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Is it legal to set a booby trap at your home?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:22:28 GMT

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) — There is no shortage of questions connected to what happened outside of a Highlands Ranch home last week.A booby trap hurt a salesman. The device was one of two on the property and left the man hospitalized, according to court paperwork.FOX31 got a legal lesson from analyst George Brauchler. When does 'no trespassing' apply at a home?Brauchler is clearing the air after the story triggered dozens of responses in the comments section on the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page, some questioning the crime itself or claiming the punishment was too severe.“You want to live in a place where you can put up a wall that nobody can get beyond, that’s one thing," said Brauchler, a former district attorney. “But just setting up in suburbia with something that might cause serious bodily injury or death, just can't do it.” Police never investigated Denver Health for inmate’s death, despite red flags So what if you have “no trespassing signs” like the h...

Truck repossessed after finance company mistake

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:22:28 GMT

(KDVR) — Matthew Jamison purchased a 2016 Chevrolet Silverado at an impound lot in order to find a good deal. "The car was inoperable. So it had engine problems and I am a mechanic, so I installed the engine," he said. Jamison registered the truck and the title but got a surprise several months later. A tow company repossessed the truck late at night. Jamison contacted the police. “I thought, is my truck stolen?” he said. ‘Just cause’ eviction bill passes Colorado House The repossession was ordered by an Indiana-based finance company that had paperwork showing the truck had a lien from a previous owner, but it was a mistake. “They weren’t going to notify me, you know. My name wasn’t on the lien," Jamison said. Who can sell an impounded vehicle with a lien on it?So how did Jamison get the title? The Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles is investigating the case but told the FOX31 Problem Solvers their records are updated to show any active liens. When a finance company lien isn’t...

Federal judge sides with father banned from Denver Public Schools property

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:22:28 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A school cofounder and father was banned from all Denver Public Schools property last year, which prompted him to sue the district. This week, a federal judge ruled in favor of Brandon Pryor for a second time.Judge John Kane with the U.S. District Court of Colorado ruled to lift the ban keeping Pryor off school grounds months ago, while the court process plays out. DPS appealed the decision, but just days ago, Kane came back and denied their request with some harsh words. Xylazine, the ‘zombie drug,’ infiltrating street supply Pryor said this is a small win in court that gives him hope to keep pushing forward, sharing with FOX31 that he won't give up."We're going to hold them accountable for everything that they do," Pryor said.Denver Public Schools banned school cofounder, coachThe ongoing and complex civil court case is exposing the turbulent relationship between a school cofounder and the school district. The Robert F. Smith STEAM Academy is modeled after HBCUs ...

Panthers score team-record 7 goals in 1st, top Canadiens 9-5

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:22:28 GMT

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Carter Verhaeghe scored twice in Florida’s franchise-record, seven-goal first period and the Panthers beat the Montreal Canadiens 9-5 on Thursday night.Florida scored six goals in the second period against Boston on April 5, 2000. Against Montreal, the Panthers came just shy of tying the franchise record for goals in a game set in 1997, going scoreless in the third period.The teams combined for 10 first-period goals to tie the NHL record for goals in a first period. It also was the fastest first 10 goals in an NHL game, with Florida getting the 10th goal at 13:18.“I have never seen anything like that. In 25 years, never seen that many goals,’’ Florida coach Paul Maurice said. “There were more goals than chances to score and that is a rarity. All I can say is it affected the game for both teams and I do not think anything on video is useful to the game of hockey. It was almost Twilight Zone: Every puck went in.”Aaron Ekblad also scored twice for Florida, helping ...

Chicago Bears free-agency news: Tight end Robert Tonyan and running back D’Onta Foreman agree to 1-year deals

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:22:28 GMT

In his second offseason with the Chicago Bears, general manager Ryan Poles has plenty of salary-cap space to rework a roster that finished 3-14 in 2022.With the NFL’s new league year now here, allowing free agents to begin signing with new teams, the Tribune will track all of the Bears’ arrivals and departures and provide insight into what they mean.The free-agency negotiation window opened across the league at 11 a.m. Monday. Unrestricted free agents could finalize deals when the new league year began at 3 p.m. Wednesday.Column: After adding 5 new starters, Bears GM Ryan Poles can wait for prices to fall in free agencyColumn: Bears’ aggressive start to free agency has one common thread — young players entering their prime yearsWhat headline-grabbing move is next? 5 Bears questions before free agency.Column: Ryan Poles checked a big box on the Bears’ offseason list with his bold trade. Now comes the hard part.Bears trade the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NFL d...

