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Club Q survivors, victims' families receive financial disbursement

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:20:51 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) -- Victims' families and survivors of the Club Q mass shooting are receiving nearly $940,000 as a part of the National Compassion Fund's work. The money donated to the National Compassion Fund for Club Q is going to 48 validated applications from four different categories: those traumatized, wounded, injured or surviving family members of the five lives taken.Ashtin Gamblin is one of the survivors who is receiving funding. “I was the door girl at Club Q. It was one of those nights where I was just enjoying being there with my friends and I remember I was waiting for it to get close to 1 a.m. so I could leave the front door and start walking around the bar and Daniel had come up to talk to me at the front door and the next thing I knew I looked up and I was staring down the barrel of a gun,” she said.Gamblin was shot nine times; five in her left arm, two in her left breast and two in her right arm. She fought for her life in the hospital for six days. ...

Learn to dance at the InterContinental Miami during Salsa Night every first Friday of the month

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:20:51 GMT

Great dancers are great because they have passion and fire. But also, because they have great teachers.So if you’re itching to learn, or want to just dance, the InterContinental Miami is saying “Keep calm, and just salsa on.”What would be life without a little salsa?For one, you wouldn’t be able to get twirled around by your partner.But if you have two left feet and want to move like a pro, the InterContinental Miami is saying “no problemo” thanks to salsa night.Arminio Rivero/General Manager of InterContinental Miami: “Salsa night is great because you really feel like you are north of Havana, Cuba. If you don’t know how to dance salsa, you’re going to have the best instructors on site.”Salsa lovers will teach you some foot action every first Friday of every month.Arminio Rivero: “We want to do it perfectly for you. With the right ambiance, the right vibe, and the best part of it, is that in order to do it right, it n...

‘Fast X’ pits Vin Diesel, fellow racing daredevils against Jason Momoa’s fearsome villain

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:20:51 GMT

The 10th film in the “Fast and Furious” franchise sees Dom and the fam reuniting, but it isn’t the happy reunion they were expecting. There might be tons of conflict between the characters on screen … but off screen, the cast is thicker than thieves.The family is back, and they’re faster and more furious than ever, in “Fast X.”Jason Momoa (as Dante Reyes): “Dominic Toretto, you’re about to learn all about fear.”The 10th film sees Dom take on the son of former drug lord Hernan Reyes, Dante Reyes, played by Jason Momoa.Jason says he was ready for the role of a bad guy.Jason Momoa: “I wanted to bring something to the lineage that hadn’t been done yet, and something that could face off against Dom and his family, and you had to be a certain psychotic.”Jason Momoa (as Dante Reyes): “That’s the problem with having such a big family. How do you choose the ones you save?”Dom and Dante might be enemies ...

Hot, Hazy & Dry in South Florida

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:20:51 GMT

The main weather story for the rest of the week will be the heat… I wouldn’t be surprised some spots set new records as afternoon highs will reach the upper 80’s to low 90’s. Together with mostly sunny skies and lower humidity levels, it is making it fell bearable!  Miami- Old record for the day is 91- 1896… Miami came a degree shy from tying the old record! Fort Lauderdale- Old record for the day is 90-1978Marathon- Old record for the day is 92-2019Key West- Old record for the day is 91-1873Thursday a weak front moves in (unnoticed) and drops temperatures by 2-3 degrees (if that) and maintains the low humditiy. Therefore, hot temperatures set to continue.Starting this weekend and into next week, more moisture will be available for a chance of seeing an overnight/morning passing shower, followed by afternoon storms. Rain chances aren’t high, but in the 30% range letting us know the activity will be of the isolated variety. Temperatures will be bac...

Two taken to hospitals after crash involving MBTA bus and car in Norwood

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:20:51 GMT

Two people were taken to area hospitals Wednesday after a crash involving an MBTA bus and a car in Norwood, fire officials said. The crash happened on Washington Street near Ellis Avenue and sent the bus into the front lawn of a nearby home, officials said. The Norwood Fire Department later shared photos of the scene, showing the bus still in the home’s lawn and showing a damaged car stopped in the roadway. Officials said four people were on the bus at the time of the crash. One person was in the car. The two people taken to hospitals suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to the fire department. Part of Washington Street in the area was closed after this crash.Photo provided by Norwood Fire Department

