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Nuggets run to the NBA Finals stirs up memories of wonderful wackiness in the ABA

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:06:30 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Gone, but never forgotten, the ABA is enjoying a curtain call this season — all thanks to the Denver Nuggets.Nearly 50 years after the breakup of the old, renegade league, with its red-white-and-blue basketballs and the 3-point arc that has redefined the modern game, the Nuggets finally broke through to become the last of the four ABA teams — Spurs, Pacers, Nets and Nuggets — who survived the 1976 merger to make the NBA Finals. Denver hosts Miami in Game 1 on Thursday.One of the nicest compliments those old ABA Nuggets can pay to today’s group: These Nuggets remind them of them. “The new NBA is like the old ABA,” David Thompson, ‘The Skywalker,’ told The Associated Press in a phone interview from his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. “This Nuggets team, we’re pulling for them. I want them to finish the job that we didn’t quite get done.”Thompson’s career with the Nuggets straddled their ABA and NBA days. He is such a fan of the modern-day Nuggets that a si...

Woman hit and killed by driver in stolen car in Capitol Heights

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:06:30 GMT

A woman died after being struck by a stolen car in Prince George’s County, Maryland, Saturday afternoon and police are now looking for both the driver and passenger.Officers found 20-year-old Dyanny Leiva Sabillon of Capitol Heights, critically injured at the 6700 block of Calmos Street in Capitol Heights at around 12:45 p.m. Saturday.According to a news release, she died shortly after being taken to a local hospital.Police said the driver and passenger were traveling north on Calmos Street when they struck a parked, unoccupied vehicle. They then struck Sabillon while she was entering or exiting her car, according to authorities.The driver then struck multiple parked and unoccupied vehicles before coming to a stop, police said. The driver and passenger jumped out of the car and ran away from the scene, leaving behind the stolen vehicle.Police are still searching for the driver and passenger involved in the hit-and-run but did not provide a description.Anyone with information i...

Counties with the warmest summers in Colorado

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:06:30 GMT

DENVER (Stacker) — It's almost summer, and the weather is starting to heat up.With this in mind, Stacker compiled a list of the counties with the warmest summers in Colorado using data from the National Centers for Environmental Information. Data represents the average temperatures from June to August 2022; the historic average is the average for these months from 1901 to 2000.#25. Mesa County- Summer 2022 average temperature: 70 degrees- Historic average summer temperature: 66 degrees-- 2022 difference from historic average: 3.8 degrees#24. Montezuma County- Summer 2022 average temperature: 71 degrees- Historic average summer temperature: 67 degrees-- 2022 difference from historic average: 3.8 degrees#23. Elbert County- Summer 2022 average temperature: 71 degrees- Historic average summer temperature: 67 degrees-- 2022 difference from historic average: 4.1 degrees#22. Las Animas County- Summer 2022 average temperature: 71 degrees- Historic average summer temperature: 70 degrees-- 20...

Coast Guard searching for man who fell from cruise ship off Florida coast

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:06:30 GMT

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it’s searching for a man who fell from a cruise ship off the coast of Florida.The 35-year-old passenger fell from the Carnival Magic ship about 185 miles (300 kilometers) east of Jacksonville on Monday, the service said in a statement. Aircraft and ships are being used in the search.The man’s companion reported him missing late Monday afternoon, the statement said. It said security footage on the ship shows that the man “leaned over the railing of his stateroom balcony and dropped into the water” around 4 a.m.Carnival said the Coast Guard released the ship from search efforts and told the captain to head back to port in Norfolk, Virginia. The ship can hold nearly 4,000 guests and is about 1,000 feet (300 meters) long.

Broward County Sheriff’s deputy faces trial for alleged failure to confront Parkland school shooter

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:06:30 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In a prosecution believed to be a national first, a former Florida sheriff’s deputy is about to be tried on charges he failed to confront the gunman who murdered 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland high school five years ago.Jury selection begins Wednesday in the trial of former Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, who remained outside a three-story classroom building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during Nikolas Cruz’s six-minute attack on Feb. 14, 2018. Opening statements are scheduled for early June, and the trial could last two months.Peterson, 60, is charged with seven counts of felony child neglect for four students killed and three wounded on the 1200 building’s third floor. Peterson arrived at the building with his gun drawn 73 seconds before Cruz reached that floor, but instead of entering, he backed away as gunfire sounded. He has said he didn’t know where the shots were coming from...

