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Christmas trees are the leading cause of fires around the holidays, experts say

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:10 GMT

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Gasparilla Bowl Winners

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:10 GMT

Dec. 23, 2023 — Georgia Tech 30, UCF 17Dec. 23, 2022 — Wake Forest 27, Missouri 17Dec. 23, 2021 — UCF 29, Florida 17Dec. 26, 2020 — Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemicDec. 23, 2019 — UCF 48, Marshall 25Dec. 20, 2018 — Marshall 38, South Florida 20Dec. 21, 2017 — Temple 28, Florida International 3Dec. 26, 2016 — Mississippi St. 17, Miami (Ohio) 16Dec. 26, 2015 — Marshall 16, UConn 10Dec. 26, 2014 — N.C. State 34, UCF 24Dec. 23, 2013 — East Carolina 37, Ohio 20Dec. 21, 2012 — UCF 38, Ball State 17Dec. 20, 2011 — Marshall 20, Florida International 10Dec. 21, 2010 — Louisville 31, Southern Mississippi 28Dec. 19, 2009 — Rutgers 45, UCF 24Dec. 20, 2008 — South Florida 41, Memphis 14Note: St. Petersburg Bowl (2008-09; 2014-2016); Beef ‘O’ Brady’s (2010-13)Source

'Babe, call 911, I just got shot': Bullet barely misses sleeping kids, hits Aurora mom

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:10 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — An Aurora woman has been released from the hospital after she was hit by a bullet while sleeping inside her home this week.It happened early Thursday morning in the 900 block of South Joplin Way, where Kendall Heinold said her family was awoken by gunfire. “It was just a really loud noise, and then a lot of pain on my left side,” she said. "My husband was sleeping next to me and he got up and was like, ‘Did you hear that?’ Because it was so loud, and I just looked at him and was like, ‘Babe, call 911, I just got shot.'"Heinold was rushed to the hospital, where doctors found a bullet lodged in her shoulder. Unfounded threat reported at Colorado Supreme Court justice’s home The 27-year-old is 16 weeks pregnant and said doctors decided to leave the bullet in her rather than place her under anesthesia for surgery. Aurora police believe that the bullet may have traveled hundreds of feet in the air over a greenbelt that backs up to the family's home...

Letter from France helps Colorado family learn about their WWII hero grandfather

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:10 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Brad Kemp, Stacey Reinwald and Shannon Fengler have a lot of their grandfather’s war mementos — a shadow box filled with medals, even a piece of fencing from where Leo Greggs was held prisoner of war by the Germans. But the most valuable reminder of his service randomly arrived in the mail a few months ago.“We got this letter in Aurora, Colorado, that had come from France,” Fengler said.The letter came from a woman in northern France. And the story she outlined on its pages surprised the Aurora siblings.“Didn’t really know the full story until the letter comes,” Reinwald said. Loveland veteran, 100, receives French medal for WWII heroics The author of the letter, Frederique Hazebrouck, said she knew about their grandfather, and how he was shot down in a plane called the Taletha Ann on March 26, 1944, in northern France. How did she know? Her own grandfather, Marcel Bellingier, saw it all happen and rushed to help Greggs, giving him food, first aid and shelte...

Friday’s high school roundup/scores: Windle, Melchionda shine in Dover-Sherborn win

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:10 GMT

Jono Windle and Mason Melchionda each buried 18 points, lifting Dover-Sherborn (3-1) to a 71-50 nonleague boys basketball win over Nipmuc.Owen Kelly and Theo Moore poured in 13 points apiece, and Jared Coughlin finished with 12 points as Braintree topped Durfee, 63-60. … Seniors led the way for Xaverian (2-0) to take a 54-38 win over King Philip, as Ty Cheney scored 17 points and Lorenzo Carrara added 16 points. … Danny Adams (13 points) and Manny Aguayo (12 second half points) reached double figures in scoring, while Mo Taljari had nine points and 13 rebounds for Quincy (2-1) during a 49-44 victory over Malden.Behind 21 points from Danny Pierce, Beverly (1-2) secured a 74-71 win over Georgetown. … Davon Sanders (24 points), Riley Sigman (14 points) and Justin Curtis (13 points) finished with double digits on the scoresheet for Mansfield (4-0) in a 77-50 victory over Whitman-Hanson. … Roman Glowac posted 23 points with 12 rebounds, pairing with 15 points from Brian Good and 12 more ...

