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Colorado grew at one of the slowest rates during the COVID pandemic

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:10:10 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Few states grew as fast as Colorado in the decade between 2010 and 2020, but few grew as slowly in the years of the early 2020s, according to an analysis from the Pew Charitable Trusts.Colorado was a famed destination in the 2010s. Population growth peaked in 2015 and has decreased since then. Taylor Swift in Denver: 5 things you need to know before the Eras Tour From 2010 to 2020, the compound annual growth rate for Colorado's population was the nation's sixth highest in a nation where nearly every state was gaining population. Among 50 states, only three had a negative growth rate. Western states, including Utah, Idaho and Nevada, were at the top of the list. In the years since the pandemic, though, Colorado's growth slowed. From 2020 to 2021, Colorado's growth was the 15th lowest among states whose populations grew. From 2021 to 2022, its population growth was the 14th lowest.The analysis also shows an abrupt trend of residents fleeing formerly sought-after sta...

You can actually visit Indiana Jones' boyhood home in Colorado

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:10:10 GMT

ANTONITO, Colo. (KDVR) - There is a lot of talk these days about Indiana Jones, with the new Dial of Destiny movie just released in theatersSomething you may not know, however, is that the iconic character's boyhood home is actually located in Antonito, Colorado.Antonito is located in the southern part of Colorado, about a four-and-a-half-hour drive from Denver. The town is small but charming. Denver renter priced out of his 20-year home amid rising rent “I have been here almost seven years. It has cool little restaurants, it has cool little shops in it. It’s about six hundred people here," said Sabra Lynn.You could say Sabra Lynn is a fan of Indiana Jones, so much so that she bought his “childhood home” and made an Indiana Jones-themed bed and breakfast out of it.This was the house in Antonito where the opening shots of the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie were shot.Deceased actor River Phoenix portrayed Indiana Jones as a young boy and filmed a scene here.“They filmed po...

Polis shows off Taylor Swift knowledge in letter to fans

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:10:10 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Gov. Jared Polis seems to be just as excited for Taylor Swift to be in town as any other Colorado Swiftie. It might not come as a surprise if you heard his annual speech ahead of 2022, when he said that 2021 was the year that "Taylor Swift reclaimed her music." 5 things you need to know before the Eras Tour "The pandemic has taken so much from us, but as Taylor Swift says, 'I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22, everything will be all right,' because we know what we got to do," the governor said.Now that she is coming to town for her Eras Tour this weekend, he wrote a "Jared's Version" letter to the star and her fans in which he confirmed that he is indeed a Swiftie.He cited dozens of references, many of which were highlighted in colors coordinating with each reference's era."I know your performances will be Gorgeous and have our 'heartbeats skipping down Colfax Avenue,'" he wrote. "I'm confident 140,000+ concertgoers will look back and say your concert was ...

Florida in hot water as ocean temperatures rise along with the humidity

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:10:10 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Record global ocean heating has invaded Florida with a vengeance.Water temperatures in the mid-90s (mid-30s Celsius) are threatening delicate coral reefs, depriving swimmers of cooling dips and adding a bit more ick to the Sunshine State’s already oppressive summer weather. Forecasters are warning of temperatures that with humidity will feel like 110 degrees (43 degrees Celsius) by week’s end.If that’s not enough, Florida is about to get a dose of dust from Africa’s Saharan desert that’s likely to hurt air quality.The globe is coming off a week of heat not seen in modern measurements, the World Meteorological Organization said Monday, using data from Japan’s weather agency to confirm unofficial records reported nearly daily last week by the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer. Japan reported the global average temperature on Friday was half a degree (0.3 degrees Celsius) warmer than its past record hottest day in Au...

Jeremy Hunt’s plan to turn pension pots into startup funding

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:10:10 GMT

LONDON — “A grand don’t come for free,” as the Streets famously sang. But if Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gets his way, young U.K. workers could earn an extra £1,000 a year when they retire, the Treasury claims.At London’s Mansion House this evening Hunt outlined plans to boost pension fund investment in U.K. tech companies, with the biggest funds committing to put 5 percent of schemes into unlisted shares.Detailing in the annual speech how he wants to create the “world’s next Silicon Valley,” Hunt said the U.K. was in a “perverse” situation where British investors were investing less in the country’s high-growth companies than international pensioners.To reverse that, he outlined the “Mansion House Compact” which commits nine of the biggest defined contribution schemes to invest at least 5 percent of their funds into unlisted equities by 2030.That could unlock £50 billion of investment into high-growth companies, the chancellor said.The Treasury claimed the package of reforms could help ...

