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How your car can power your home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:29 GMT

Even as fierce winter winds knocked out power to thousands of Bay Area homes, Tammy Snyder’s rural storm-battered house remained bathed in brightness.Her plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt, linked to the house by long extension cords, powered her family’s favorite lamp, as well as the refrigerator, internet and furnace. It charged the batteries that run her phone, laptop, electric blanket, camp light, flashlights, power tools and a comfy heating pad that wraps around her shoulders.“It’s turned outages into slight inconveniences, rather than the hardships they used to be,” said Snyder, a 62-year-old who radiates practicality. Her family’s scenic Santa Cruz Mountains home is more than a dozen miles away from the comfort of the nearest town — and lost PG&E power 13 times this winter, once for eight days and another for six days.Her homespun setup is a preview of what may soon be easily available to many Californians: EVs that are equipped not just to receive power, b...

Drug suspect puts meth between buttocks, hides it in jail cell, gets busted again

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:29 GMT

An Ohio man faces multiple drug possession charges, including for methamphetamine that Royal Oak, Michigan police say he put between his buttocks and briefly hid in his jail cell until he was busted again.Suspect Nathaniel K. Cipriani, 28, of North Bend Ohio, is jailed on $50,000, 10 percent, bond.Police became suspicious when they spotted the suspect sitting in a Dodge Charger with a license plate that was registered to a Honda in Kentucky on April 8.Cipriani got out of the car as officers approached him and started walking away, police said.Police noticed he was wearing an electronic tether and said he told them he was recently arrested for drug possession in Macomb County.A K-9 unit was called to the Amoco gas station on Woodward Avenue south of 12 Mile Road.Police said they found a small baggie of suspected heroin beneath the dashboard radio.The suspect was arrested and taken to the police station.During a search police said they found he had a glass drug pipe in the waistband o...

9-year-old girl found shot in the back in Southeast DC

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:29 GMT

A young girl is in the hospital after getting shot in the back Sunday in Southeast D.C., according to police.“It’s disheartening,” said LaShay Makal, commander of the Seventh Police District. “I’m outraged and I continue to say that the community should be outraged as well.”Makal said during a press briefing on Sunday night that the 9-year-old was shot while sitting in the back of a vehicle at the 1500 block of Shippen Lane around 4 p.m.“Right now, we are in the early stages of the investigation, but we have located a crime scene,” said Makal. “We have recovered multiple shell casings in the road there.”Makal said two adults were also in the vehicle but neither of them were struck. They drove the young victim to the 2700 block of Douglass Place before realizing that she had been shot.The 9-year-old was breathing and conscious when police arrived on the scene. She was in stable condition at the time she was transported to a ...

Wall Street ticks higher ahead of another busy earnings week

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:29 GMT

Wall Street is pointing modestly higher in subdued trading early Monday ahead of another busy week of corporate earnings reports that should offer clues about how businesses are faring under sustained inflationary pressures.Futures for the S&P 500 rose about 0.1% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrials are up 0.2% before the bell.The focus this week will be on the ability of U.S. corporations to navigate higher costs as the Federal Reserve and the world’s other central banks hike interest rates to cool inflation. “Earnings expectations for this quarter are not brilliant,” said Ipek Ozkardeskaya, senior analyst at Swissquote Bank. “But the good news is, the expectations are driven by conversations with corporate executives which love sounding pessimistic, so that when the results come in better than expected, the market reaction could be positive despite soft results.” Prometheus Biosciences jumped nearly 70% in premarket trading after the San Diego biotechnology company ...

3 arrested after allegedly crashing stolen car on the Beltway in Md. during police pursuit

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:29 GMT

Three people were arrested who police in Fairfax County, Virginia, say stole a car and crashed it on the Capital Beltway before trying to run away on foot from officers.Fairfax County police said officers chased a stolen vehicle to the exit ramp #27 in College Park, near the Cherry Hill Park from Arlington Drive on Route 1 in Virginia at around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday.The car struck a police cruiser before three people attempted to flee on foot, leaving the vehicle unattended on Interstate 495 in Prince George’s County, Maryland, according to police.They discarded firearms on the scene, which police said were later discovered by officers.Police arrested three people involved in the pursuit, according to an update from the department at around 7 p.m. on Sunday. Those people haven’t been identified and it’s unclear if they’re still in police custody.All lanes of the Beltway were blocked, causing major traffic delays on Sunday. All lanes have since reopened.Source