Franks: Pols need constitutionally enforced age limits

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:22:28 GMT

If elections were held today the biggest and best-known two names would be paired against each other again. One would win and I believe America would lose.President Joe Biden is 80 years old. He will be 82 in 2024, and if re-elected would complete a second term at the age of 86. Former President Donald Trump will turn 80 halfway through a potential second term in office. Needless to say we have never been faced with a government led by octogenarians. I’m sure our founding fathers never anticipated this being a possibility.However, there is a way for Democrats, Republicans and Independents to prevent such candidates from seeking the presidency as their party’s nominee or as a third-party candidate resulting in a “Ross Perot effect” (Former President Bill Clinton never got the majority of the popular vote but won two elections comfortably because of a third-party candidate – Perot). The American people can simply pass a constitutional amendment on age limits for federal public servant...

‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ – come along for a fun ride

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:22:28 GMT

MOVIE REVIEW“Shazam! Fury of the Gods”Rated PG-13. At the AMC Boston Common, AMC South Bay and suburban theatersGrade: BA little humor goes a long way when you’re saving the world as shown in “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” a fun (and merely 2 hours and 10 minutes-long) outing that starts with Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu as two daughters of Atlas, not very comically stealing the Staff of Life from a museum, transforming innocent museum-goers into zombies and then turning them all to stone.Cut to Philadelphia where Billy Batson (once again, Asher Angel) aka Shazam (again, Zachery Levi) and his super-heroic siblings live with their foster parents Rosa (Marta Milans) and Victor Vasquez (Cooper Andrews). Shazam, who does not know his superhero name, and his superhero siblings are known as the Philly Fiascos by the Philadelphia Tribune because of their supposed inability to do superhero things right. After the James Bond-like opening sequence at the museum, the film begins in earnest whe...

Lowry: Race-focused activists come for Shakespeare

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:22:28 GMT

Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, there’s another, worse charge against the bard — he created the concept of whiteness.Yes, instead of standing in the line of literary giants such as Dante, Chaucer, and Goethe, Shakespeare is to be associated from now on with the likes of the 19th century French apostle of scientific racism Arthur de Gobineau, George Wallace, and — why not — the Oath Keepers.If you’ve wondered if there’s anything that race-obsessed activists, bureaucrats and academics can’t ruin, the answer is “no,” as they begin get to work in earnest trying to tear down a towering genius who has had an immense — and profoundly edifying effect — on our culture.According to a new volume, “White People in Shakespeare,” the immortal playwright was engaged in “white–people–making.” The contributors to the book aren’t...

Editorial: Border Patrol asks for $$ while climate plans rake it in

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:22:28 GMT

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz had a simple message for House Republicans Wednesday: we need help.Testifying at the House Homeland Security Committee’s field hearing in south Texas — which committee Democrats boycotted — Ortiz said that the current flow of migrants to the U.S-Mexico border “represents challenges, and in some areas, a crisis situation,” as The Hill reported.“Now, unlike in previous surges, we are seeing traffic including large groups, spread across multiple locations, instead of just one or two specific sectors,” Ortiz said. “This places tremendous strain on Border Patrol resources and our operational posture.”As has been reported,  a large group of people in Mexico approached a US border entry point in El Paso, Texas, Sunday in an attempt at mass entry into the U.S., causing disruptions along the border and authorities to erect barricades, US Customs and Border Protection said.The group made a formation and approached the international boundary at El Paso, “pos...

Fonda and Tomlin have a field day in comic ‘Moving On’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:22:28 GMT

MOVIE REVIEW“Moving On”Not rated   At the AMC Boston Common and suburban theatersGrade: B“Moving On” is, first and foremost, a vehicle for Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda as sunset seniors reunited for a funeral.But unlike their frothy, sentimental and laugh out loud teaming with Sally Field and Rita Moreno for the recent “80 for Brady,” “Moving On” seeks more solid ground in its pointed dilemmas.This happens to be the third teaming for Tomlin with writer-director Chris Weitz (“About a Boy,” “American Pie”), several years after they jointly triumphed with “Grandma.” That was written by Weitz expressly for Tomlin who played a lesbian grandmother helping a teenager fund an abortion.Here, Tomlin’s Evelyn is also queer, living in senior housing in California. Long after college she reunites with Fonda’s Claire at the funeral service. Evelyn drunkenly interrupts the eulogy by the dead woman’s husband (Malcolm MacDowell) which hardly matters when compared to Claire’s reaction on se...