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Football season openers expected to generate big profits

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:14:54 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) – The beginning of football season signals an anticipated boost in business revenue in Colorado.The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce reports fans are estimated to spend nearly 40 million dollars at this weekend’s University of Colorado Boulder Buffaloes and Denver Broncos games. Boulder was buzzing following Buffs big win against rival Nebraska Tony Fleith has owned the Li’l Devils Bar for nearly 11 years. He told FOX31 the outlook for increased profits over the coming months is positive.“Everything's kind of catching up in the industry and there's a few things but overall it's been great,” Fleith said.Fleith said he has noticed less of the supply chain issues that occurred in 2022, affecting food and kitchen equipment.The crowds are a welcome sight for employee Shelley Camstra.“It is so amazing to have all of these people here,” Camstra said.Football season is also expected to boost profits at area marijuana dispensaries.“We see a 15 to 20 percent pop you know aroun...

Buffs climb to No. 18 in the AP Top 25 after Nebraska win

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:14:54 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The University of Colorado Boulder football team jumped to No. 18 in the Associated Press Top 25 college football poll after a win over the University of Nebraska Saturday.Last week, the team jumped into the rankings at No. 22 in the AP poll after a win against Texas Christian University. Back to football: CU Buffaloes games, watch parties Deion Sanders made his Folsom Field debut Saturday, leading the Buffs to a 36-14 win against the rival Cornhuskers.The game was sold out, with 51,241 people in attendance. It was the highest attendance at the field in 15 years, according to the team on social media.Ahead of the game, resale tickets were going for an estimated $400 on the low end.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Will 'insurrection' claims against Trump be successful?

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:14:54 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A new lawsuit aims to keep former President Donald Trump’s name off the presidential primary ballot in the state of Colorado.It argues the former president is ineligible to hold office because of a clause in the U.S. Constitution that bars those who have taken the oath of office from holding office again if they were part of an insurrection. Trump lawyers move ‘insurrection’ clause lawsuit to federal court University of Denver law professor Ian Farrell weighs in on the issues raised by the lawsuit on this week's episode of "Colorado Point of View." Also this week, analysts look at the race for the 8th Congressional District seat held by Democrat Yadira Caraveo, and Colorado's legal psychedelics rollout moves ahead.Watch the full episode of "Colorado Point of View" in the video player above."Colorado Point of View" airs every weekend on Colorado's Very Own Channel 2.

Hurricanes safety Kamren Kinchens recovering from injury during home game against Texas A&M

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:14:54 GMT

A University of Miami football player is on the road to recovery a day after after he collapsed on the field during a game at Hard Rock Stadium.A picture taken at Jackson Memorial Hospital showed Kamren Kinchens smiling and holding up the “U” in his bed with his mother standing by his side.The 20-year-old All-America safety thanked everyone for their prayers in a message posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.Kinchens appeared to be in good spirits a day after a scary hit during a home game pitting the Hurricanes against Texas A&M.It happened during the fourth quarter as Kinchens was attempting to tackle Aggies receiver Ainias Smith.The team’s medical staff quickly rushed to the field.As Kinchens’ teammates embraced, fans crossed their fingers and players took a knee until he was loaded onto a stretcher and taken off the field.He was airlifted to JMH where he received further treatment and a full evaluation.An outpouring of support followed — from l...

Gables Inn front desk clerk fatally shoots guest during dispute, police say

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:14:54 GMT

A confrontation at a Coral Gables motel ended in tragedy and has led to an ongoing police investigation.Coral Gables Police and Fire Rescue units responded to the Gables Inn, located at 730 South Dixie Highway on Saturday evening.According to Miami-Dade Police, who are handling the investigation, a front desk clerk at the motel took out a gun during a dispute with a guest and opened fire.Paramedics rushed the victim, identified in a Miami Herald article as 30-year-old Jimmeal Davis, to Jackson South Medical Center, where he died from his injuries.Police said the desk clerk remained at the scene and is cooperating with detectives.MDPD detectives continue to investigate the shooting.

