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Big 12 not quite the same, but it feels like home to a 98-year-old Colorado fan

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:34:48 GMT

Peggy Coppom hasn’t quite seen it all with the Colorado Buffaloes, but she’s seen much more than most, so believe her when she says Thursday was a good day to be a fan.The 98-year-old has been attending football games since her family moved from the high plains of eastern Colorado to Boulder in 1939 to escape the Dust Bowl, and she’s missed only a couple home games since buying season tickets in 1966.The excitement in her voice was obvious during a phone call minutes after university regents approved the school’s return to the Big 12 in 2024.“I’m so happy to get back to the Big 12 — or the Big 15 or whatever it ends up being,” she said, laughing. “It seems like that’s where we belong. We don’t belong with the West Coast people.”Of course, the Big 12 isn’t the same league it was when the Buffs left for the Pac-12 in 2012. Nebraska and Missouri are gone, and Oklahoma and Texas will be, too. BYU could become a rival, but the Buffs have little i...

Las 5 cosas que debes saber este 28 de julio: El mes más caluroso en 120.000 años

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:34:48 GMT

¿Cómo ha sido el Gobierno de Dina Boluarte en Perú? Sinéad O’Connor pagó muy caro criticar a la Iglesia católica, pero la historia le dio la razón. Ovnis: qué son, cuántos avistamientos ha habido y qué ha revelado el Pentágono. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad.1. El mes más caluroso en 120.000 añosMuchos científicos dicen que es casi seguro que estas temperaturas sean las más cálidas que el planeta ha visto en 120.000 años, dado lo que sabemos de milenios de datos climáticos extraídos de anillos de árboles, arrecifes de coral y núcleos de sedimentos marinos profundos.Estas son las ciudades de EE.UU. amenazadas por las altas temperaturasEl calor extremo trae consecuencias a la economía mundial 1:522. Las propuestas económicas de los candidatos a la presidencia de ArgentinaA medida que avanza la campaña electoral en Argentina, los aspirantes a gobernar el país durante los próximos cuatro años dan a conocer sus propuestas políticas y económicas p...

Caught on camera: Repeat vandal strikes Denver nonprofit

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:34:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Security video shows a man smashing windows, and the aftermath leaves a nonprofit with thousands of dollars in damage.JAMLAC, the Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Center, said the same man has hit the nonprofit repeatedly. Why did Jeffco wait to warn about the trail predator? "Someone vandalized our building; this has been happening since a year ago," Marlene Bedoya with JAMLAC said.The man has been back 10 times over the last year, according to JAMLAC."He broke our window, he broke our main door, the main windows," Bedoya said. "He put some type of material on our walls, and it's just destroyed."There are security cameras around their building and those cameras caught video of him approaching their main door, now covered in plywood, and using a baseball bat to shatter the windows."It's unfair," Bedoya said. "We're a nonprofit, legal aid center that helps the community, and to have this type of damage, it will cost us a lot." Multi-burglary truck found in Arvada, sus...

Denver weather: Hot start to weekend with afternoon storms

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:34:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The Denver weather forecast will finish off the workweek with more heat along the Front Range and chances for afternoon storms yet again.Weather today: More heat and stormsPartly to mostly sunny skies are around the Denver metro Friday with hot highs reaching the middle 90s. Why did Jeffco wait to warn about the trail predator? Storms are once again possible in the afternoon and early evening hours. Pinpoint Weather: Daily forecast on July 28. Weather tonight: Partly cloudyClouds will slowly clear overnight Friday with light winds and mild low temperatures in the lower 60s.Pinpoint Weather: Overnight forecast on July 28. Looking ahead: Warm weekend, more rainThe weekend will also be warm with high temperatures topping out in the lower 90s. Storm chances stick around through the weekend, mostly focused in the afternoon and evening hours. The heat is still around but with more seasonal averages at the start of next week. Highs on Monday and Tuesday will be around th...

Fans, students excited for University of Colorado Boulder conference move

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:34:48 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) -- The University of Colorado Boulder is moving conferences after just over a decade in the Pac-12 conference, and fans and students alike are excited about the change.The university announced its move back to the Big 12 Thursday afternoon. This decision came with a unanimous vote. Experts and students said they're excited about what this could mean for CU athletics. University of Colorado to rejoin Big 12 conference Zach Mechanik, a CU junior, is among those excited. He said, "We're playing better teams so I think we’ll be better as a team, and maybe the publicity around it and more hype around the school."It's a constantly evolving athletics department with most eyes on football. Head coach Deion Sanders is bringing in a lot of that necessary exposure to the team. "The competition as far as I know is going to be tougher, but I think we’re ready for it with Deion here, so it’ll be good to see,” Mechanik said. Experts like Metropolitan State University sport...

