling. He now owns...

3 killed in early-morning wrong-way collision in Palmdale

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:18 GMT

Three men are dead following a wrong-way collision in Palmdale early Friday morning.A 2017 Kia Sorento driven by a 41-year-old man from Long Beach was headed east on Pearblossom Highway at about 3:30 a.m. when "for unknown reasons" it crossed into the westbound lanes west of Valley Springs Road, striking a westbound 2023 Toyota Tacoma, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. The Kia driver, a 60-year-old Victorville man who was a passenger in the Kia and the 37-year-old Littlerock man who was driving the pickup were all declared dead at the scene. The crash resulted in the closure of Pearblossom Highway between 25th and 37th streets until a few minutes before 11 a.m.The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information is asked to call 661-272-2400.

Trump pleads not guilty to new classified documents charges

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:18 GMT

By Tierney Sneed | CNNFormer President Donald Trump, in a court filing Friday, pleaded not guilty to the new charges special counsel Jack Smith brought against him in the case alleging mishandling of classified documents from his time in the White House.The filing marked the second time in 24 hours that the former president entered a not guilty plea, following his arraignment Thursday in the special counsel’s separate investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.Last week, Smith charged Trump, who had already faced 37 criminal charges in the classified documents case, with one additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts. He also filed new charges against Walt Nauta, the former president’s aide, and added Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira to the case.Trump and Nauta had pleaded not guilty to the initial charges earlier this summer.With the new fling, Trump indicated to the court that...

San Jose: Federal excessive force lawsuit from George Floyd protests is greenlit for trial

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:18 GMT

SAN JOSE — An excessive force lawsuit against the San Jose Police Department and the city over officers’ violent tactics to break up downtown crowds protesting the police killing of George Floyd three years ago —  which elicited national notoriety and condemnation — will proceed to trial after a federal judge’s ruling Thursday.Among the five plaintiffs whose claims of First and Fourth Amendment violations were approved to go forward is Michael Acosta, a man who lived downtown and was passively watching the protests that started in late May 2020 when an officer shot him in the face with a hard foam projectile, causing him to lose an eye.Other plaintiffs allowed to eventually argue in front a federal civil jury include a woman shoved or jabbed with batons “at least seventeen times” by two officers, a woman hit by projectiles while observing the protests, a man shoved to the ground by police and who claims he was hit by multiple projectiles, and a man who ...