Swiss prosecution of Lukashenko hit man is watershed moment for justice in Belarus

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:14:54 GMT

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is head of the United Transitional Cabinet and leader of democratic forces of Belarus.“Do it in a way so that I don’t feel any pain.”According to a self-confessed member of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s murder squads, those were the last words of missing politician Yury Zacharenka.For over two decades, the relatives of Zacharenka, Viktar Hanchar and other disappeared Belarusian politicians have lived with uncertainty, not knowing the fate of their loved ones. And now, one of those who may be responsible for their disappearance will face justice in Switzerland, in a historic case that will set a global precedent.Applying the principle of universal jurisdiction in a case of enforced disappearance in Belarus for the first time, the trial marks a decisive step forward in the fight against impunity for crimes committed in my country. And it will show Lukashenko and other despots that they can’t dodge justice. Zacharenka was the minister of internal a...

Putin wants more land. The EU is racing to get there first

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:14:54 GMT

Vladimir Putin’s warmongering land-grab has pushed European Union leaders to make their own plans to expand. Moves are now under way to bring as many as eight new members into the 27-country bloc. But the historic drive for enlargement poses its own risks for the EU. Adding new states — potentially including the agricultural powerhouse of Ukraine — would open a Pandora’s Box of challenges. Sweeping internal reforms would be required, and that would likely trigger years of toxic infighting between current EU members. Despite the painful complexities of any enlargement process, Russia’s aggression has convinced some EU governments they can’t afford to wait. “This is now the moment to be bold and to change our approach to enlargement — to get the six Western Balkan countries, each and every one of them, and Ukraine and Moldova, clearly into our family,” Austrian foreign minister Alexander Schallenberg told POLITICO. “Enlargement is not a bureaucrati...

Children will die unless EU acts on medical equipment rules, warns doctor

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:14:54 GMT

A doctor who treats critically ill babies is warning that new EU quality control rules for medical equipment are so stringent they force manufacturers to discontinue the supply of devices used in lifesaving operations. In a plea to the European Commission to resolve the issue quickly as EU institutions ramp up after the summer recess, Damien Kenny, a congenital cardiologist in Dublin, said equipment shortages are leaving his colleagues no option but to perform more risky procedures on newborns and he fears that one day, a baby will die because they have no equipment to help them.“I’m afraid it will come whereby we have no solution,” Kenny told POLITICO. “In other words, there will be no therapy available and some will die as a consequence,” he said.In the meantime, a large group of children’s doctors faced with the daily grief of managing without well-established and effective products, such as catheters, stents and tiny balloons, have published a strategy for overcoming the s...

The secret to winning the Polish election: Bashing Tusk

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:14:54 GMT

KATOWICE, Poland — In the run-up to Poland’s October 15 general election, opposition leader Donald Tusk is the man the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party loves to hate.“When Donald Tusk says he has respect for working people, all working people must start to be afraid,” Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told a raucous election rally in the southern city of Katowice earlier this month. “Tusk is like a python that hugs, hugs, hugs until he suffocates. Watch out for him.” It’s part of a longstanding effort by PiS politicians to take any topic and repackage it as an ad hominem attack against Tusk.The favorite trick is to play on some of Poland’s deepest historical grievances and portray the pro-EU former president of the European Council as a pro-German — or even a Nazi — who will sell out the nation. One PiS senator even posted a photo of Tusk waving to a crowd next to one of Hitler giving a stiff-armed salute, noting that their methods were ...

Rishi Sunak hopes AI could be his legacy

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:14:54 GMT

NEW DELHI — With the clock likely ticking on his time in Downing Street, Rishi Sunak wants to secure a legacy on the world stage. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be just what he needs.  The British prime minister faces a general election next year with his Conservative Party languishing 18 points behind the Labour opposition in the polls. But though Sunak told reporters travelling with him to the G20 leaders’ summit in India this weekend he was “entirely confident” he can still win re-election, U.K. government insiders say the PM already has one eye on his possible post-Downing Street legacy.  Sunak takes pride in how he has helped repair the U.K.’s diplomatic standing after the rancour of Boris Johnson’s premiership and Liz Truss’ brief but disastrous stint in power. He sees the Windsor Framework — the agreement on post-Brexit trade checks in Ireland which markedly improved U.K. relations with the EU and the U.S. — as his signature achievement...