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2 in critical condition after near-drowning at DC pool

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

A man and a woman are in critical condition after nearly drowning at a pool in Northeast D.C., according to D.C. Fire and EMS.First responders showed up to Theodore Hagans outdoor pool just after 5 p.m. Thursday for the report of a drowning. D.C. police officers and parks and recreation workers were already on the scene providing emergency care for the man and the woman when D.C. Fire and EMS said they arrived and took over.Both the man and the woman were resuscitated and flown to the hospital in critical condition. D.C. police and the city’s parks and recreation department are investigating.This is a developing story. Stay with WTOP for updates.Below is a map of where the incident happened:Source

Taylor Swift fans go to great lengths for a shot at tickets

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Hundreds of Taylor Swift sans stood in line waiting for hours in the sweltering heat, in the hopes of winning two tickets to the superstar’s weekend concerts.The contest, sponsored by a Colorado Springs Radio station, was held at the Outlets at Castle Rock on Thursday. “We’re gonna win tickets,” Larissa Brunz said standing in line with her co-worker, Payton Wright. Denver police safety plan for mega event weekend The pair are trying to win tickets for Wright’s sister.“She’s flying in for the concert,” Wright said. “She’s in grad school, so, we gotta do our best.”A sing-a-long and "finish-the-lyric" contest were also held for fans, many of whom had driven up from the Colorado Springs area.Many people came equipped with water bottles and umbrellas to fend off the extreme heat.Swift is scheduled to play Friday and Saturday nights at Empower Field at Mile High.

Video: Cat stolen by pizza delivery driver, Adams County family claims

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- A family in Adams County said a Domino's Pizza delivery driver took their cat and they have security camera video to prove it.The family's neighbors got a pizza and they were left with grief after going over the video of the driver with their cat "Pinto" last Saturday."He got in the middle of the street when he saw someone pull up," Jennifer Chumil, the mother of the family, said.In the video, Pinto, one of several family cats, is seen running toward a Domino's delivery car."She petted him and then a few minutes go by and he's in the car with her and they're driving off," Chumil said, "… they were delivering pizza to my neighbor across the street."You can see the cat approach the car, and the delivery driver interact with Pinto. Another angle, Chumil said, shows Pinto already in the car with the driver. 9 suspects wanted after gun store burglaries Shortly after, the video appears to show the Domino's employee driving off.The family is left wondering w...

Dennehy: FTC’s loss is a win for gaming consumers

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

The Federal Trade Commission’s preliminary motion to stop Microsoft from acquiring Activision-Blizzard has been rejected. The case is now primarily considered resolved, as the courts deemed the FTC had not demonstrated that competition would be substantially affected. The injunction would have delayed the companies from merging. However, it is now expected that the two companies may begin fully integrating as early as this month.For gamers, this represents a win through increased access to Activision’s gaming library.Following this decision, the British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it would reconsider the case after it had previously blocked the acquisition in the United Kingdom. If the CMA permits the deal, it will join the global consensus that the acquisition is not anticompetitive.The FTC’s initial decision to bring the complaint can be partly attributed to the agency’s ideological opposition to mergers and acquisitions by large tech firms. This bias ag...

Great cast elevates predictable redemptive road trip of ‘The Miracle Club’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

When we think of Irish movies, we think of “The Troubles,” “The Quiet Man,” “The Commitments,” the Catholics, the Protestants, Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast?” Several of the thematic elements driving the aforementioned are in play in Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s 1967-set “The Miracle Club,” a miniature, Irish “Canterbury Tales” about a small group of working-class women from Ballygar in outer Dublin, where the film was shot, who go on a long-awaited pilgrimage to Lourdes in France, where they confront one another and their past lives.Aged Lily Fox (Maggie Smith), who has a bad leg, has still not recovered from the 40-year-old loss of her son Declan, He was involved with a local girl named Chrissie (Laura Linney), and he drowned off a local beach (there is a small plaque commemorating the event on a pier). Chrissie, meanwhile, fled to America under a cloud of scandal.When the action begins, Chrissie surprisingly returns to attend her mother’s funeral and stays for the t...

Tepid ‘Fourth Grade’ should have been held back

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

At a merciful 81 minutes, “Fourth Grade” comes across like an episode of a bad television show. Written and directed by Brazilian filmmaker Marcelo Galvao and featuring a cast of actors whose careers have seen better days, the film also resembles the stage play “Carnage.” Like the play and the 2011 film version, “Fourth Grade” assembles a group of parents about to go to war with one another. In this case, they are the parents of fourth grade students at a posh Catholic school named The Shepherd of the Palisades in the hilltop Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles (Thomas Mann once lived up there).In the opening, we follow Charlie (William Baldwin) in his vintage green Mercedes convertible drive through the neighborhood and arrive with an out-of-place umbrella and a briefcase (most of the other characters also have umbrellas, hmm). Kate (Teri Polo), the next to arrive is the mother of Jacqueline, who has been cast as Belle in a school production of “Beauty and the Beast.”Kate gets...

