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Out-of-control wildfires cause evacuations in western Canada

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:36:30 GMT

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Fire crews battled wildfires threatening communities in western Canada on Sunday as cooler temperatures and a bit of rain brought some relief, but officials warned the reprieve came only in some areas.Officials in Alberta said there were 108 active fires in the province and the number of evacuees grew to about 29,000, up from approximately 24,000 Saturday, when a provincewide state of emergency was declared.Two out-of-control wildfires in neighboring British Columbia also caused some people to leave their homes, and officials warned that they expected high winds to cause the blazes to grow bigger in the next few days.Provinicial officials in Alberta said the weather forecast was favorable for the next few days, with small amounts of rain and overcast conditions. But they cautioned that hot and dry conditions were predicted to return within a few days.“People have called this season certainly unprecedented in recent memory because we have so many fires so spr...

Clark wins Wells Fargo, Thai trio takes International Crown

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:36:30 GMT

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Wyndham Clark shot 68 on Sunday for a four-shot victory over Xander Schauffele at the Wells Fargo Championship to earn his first career win on the PGA Tour.The 29-year-old Clark struggled to hold back tears as he sank a bogey putt on the 18th hole to seal the win.Clark finished at 19-under 265, the second-lowest score to par in tournament history. Rory McIlroy shot 21-under 267 in 2015 when Quail Hollow played as a par 72.Schauffele had accuracy issues with his driver on Sunday and shot 70, finishing at 15 under.Clark opened the final round with a two-shot lead, surrendered it to Schauffele after seven holes and then stormed back to win after playing the final 11 holes in 4 under.Clark moved from No. 80 to No. 31 in the world ranking. He also earned a spot in the British Open, along with Michael Kim and Denny McCarthy.LPGA TOURSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Atthaya Thitikul birdied the 16th hole to cap a dominating week that carried Thailand to a victory over Australia ...

Pepi’s 12th goal not enough, Groningen relegated to 2nd tier

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:36:30 GMT

American forward Ricardo Pepi scored his 12th goal in 26 league games this season but it wasn’t enough to prevent Groningen from getting relegated from the Eredivisie with a 1-1 draw at Go Ahead Eagles on Sunday.The 20-year-old Texan, a member of the U.S. World Cup roster, put the visitors ahead in the sixth minute, tapping in Oliver Antman’s cross with his left foot.Willum Thór Willumsson scored a tying goal in the 30th minute.Pepi was loaned to Groningen for the season on Aug. 31 by Augsburg after failing to score for the German club in 16 matches over eight months.Groningen has four wins, 21 losses and six draws with three matches left and is 17th in the 18-team league. Last-place Cambuur also will drop to the Eerste Divisie. Groningen had not been in the Dutch second tier since 1998-99.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

‘Everything is at stake’: Abbott Elementary star calls for higher teacher wages

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:36:30 GMT

Abbott Elementary star and Emmy Award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph (center) moderates an education town hall at Walt Whitman High School to kick off Teacher Appreciation Week.The hit TV show “Abbott Elementary” chronicles the lives of teachers at an underfunded and mismanaged public school in Philadelphia. The show is a mockumentary, where the actors are filmed as if they’re subjects in an actual documentary.While the show itself is fiction, “Abbott Elementary” star Sheryl Lee Ralph, who plays veteran teacher Barbara Howard, said the show accurately depicts how little teachers get paid for doing so much. For Ralph, that’s a problem.“How do you expect people to make an actual living?” she said. “How do you expect people to do their best with our greatest natural resource, our children? They truly deserve more. They truly deserve better.”On Sunday, the Emmy Award winning actress hosted a town hall at Walt Whitman High Sch...

'Then we heard people crying for help': Witness of HVAC collapse feels lucky her family left unscathed

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:36:30 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) -- Jamie Olson and her son Canon have rewatched the video she took several times, following the collapse of an HVAC that injured six people at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center Saturday morning.“There was probably three dozen people in that pool when everything happened," Olson said. Olson said after taking the video she shared with FOX31/Channel 2 both she and her son realized they needed to jump into action to help. “I said this is happening, then we heard people crying for help," Olson said. She said right away they helped a young girl who had horrible wounds. ‘There were kids down there,’ survivor describes collapse at Gaylord Rockies that injured 6 "It was a devastating experience. Canon was grabbing towels and the staff was doing the best they could to," Olson said. “We had to help this little girl and we all worked together to make sure she was stable until paramedics arrived." Canon, who had just been sitting in the hot tub prior to t...

