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Maine sues manufacturers over forever chemical contamination

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:34 GMT

By DAVID SHARP (Associated Press)PORLTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s attorney general is suing manufacturers of so-called forever chemicals that have contaminated farms and wells, contending they knew about the toxicity decades ago but concealed the information from the public.Two lawsuits targeting DuPont, 3M and others seek to recover costs to investigate, mitigate and monitor contamination. Attorney General Aaron Frey said Wednesday the state is working overtime to identify and deal with contamination.“The defendant manufacturers have willfully introduced toxic chemicals into Maine’s environment in pursuit of profit for shareholders,” he said in a statement. “Maine citizens and the state are left to manage the harm these chemicals cause.”Maine joins other states suing over contamination caused by the chemicals used since the 1940s in nonstick frying pans, food packaging, stain-resistant rugs, water-repellent fabrics and other consumer goods.A...

Students at North Warren Central School head 'Into the Woods'

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:34 GMT

CHESTERTOWN, N.Y. (NEWS10) — For the first time in three years, North Warren Central School is offering a full-stage musical production: "Into the Woods." The school has a new musical director and a revived theater programto show off starting on Friday. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! "Into the Woods" is being performed by the North Warren Central School Drama Department in Chestertown. The production premieres Friday, March 31 at 7 p.m. and continues Saturday, April 1 at both 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the school's auditorium. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted.The junior version of the award-winning 1987 musical combines several fairy tales with a comic twist. It follows the adventure of an unnamed Baker (played by Senior Jaden Maxwell) and the Baker's Wife (Sophomore Gwendolyn Lipa) as they try to remove a witch's curse. They meet Cinderella (Sophomore Kirsten Librett), Little Red Riding Hood (Sophomore Molly Go...

Farmers’ Almanac predicts 'scorching dry' Northeast summer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:34 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Every year, Farmers’ Almanac releases its predictions for each season. For its 2023 summer predictions, it’s looking to be "scorching dry" summer in the Northeast. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Summer officially begins on Wednesday, June 21 at 10:58 a.m. This is different than meteorological summer, which begins on June 1. Farmers’ Almanac predicts a warmer-than-normal summer throughout the United States.According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the summer of 2022 ranked as the third-hottest summer in 128 years. The average temperature for last summer was 73.9 degrees, which was 2.5 degrees above average. Latham Dick’s Sporting Goods reopening as House of Sport The summer of 2023 will be continuing these "sizzling temperatures." "Thunderstorms will announce the official start of summer in the Northeast with heavy rains possible from June 20 through 23," said Farmers' Alma...

'It's going to be crazy': Top prospect Jordan Walker set for debut in Cardinals home opener

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:34 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Prized prospect Jordan Walker is set for his MLB debut Thursday on one of the baseball's biggest stages: Opening Day in St. Louis. The 20-year-old will indeed crack the Opening Day lineup on Thursday and is expected to cover left field or right field. The Cardinals, after announcing last weekend Walker would make the team, cleared a 40-man roster spot Wednesday during batting practice to make his promotion official. Walker can't wait to take it all in. He says Wednesday's batting practice serves as a nice appetizer. RELATED - What to know for the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals home opener "First thing I thought when I got to this stadium is, 'This stadium is massive,'" said Walker. "It's unbelievable. It really is everything I thought it'd be, walking to the stadium for the first time."Walker learned Saturday that he would break spring camp with the Cardinals in a one-on-one meeting with manager Oli Marmol. He expects parents, cousins and close friends to attend Opening Day...

Alton man convicted in 2021 triple shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:34 GMT

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - An Alton, Illinois, man faces a minimum 93-year prison sentence after being convicted last week for a 2021 triple shooting.The shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 8, 2021, in the 700 block of Oakwood Estates in Alton. The three victims were rushed to a St. Louis hospital with serious injuries. One of the victims suffered a gunshot that nearly severed her leg, but doctors were able to reattach the appendage.Investigators determined the shooting was the result of a dispute between one of the victims and the shooter, later identified as Steven Foster. The person had made fun of the condition of a car belonging to Foster's friend. Top Stories: Officers injured in Maryland Heights crash Foster left the residence after the argument, but returned with a gun a short time later with and opened fire, police and prosecutors said.After a week-long trial, it took a Madison County jury just five hours of deliberation before coming back with a verdict. Foster was fo...