Massachusetts mothers team up to create adaptive clothing company

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:10:10 GMT

Two mothers in Massachusetts are on a mission, starting their own adaptive clothing company, for people with disabilities and those recovering from injuries or surgeries. Called “befree,” the company is based in Swampscott. Co-founders Nikki Puzzo and Joane DiCamillo recently spoke to 7NEWS.“We like to say ‘Dress with less stress,’ because we want everyone to not be stressed about the basic tasks that people can take for granted when getting dressed,” DiCamillo said. Puzzo said the idea for the company came from the experience of trying to dress her youngest daughter, Stella. Stella was born with spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy and underwent a double-hip surgery at the age of five. For three months, Stella had to wear casts on both her legs with a bar in between, making the process of putting on pants extremely difficult. “They were like ‘Well a lot of families just do dresses, t-shirts, and blankets,’” Puzzo said. That’s whe...

UPDATE: Boston police cancel missing person alert after 6-year-old boy located

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:10:10 GMT

UPDATE: Boston police have canceled a missing person alert after a 6-year-old boy reported missing in Roxbury was located.The Boston Police Department said Daniel Soto, who had previously last been seen around 9:30 a.m. earlier in the day, was found shortly after the department issued its alert.No other details were released. —Originally posted on Monday, July 10, at 4:38 p.m.The Boston Police Department is requesting the public’s help as they search for a 6-year-old boy with autism who was last seen Monday morning.The police department said Daniel Soto of Roxbury was last sighted around 9:30 a.m. in the area of Washington Street and Dimock Street.Boston PD described Daniel as being a Hispanic male with a thin build and wearing a blue shirt, gray pants, red sneakers. He is also believed to only speak Spanish and may also be holding a blue lunch bag.Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact the police department’s District B-2 detectives at 617-...

Video shows officer’s gun fire during response to hoax threat at St. John’s Prep in Danvers in May

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:10:10 GMT

Newly released video shows the moments a police officer’s gun fired inside Saint John’s Preparatory School in Danvers while police were responding to a hoax call earlier this year. The video was released on Monday. The incident happened on May 22. Police said they initially received a report of an active shooter at St. John’s Prep. While police said officers were able to quickly determine that there didn’t seem to be a threat or active shooter, police said a responding officer’s gun misfired in the school’s Benjamin Hall. Law enforcement personnel from multiple agencies ultimately converged on the Saint John’s campus.Classes were canceled for the day after the incident. In an update on May 25, police said the gun went off when an officer began holstering it after clearing a bathroom.Danvers officials said the officer is an 11-year-veteran of the Danvers Police Department and he was up to date on his firearms certifications. Officials said the officer re...

2023 MLB draft, Day 2 tracker: Orioles continue run on college players, select three more pitchers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:10:10 GMT

After drafting Vanderbilt outfielder Enrique Bradfield Jr. in the first round of the MLB draft Sunday night, Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias detailed the confidence he has in the organization’s scouting of college players.“We pour a ton of data analysis resources into college statistics and college data,” Elias said, “so anytime we can take an elite college player, we feel good about the work that’s gone into that.”But Bradfield was just the beginning of the Orioles’ run on college players. Each of Baltimore’s first eight selections were college players, including North Carolina outfielder-third baseman Mac Horvath and Florida State right-hander Jackson Baumeister on Day 1 and five more on Day 2.Baumeister’s selection was somewhat of a surprise considering the Elias regime’s preference to pick position players early in drafts. At No. 63 overall, Baumeister became the first pitcher Baltimore h...

US intelligence assessment says Iran not currently developing nuclear weapons

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:10:10 GMT

By MATTHEW LEE (AP Diplomatic Writer)WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. intelligence assessment says Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons at the moment but has ramped up activities that could help it develop them.The assessment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released Monday says Iran has moved to increase its capacity to produce an atomic bomb since 2020 but has stopped short of that so far.The findings corresponded with previous U.S. assessments about Iran’s nuclear program, although many in Congress and elsewhere have been skeptical of those.The Biden administration has been defending its desire to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA, since it first took office. That effort has been complicated in recent months by the suspension of its chief negotiator, Rob Malley, who was placed on unpaid leave last month pending an investigation into claims he mishandled classified information.“Iran...