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Will Denver house 1,000 people by 2024? FOX31 asks Mayor Mike Johnston

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:46:17 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver is just two days from meeting its goal to get 1,000 people off the streets by the end of 2023. FOX31 checked in with Mayor Mike Johnston for an update.As of Friday, 932 people had been moved indoors as part of the initiative, and 911 of them were still indoors. More than half have been sheltered for less than 30 days, while a little over a quarter have gotten permanent housing.Johnston told FOX31 that the city will meet its goal by Sunday night. But the work doesn't end, because with a new year comes new and even loftier goals.Denver's housing plan for 2024The mayor's goal for next year: Get another 1,000 people off the streets and into transitional housing. The city already has two micro-communities set to open by the end of March and will continue to look for and buy or lease more properties. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox Kicked into gear as soon as Johnston took office in July, the so-called House1000 plan went slower ...

Golden man embarks on journey to see the world and help clean it up

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:46:17 GMT

GOLDEN, Colo. (KDVR) — He stuffed everything he needs into a couple of backpacks. A whiteboard in his bedroom has been counting down the days until his life-changing journey. And the day has finally arrived.“Gonna just go out and find myself, explore the world and hopefully do that and give back to the community by doing some volunteer work,” said Brooks Wood, 22. Here’s where Colorado’s population is growing and shrinking: report Wood departed early Friday on a journey that could take him a year and could take him anywhere around the world. The Golden traveler was born with wanderlust, caught the travel bug early on and has been saving every dime and dollar for his adventure.“I’ve been doing dog sitting, I used to work at a coffee shop for a while. I was raking leaves and doing a ton of different side hustles and just saving up as much money as I could just all by myself,” Wood told FOX31.Brooks Wood, 22, of Golden, packs for his overseas trip. He hopes to spend the next six mont...

Shots fired into window of occupied home in NE Miami-Dade, sources say; no injuries reported

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:46:17 GMT

Gunfire tore through an occupied home in a Northeast Miami-Dade neighborhood, sources said.According to law enforcement sources, someone fired gunshots through the window of an occupied home in the area of Northeast 139th Street and Second Court, Friday night.Sources said there was a family inside when the bullets pierced through the window of that home. No injuries were reported. Miami-Dade Police are looking for the subject and subjects behind the gunfire. Sources said they are looking for a white Lexus SUV that fled southbound on Northeast Second Court. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this breaking story.

‘Ripped away from us’: Pembroke Pines family says thieves took $100K in jewelry from home

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:46:17 GMT

A South Florida family is heartbroken after they returned home last weekend to find their jewelry box broken into and their expensive jewelry missing.Eve and her mother asked not to show their faces on camera when they spoke with 7News about the Dec. 23 theft at their Pembroke Pines home.“It’s like a piece of our family ripped away from us,” said Eve. Eve and her mother said that someone came into their gated community, broke into their home through a part that has no cameras and stole the jewelry.The victims said the perpetrators took off with a diamond necklace, a rose gold ring, a wedding set, two gold necklaces and a bracelet, among other items. In all, they’re worth about $100,000.“My mother’s grandmother raised her when she was younger, and she passed away a few years ago, but she gave my mother all of her jewelry — a beautiful gold earring, necklaces and bracelets,” said Eve.A lot of these pieces of expensive jewelry were passed...

Shooting in Fairhaven leaves officer injured, former New Bedford Deputy Fire Chief dead

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:46:17 GMT

Authorities are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Fairhaven on Friday night that left an officer injured and a former New Bedford Deputy Fire Chief dead, officials announced.Officers responding to a report of an intoxicated male at 125 Sconticut Neck Road around 5 p.m. when shots were exchanged between Paul Coderre and officers, according to the Fairhaven Police Department.Coderre was killed.A responding officer was wounded in the leg and taken to an area hospital to be treated for their injuries. They have since been released.In a statement, New Bedford Mayor Job Mitchell said, “This evening’s fatal shooting in Fairhaven was tragic in every sense. I am relieved that the officer who was injured will make a full recovery, and that no one else was seriously hurt.”The Bristol District Attorney’s Office investigating the incident.https://twitter.com/scooperon7/status/1740929076217463240https://twitter.com/JonMitchellNB/status/1740902737959944455No...