Boston drops COVID vaccine mandate for city employees

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:20:51 GMT

Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration will lift the COVID vaccine mandate for all city employees on May 11, a decision that comes about a month after the state’s top court ruled in favor of Boston having this pandemic-era policy in place.Administration officials said this mandate, implemented by Wu in December 2021, is no longer needed — as cases are low and most people have developed immunity to the virus, through either vaccination or infection.They also cited the expiration of federal and state public health emergencies, which will also take place on the same date this month.“The public health landscape has changed considerably,” Chief People Officer Alex Lawrence said in a Wednesday memo to department heads. “We have more tools to manage this virus, data indicate there are fewer large-scale breakouts, and our healthcare system is not under the acute strain it was in December 2021.”Employee testing requirements will also be eliminated on May 11. Although no longer needed, Lawrence s...

Chicago Bears seek to start demolition work on Arlington International Racecourse

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:20:51 GMT

Marking a significant step in the Chicago Bears’ proposal to move to Arlington Heights, the team Wednesday filed paperwork to begin demolition of Arlington International Racecourse.The team said the first phase would begin with gutting the interior of the grandstand, and that any exterior demolition would come later.Team officials emphasized that this does not mean they’re going ahead with the $5 billion plan to build a new enclosed stadium with housing, bars and restaurants on the site. The team has asked to first determine what taxes it would be paying and has said it needs a public subsidy to help pay to build infrastructure like roads and utilities, before it could go forward.The Bears bought the 326-acre former horse track last year for $197 million.The demolition announcement comes a day after Crain’s Chicago Business reported that the Cook County assessor raised the assessed value of the property to roughly the same amount as the purchase price.If approved b...

Century mark

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:20:51 GMT

Happy birthday Frank Bellotti. The court in Quincy, named after him, was the place to be Wednesday as the Bay State icon turned 100 years old.Bellotti transformed the attorney general’s office from a backwater political Democratic Party hangout to a non-partisan first-class law office. But he’s more than that — the outpouring of support tells that story.Peter Bellotti kisses his dad, Frank Bellotti, at yesterday’s ceremony. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)(Quincy, MA, 05/03/23) Frank Bellotti waves to well wishers as the as Norfolk County celebrates the 100th birthday of Frank Bellotti at the Bellotti Courthouse on Wednesday, May 03, 2023. (Staff photo by Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)(Quincy, MA, 05/03/23) A court officer presents a birthday cake to Frank Bellotti as he takes a sneak taste of the frosting, as the as Norfolk County celebrates the 100th birthday of Frank Bellotti at the Bellotti Courthouse on Wednesday, May 03, 2023. (Staff photo b...

Column: Still time for Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and the Chicago White Sox to make fans ‘happy,’ relatively speaking

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:20:51 GMT

The headline on an internet story about Jerry Reinsdorf’s bombshell comments in Los Angeles was gobsmacking.“Jerry Reinsdorf, why don’t you stop talkin’ for a while?”Reinsdorf, as most Chicago White Sox fans know, rarely talks publicly — at least on the record — thus avoiding putting his foot in his mouth. His handlers told him years ago that he would be better off saying nothing rather than what’s really on his mind, and for the most part he has kept to that strategy.The 87-year-old White Sox chairman is incapable of filtering himself, which might be why he has a soft spot for Ozzie Guillen.But for some reason Reinsdorf agreed to be part of a seminar in Los Angeles that former ESPN reporter Rachel Nichols hosted. He knew his remarks would be available online and disseminated by Sox fans but participated anyway.Perhaps he knew Nichols would chuckle at his sarcastic remarks, whether funny or not. Everyone likes to sound witty. Nichols w...

Massachusetts landlord accused of locking female tenants in his office to sexually assault them will pay $425,000 to victims: US Attorney

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:20:51 GMT

A landlord accused of sexually harassing female tenants, including allegedly locking them in his office to sexually assault them, will pay $425,000 to victims after the U.S. Attorney’s Office reached a settlement.Salazar Dos Santos, a Chicopee landlord, has been accused of violating the Fair Housing Act by sexually harassing female tenants for at least 11 years.The settlement announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office on Wednesday also resolves claims against the Trusts of Salazar Dos Santos and America Dos Santos, which held the properties where the harassment allegedly occurred.Under the proposed consent decree, the defendants are required to pay a total of $425,000 to compensate individuals harmed by the harassment and a $25,000 civil penalty. The settlement is subject to approval by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.“Sexual harassment and the conduct alleged here is repugnant and completely unacceptable,” U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins...