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Colorado homes are getting smaller as well as more expensive

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:15:50 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Colorado housing development is not only getting denser - homes are shrinking, as well, despite costing more than ever.The Centennial State's growing population over the last decade stressed the housing market as the number of units being built failed to meet demand. Prices exploded as deep-pocketed investors, buyers and renters moved in and less wealthy residents were pushed out. ‘Meth contaminated’ condo in Denver could be yours for $252,000 Across the state, local and state elected officials have promoted a vision of a more tightly packed and highly stacked population to bring housing prices back down toward Earth. Since 2016, the housing market has already naturally led to smaller Colorado homes. The St. Louis Fed tracks the median home size in Colorado by square foot since 2016. Homes were largest in July 2016 and June 2017 - between 2,530 and 2,570 square feet. Since mid-2017, home size has been reduced. By February 2022, the median size for a Colorado home ...

Miami-Dade Arena to be named Kaseya Center after Heat sign deal with software company

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:15:50 GMT

A deal has been made with the Miami Heat and software company Kaseya. After weeks of negotiations, on Tuesday, the Heat entered into a long-term partnership with Kaseya, which includes a name change for the Miami-Dade Arena. Miami-Dade commissioners voted on the permanent name for the arena, Tuesday morningDue to the fallout of cryptocurrency company FTX, and the scandals pertaining to the company’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, Miami-Dade commissioners have been looking for a new partner to fill out the naming rights for the Miami-Dade County Arena. “We are proud to close this deal with a locally based company for the first time in the history of the Arena,” Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a press release. “Since Kaseya relocated its headquarters to Miami, it has demonstrated a real commitment to invest in our economy and our local talent by opening the door to the jobs of the future. This deal will not only allow us to continue investing in critical crime ...

Trump surrenders in New York

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:15:50 GMT

NEW YORK – Former President Donald Trump turned himself in Tuesday to authorities in the Manhattan district attorney’s office, where he will be booked on criminal charges connected to his alleged role in a hush money payment made to a porn star.Trump, the first current or former president ever to be indicted, entered the district attorney’s office around 1:30 p.m., accompanied by U.S. Secret Service agents and his lawyers.He is expected to be fingerprinted, but is unlikely to have his mug shot taken. He will remain in the custody of the district attorney’s office until he is escorted to a courtroom in the same building Tuesday afternoon to be arraigned.

Trump surrenders to NY authorities ahead of arraignment

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:15:50 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump surrendered to authorities Tuesday at a Manhattan courthouse ahead of his arraignment on criminal charges stemming from a hush money payment to a porn actor during his 2016 campaign.Wearing his signature dark suit and red tie, Trump turned and waved to crowds outside the building before heading inside to be fingerprinted and processed — a remarkable reckoning after years of investigations into his personal, business and political dealings and an extraordinary moment in U.S. history.He arrived at court in an eight-car motorcade that took him from Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan through the main north-south highway on the east side of the city, past landmarks such as the United Nations. Along the way, the voluble ex-president posted on his social media platform: “Heading to Lower Manhattan, the Courthouse. Seems so SURREAL — WOW, they are going to ARREST ME. Can’t believe this is happening in America. MAGA!”The booking...

Boston firefighters respond to apparent basement fire in Dorchester

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:15:50 GMT

Firefighters have been working in Dorchester to control a basement fire that sent heavy plumes of smoke blowing into the neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.In a tweet posted at 1:15 p.m., the Boston Fire Department stated that a second alarm had been ordered for a multistory building on Cushion Avenue, where smoke could be seen flooding out of what appeared to be a basement area.https://twitter.com/BostonFire/status/1643301218435977217By 1:42 p.m., the department said the blaze had reached 3-alarm status.Images shared by officials showed multiple crews getting at the basement from different angles, working around debris on the property.No further information has been released yet.https://twitter.com/BostonFire/status/1643308012902162454This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

New Drake song trolls Kanye West with clip of Kim Kardashian talking about divorce

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:15:50 GMT

Dan Clarendon | New York Daily NewsA new Drake song hit SiriusXM on Friday, and an audio clip in the track should sound familiar to any Kardashians fan.The track, titled “Rescue Me,” debuted on SiriusXM’s Sound 42 and later hit YouTube. Around the one-minute mark of one YouTube upload, listeners can hear Kim Kardashian talking to mom Kris Jenner about when she knew she wanted a divorce from Kanye West, a conversation that aired on the 2021 finale of the E! reality show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 30: Drake attends Drake’s Till Death Do Us Part rap battle on October 30, 2021 in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)“I didn’t come this far just to come this far and not be happy,” Kardashian says. “Remember that.”“OK, that’s fair,” Jenner responds. “You didn’t come this far just to come this far.”The excerpt seems to be the latest development in Drake’s ongoing feud with West, whom he once described as “the most in...