Brown scores 31 points, sets up Kornet’s tiebreaking basket as Celtics beat Raptors 120-118

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:46:17 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown returned from a one-game absence to score 31 points and feed Luke Kornet for the tiebreaking basket as the Boston Celtics beat the Toronto Raptors 120-118 on Friday night.After Scottie Barnes tied the game at 116 with a 3-pointer with 47 seconds remaining, Boston found Kornet for a dunk with 32 seconds left. Boston’s lead stood at 119-117 when Barnes drove down the lane but couldn’t finish. Down three after replay determined that a foul occurred before the final horn, Toronto’s Pascal Siakam went to the line with 1.4 seconds left. He made the first but missed the second as the Celtics melted away the remaining time.Brown, who missed Boston’s overtime win Thursday that sent the Detroit Pistons to a record-tying 28th straight loss because of a back injury, swished 3-pointers on three straight possessions in the first quarter. The All-Star guard shot 5 of 6 from beyond the arc and also grabbed 10 rebounds.Derrick White finished with 21 points while Kornet add...

Chicago White Sox sign pitcher Chris Flexen to a 1-year, $1.75 million deal

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:46:17 GMT

The Chicago White Sox continued an active week Friday by signing pitcher Chris Flexen to a one-year, $1.75 million deal, a source confirmed to the Tribune.The right-hander has a career 27-34 record with a 4.95 ERA, two saves and 343 strikeouts in 120 appearances (80 starts) during six seasons with the New York Mets (2017-19), Seattle Mariners (2021-23) and Colorado Rockies (2023). Flexen spent 2020 with the Doosan Bears in the Korea Baseball Organization, with whom he went 8-4 with a 3.01 ERA and 132 strikeouts in 21 starts.He made a career-best 31 starts in 2021 for the Mariners, going 14-6 with a 3.61 ERA, 125 strikeouts and 40 walks in 179 2/3 innings.Flexen, 29, went 2-8 with a 6.86 ERA in 29 outings (16 starts) between the Mariners and Rockies in 2023. He was 0-4 with a 7.71 ERA in 17 appearances (four starts) with the Mariners and 2-4 with a 6.27 ERA in 12 starts for the Rockies. The Mariners designated Flexen for assignment on June 27 and traded him to the Mets on July 3. He ...

Derrick White comes alive in crunch time as shorthanded Celtics survive over Raptors

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:46:17 GMT

The Celtics arrived home from their dominant road trip with a little bit of jet lag and some injuries to their key players. Luckily, the schedule-makers rewarded them with a couple of inferior opponents who couldn’t close the deal on them.The Celtics certainly did not make things easy on themselves in a home back-to-back against two of the worst teams in the Eastern Conference, but they survived both games anyway. After narrowly avoiding history by holding off the Pistons on Thursday, the shorthanded Celtics came back a night later and coughed up a huge lead against the Raptors. But they made enough plays in crunch time to hold on for a 120-118 victory, pushing their undefeated home record to 16-0.Jaylen Brown led the way with 31 points, Derrick White scored 21 points and added seven assists as he overcame a woeful 5-for-19 shooting night, and Luke Kornet had a breakout game with 20 points and eight rebounds in his first start in more than two years as the Celtics barely survived th...

Local leader describes crash with DUI driver

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:46:17 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A local San Diego leader says his family was recently hit by a drunk driver, and now he wants to share his message with the public to not get behind the wheel after you've been drinking.National statistics estimate that on New Year’s, one person will die every 39 minutes in drunk-driving crashes. A sobering statistic that hit too close to home for San Diego City Councilmember of District 7, Raul Campillo. “A few days before Christmas as me, my wife Nadia, my two-month-old son Rafael and I were driving around town in the early afternoon shopping for gifts, food, for Christmas for our families, we were struck at high speed by a driver who had been drinking. As we entered the Interstate 8 freeway in La Mesa, the other driver completely failed to turn off the freeway and collided with us, directly on our driver’s side back wheel, somewhere at or near above 65 miles per hour,” Campillo said.Campillo says the driver sped away and was arrested by California High...

More than 100 anglers rescued from an ice chunk that broke free on a Minnesota river

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:46:17 GMT

RED LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — More than 100 people stranded while fishing on an ice chunk that broke free on a Minnesota river were rescued Friday, authorities said.The anglers were on an ice floe in the southeastern area of Upper Red Lake in Beltrami County — about 200 miles (322 kilometers) northwest of Minneapolis — when it broke loose from the shoreline. An emergency call shortly before 5 p.m. said the people were stranded with more than 30 feet (9 meters) separating them from shore, according to a statement by the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office.Nobody had fallen through the ice. But before first responders arrived, bystanders tried to take some of the people off by canoe and four fell into the water, the sheriff’s office said.They were brought back to the ice floe to warm in a fishing shelter, the sheriff’s office said.It took about 2 1/2 hours to finally evacuate 122 people from the ice floe, and no injuries were reported, according to the sheriff’s office.State officials have ...