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Friendship Heights to get a boost from both sides of DC-Montgomery County border

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:15 GMT

Montgomery County, Maryland, council members voted unanimously to mirror D.C. efforts to give more attention to Friendship Heights.The Montgomery County council has approved a plan to create a Friendship Heights Urban District to support businesses, and make the area more appealing to residents and visitors.Friendship Heights straddles the line between Montgomery County and the District, and there are efforts on both sides to make what Montgomery County Council member Andrew Friedson calls “a good place … a lot better”.D.C. Ward 3 Council member Matt Frumin introduced legislation to create a business improvement district for the D.C. side of the area last month.Traditional retailers, such as Lord and Taylor and Nieman Marcus, are gone. The Mazza Gallerie was sold at auction.Manuel Ochoa, a Montgomery County resident, recently told county lawmakers he supports the formation of an urban district.“Since I moved to Friendship Heights, I have watched the loss of retaile...

Pareja hispana de Maryland muere durante paso de tornado en Tennessee

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:15 GMT

Los recientes tornados en el centro del país dejaron varios muertos, decenas de heridos y devastación en algunos vecindarios. Una salvadoreña y su esposo cubano de la región perdieron la vida cuando este fenómeno arrancó de raíz la vivienda en la que la pareja estaba vacacionando en Tennessee.​El miércoles su hijo, Jonathan Ávila, aseguró que aprendieron una lección dolorosa sobre las advertencias meteorológicas.Las víctimas eran María y William Avila, de 57 y 64 años. La pareja vivió por años en Maryland antes de jubilarse en Florida. Ellos estaban con otros dos amigos y sabían de la advertencia de tornados en la zona el 1 de abril, pero según su hijo, no imaginaron que estaban en peligro.  ​”En Tennesse pusieron advertencias. Ellos pudieron haber seguido el paso”, dijo Jonathan Ávila. “El problema es que nosotros no actuamos y observamos bien la situación. En verdad que esto me da a entender que uno tiene que estar preparado. Tiene que uno ver, informarse, porque a vec...

Denver broke two record high temps this week

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:15 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Denver hit 85 degrees on Tuesday and Wednesday this week breaking the previous record high temperatures on both days. Taking a look back on all of the temperature records that have been broken in Denver so far in 2023, this week's were the only record highs. The rest of the records have been low temperatures. A record low was reached in January at minus 10 degrees and two record lows happened this February that were both below zero. April has brought several extremes already with a record low of 11 degrees measured on April 5 and then six days later the record high of 85 degrees happened. The 85 degrees that happened on April 11th is the earliest in the year that Denver has ever hit 85 degrees. There are no record-breaking temperatures in the forecast for at least the next week.

Residents of Larkspur start petition to stop construction of proposed truck stop

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:15 GMT

LARKSPUR, Colo. (KDVR) -- Nearly 1,100 residents in the area of Larkspur have signed a petition to "Stop the Truck Stop" currently proposed to be built off Upper Lake Gulch Road off Interstate 25. "I think people of Larkspur want progress but this isn’t progression, this is regression and it will destroy what makes Larkspur, Larkspur," Shawn Carroll, who moved there 13 months ago, said.Carroll said along with others he was originally under the impression that the area being developed would be a little travel oasis, he said that's how it was originally presented. He said they weren't expecting a 60-spot truck stop. "They are going to take away what makes this area attractive to so many," Carroll said. Sam Doyle, who has lived in Larkspur since 1981, said the big worry is the town's water, waste, and environmental impacts. And, of course, he said the traffic it would bring, especially with large semis, is of major concern.   Denver no longer nation’s to...

Two houses left in his yard

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:15 GMT

A neighbor needed a favor: let him park two buildings on trailers on his property for a short time. The good-hearted neighbor said OK, and when the good deed turned terrible, the call went out to Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.Lloyd Brown works full-time as a firefighter and full-time running a wildlife rehabilitation center.Lloyd Brown: “We are the only facility south of Orlando that can take care of eagles.”Lloyd enjoys the wildlife, but what he is going through is for the birds.Lloyd Brown: “Those are full-sized houses, yeah, on trailers.”When a neighbor sold his land, he asked Lloyd to temporarily park these two houses on his property. That was back in August 2021.Lloyd Brown: “Originally, they were only supposed to be there a couple of months and I see no potential of them moving.”Lloyd has a long list of texts asking Manuel Dorta Duque to move his houses.He didn’t.But when Miami-Dade County noticed the houses, the fines started at ...