Allen & Manley: Massachusetts property owners need better protections

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

In several states, local governments are authorized to take beyond what is owed in property taxes when a homeowner falls behind. Known as home equity theft, this practice robs homeowners of the wealth they’ve built over a lifetime. In fact, it’s happening right here in Massachusetts, despite a recent Supreme Court ruling holding the practice unconstitutional.According to a recent study by Pacific Legal Foundation, homeowners in Massachusetts lose an average of 82% of their equity to this tax foreclosure policy. For the 315 Massachusetts homes in Pacific Legal Foundation’s dataset, households lost a total of $48 million, with the average homeowner losing more than 15 times the debt they owed.Based on laws still on the books despite a recent Supreme Court ruling, Massachusetts cities can keep a tax claim — or sell to a private debt collector — when a homeowner falls behind on their property taxes, no matter how small the debt. The owner of that debt may then foreclose and obtain a dee...

Boys tennis All-Scholastics and All-Stars

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

BOYS TENNIS ALL-SCHOLASTICSLucas Bikkesbakker (Concord-Carlisle)Kiran Bhatia (Brookline)Ravin Bhatia (Brookline)Deven Devaiah (Brookline)Max Ding (Weston)Mika Garber (Marblehead)Noah Gilligan (Weston)Jagger Grace (Dover-Sherborn)Alek Karagozyan (Belmont)Lex Kaye (Hopkinton)Logan Li (Winchester)Ben Liptak (St. John’s Prep)Connor Liona (Westford Academy)Rudr Malayya (Lexington)Joel McCandless (Lexington)Aahan Mehra (Lexington)Naveen Nemapaluri (Malden)Luke Prokopis (St. John’s Prep)Rohan Reddy (Lexington)Tim Vargas (Duxbury)Jeffrey Zhang (Wayland) LUCAS BIKKESBAKKERCONCORD-CARLISLEAn All-Dual County League selection, the junior went 11-3 for a Concord-Carlisle team which advanced to the Div. 2 state semifinals. The two-time All-Scholastic has a career record of 23-8. In the offseason, Bikkenbakker trains with Francisco Paco Maroto.KIRAN BHATIABROOKLINEThe sophomore doubles specialist went 22-1 on the season and won his only singles match in helping Brookline reach the...

Sterling K. Brown, Mark Duplass are last on Earth in ‘Biosphere’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

There are intentional laughs in “Biosphere” where Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass are the last two people on Earth.They live in a hermetically sealed dome with a few fish – named after “Friends’ characters – as they face their fate.“The way it started,” Duplass, 46, began in a Zoom interview, “was my subconscious.  A completely unknown impulse that said, ‘It should be two men inside of a dome, fiercely arguing about Super Mario Brothers.’“We should,” he continued, “have a sense that they have nothing better to do. I started following that with no idea where it was going to go.”Only later did Duplass realize, ‘I had a self-discovery where I’m unwinding some latent toxic masculinity issues within myself –because I grew up in the South, went to an all-male high school and was told that we were meant to be the leaders who take the reins and people will follow us.”But that, he felt, was limited. So he engaged Mel Aslyn who makes her directing debut with “Biosphere.”  “She ...

Satirical thriller ‘Sucker’ skewers the tech industry

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

Chuck Gross, the hapless narrator of Daniel Hornsby’s “Sucker,” has big-time dad issues. When a friend gives his shoulder an encouraging squeeze, Chuck calls it “the kind of thing an affectionate father would do, or so I’ve heard.”His frosty father isn’t entirely useless, though. The corporate influence of the old man — Chuck calls him a “sinister libertarian billionaire” — lands his 30-year-old son a cushy job in Silicon Valley, thus triggering the strange events that fuel this winning comic thriller.Chuck has always downplayed his lineage. He’s even shortened his last name. But he seldom says no to Charles Grossheart Sr.’s money or connections.Grossheart funds Chuck’s expensive small business, a punk rock record label. But Grossheart is threatening to slash his contribution unless Chuck gets a conventional job. Luckily, Chuck is friends with Olivia Watts, whose tech company, Kenosis, is peddling a vague sort o...