Colorado delays free preschool program matching date to April 26

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:34 GMT

It will be another month before Colorado families know where they can send their children for preschool under the state’s new universal preschool program.Families were supposed to learn which programs they had matched with on Thursday. But on Tuesday, officials with Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood announced they plan to tell families on April 26.As reported by Chalkbeat, more than 20 education and early childhood groups had asked the state to push back initial matches due to problems with the algorithm that meant some families might miss out on top choices and other families might be offered seats that didn’t meet their needs. They feared the program was being rushed, and families would end up frustrated.State officials held firm to the initial March 30 matching date until just two days prior. Denver Public Schools even sent an email to parents Tuesday afternoon telling families to watch their texts and emails for state notifications this Thursday.Related ArticlesEducation ...

Vacant DTC office building, formerly home to Comcast, hitting auction block

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:34 GMT

An office building in the Denver Tech Center that no one works from is hitting the auction block.The auction for the four-story, 164,000-square-foot Quebec Court II building at 5800 S. Quebec St. in Greenwood Village is scheduled to begin online May 1 and end two days later, according to auction website Ten-X.The structure was built in 1980 and renovated in 1998, according to the auction site. It sits on a 6.24-acre lot and is vacant.“Exceptional opportunity to acquire a valuable office asset with significant upside through aggressive leasing strategies,” the auction site says.The minimum bid is $4 million, according to Ten-X. CBRE is marketing the property.The property is owned by The GC Net Lease (GV Quebec Court) Investors LLC, which paid $27 million for it in January 2013, according to public records. California-based Griffin Capital said in a news release that month that its Griffin Capital Net Lease REIT Inc. had acquired the property.At the time of the purchase, Quebec Court ...

Land owner by Coors Field proposes temporary shipping container complex

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:34 GMT

The owner of a parking lot next to Coors Field says economic conditions have pushed back plans to build on it, so he hopes to use shipping containers to turn the lot into an “outdoor gathering space” for now.San Francisco-based Fillmore Capital Partners paid $4.4 million in 2019 for the 0.29-acre lot at 2000 Blake St., and last year successfully got the city to rezone the property to allow eight stories.But Fillmore CEO Ron Silva told BusinessDen Tuesday that plans to build on the lot have been paused.“Given where the Federal Reserve is, interest rates, the business environment – doing vertical development is simply not economically possible right now,” he said.In March 2022, Silva said he hoped to break ground on a mixed-use project at the site as early as this summer. But on Tuesday, he said that likely won’t happen for at least a few years.In the meantime, Silva wants to do more than just parking cars.“We’d really like to enhance the experience, eliminate the parking lot that ser...

Oilman Jack Grynberg “suffered from insane delusions” but his contract valid, judge rules

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:34 GMT

The late Denver wildcatter Jack Grynberg “suffered from insane delusions” in the waning years of his life, a Centennial judge says, but that doesn’t nullify a contract he signed.“A party can be insane for some purposes and still have the capacity to contract,” Arapahoe County District Court Judge Peter Michaelson determined this month.Grynberg, a self-described Holocaust survivor, built a fortune digging for oil and gas in far-flung places after graduating from the Colorado School of Mines in the early 1950s. He died at age 89 in 2021 after several years of cognitive decline, family feuds and constant litigation.In March 2022, Grynberg’s family sued several of his former lawyers, accusing them of making millions of dollars by hiding Grynberg’s deterioration and allowing him to file frivolous lawsuits against his wife and children, among others. The lawyers deny wrongdoing.For nearly one year after it was filed, that case was bogged down by a procedural matter — whether former Grynbe...

‘I’m not sorry’: Business lawyer suspended for forging letter to ex-wife

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:34 GMT

A former corporate lawyer in Denver who will soon be suspended from practicing law for 34 months said that he doesn’t regret forging a letter from federal immigration officials to prevent his estranged wife from leaving the country with their young son.Andrew Newell, who passed the bar in 1999 after graduating from law school at the University of Colorado, will lose his license April 24. He doesn’t expect to practice law again.“I’m guilty in the strictest legal sense but I certainly don’t feel guilty, let’s put it that way,” Newell said during a lengthy phone interview last week from Wyoming, where he now lives.“As a father, I did the right thing. As an attorney, there’s no excuse for breaking the rules and I knew that,” said Newell. He later added, “I did what I had to do.”Newell spent 20 years representing corporations as an in-house lawyer and later at Whitcomb Selinsky, a business law firm in south Denver. He lobbied governments and represented clients before the state’s Public ...