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Long injury list won’t push Chelsea to reintegrate Romelu Lukaku to squad under Pochettino

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:26 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Romelu Lukaku’s relationship with Chelsea remains broken despite a lengthening list of injured attackers that is proving a frustration for manager Mauricio Pochettino early in his tenure at the English club.Lukaku has not been given a squad number by Chelsea this season and has made clear his desire to leave Stamford Bridge. The Belgium striker joined Chelsea for a then-club-record fee of $135 million in August 2021 but spent last season on loan at Inter Milan.Chelsea has been unwilling to consider another loan move and would rather sell Lukaku.If ever there was a time for Lukaku to be reintegrated to the senior squad, it is now.On Thursday, winger Mykhailo Mudryk joined an injury list that already contains striker Christopher Nkunku and attacking midfielder Carney Chukwuemeka. Armando Broja, another striker, is not yet ready to play as he recovers from an ACL injury that has kept him out since December.It leaves Pochettino with only one recognized striker for the visi...

Sandwich chain Subway will be sold to fast-food investor Roark Capital

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:26 GMT

Subway said Thursday it will be sold to Roark Capital, a private equity firm with expertise in restaurant management that could help the sandwich chain expand and improve its stores.Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Atlanta-based Roark was offering around $9.6 billion for Subway, which is privately owned.Subway CEO John Chidsey, who joined the company in 2019, said the deal reflects Subway’s long-term growth potential and the value of the brand. Subway plans to continue to modernize restaurants and expand internationally under Roark’s ownership. Subway said its leadership team will remain in place.Roark is a private equity firm with $37 billion in assets under management. It specializes in franchised businesses and backs two holding companies that own multiple restaurant chains: Inspire Brands, the parent of Arby’s, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s and Buffalo Wild Wings; and Focus Brands, which owns Auntie Anne’s, Carvel, Cinna...

Mayor announces 11 potential short-term housing sites

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:26 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Mayor Mike Johnston will provide another update on the city's homelessness state of emergency following a second encampment sweep.At 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Johnston will address the latest activity that supports the state of emergency. Mayor Mike Johnston declares emergency over homelessness in Denver This update comes hours after the city conducted a sweep of an encampment between 17th and 18th and Logan.Mayor postpones encampment sweepFOX31 originally learned about the sweep late Tuesday night. It comes three days after a shooting on the same street sent two people to the hospital.The original announcement only gave those living in the encampment less than a day's notice. Denver’s mayor plans to house 1,000 homeless. Will it work? After speaking with advocacy groups, Johnston decided to postpone the sweep one extra day and start at 7 a.m. on Thursday, “in an effort to give people living in the encampment additional time to plan their next steps.”Johnston h...

Denver resident dies from West Nile virus

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:26 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The Denver Department of Public Health and Environment confirmed a Denver resident has died from the West Nile virus bringing the total to 11 deaths this year.On Thursday, DDPHE said a 71-year-old Denver resident died after being hospitalized with the virus.“We are thinking of the family during this difficult time,” said Bob McDonald, DDPHE’s executive director and Denver’s Public Health administrator. “This mosquito season has been particularly bad in Colorado, and I urge everyone to take WNV seriously and take steps to protect yourself and your loved ones from mosquito bites.” West Nile virus is more of a threat this year than previous years, experts say The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has been tracking West Nile cases in the state since the beginning of mosquito season. So far in 2023, 103 people have been affected and 11 have died from the virus. Of those 103 cases, 60 people have been hospitalized. The first human death from the virus ...

Denver weather: Pinpoint Weather Alert Day Friday for heavy rain

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:26 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The Mile High City and the Front Range will be hot in the low 90s on Thursday before some evening storms, which will keep temperatures much cooler in the Denver weather forecast.These storms and temperature drops are part of the remnants from Tropical Storm Harold, which made landfall in Texas as a tropical depression Wednesday morning.A Pinpoint Weather Alert Day has been issued for Friday because of this. While rain totals are hard to nail down, people living along the Front Range should expect more than half an inch, with higher amounts of up tp two inches in Larimer and Weld counties.Friday morning could end up with some flooding in those northern areas and that flood threat will include the Denver metro area by the late afternoon or early evening. As the rain ends early Saturday morning, Front Range residents will see slow-improving conditions.Weather today: Hot then evening stormsSunshine is across the metro area Thursday before some late-day clouds move in. Hi...

