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Fentanyl overdose deaths rise 16% this year in Denver

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Fentanyl overdose deaths are on the rise this year.So far in 2023, fentanyl overdose deaths have risen 16% compared to this time last year, according to the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment. United Airlines agrees to give union pilots big pay raises The department "is encouraging residents to take precautions regarding substance use as fatal overdoses are increasing in Denver, especially those linked to fentanyl," they said in a news release on Friday.Fentanyl overdose deaths have been on the rise in recent years, both in Colorado and around the country. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows fentanyl overdose deaths more than tripled from 2016-2021 in the U.S.The powerful synthetic opioid is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine, according to DDPHE. Police report they're increasingly finding the drug in powdered form, but it can also come as pills, capsules or rocks.Fentanyl is also incre...

Just One Station: Pembroke firefighters help deliver baby in station parking lot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:51 GMT

It wasn’t a call they get every day but Pembroke firefighters were ready to go when a couple arrived at the station ready to welcome their baby to the world.The couple said they were on the way to South Shore Hospital when the realized they just weren’t going to make it and turned into the fire station driveway. Surveillance video from the station showed firefighters springing into action.“We try to be prepared for anything the pulls up to our front door,” said Pembroke Fire Capt. Jordan Hill. “The husband was on the phone and you could tell he was frantic … he said his wife was in labor and the baby was coming soon.” Hill said firefighters pulled an ambulance in front of the station and assisted with helping the mother inside for delivery. He said they relied on their training and assisted in welcoming the couple’s healthy baby boy. The ambulance took the mother and the baby to the hospital, where both are doing well. Hill said the f...

‘Reach out to people’: Chicago White Sox reliever Liam Hendriks conveys message at ESPYs — and shakes Mike Tyson’s hand

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:51 GMT

Liam Hendriks soaked it all in.The Chicago White Sox reliever walked the red carpet, sat behind members of the Vegas Golden Knights and talked with comedian Hasan Minhaj during the All-Star break at the ESPYs in Los Angeles.“I’ve watched most of his standup,” Hendriks said in the Truist Park visiting clubhouse Friday. “That was cool being able to chat in between segments with him.”He also shook Mike Tyson’s hand.“He damn near broke it,” Hendriks said.Most of all, Hendriks was glad to get across his message while receiving the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance.“Reach out to people,” Hendriks said. “That was something that got conveyed pretty well.”Hendriks said his wife, Kristi, wrote most of the speech.“She’s a lot more eloquent than I can be, especially with writing things down,” Hendriks said. “I tend to just be very orate with it. I can read, obviously, but I tend to get better when IR...

Mets Notebook: Starling Marte out sick against Dodgers, trade deadline around corner

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:51 GMT

The Mets need everyone healthy and at their best right now as they try and make one final plea to the baseball gods for some winning luck before the trade deadline, but as manager Buck Showalter likes to say, everyone is battling something.Starling Marte was a late lineup scratch Saturday with some sort of illness. The Mets weren’t sure if it was a stomach bug or a migraine, but the right fielder came to the ballpark Saturday and began vomiting. The Mets took him out of the lineup and reconfigured the lineup, moving D.J. Stewart from left field to right, Jeff McNeil from second base to left field and using Luis Guillorme at second base. The Mets were not counting on being able to use him off the bench.“Let’s see if, as the day progresses, he’ll be available or not,” said manager Buck Showalter.Tommy Pham also received a day off due to the groin tightness he felt last weekend in San Diego. Pham was able to DH in Friday’s loss but the Mets took him ...

Crime Briefs: New Hampshire police arrest man after Walmart parking lot killing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:51 GMT

SOMERSWORTH, N.H. (AP) — A 52-year-old New Hampshire man has been arrested in the beating death of a 79-year-old man in the parking lot of a Walmart in southeastern New Hampshire, authorities said Saturday.Somersworth police said they arrested a local man, Brian Roberge, after responding to a call about the late Friday killing. At the scene, they found Jan VanTassel, of Center Ossipee, unresponsive with head and facial injuries. First responders determined he was dead.Police said they think Roberge killed VanTassel by striking him repeatedly in the head and face.Roberge is charged with second-degree murder. He is due in court Monday.It wasn’t immediately clear Saturday if Roberge had an attorney yet.Competitor dies during Maine road rally race through forestNEWRY, Maine (AP) — A competitor was killed in a crash on the first day of a rally race through a forest in western Maine, leading organizers to cancel the event’s second day.Erin Kelly, a 48-year-old woman from Marsh...

