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Photos of pack burro racing, Colorado's summer heritage sport

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:08 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Pack burro racing is the official summer heritage sport of Colorado, and it's happening all summer long.People run alongside their donkeys in races that exceed marathon distances through challenging trails in the mountains. Details: Colorado’s summer sport is running, but with donkeys The donkey wears a saddle, although it is against the rules for anyone to ride on it. However, according to the Western Pack Burro Association, the runner can carry the donkey.Running with a donkey can be a challenge because if the donkey is uncomfortable, it might literally stop to assess the situation. (Brian Wanke)Runners create a bond with their donkey to ensure trust and better performance. (Brian Wanke)Running with a donkey can be a challenge because if the donkey is uncomfortable, it might literally stop to assess the situation. (Brian Wanke)People run alongside their donkeys in races that exceed marathon distances through challenging trails in the mountains in the offici...

Animal services took dog

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:08 GMT

His dog bit a boy on the leg who was riding a bike. No one disputes it, but what happened next has stunned the dogs owner. A hearing he wasn’t told about, signed affidavits, he says are, not true, and it’s why he called Help Me Howard with Patrick FraseScott Davis and his wife live down in the Redlands. Beautiful, quiet.But being remote has a drawback. It’s where people throw out their animals.Scott Davis: “We have literally saved and found homes for and kept hundreds of animals.”Many dogs, tortoises that have become the family pets, and ten years ago, a puppy was dumped on the road that Scott’s friends named.Scott Davis: “She is just precious. Well, that’s what we call her.”Then in February, Scott says something baffling happened. As he was bringing his boat onto the property, Scott let the 10-year-old Precious play near the canal.A young boy came riding by on his bike.Scott Davis: “He stuck his leg out. She bit him. I wit...

Rollover crash leads to vehicle fire on I-75; WB lanes closed

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:08 GMT

A rollover crash on Alligator Alley led to a box truck going up in flames and ending up on a rock pile that acts as a barrier for the canal.Broward Sheriff’s Fire Rescue units, along with Weston Fire Rescue, were on the scene on the westbound lanes of Interstate 75 near the toll plaza.According to officials, the vehicle rolled onto the median and burst into flames.Live video footage captured the scene as firefighters applied foam to the flames, which burned for about 15 minutes.Fire officials could not confirm if anyone died on the scene as a body had not been located. It remains unclear if the driver was ejected from the vehicle before the impact or if they succumbed to the fire.As a result of the incident, I-75 westbound is closed off as crews work to clear the scene and contain the blaze.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

The Stanley Cup Final between Vegas and Florida will end with a first-time NHL champion

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:08 GMT

Jon Hamm is excited for this Stanley Cup Final between the Florida Panthers and Vegas Golden Knights.“Stoked, man,” the actor and noted hockey fan said. “I live in L.A., so that’s a half-hour flight away for me.”The NHL is pumped, too. Even though the ratings will likely sag without big markets involved, the Sun Belt series will feature two teams that have never before won the Cup. It is also a chance for the league to show off its success growing in the U.S. beyond traditional hockey hotbeds.“It’s so refreshing and it’s so amazing,” retired player Anson Carter said. “When you constantly hear people saying hockey can’t work in the South or the Sun Belt markets, they’re wrong.”Carter hears his friends back home in Canada complaining about the NHL not wanting teams north of the border to win championships, and he dismisses it. Canada’s Cup drought dating to 1993 isn’t the fault of many of the Canada-born executives, coaches and players now working for Vegas or Florid...

Moscow drone attack was like ‘a horror film’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:08 GMT

Fifteen months into a war launched by their government against Ukraine, some Muscovites early morning on Tuesday for the first time woke up to explosions.“It was like the sound of a short thunder strike,” a man called Andrei, who lives opposite one of the buildings which suffered damage, told the TV-channel Dozhd, an independent station working from exile in the Netherlands. “For a moment it’s like you’re in a horror film, I ran to my relatives and yelled at them to get away from the window.”He said the incident had left those living in his area feeling “shocked and confused.” Russia’s defense ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that it had intercepted eight drones in a “terrorist attack” by Ukraine, although Kyiv denied its involvement and Russian-language Telegram channels initially spoke of 25 drones.Although not entirely unexpected — Russian regions bordering Ukraine such as Belgorod suffer almost daily strikes, and an incident in early May in which two drones...

Comfortably numb: Inside the Pink Floyd founder’s gig that Frankfurt tried to ban

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:08 GMT

FRANKFURT — Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters’ concert begins with a profane announcement to his critics.“If you’re one of those ‘I love Pink Floyd, but I can’t stand with Roger’s politics,’ then fuck off to the bar!” the loudspeakers boom.The audience cheers; no one leaves.Frankfurt authorities had tried to stop this show, but the ban was overturned. Israel has pilloried Waters for desecrating the memory of Anne Frank. Accusations of antisemitism against Waters gained steam over his use of Nazi-like imagery, a floating pig emblazoned with the Star of David and allegations he’s relativized the Holocaust.On Sunday night in Frankfurt, POLITICO got a first-hand taste of the famous rocker’s German tour — which already has him facing a Berlin police probe. While anti-Waters protesters gathered on one side of the building, concertgoers came together to guzzle beer and gobble bratwurst at the entrance to the sold-out show at Frankfurt’s Festhalle.What was their m...

Body recovered from water at Breakheart Reservation in Saugus

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:08 GMT

Massachusetts State Police say a body was located and recovered from the water at Breakheart Reservation in Saugus Tuesday morning.MSP officials told 7NEWS that it was just after 11 a.m. when local police officers spotted the body of an adult female in the water, near a beach at the reservation. Authorities launched an investigation soon afterwards, with state police patrols, a crime scene team and detectives on scene.Additional details have not yet been released.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

SpaceX mission carrying former NASA astronaut, three paying customers departs space station

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:08 GMT

(CNN) — A SpaceX capsule carrying a decorated former NASA astronaut and three paying customers departed from the International Space Station at 11:05 a.m. ET on Tuesday, kicking off the final leg of a historic weeklong mission for the crew.The Crew Dragon spacecraft is expected to splash down off Florida’s coast around 11:04 p.m. ET Tuesday.After launching from Florida on May 21, the crew spent about 16 hours aboard the Crew Dragon capsule as it maneuvered toward the space station, which orbits about 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth.Axiom Mission 2, or AX-2, was put together by the Houston-based company Axiom Space and marks the second all-private mission to the orbiting outpost, meaning commercial companies, rather than a government agency, have been overseeing its execution.The mission was also a milestone in the history of spaceflight as stem cell researcher Rayyanah Barnawi became the first woman from Saudi Arabia to travel to space.The AX-2 missio...

Christie allies launch super PAC ahead of expected 2024 run

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:08 GMT

(CNN) — Allies of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have formed a super PAC to support an expected Republican presidential bid, two sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.The outside group, Tell It Like It Is, has launched a website boosting Christie’s candidacy and encouraging his presence on the GOP debate stage, saying it would “ensure our party engages in the robust, direct, truth-telling conversation we need to start winning again.”The website lists Republican National Committee member Bill Palatucci, former US Sen. Jeff Chiesa and former US Rep. Susan Brooks as members of the group’s leadership team.Details of the super PAC were first reported by The New York Times.The New Jersey Republican sees himself as the only serious GOP candidate willing to take on former President Donald Trump and someone who could appeal to enough independents to beat President Joe Biden in the general election, CNN has previously reported.“He feels really good, he’...

Mayor: 5 unaccounted for including 2 likely in wreckage of collapsed Iowa apartment building

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:08 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Five people remain unaccounted for, including two people whose remains may be in a pile of rubble at the site of a partially collapsed apartment building, officials of the city of Davenport, Iowa, said Tuesday.Mayor Mike Matson confirmed the numbers at a news conference following criticism that the city was moving too quickly toward demolishing the building before making sure that no one is still inside. Protests erupted after a woman was rescued Monday night, hours after the city ordered the demolition to begin as early as Tuesday.A family member of one of the missing people also spoke, pleading with people to understand that authorities want to bring the remains of the six-story building down in a controlled way without dumping more material onto the rubble pile.The building is “unstable and continues to worsen as time progresses,” Fire Marshal James Morris said. “It’s the opinion of the structural engineer that any additional search operations in the area ...