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Oregon judge rules that voter-approved gun control law violates the state constitution

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:59 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge ruled Tuesday that a voter-approved gun control law violates the state constitution, continuing to block it from taking effect and casting fresh doubt over the future of the embattled measure.The law, one of the toughest in the nation, was among the first gun restrictions to be passed after a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year changed the guidance judges are expected to follow when considering Second Amendment cases.The decision was handed down by Circuit Court Judge Robert S. Raschio, the presiding judge in Harney County in rural southeast Oregon.The law requires people to undergo a criminal background check and complete a gun safety training course in order to obtain a permit to buy a firearm. It also bans high-capacity magazines.Measure 114 has been tied up in state and federal court since it was narrowly approved by voters last November.The state trial stemmed from a lawsuit filed by gunowners claiming the law violated the right to be...

¿Quién es Karina Milei, “El Jefe” de la exitosa campaña presidencial de Javier Milei?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:59 GMT

(CNN Español) — Tras la victoria del candidato populista de derecha, Javier Milei, en las últimas elecciones de Argentina, muchos ojos se posaron sobre los artífices de la victoria obtenida. Una de las personas centrales en la vida del nuevo presidente de Argentina es su hermana y confidente Karina Milei, llamada por el público libertario “El Jefe”.Karina Milei tiene 50 años —dos años menos que su hermano, es soltera y solo tiene “hijos perrunos”—. El departamento de prensa de la campaña informó que ella creció junto a su hermano en Villa Devoto, un barrio de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, y fueron juntos a la secundaria en el Instituto Cardenal Copello. Estudió durante cinco años alta repostería, Marketing y Comunicación en la Universidad de Belgrano y Relaciones Públicas en la Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE). Su fuerte hermetismo hace que pocas veces dialogue con la prensa. CNN intentó contactarse con Karina Milei en diversas ocasiones para una...

Capturan a sospechoso de matar a tres vecinos tras una discusión en Colorado

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:59 GMT

Autoridades lograron capturar al presunto sospechoso de matar a tiros a tres personas y herir a una mujer adicional durante una pelea por una propiedad en una zona rural de Colorado. La Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Custer anunció el martes por la tarde que tienen detenido al sospechoso, Hanme K. Clark, de acuerdo con The Associated Press. El hombre fue arrestado por la Policía Estatal de Nuevo México y US Marshals. Dos hombres y una mujer fueron asesinados a tiros mientras otra mujer estaba siendo tratada en una unidad de traumatología del hospital pero se esperaba que sobreviviera, según la Oficina del Sheriff. Las víctimas mortales fueron identificadas como Rob Geers, Beth Wade, y James Daulton. La mujer herida es Patty Daulton. Las autoridades respondieron a un reporte de disparos cerca de la ciudad de Westcliffe, a unas 80 millas al sur de Colorado Springs, justo antes de la 1 p.m. del lunes. Piernas rotas y hemorragias: espeluznantes detalles en caso de padre a...

Independent Assessment Committee investigating KHSC

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:59 GMT

An independent panel of nursing experts sent by the Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) have begun an investigation into inadequate staffing concerns at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). The investigation, focused on KGH’s Connell 10 internal medicine unit, kicked off on Monday due to the ONA and members feeling that the “current work environment fails to support the delivery of quality, safe patient care and puts these vulnerable patients at risk of serious harm”, with an aim of ultimately improving the specialized care patients receive in the unit.An Independent Assessment Committee (IAC) at a specific unit is deemed necessary when concerns have already been brought to the attention of the employer but the issues haven’t been resolved to the satisfaction of nurses or the ONA. The process involves three RN experts examining professional responsibility and assessing workload issues, reviewing evidence from both union members and hospital administrators. O...

Trump ballot case to be heard by Colorado Supreme Court

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:59 GMT

DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear appeals from both a liberal group that sought to disqualify Donald Trump and the former president himself after a state judge ruled that Trump "engaged in insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, but can still appear on the state's ballot.Oral arguments will take place on Dec. 6, the court announced. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox The appeals were filed Monday night. The ruling by District Court Judge Sarah Wallace on Friday — which said Trump is not covered by the Constitution’s ban on insurrectionists holding office — was the latest in a series of defeats for the effort to end Trump's candidacy with Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.A group in Michigan has filed an appeal with that state's Supreme Court.The constitutional provision has only been used a handful of times since the years after the Civil War. It was created to prevent former Confederates from returning to government positions....

Coloradan's young doodle dies from contagious respiratory illness

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:59 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Dog owners across Colorado are being warned by local veterinarians who are seeing an increase in a deadly respiratory disease sweeping across the state."We've had cases that require oxygen, some require surgery and there have been fatalities with this throughout the region, unfortunately," said Dr. David Israel, medical director of the Veterinarian Emergency Group on Colfax Avenue. Denver dog becomes ill, tests positive for meth after walk in RiNo Israel said that right now, his clinic and other emergency clinics around Colorado are seeing multiple cases of this infection daily. "We are seeing one or two or three or even more of these cases coming up," Israel told FOX31.Over the past several months, Israel said the clinic has seen dogs with a respiratory disease similar to kennel cough, but this year, the regular treatments aren't working. "It's progressing to pneumonia, which is infection in the lungs, and getting much sicker than we’ve seen in the past," Israel...

Video shows suspects in 18 car break-ins in Highlands Ranch

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:59 GMT

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) — On Sunday morning, Jason Franklin and his wife realized their cars and others in their Highlands Ranch neighborhood had been broken into."There's five just on my block," Franklin said. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox When he checked his home security video, he saw a woman rifling through his vehicles and then loading into a truck with a man.The Douglas County Sheriff's Office said it received at least 12 reports involving 18 vehicles that were broken into early Sunday morning. The streets that were hit included Strathfield Lane, Walden Court, Laguna Circle, Goldsmith Drive and Weeping Willow."These are crimes of opportunity," Sheriff Darren Weekly said. He said all but one of the vehicles were unlocked, and nearly $7,000 in property was stolen."They were looking for anything from clothes to sunglasses. There was one firearm stolen from one of the vehicles," Weekly said.Security video shows a woman rifling through v...

NBA Hall of Famer hosts 23rd Thanksgiving drive for Miami community

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:59 GMT

NBA Hall of Famer, Alonzo Mourning hosted his 23rd annual Thanksgiving drive. Families passed through the Overtown Youth Center for boxes of Thanksgiving goodies that will help them feed their loved ones this holiday.“Sometimes we don’t have money… It’s a good thing they got this here,” said one attendee. Several organizations helped raise more than $20,000 dollars that went toward purchasing more than 400 meals this year.“With the cost of living going up, people being displaced, it’s a struggle for a lot of families now,” said Mourning. So however we can, and when I say ‘we,’ I mean the Mourning Family Foundation and Overtown Youth Center, however we can provide some relief and support and some hope and encouragement and some love, we do it.”Volunteers and organizers got up early to pack up the boxes and load them into the truck, preparing for Tuesday afternoon’s event.“It reminds you of what’s most impor...

Nicolas Cage is on everyone’s mind in new film ‘Dream Scenario’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:59 GMT

Nicolas Cage’s latest film finds him playing the man of many people’s dreams. He stars in the new comedy “Dream Scenario.” We spoke to the actor about playing a unique character for him and how “Nicolas Cage memes” helped him relate to it.If you dream it, he will come.Nic Cage keeps showing up in everyone’s dreams in “Dream Scenario.”Nicolas Cage: “So when I read this script, ‘Dream Scenario,’ I thought, ‘Well, I think I understand what Paul feels like, I’ll just apply those feelings towards this character.'”Nic has no idea why it’s happening, but that’s not stopping him from going viral.Oh he knows all about that. Thanks to his real life experience with the “Nicolas Cage memes,” which were popular about 14 years ago.Nicolas Cage: “I went through my own experience with the internet and meme-ification and as a result of that video, ‘Nicolas Cage loses his crap...

Former St.Thomas Aquinas High School football payer gives back to community in Miami Gardens as Thanksgiving nears

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:59 GMT

As Thanksgiving approaches, former St. Thomas Aquinas and now Alabama football star, Dallas Turner, made sure people in Miami Gardens had something special to eat this week.Turner’s family and Drew Rosenhaus lent a helping hand at at the Flat Tops Forever Barbershop in Miami Gardens, Tuesday.Even though he is still at school, Tuner had to make sure to help spice up Thanksgiving for the community that helped raise him.“Dallas has been a part of our life at this barbershop, he grew up at the barbershop and he’s very familiar with the neighborhood,” said Devon Tuner, Dallas’ father. “He plays for the Ravens, so it’s a real special for him to kinda come back and be able to gave back to the community as he sees, as he ascending in college and becoming an adult, it’s a part of who he is.”