Teen girl in India stabbed to death in public, reigniting outrage over violence against women

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:06:30 GMT

New Delhi (CNN) — A 16 year-old girl was brutally stabbed and bludgeoned to death in a busy public alleyway in India’s capital on Sunday, sparking renewed outrage over the safety of women in the country and violence perpetrated by men.Video of the incident, which lasted for more than a minute and was captured on security camera, shows multiple people walking close by as the attacker repeatedly strikes the victim.Only one man is shown attempting to intervene, trying to pull the attacker off the victim before quickly retreating.The body of the victim, who has not been identified, was found Sunday evening in the Shahbad Dairy area of the northern Delhi neighborhood of Rohini, where the incident took place.On Monday afternoon, Indian police said they had arrested a male suspect named Sahil in connection with the murder.Sahil, a mechanic, was detained in Bulandshahr in neighboring Uttar Pradesh state, Ravi Kumar Singh, Deputy Police Commissioner for Outer Delhi, told reporters on Monday....

Ukraine renews push for NATO membership

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:06:30 GMT

BRATISLAVA — Ukraine is upping its campaign to get a firm promise of NATO membership eventually, working to sway wary allies before a key meeting this week.The foreign ministers of NATO member countries will gather for an informal meeting in Oslo on Wednesday and Thursday, where they are set to debate Kyiv’s request to join the defense alliance. And while there is broad understanding that Ukraine cannot join NATO so long as it’s actively battling Russia, Ukrainian officials want NATO leaders to make a concrete political gesture of putting Kyiv on the path to membership during the alliance’s upcoming Vilnius summit in July. Kyiv’s NATO campaign was on full display in Bratislava this week, where senior politicians and officials from across Europe are gathering for the annual GLOBSEC forum to discuss defense and geopolitical challenges. “Vilnius should give a clear signal that politically, Ukraine is invited to join NATO,” Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy prime ...

NATO deploys more troops to Kosovo amid violence

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:06:30 GMT

NATO on Tuesday deployed additional forces to Kosovo, a day after peacekeeping troops were injured in clashes with Serb protesters in the country.11 Italian and 19 Hungarian soldiers belonging to Kosovo Force (KFOR), a NATO-led peacekeeping mission, were wounded in northern Kosovo while working to contain violent demonstrations. Three of the Hungarian soldiers were injured by the use of firearms, according to KFOR. NATO condemned the attacks and called “on all sides to refrain from actions that further inflame tensions, and to engage in dialogue.” In a tweet Tuesday afternoon, Allied Joint Force Command Naples said NATO is sending the Operational Reserve Forces (ORF) for the Western Balkans to Kosovo. “JFC Naples is closely monitoring the situation in Kosovo, and will continue to coordinate with KFOR to ensure that they have all the capabilities and forces they need to impartially ensure a safe and secure environment and the freedom of movement for all communiti...

Arrest Putin, South Africa’s opposition urges government

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:06:30 GMT

The last time an accused war criminal visited South Africa, he had to cut his visit short or risk being arrested. Now, the South African opposition wants to do the same thing to Vladimir Putin. South Africa’s leading opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), said Tuesday it had taken legal action to force the government to arrest Putin if the Russian president were to visit the country.Putin is currently under an international arrest warrant, issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in March, over the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia as part of Moscow’s full-scale invasion.The DA has now launched a court application requesting Putin be “detained and surrendered” to the ICC if he were to arrive in South Africa to attend a BRICS summit in August, the party said in a statement.“The DA is seeking this declaratory order to ensure that there is no legal ambiguity relating to the procedure to be followed, and the obligatio...

Bidens mark eight years since Beau Biden’s death

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:06:30 GMT

(CNN) — President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden on Tuesday attended a memorial mass for Beau Biden marking eight years since his death from cancer, according to the White House.The Bidens attended the morning service at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Church in Wilmington, Delaware, before visiting the site of Beau Biden’s grave, which is located behind the church.During his Memorial Day address from Arlington National Cemetery, the president mentioned Beau Biden’s death as he discussed the measures his administration has taken to help veterans. Beau Biden, who served as Delaware’s attorney general before his death, served a tour in Iraq as a member of the Delaware National Guard.“Tomorrow marks eight years since we lost our son Beau,” he said. “Our loss is not the same – he didn’t perish in the battlefield, it was cancer that stole him … after being deployed as a major in the United States Army National Guard in Iraq. As it is for so many of you, the pain...