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Cutting your own Christmas tree: Dos and don’ts

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:24:31 GMT

CONIFER, Colo. (KDVR) -- There is nothing like going out into the woods and cutting down your own Christmas tree. That’s exactly what FOX31's Dan Daru did with a friend.Back in the 1800s, there was not a fancy tree store where you could buy a pre-cut, pre-shaped and prepared Christmas tree. You had to go get it yourself.That’s why I invited my pal Jay Judd to join me. Coincidentally, Judd is a certified arborist for Davey Tree in Denver.Immediately upon arrival to “Danland,” my property, Jay took a look around and declared that all trees are not created equal. Longest shot ski record broken in Breckenridge with almost 500 skis later “Right here we have a pretty classic tree for the mountains," Judd said. "It’s the ponderosa pine, and what’s unique about this tree is its butter-scotchy smell.” Take a whiff and you’ll see, or actually, smell, that Judd was right. It smelled like the sweet, yellow, buttery candy. It didn’t taste like it, however.Many species of evergreen trees wou...

‘It’s a mirror story’: Former athlete mentors South Florida teen who suffered devastating injury while playing football

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:24:31 GMT

A high school football player is being released from the hospital after a devastating injury, and he’s being helped by a man who already lived this teenager’s nightmare. Karen Hensel has today’s 7Spotlight.Love, prayers and support. That is what has surrounded 15-year-old Frederick Clemson since Sept. 13. The day his life changed forever.Camille Harrison, Frederick’s mother: “It’s been hard, but my faith has kept me together.”It was Frederick’s first game on the junior varsity football team, and in the third quarter, he took a hit that paralyzed him.Camille Harrison: “I’ve been by his side from the beginning. I haven’t left this side. I’ve tried to stay strong for him.”Teammates and loved ones have all shown overwhelming support.But an unexpected visitor might have been one of the people who helped Frederick the most.Felton Brown knows Frederick’s pain.Felton Brown, helping Frederick: “So back ...

Surveillance video shows moment liquor store employee was shot; search underway for subject

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:24:31 GMT

New surveillance video captures a customer’s refund rampage that sent a North Miami-Dade liquor employee to the hospital. According to Miami-Dade Police, the shooting unfolded Thursday evening in Jensen’s Liquors, located just north of 79th Street on North Miami Avenue, late Thursday afternoon.Investigators said the subject walked into the business trying to return merchandise at around 5:45 p.m. “That return was denied by a clerk at the register. The subject then proceeded to grab a full bottle of liquor from the display area and try to make his way out of the store with it, without paying for it,” said MDPD Detective Andre Martin.That is when the 70-year-old store clerk approached the subject, and a struggle ensued between them inside the store. Moments later, police said, it spilled into the parking lot of the business.The security footage captures the subject as he fell down. As he hit the ground, the video captured the flash from the firearm.Detectives said paramedics tr...

Mom & toddlers hospitalized after being run over, pinned underneath car

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:24:31 GMT

LAYTON, Utah (KSTU) — Surveillance video from a Layton school parking lot shows dozens of people, including students, rushing to rescue a mother and her two children who were pinned underneath a car after being run over.Tuesday’s accident happened shortly before 4 p.m. in the parking lot of Layton Christian Academy. Police say the woman, Bridgette Ponson, and her two kids, Archer and Ponson, were walking when they were hit by a driver heading west through the lot.Ponson is a staff member of the school. One of the children, who are approximately 2 and 3 years old, was airlifted to Primary Children’s Hospital for treatment. The other child and Ponson were taken to a local hospital via ambulance.Police said the car was moving relatively slowly, but they believe the sun was a factor that led to the driver hitting the three victims.In the surveillance video from the parking lot, people can be seen rushing to the car to help the family and then lifting the vehicle to fre...

Authorities identify victim in deadly shooting in Brockton

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:24:31 GMT

Authorities have identified a 22-year-old Connecticut woman as the person who died Friday morning in a shooting in Brockton. Police first responded to the scene on Nason Street around 12:30 a.m. after receiving a 911 call for a report of a shooting, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s office. Once on scene, the DA’s office said, officers found Stephanie Beatty of Norwich, Conn. suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The DA’s office said Beatty was soon pronounced dead.A heavy police presence was seen in the area overnight, as was a shattered window on the driver’s side of a vehicle.While their investigation continued, Brockton police in a statement asked anyone with information on the shooting to call detectives at 508-941-0200.The DA’s office in its update early Friday afternoon said authorities had sought and obtained an arrest warrant for Gelson Fernandes, 29, of Brockton on the charge of homicide in connection with the shooting. Beatty and Fer...

