4 ex-cops charged in Tyre Nichols’ death barred from police – The Denver Post

By JONATHAN MATTISE (Associated Press) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Four of five former Memphis police officers charged in the killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who was handcuffed, brutally beaten and ignored by first responders for crucial minutes despite being barely conscious, can no longer work as law enforcement in Tennessee. The Peace Officer Standards & Training Commission, or

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EPA takes charge of cleanup in toxic Ohio train derailment

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Federal environmental regulators on Tuesday took charge of the cleanup from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and chemical burn and ordered Norfolk Southern to foot the bill. The Environmental Protection Agency told Norfolk Southern to take all available measures to clean up contaminated air and water, and also said the company would be required to

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The most expensive colleges in 2023

video FOX Business Flash top headlines for February 20 Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com The College Investor recently put out a ranking of 2023’s priciest colleges. The report put Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the No. 1 spot on its list of colleges with the highest sticker price. In the 2022-2023 academic year, the school charged

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Hope fading as deaths in Turkey, Syria quake pass 11,000 – The Denver Post

By MEHMET GUZEL, GHAITH ALSAYED and SUZAN FRASER GAZIANTEP, Turkey (AP) — With the hope of finding survivors fading, stretched rescue teams in Turkey and Syria searched Wednesday for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by a catastrophic earthquake. The confirmed death toll from the world’s deadliest quake in more than a decade passed 11,000.

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Teen pleads guilty in Denver arson that killed 5 in Green Valley Ranch

One of three teenagers charged in connection with the 2020 arson that killed five members of a Senegalese family in Denver’s Green Valley Ranch neighborhood has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the case, court records show. Dillon Siebert, 17, on Wednesday will be sentenced for his role in the deaths of Djibril Diol, 29; Adja Diol, 23; Khadija Diol,

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Hygge destinations in Colorado, from Bluecorn Beeswax to Hygge Chalet

When the temperatures drop below freezing and snow blankets the Rocky Mountain peaks, that’s Coloradans’ signal to embrace hygge. Defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, which added the Danish word in 2017, hygge means “the quality of being warm and comfortable that gives a feeling of happiness.” But Scandanavians contend the concept of hygge (pronounced hoo-gah) is slightly more intangible.

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Need a pet rescue in the midst of a Colorado firestorm? There’s an app for that

Mike Neustedter and his family were a thousand miles away from their Superior home on Dec. 30, 2021, as a windswept wildfire tore toward their Original Town neighborhood. Their 11-year-old cat Coby was inside the home, trapped. The animal was one of the nearly 1,200 pets that didn’t survive the Marshall fire. “If someone had known pets were in these

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McCarthy vows to stay in speaker’s race, with Trump backing – The Denver Post

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said late Tuesday there’s no scenario in which he’ll drop his bid to become House speaker despite failing to win multiple rounds of voting, a historic defeat that brought the first day of the new Congress to an abrupt, messy end. McCarthy promised

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