Endangered Addra gazelle born at Zoo Miami

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:26 GMT

A critically endangered Addra gazelle was welcomed into the world Tuesday at Zoo Miami, marking the 79th birth of this rare species in the zoo’s history.According to a news release, a comprehensive neonatal examination was carried out on the newborn on Wednesday. The assessment included gender identification, blood collection, weight measurement, umbilicus cleaning and an overall physical check involving the eyes and mouth. Additionally, a microchip was implanted for future identification purposes. The female calf, weighing slightly below 10 pounds, appears to be in good health. Close monitoring showed successful nursing, with the calf being well cared for by her mother. The mother, born at the St. Louis Zoo and nearly eight years old, has previously given birth three times. The eight-year-old father, a first-time parent, was born at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.The Addra gazelles, recognized as the largest among the world’s gazelles and sometimes referred to as Dama g...

Victim continues testimony during 4th day of trial for ex-Hialeah PD officer accused of beating up homeless man

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:26 GMT

The trial for a former Hialeah Police officer accused of kidnapping and beating a homeless man entered its fourth day.On Thursday, the victim, Jose Ortega Gutierrez, continued to answer questions asked by the defense. During his testimony, the defense questioned how much Gutierrez drank during December of 2022, and the effects alcohol would have had on his memory, judgment or if he would get into arguments. The defense was heard asking Gutierrez if he had a problem remembering.In December of 2022, Gutierrez was involved in at least 12 fights. As he was being asked questions by the defense, Gutierrez was notably frustrated, just as he was when he took the stand on Wednesday. “You got into 12 drunken fistfights?” an attorney said.“You’re not going to confuse me because you want to go ahead and switch things,” a translator assisting Gutierrez said. “You want to confuse me and you’re not going to confuse me. Don’t ask me that question agai...

Putin breaks silence over Wagner chief Prigozhin’s death in jet crash

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:26 GMT

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday made his first public remarks since the death of Russian warlord-turned-mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin in a fiery plane crash on Wednesday. Speculation is rife that Putin ordered the killing of the mercenary boss who rose up against the Kremlin in June, but in his public remarks he urged people to wait for the results of an investigation that will be carried out by Russian authorities. “The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia has reported to me about this, as is correct,” Putin said during a meeting with Denis Pushilin, the Kremlin-appointed head of Russia’s occupation administration in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. “They launched an investigation into this incident and it will be carried out in full and reach a conclusion. Let’s see what the investigators say.”“I have known Prigozhin for a long time, from the beginning of the 1990s,” Putin said of his former caterer. “He was a man with a ...

A ‘forgotten’ Winnie the Pooh sketch sat in a drawer for years. Now it could be worth thousands

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:26 GMT

London (CNN) — An original black and white sketch of Winnie the Pooh and his good friend Piglet which languished for decades in a drawer is expected to fetch thousands when it goes under the hammer next month.According to Dominic Winter Auctioneers, which is handling the sale, the pen and ink drawing is the same as one of the final illustrations in A.A. Milne’s first book about Winnie the Pooh, published in 1926.The illustration that’s now heading to auction was drawn on thin white card, measuring 3.5 inches by 6.5 inches, and was signed and dated “E.H. Shepard 1958” in the lower right hand corner.Incredibly, the drawing was only discovered recently after British auctioneers were contacted to value the effects of Christopher Foyle, the grandson of William Foyle, who co-founded the British bookshop Foyles.It is now expected to fetch between £20,000 and £30,000 ($25,000 and $38,000).The picture, the same as the final drawing in the first Winnie the Pooh book, ...

Gunfire at a California biker bar kills 3 people, plus shooter, and wounds 5 others

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:26 GMT

By EUGENE GARCIA and JOHN ANTCZAK (Associated Press)TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (AP) — Gunfire at a popular Southern California biker bar killed three people and wounded five others, and the gunman — believed to be a retired law enforcement officer — was fatally shot by deputies, authorities said.Some people stood in disbelief and others ran when a sudden flurry of gunshots broke out Wednesday evening at Cook’s Corner, in Orange County’s rural Trabuco Canyon, a witness said.“It was like a madhouse,” Betty Fruichantie, who was in the bar, told NBC4 Los Angeles. She said she believes the shooter was the husband of a friend who was with her in the bar.Her friend, Marie, dropped to the floor, but Fruichantie didn’t know whether she was hit. With bullets flying past her face, Fruichantie ran and hid in a restroom with others.“And when we came out, people were on the floor and people were like over people trying to help them, just holding t...