Listless Bruins thumped in Winnipeg, 5-1

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:10 GMT

The Bruins left Boston on Thursday with the feeling that being on the road and away from the holiday distractions of home would help them focus on the task at hand.That was the theory, anyway.The reality was that the B’s played arguably their worst game of the season in Friday against the Winnipeg Jets at Canada Life Centre, dropping a 5-1 decision that was as lopsided as the score indicated.Coach Jim Montgomery was asked what bothered him most about the performance.“Our compete level,” Montgomery told NESN. “We didn’t win enough one-on-one battles and it started in the faceoff circle (43 percent) and just spiraled downhill from there.”The B’s now have to get their act together to face a hot Wild team in St. Paul on Saturday.Though the B’s had been much more competitive in their previous two games, both overtime losses, it was the B’s third straight loss and one that, if it came at a different point in the schedule, might precipi...

Paramedics were convicted in Elijah McClain’s death. That could make other first responders pause

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:10 GMT

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN (Associated Press)BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Two Denver-area paramedics were convicted Friday for giving a fatal overdose of the sedative ketamine to Elijah McClain in 2019 — a jury verdict that experts said could have a chilling effect on first responders around the country.The case involving the 23-year-old Black man’s death was the first among several recent criminal prosecutions against medical first responders to reach trial, potentially setting the bar for prosecutors for future cases.It also was the last of three trials against police and paramedics charged in the death of McClain, who officers stopped following a suspicious person complaint. He was injected with the sedative after being forcibly restrained. The case case received little attention until protests over the 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.An Aurora police officer was convicted of homicide and third degree assault earlier this year, while two officers ...

‘Pray for us’: Eyewitnesses reveal first clues about a missing boat with up to 200 Rohingya refugees

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:10 GMT

PIDIE, Indonesia (AP) — The screams were heard soon after the ailing boat emerged into view. On board were babies and children, alongside mothers and fathers begging to be saved. The passengers were ethnic Rohingya Muslims who had fled surging gang violence and rampant hunger in the refugee camps of Bangladesh, only to find themselves adrift with a broken engine on the Andaman Sea. For a moment, it appeared their salvation had arrived in the form of another boat carrying Rohingya refugees that had pulled up alongside them. But those on board the other boat — itself overloaded and beginning to leak — knew if they allowed the distressed passengers onto their vessel, it would sink and all would die. They wanted to help, but they also wanted to live.Since November, more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees fleeing Bangladesh by boat have landed in Indonesia’s northern province of Aceh — three-quarters of them women and children. On Thursday, Indonesian authorities spotted another five boats app...

Cuban government defends plans to either cut rations or increase prices

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:10 GMT

HAVANA (AP) — The Cuban government said Friday it will have to either increase prices for fuel and electricity, or reduce rations for basic supplies. President Miguel Díaz-Canel said such difficult measures were needed for difficult times, after the minister of the economy said Cuba’s economy contracted between 1% and 2% this year, and inflation ran at about 30%. There were problems in the tourism industry — Cuba’s main source of income — and in farm production.“This is a question of complicated measures, as complicated as are these times,” Díaz-Canel said. “I emphatically deny that this is neo-liberal plan against the people, nor a crusade against small businesses, nor an elimination of the basic market basket” that Cubans can get with government coupons.Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz said that because of economic problems, the government will have to raise prices for gasoline, electricity and gas, or reduce the amount of food and other basics contained in governmen...

1 injured after car crashes into Maine Township home

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:10 GMT

MAINE TOWNSHIP, Ill. — A person was injured on Friday night after a car drove through a glass sliding door at an apartment complex in the northwest suburbs.According to police, the crash happened in the 9200 block of Potter Road in Maine Township.Authorities say the car drove across the lawn, through a sliding glass door and into a resident who was inside the unit. High school students help local pastor bring Christmas to 2 families in need Other residents said they felt the building shake when the car crashed through the doors.One person was taken to the hospital following the crash and authorities have not yet provided an update on their condition.According to police, the driver was taken into custody by Cook County police following the crash.Authorities have not yet identified anyone involved.