Bulgaria: No light at the end of the tunnel

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:15 GMT

Dimitar Bechev is a lecturer at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe and the author of “Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe.”A couple weeks ago, Bulgarians voted in yet another election — their fifth since April 2021.However, as the dust settles and political parties weigh what their next moves may be, one thing is certain: Putting together a governing coalition will be a daunting task.While former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party (GERB) came first — as it did last October — the second largest party, We Continue the Change (PP), has ruled out any cooperation with GERB, which it casts as the personification of state capture and corruption bedeviling the European Union member country.Borissov will thus have to look elsewhere for support, but it is far from certain whether a coalition will materialize, and Bulgaria may well be in for yet another election as early as July.And this never...

Poland’s Morawiecki plays Europe’s anti-Macron in Washington

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:15 GMT

There’s an Emmanuel Macron-shaped shadow hovering over this week’s U.S. visit by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.In contrast to the French president — who in an interview with POLITICO tried to put some distance between the U.S. and Europe in any future confrontation with China over Taiwan and called for strengthening the Continent’s “strategic autonomy” — the Polish leader is underlining the critical importance of the alliance between America and Europe, not least because his country is one of Kyiv’s strongest allies in the war with Russia.“Instead of building strategic autonomy from the United States, I propose a strategic partnership with the United States,” he said before flying to Washington.In the U.S. capital, Morawiecki continued with his under-the-table kicks at the French president. “I see no alternative, and we are absolutely on the same wavelength here, to building an even closer alliance with the Americans. ...

China must act against rising global hunger, new WFP boss McCain says

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:15 GMT

BRUSSELS — China and other powerful countries need to step up to help steer the world away from a potentially “catastrophic” hunger crisis this year, the new head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme said.Cindy McCain, an American diplomat and the widow of the late U.S. Senator John McCain, also told POLITICO that the EU and U.S. should see world hunger as a national security issue due to its impact on migration. She furthermore accused Russia of using hunger as a “weapon of war” by hindering exports of Ukrainian grain.McCain, formerly the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. food agencies, took the helm of the WFP on April 5 and begins her five-year term at a time of increasing world hunger. The number of people facing food insecurity around the world rose to a record 345 million at the end of last year, up from 282 million in 2021, according to the WFP’s figures, as Russia’s war in Ukraine deepened a food crisis driven by climate change, COVID-19 and other conflicts.This year ...

Woman injured when light pole falls at shopping center parking lot in Nashua, NH

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:15 GMT

A 74-year-old woman was injured Wednesday when a light pole fell in a shopping center parking lot in Nashua, New Hampshire, police said. Police said the pole was at least 30 feet high. After Wednesday’s incident, officials said they’re trying to figure out how the pole fell. “Everybody was scared at that moment,” witness Jason Tran said of the moment the pole fell. “It was crazy.”The incident happened in the Webster Square plaza off Daniel Webster Highway. Tran works in the plaza. He said he saw what happened and called 911. Dozens of first responders soon arrived, huddling around the woman who was lying on the ground between Michaels and TJ Maxx locations. Tran said the woman was awake when she laid down, though her head was bleeding. Police said it’s unclear if the pole hit the woman or if she hit her head trying to get out of the way. While officials said they don’t believe anything hit the pole, witnesses said it was windy in the area.“The lady park...

Rays win 12th straight to start season, 1 shy of MLB record

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:15 GMT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays won their 12th straight game to start the season, one short of the major league record, as Randy Arozarena hit a three-run homer in a 9-7 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night.The 1987 Milwaukee Brewers and 1982 Atlanta Braves both opened 13-0, tying for the best mark in big league history. Tampa Bay’s 12-game winning streak matches the team record set in June 2004.Taj Bradley (1-0) won his major league debut for the Rays. The 22-year-old right-hander, recalled from Triple-A Durham when Zach Eflin went on the injured list, allowed three runs and struck out eight over five innings.Arozarena made it 3-0 with an opposite-field homer off Chris Sale (1-1) in the first. Tampa Bay leads the majors with 30 home runs and has outscored opponents 92-27.Rafael Devers, who had been hitless in 10 at-bats with six strikeouts in the series, pulled Boston to 8-7 on a three-run homer off Colin Poche in the seventh.Arozarena’s sac...