Unexpected Colorado destination No. 2 on Food and Wine's best hotel culinary list

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:36:30 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Food and Wine magazine asked its readers to submit their best culinary adventure at a hotel in the U.S. and a surprising Colorado location made No. 2 on the list. The C Lazy U Ranch in Granby was praised for its gourmet twist on American West classics. Executive Chef Cory Untch creates farm-to-table inspired menus elevating the family-owned dude ranch's dining experience for its guests, the ranch's site said. Untch came on board as the executive chef in 2020 with a plethora of experience at several five-star hotels. The ranch's site said he works closely with his front-of-house staff to ensure a truly memorable fine dining experience. 7 restaurant chains you didn’t know started in Colorado The beverage program is taken into consideration by voters and the C Lazy U Ranch has exceptional wine and craft beer options. The ranch's sommelier, Tony Collier, designed a wine list encompassing a variety of old and new world wines from casual enjoyment to all-out splurging ...

Study reveals top romance scams to watch for on social media

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:36:30 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Shocking new numbers show the biggest increase in romance scams in five years.The study was conducted by The Social Catfish, a reverse search technology company.Findings reveal Americans lost a record $1.3 billion to romance scams in 2022, an increase of more than 130% in one year alone.FOX31 spoke to one victim who explains why many elderly women fall for the schemes.“I was just tired of being alone and I needed somebody,” she said.One former scammer from Nigeria is embarking on a press tour in an effort to warn potential victims after seeing his own mother targeted. Westminster family searching for 15-year-old son “Let me tell you this, I used to do a scam, I used to talk to a woman, I would call her from 12 a.m. midnight until five in the morning,” he said.Colorado ranks 16th in the nation for romance scam cases with 362 victims losing $14.1 billion in 2022 mostly through bank wires and by sending gift cards.Losses in New Mexico jumped nearly 300% in one year, ...

Man bitten by shark while spearfishing off Islamorada shares ordeal

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:36:30 GMT

A young man is on the road to recovery days after an encounter with a shark off the Florida Keys sent him to the hospital with a painful bite.Speaking with 7News on Sunday, 22-year-old Ethan Wilder shared his account of coming face-to-face with the marine predator, Friday afternoon.“Me and my buddy were out spearfishing, and I just speared a fish, and I swam back up to the surface with them,” he said, “and I had it in my left hand, and I was about to swim back to the boat, and then a shark came from behind me and got my leg.”The shark strike happened near Davis Reef, off Islamorada.Wilder said his fishing partner was watching from a distance.“Well, he was watching from the boat, and he thought that the shark had just bit the fish,” said Wilder. “He didn’t realize he got me until I got to the boat.”Wilder said his immediate reaction was not extreme.“We were pretty cool. I told him to pull the anchor, and he went up there and...

How to stop Putin getting away with murder in Ukraine

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:36:30 GMT

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — “Murder, torture, illegal detentions and the persecution of people based on their ethnicity,” intoned Gyunduz Mamedov.He was listing the investigations he oversaw into Russia’s atrocities from 2016 to 2021, when working as a Ukrainian prosecutor, initially focused on Crimea after Moscow’s annexation and, subsequently, on the Donbas. And the dismal litany of the inhumanity could easily continue for many more paragraphs.Mamedov, a 48-year-old Azerbaijani-born Ukrainian lawyer, and his war-crimes team opened 30,000 criminal cases against Russians before he stepped down as the country’s deputy prosecutor general, when his department was abruptly handed over.Mamedov is silent when asked whether this was punishment for his participation in an audacious sting operation to entrap mercenaries of the paramilitary Wagner group — a secret operation that Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s top aide, had frowned upon and d...

Latest Ukraine satellite images reveal devastation of Russian invasion

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:36:30 GMT

OPTICSLatest Ukraine satellite images reveal devastation of Russian invasionThe consequences of war, seen from the sky.Images via Google Earth and Maxar. Above, streets in Mariupol.At the end of April, Google partially updated its map of Ukraine. Even though the latest images probably date from March 2022, the scale of destruction in the first weeks of Russia’s invasion is clear.The latest map lays bare the aftermath of the historic battles for Kyiv, and shows the destroyed iconic cargo plane Mriya at Hostomel Airport. It also shows a bridge in Irpin and a dam in Kozarovychi Village that Ukrainian forces had to blow up to stop the Russian offensive on Kyiv last year. Satellite cameras have also captured Bakhmut fields peppered with shell holes and people standing in line for humanitarian aid in the doomed port city of Mariupol.   POLITICO gathered satellite pictures from nine locations in Ukraine to show what they looked like before and after Russia invaded.Hostomel ...