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Dos personas resultan gravemente heridas tras incendio en apartamentos de Silver Spring

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:54:36 GMT

Dos personas resultaron heridas de gravedad después de que estalló un incendio en un complejo de viviendas el domingo por la mañana en Silver Spring, Maryland, informaron las autoridades.Los funcionarios se apresuraron a llegar a The Enclave en Oak Leaf Drive, cerca de Columbia Pike, alrededor de las 6:30 a. m., indicó el Departamento de Bomberos y Rescate del Condado Montgomery. A pesar de que las llamas estaban dentro de un apartamento en el piso diecinueve, había humo en todo el edificio.Los equipos rescataron a dos víctimas y las llevaron a un hospital.Una residente dijo que las alarmas contra incendios del edificio la despertaron, pero que no había humo en el piso inferior.Tres horas antes, los equipos de bomberos apagaron un incendio en el restaurante Rumba y Carbón en Grand View Avenue en Wheaton.Como resultado, una persona resultó herida. No se dieron a conocer detalles adicionales sobre su condición.El incendio comenzó en el sótano del restaurante y causó daños moderados, s...

Investors Title: Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:54:36 GMT

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Investors Title Co. (ITIC) on Monday reported profit of $7.6 million in its second quarter.The Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based company said it had profit of $4 per share.The insurance company posted revenue of $58.3 million in the period._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on ITIC at https://www.zacks.com/ap/ITICSource

De Filadelfia a Atlanta, más de 120 millones de personas en EE.UU. están bajo el riesgo de tormentas severas que podrían traer granizo y vientos dañinos

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:54:36 GMT

(CNN) — Más de 120 millones de personas en el este de Estados Undos corren el riesgo de tormentas eléctricas severas este lunes que pueden afectar a comunidades desde Filadelfia hasta Atlanta con ráfagas de viento dañinas, granizo grande, fuertes lluvias y algunos tornados.Se espera un patrón de tormentas eléctricas muy activo durante los próximos días en grandes franjas del país al este del río Mississippi. Después de azotar el valle del río Ohio este domingo, un sistema de tormentas se desplaza hacia el este, lo que aumenta el riesgo de clima severo este lunes.Lo peor vendrá para la zona que se extiende desde el norte de Alabama hasta el sur de Pensilvania y Nueva Jersey, incluyendo Filadelfia, Baltimore, Charlotte, Washington, Atlanta y Raleigh. El área está bajo mayor riesgo, nivel 3 de 5, por tormentas severas, dijeron los meteorólogos.Un ligero riesgo de tormentas severas, un nivel 2 de 5, se extiende desde el oeste de Alabama hasta el sur de Nueva York, incluyendo la ci...

What’s summer without an ice cream sandwich? How to make or assemble one at home

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:54:36 GMT

What’s left on your bucket list this summer? Have you spent enough time near water? Listened to live music outdoors? Have you eaten enough corn, berry cobblers, ice cream sandwiches?Wait, what’s that? You haven’t had an ice cream sandwich this summer? Let’s fix that right away!Of course you can buy ice cream sandwiches at the grocery store, and perhaps you’re lucky enough to live somewhere where the jingle-jangle of an ice cream truck can be heard. But making ice cream sandwiches at home is so easy, so much fun, and allows you to customize your ICS (ice cream sandwich, of course) any which way. And I speak from experience when I say that pulling out a tray of ice cream sandwiches at the end of a cookout will cement your legacy as the host of the summer.First, let’s talk about the cookiesYou can absolutely use store-bought cookies, but think about making your own. Pretty much any kind of sturdy cookie can be turned into an ice cream sandwich. Chocolate chip, sugar cookies, oatmeal ra...

Soon, it will get dark before 8 p.m.

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:54:36 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — July brought late nights with the sun setting around 8:30 p.m. But, the final summer days are counting down and the long summer nights are almost over. As of Monday, the sun sets just after 8:00 p.m. Within one week from Monday, Aug. 7, the sun will be setting before 8:00 p.m., according to the Global Monitoring Laboratory. The darker seasons are approaching, but it's not time for cookouts in the dark just yet. Why isn’t Colorado on permanent daylight saving time? Daylight hours will be more noticeable by the end of August when the sun rises around 6:30 a.m. and sets around 7:30 p.m. That's 13 hours of sunlight compared to the midsummer's 15 hours. And it's only getting darker from there. Mid-September reaches sub-7 p.m. and late October brings a 6:00 p.m. sunset. The darkest days of 2023 will be in early December with the sun rising just before 7:30 a.m. and setting a little past 4:30 p.m.The nine-hour days of sunlight are months away, but the days are starting to...