Colorado couple competes in Cheyenne Frontier Days chuckwagon cook-off

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:34:48 GMT

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (KDVR) — Cheyenne Wells is a city in Colorado with a population of 600. Better make that 598, because Tammy and Michael Engelbrecht are not in Cheyenne Wells right now. They are in Cheyenne, Wyoming cooking up a storm, chuckwagon style.A chuckwagon is an Old West-era kitchen on wheels. They were used for storing food and preparing food for cowboys, pioneers and anyone who needed to eat in the field. They were used in wagon trains to feed settlers as well. Chuckwagons were the original food trucks. Why is Cheyenne Frontier Days called ‘Daddy of ‘Em All’? It's part Western heritage, part living history and a big part culinary cuisine. Cowboy grub had to be great.“Food was the only thing that they had to look forward to. Food was the only luxury they had,“ Michael said. “The average age of the cowhand was about 12 years old to 14 years old, and so as a very young man, he may or may not have a family and you need to keep him on the trails,“ Tammy said.The Engelbrechts a...

Senate passes defense policy bill, setting up showdown with the House

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:34:48 GMT

(CNN) — The Senate passed a critical national defense policy bill Thursday evening – setting up a showdown with the Republican-controlled House.The House passed its own version of the bill – known as the National Defense Authorization Act – earlier this month after adopting a series of controversial amendments pushed by hardline conservatives. Now that the Senate has passed its NDAA bill, lawmakers will need to reconcile the Senate bill and the House bill by negotiating a compromise version that can pass both chambers.The NDAA sets the policy agenda and authorizes funding for the Department of Defense annually.The controversial amendments added to the House bill included provisions to restrict abortion and transgender health care access and eliminate diversity and inclusion programs. Adoption of the amendments infuriated Democrats and caused the House bill to lose significant Democratic support.“It’s going to take some work, but we just hope that we would focus on actual issues rela...

UK accidentally sent military emails meant for US to Russian ally

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:34:48 GMT

British authorities have launched an investigation after officials mistakenly sent emails meant for U.S. military intelligence to the government in Mali, a Russian ally.Officials from the U.K. Ministry of Defense were supposed to be sending emails to the Pentagon, but accidentally sent them to Mali’s government instead, the Times reported Thursday. The mistake was the result of a typo, as the Pentagon’s domain name is “.mil,” while Mali’s is “.ml.”The Ministry of Defense said Friday they were investigating the incident.“We have opened an investigation after a small number of emails were mistakenly forwarded to an incorrect email domain,” a spokesperson for the ministry said, Reuters reported.According to the Times, while most emails sent to Mali were innocuous — containing information such as dates when the employees from the foreign ministry were on holiday — others contained “detailed descriptions” of British research into hypersonic missiles.However, the Ministry of D...

Ford recalls 870K F-150 pickups in US because parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:34:48 GMT

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 870,000 newer F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the electric parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly.The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. Ford’s F-Series pickups are the top-selling vehicles in the U.S.The company says in documents posted by government safety regulators Friday that a rear wiring bundle can come in contact with the rear axle housing. That can chafe the wiring and cause a short circuit, which can turn on the parking brake without action from the driver, increasing the risk of a crash.Drivers may see a parking brake warning light and a warning message on the dashboard.Ford says in documents that it has 918 warranty claims and three field reports of wire chafing in North America. Of these, 299 indicated unexpected parking brake activation, and 19 of these happened while the trucks were being driven.The company says it doesn’t kn...

Hot and humid Friday, storms return Saturday

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:34:48 GMT

After an active day yesterday, we’ll get a break from the storms today. It’ll be hot and humid with heat index values in the upper 90s/near 100. Tomorrow, scattered storms return, some could be severe. Sunday will be the better day of the weekend, with less humidity!These were the heat index values (above), or feels like temperatures, yesterday around 3:00 pm. We’ll get back in that range today. Highs will be near 90/low 90s inland. With hot temperatures and the humidity, it’ll feel like those heat index values above. Stay hydrated! There’s still a Heat Advisory for a lot of us, outside of Cape Cod and the Islands. It runs through tomorrow. Although, tomorrow temperature’s will be dependent on cloud cover.Want to hit the beach after seeing those hot temperatures inland? Temperatures will be in the 80s on the beach. There’s a moderate risk for rip currents on south facing beaches and the east side of Cape Cod. There was a reported rip current...