Denver 7th-best city for college graduates

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:29 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver is among the best cities in the country for recent college graduates, according to a new study. Apartment Advisor ranked the largest 84 U.S. cities by their respective economics, desirability and rent prices. Economic factors included education, income levels, employment and cost of living. Desirability included the proportion of young people, walkability, and the density of nightlife. The lower the average weighted score of all factors, the higher the city ranked. What’s a ‘middle class’ income in Denver these days? Denver ranked seventh among the largest metros with a total score of 29.7.Denver is famously expensive with a median one-bedroom rent of $1,700 per month, which is the nation's eleventh highest. However, it also has a relatively high median income and a high density of both young people and nightlife - particularly breweries.Denver was beaten by Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis and Madison, Wisconsin - cities as desirabl...

Commerce City to hold council meeting following hit-and-run that killed a teen

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:29 GMT

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (KDVR) — Monday night, a city council meeting in Commerce City will focus on how out to make the community safer following a deadly hit-and-run incident.Ahead of the meeting, the city sent FOX31 a statement saying, “While this incident occurred on a stretch of roadway that falls outside the city’s jurisdiction, the city is currently evaluating opportunities to improve traffic safety, reduce driver speeds, and increase enforcement in and around school zones within the city. The city has also reached out to our partners at Adams County to discuss how we can collaborate to increase traffic safety and prevent such incidents in the future within and across our shared boundaries.”This stems from a hit-and-run that occurred on April 11 when Colorado State Patrol said a driver allegedly struck and killed 16-year-old Kara Kincaid and then fled the scene. Exclusive video shows what neighbors describe as a ‘war zone’ shooting in Green Valley Ranch It happened around 7:45...

Denver's 1st movie venue holds free summer film series

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:29 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — This summer, you have the chance to watch some of the most popular new releases and classic movies in a theatre that dates back to 1896. The Historic Elitch Theatre announced its 2023 Summer Film Series. Denver Botanic Gardens announces lineup for summer concert series The theatre is inviting all movie fanatics to enjoy some blockbuster films in Denver's first movie venue. According to Elitch Theatre, the venue held the first moving picture screening in the West back in 1896 with Thomas Edison's groundbreaking technology known as the Vitascope. "On Aug. 14, 1896, Mary Elitch introduced guests of the Gardens to the Edison Vitascope. Theywere the first in the West to share the experience of seeing moving pictures on a screen. This was the precursor to movies as we know them today," said the theatre in a press release. The theatre plans to show the following movies every other Friday:Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) - June 16Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (PG) - June 30Black ...

Cañon City family to hold vigil for Nashville school shooting victim

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:29 GMT

CAÑON CITY, Colo (KXRM) — Three weeks after the Nashville school shooting, one Cañon City family is ready to grieve for their niece with their Colorado community.Hallie Scruggs (9). Courtesy: Kara ArnoldThe family that owns the Little Canyon Inn, a motel in Cañon City, is grieving the death of 9-year-old Hallie Scruggs who was killed in the Nashville school shooting. The community will be holding a vigil on Friday, April 21, for Hallie and the family, who came back from Nashville this past week.The Arnold family currently lives in Cañon City running the motel with their four sons, Jack (16), Finn (13), Chip (9), and Lucky (5). But until recently, they lived in their hometown of Nashville and frequently meet with their cousins, the Scruggs family.Hallie was the only girl among seven other boy cousins. Courtesy: Kara ArnoldHallie was the only girl among seven other boy cousins, but they said she held her own."My brothers and them would wrestle a bunch. She would always jump right in. ...

Fort Lauderdale residents impacted by historic floods on edge as rain returns; FDEM director says progress made

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:29 GMT

Strong thunderstorms returned to parts of Broward County, putting residents impacted by last week’s historic floods on edge.More rainfall on Sunday was the last thing residents in Fort Lauderdale’s Edgewood neighborhood needed, as they continued to clean up.“When it comes to our home, it’s already pretty damaged, it’s already pretty far gone,” said resident Christopher Kilpatrick, “and, as you can see in the waterline of the house, we’re as ready as we can be and hope for the best.”Some residents said they hope this weekend’s stormy weather doesn’t make things worse.Others, however, said the damage has already been done.“It don’t matter now; it’s all ruined. A car and my truck? Underwater, they’re totaled,” said resident Jack Grimm. “The house is ruined. It can rain all it wants now.”Residents in Edgewood spent the day cleaning up, throwing out sofas, clothes, chairs. Everythi...