Vegan bakery opens in Capitol Hill

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:54:36 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Plant-based people with a sweet tooth are in luck. The Cake Bar, a completely vegan bakery in Capitol Hill, opens on Aug. 12. Think peanut butter mousse, vanilla buttercream, chocolate ganache icing, but all of it's plant-based. While custom and premade cakes are available, the showstopper is the handheld cakes. Vegan cupcakes made by Angie Wells at The Cake Bar. (Photo credits Angela Wells)Vegan cake at The Cake Bar. (Photo credits Angela Wells)Vegan cake at The Cake Bar. (Photo credits Angela Wells) 5 top-rated breweries to visit on International Beer Day "What makes it so innovative is going to be like the Cold Stone Creamery of cake. So you're going to be able to walk in and choose your cake flavor, choose your frosting flavor, choose your toppings and it's made in like an ice cream paper cup to-go," said owner Angie Wells. "So whatever your sweet tooth is craving as far as cake goes is quickly made in a to-go container for you like ice cream."And it's not just...

Coach Prime on the mend, ready for first season at Colorado with overhauled roster

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:54:36 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Deion Sanders rode into his fall camp news conference Friday on a scooter with a protective boot covering his left foot, visible signs of a recent health scare that the first-year Colorado coach conceded cost him some running speed. He vowed it won’t slow him down for long.“I lost a few steps but I’m still ‘Prime,’” said Sanders, now known as Coach Prime after a sterling NFL playing career under his “Primetime” moniker. “We have some wonderful doctors, wonderful staff, wonderful trainers that are committed to give me help, as well as to the players and the staff. I’m going to run out with the team in Fort Worth. It’s gonna happen.”Colorado opens its first season under Sanders at national runner-up TCU on Sept. 2, a prelude to CU joining the Big 12 next season after it leaves the Pac-12. He underwent a pair of surgeries in June and July to remove blood clots from his legs as well as to repair so-called hammer toes, in which the toes can become excessively curved...

Miami-Dade Police investigate fatal shooting in Homestead

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:54:36 GMT

Police responded to an apparent robbery on Monday that left one person dead in Homestead. The Homestead Police Department swiftly responded to reports of gunfire at approximately 1 a.m., in the area of Northwest First Avenue and Ninth Street. Officers discovered an adult male victim who had sustained apparent gunshot wounds when they arrived at the scene. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue airlifted the victim to Jackson South Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased.One hotel worker said around 12:30 a.m., the man that is believed to be the victim knocked on one of the doors at the establishment nearby; he was allegedly asking for a room there, but there was none available.According to preliminary findings, an unidentified person confronted the victim and demanded his belongings. The confrontation escalated before the suspect shot the victim and fled the scene.At this time it remains unclear at this time if any belongings were taken from the victim.According to police, no arrests have b...

Ukraine Security Service arrest women accused of being Russian informant

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:54:36 GMT

Ukrainian Security Forces have arrested a woman suspected of conspiring to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The accused individual, believed to be a Russian informant, was allegedly planning to share crucial information with Russian forces regarding the Ukrainian president’s whereabouts.The unidentified woman had been gathering information about President Zelenskyy including where the president was visiting last week.The woman also allegedly traveled around and filmed the locations of Ukrainian objects.

First asylum seekers moved to barge off UK south coast

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:54:36 GMT

LONDON — The British government has moved a first cohort of asylum seekers onto a barge docked off the Dorset coast as part of a concerted push to deter people from traveling to the U.K. by small boats.The first asylum seekers arrived on the 222-room Bibby Stockholm barge, which is set to house up to 500 people, on Monday, a U.K. government official, not authorized to speak on the record, confirmed. The U.K. government has pushed ahead with the controversial plan amid pressure to find an alternative to housing asylum seekers in hotels, a strategy the Home Office says is costing £2.3 billion a year. Earlier on Monday the Home Office minister Sarah Dines told Sky News that “luxurious hotel accommodation” has been “part of the pull” for criminals trafficking people to the U.K. Housing people on the Bibby Stockholm barge sends “a forceful message that there will be proper accommodation, but not luxurious,” she said.“There have been promises made abroad by the organized criminal ga...