Recorded 911 calls underscore the real time terror of the deadly Las Vegas university shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:24:31 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fire alarms blared in the background of 911 calls that police released Friday, amplifying the terrified voices of students and faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as they hid inside locked offices and under desks while a gunman fired shots outside, killing three professors.“Someone’s shooting. Please hurry,” said one woman caller, her voice cracking with fear as she described the shots as sounding like they were next door. “I really want to go home.”The gunman, 67-year-old Anthony Polito, walked into UNLV’s business school around lunchtime Wednesday and fired shots as he roamed the top three floors, where faculty offices are located, police said. Along with the three people who were killed, a 38-year-old visiting professor was wounded and hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.After police killed Polito in a shootout, he was found to be carrying nine magazines for a 9 mm handgun he’d legally purchased last year and a list of targets at the ...

Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at US border for 8 years

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:24:31 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday prohibited the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively blocking resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former president hasn’t ruled out if voters return him to the White House next year.The separation of thousands of families “represents one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country,” U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said moments before approving a settlement between the Justice Department and families represented by the American Civil Liberties Union that ended a legal challenge nearly seven years after it was filed.Sabraw, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, ordered an end to separations in June 2018, six days after then-President Donald Trump halted them on his own amid intense international backlash. The judge also ordered that the government reunite children with their parents within 30 days, setting off a mad scram...

Mild temps, storm brings rain and wind

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:24:31 GMT

The weekend will bring us mild temperatures in the 50s tomorrow and near 60 Sunday. This comes with a storm that will bring heavy rain and strong wind late Sunday into Monday.For part of the weekend, we can enjoy the nice and dry conditions. Already, it felt a little nicer outside today with high temperatures in the 40s and sunshine. It certainly was a change from the past couple of days!Tonight, we’ll fall into the upper 20s/low 30s for MetroWest. It’ll be in the upper 30s/near 40 for the Cape. From there, tomorrow the milder air coming in on a southerly breeze will push temperatures in the upper 40s/low 50s. We’ll see partly cloudy skies. Great weather for the Army – Navy game!Sunday, temperatures start off in the upper 30s/low 40s. We’ll see overcast conditions, but that won’t stop temperatures from reaching near 60. Target the morning to get outside while it’s dry. Some scattered showers pop up in the afternoon with rain chances going up...

Actor Ryan O’Neal, star of ‘Love Story,’ ‘Paper Moon’ and ‘Barry Lyndon,’ dies at 82

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:24:31 GMT

By ANTHONY McCARTNEY (AP Entertainment Writer)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan O’Neal, the heartthrob actor who went from a TV soap opera to an Oscar-nominated role in “Love Story” and delivered a wry performance opposite his charismatic 9-year-old daughter Tatum in “Paper Moon,” died Friday, his son said.“My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us,” Patrick O’Neal, a Los Angeles sportscaster, posted on Instagram.Attempts to reach O’Neal representatives were not immediately successful.He did not give a cause. Ryan O’Neal was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012, a decade after he was first diagnosed with chronic leukemia. He was 82. “My father, Ryan O’Neal, has always been my hero,” Patrick O’Neal wrote, adding, “He is a Hollywood legend. Full stop.”O’Neal was among the biggest movie stars in the world in the 197...

Cape Cod man held without bail in case of his wife’s shooting on Thanksgiving

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:24:31 GMT

A Hyannis man only recently let out of prison has been found dangerous and is being held without bail on charges that he shot his wife on Thanksgiving day.Mark Griswold, 53, of Hyannis, was found dangerous following a hearing in Barnstable District Court Friday and will be held on charges of firearm-armed assault to murder, assault and battery with a firearm, carrying a firearm without a license, discharge of a firearm within 500 feet of a building, and assault and battery on a family or household member.He’s next due in court on Jan. 4 for a probable cause hearing, according to the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s office.Griswold called Barnstable Police a little after 5:30 p.m. Thanksgiving Day to report that an assailant had shot at him and his wife, and that his wife had been shot, according to a copy of the police report shared by local Cape Cod news outlet the Hyannis News.The recent jailbird’s story didn’t seem to amount to much to the police, nor to his wife, who immedia...