Norwood father charged with manslaughter in death of 5-month-old baby girl

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:51 GMT

A father who was not allowed to live with his 5-month-old baby but appeared to be living there anyway is charged with the baby’s death and has been sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for a mental evaluation.“Ma, what’s wrong with the baby,” Anthony Decosta allegedly yelled the evening of Sept. 5, 2021, according to a statement a 9-year-old girl in the house made to police.Anthony Decosta, 36, was arrested July 11 and charged with manslaughter, reckless endangerment of a child and witness intimidation, all connected to the death of his 5-month-old daughter Francesca that night.He was scheduled for arraignment Thursday, but that was continued to Friday where the judge ordered the mental health evaluation. Decosta is due back in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham on Aug. 3The July before baby Francesca’s death, the state Department of Children and Families took custody of the girl on the orders of a Norfolk County probate court. The agency put her in the custody of her grandmother, Lisa ...

Uncharacteristic James Paxton performance leads to Red Sox loss

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:51 GMT

On Saturday, Boston’s ‘Little Engine That Possibly Could’ came to a screeching halt.After cruising to victory with a barrage of home runs in Friday night’s series opener against the Chicago Cubs, the Red Sox found themselves on the receiving end of a similar offensive onslaught; a series of questionable defensive decisions and miscues coupled with an uncharacteristic collapse by James Paxton culminated in a 10-4 loss to the third-place 43-48 National League Central team.Highlights were few and far between. Justin Turner extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a pair of doubles, a run and RBI, and Triston Casas homered for the second time in the series. At 112.1 mph and 425 feet, the rookie’s 11th home run of the year was the farthest and hardest-hit ball of the game.By game’s end, the Cubs had tallied 12 hits and four walks and held the Red Sox to six and three. They were 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base. Ma...

Vermont visitors worry about beloved towns – here’s how you can help

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:51 GMT

Even when you’re just an occasional skier, you choose a “home spot” in each state you ski. You may wander here and there, but your own “personal” ski town is the one you’ keep coming back to, where faces are familiar and everything just clicks.For me, that spot is Ludlow, Vt.Ludlow stole my heart, and has had it for decades.I woke up recently to news coverage of water churning right down the Main Street of Ludlow’s downtown; huge rocks and rivers of mud changing the landscape, roadways and buildings up by the ski area access road, and insane rapids picking up cars and tossing them along the riverside throughout town.Ludlow, and so many cities and towns in wonderful Vermont, is in crisis.I think of all my favorite places with worry: Mojos Café, where vinyl records are the backdrop as you nosh on Mexican food in the most casual setting you can imagine; the owners always, always there and remembering guests who’d visited just once.They’d pushed their way through the pandemi...

Homicide suspect captured after using bed sheets to escape Pennsylvania jail

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:51 GMT

YOUNGSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Looking dirty, wet and “worn out” from living in the wilderness to evade arrest, a homicide suspect who used bed sheets to escape a northern Pennsylvania jail has been captured, authorities said. Michael Burham, 34, fled the Warren County jail in the late evening hours of July 6 by climbing on exercise equipment, going through a window and scaling down a rope fashioned from jail bedding, authorities have said. He was found Saturday after authorities received a tip about a suspicious-looking person, they said.“He came out into the open and was spotted by an individual,” said Lt. Col. George Bivens, the deputy commissioner of Operations for the Pennsylvania State Police, at a news conference.Burham has been in jail on $1 million bail and was charged with kidnapping, burglary and other counts. Authorities warned while he was missing that he was considered armed and dangerous.Around 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon, authorities received the tip. Burham encountered state...

Hundreds of migrants in southern Mexico form group to head toward US

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:51 GMT

SUCHAITE, Mexico (AP) — Nearly a thousand migrants that recently crossed from Guatemala into Mexico formed a group Saturday to head north together in hopes of reaching the border with the United States.The group, made up of largely Venezuelan migrants, walked along a highway in southern Mexico, led by a Venezuela flag with the phrase “Peace, Freedom. SOS.” The men, women, children and teenagers were followed by Mexican National Guard patrols.Migrants told The Associated Press they crossed into Mexico illegally through a river dividing the two countries. They said they decided to organize the group and start out because many had been sleeping on the street and had run out of money to buy food.“We just want to move forward, to fulfill our American dream and work, because we’re all workers here,” one Venezuelan, Roseli Gloria said while taking a brief rest along the highway.She carried a backpack and a piece of rolled up foam for sleeping. She said she had been in Mexico for a we...