Antiwar officer from Putin’s elite security team defects

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:15:50 GMT

By ERIKA KINETZ (Associated Press)LONDON (AP) — On Oct. 14, a Russian engineer named Gleb Karakulov boarded a flight from Kazakhstan to Turkey with his wife and daughter. He switched off his phone to shut out the crescendo of urgent, enraged messages, said goodbye to his life in Russia and tried to calm his fast-beating heart.But this was no ordinary Russian defector. Karakulov was an officer in President Vladimir Putin’s secretive elite personal security service — one of the few Russians to flee and go public who have rank, as well as knowledge of intimate details of Putin’s life and potentially classified information.Karakulov, who was responsible for secure communications, said moral opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and his fear of dying there drove him to speak out, despite the risks to himself and his family. “Our president has become a war criminal,” he said. “It’s time to end this war and stop being silent.”...

Trump surrenders at Manhattan courthouse ahead of historic arraignment

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:15:50 GMT

By Josephine Stratman and Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily NewsDonald Trump arrived at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office to surrender at about 1:20 p.m. EST Tuesday as he becomes the first former president in the history of the United States to face criminal charges.He is expected to be fingerprinted and processed, but it remained unclear whether authorities would require him to take a mug shot.“Heading to Lower Manhattan, the Courthouse,” Trump posted on Truth Social as he prepared to turn himself in. “Seems so SURREAL — WOW, they are going to ARREST ME. Can’t believe this is happening in America. MAGA!”Former US president Donald Trump arrives ahead of his arraignment at the Manhattan Federal Court in New York City on April 4, 2023. (Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)The exact charges against Trump will be unsealed at Trump’s expected arraignment at 2:15 p.m. EST, though they are expected to deal with how Trump handled, and accounted for, hush money paym...

Heat’s arena is now the Kaseya Center (building’s fourth name this season)

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:15:50 GMT

The way this season has gone for the Miami Heat, it is possible they wind up with more names for their arena in 2022-23 than playoff victories.The Miami-Dade County Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a 17-year agreement for the Heat’s Biscayne Boulevard arena to immediately be renamed Kaseya Center, as part of a $117 million naming-rights agreement with the Miami-based software company.The agreement comes in the wake of a similar deal with FTX being terminated in January after the failure and bankruptcy of the cryptocurrency exchange.In the wake of the county moving off the name FTX Arena, the Heat’s facility briefly was designated The Arena by the county and then formally was renamed Miami-Dade Arena in January. The Heat’s broadcast outlets also had referred to the facility as “The Heat’s House” amid the naming uncertainty.The name change is immediate to the degree that the court at Heat’s Sunday game against the Orlando Magic, the ...

Trump arraignment live updates: Former president surrenders at Manhattan courthouse

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:15:50 GMT

Former President Donald Trump faces a historic arraignment Tuesday in New York, following an indictment on criminal charges stemming from prosecutors’ long-running investigation into his business dealings.Five pool photographers will be allowed inside the courtroom for the arraignment, Judge Juan Merchan ruled late Monday. Video cameras will be confined to hallways outside the courtroom, and reporters won’t be allowed to bring laptops or other electronics inside.Stay tuned here for live updates. 1:40 p.m. ESTFor decades, no one ever expected to see a former U.S. president hauled into court to face criminal charges — including the one about to be indicted in Manhattan Criminal Court.“Seems so SURREAL — WOW, they are going to ARREST ME,” former President Trump wrote on his Truth Social website as his SUV made its way down the FDR Drive. “Can’t believe this is happening in America.”“MAGA!” he wrote, citing his constantly coined “Make America Great Again” slogan.1:30 p.m. ESTTrump, 76, ...