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Tottenham fan gets 3-year ban from attending games for mocking Hillsborough tragedy

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:47:26 GMT

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — A Tottenham fan was banned from attending soccer matches for three years on Tuesday for making gestures mocking the Hillsborough disaster during a Premier League game against Liverpool.Kieron Darlow, a 25-year-old man from Welwyn, north of London, made the gestures at a game between the teams at Anfield on April 30, British prosecutors said.“Darlow was laughing and those who challenged him said he caused real alarm and distress,” the Crown Prosecution Service said.Darlow’s ban also prevents him from being in the vicinity of stadiums.“Darlow admitted making a gesture towards the Liverpool fans and that this was a reference to the Hillsborough disaster,” prosecutor Andrew Page said. “He admitted that this was to suggest that fans without tickets had pushed forward in the tragedy and had been partly to blame for the crush that led to so many deaths.“He accepted at court that it was his intention that Liverpool fans should see this and that it would...

Abrirán atracción de Lego en Virginia; aquí lo que debes saber

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:47:26 GMT

Prepárate para construir algunos recuerdos.El LEGO Discovery Center de Washington DC anunció que abrirá su nueva atracción familiar en Springfield, Virginia, en agosto.Después de un corte de cinta el 9 de agosto, el centro LEGO se abrirá completamente al público el lunes 14 de agosto.Los fanáticos de Big LEGO pueden ver boletos para la gran semana de inauguración, llamada “First to Play Days”. Los boletos cuestan $ 28.99 por persona y saldrán a la venta el jueves 15 de junio (LEGO dice que puede obtener un código de preventa si se suscribe a su boletín informativo).Se recomienda recoger los boletos antes de cada visita.El centro más nuevo de LEGO en el Springfield Town Center está juntando las piezas para un patio de juegos de 32,000 pies cuadrados para locales y visitantes con niños de 2 a 12 años.“¡Realmente estamos dando vida a las experiencias LEGO en nuestro nuevo Centro! Los niños podrán dejar volar su imaginación y creatividad en cada una de nuestras zonas únicas ...

Accenture pouring $3 billion into AI, joining long list of tech companies prepping to meet demand

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:47:26 GMT

Technology services provider Accenture is the latest company to ramp up its artificial intelligence business, announcing Tuesday that it will invest $3 billion over the next three years and double its AI-related staff to accommodate scorching hot demand.Dublin, Ireland-based Accenture said it aims to have 80,000 AI-related staff to help create “industry-specific solutions that will help our clients harness AI’s full potential to reshape their strategy, technology, and ways of working, driving innovation and value responsibly and faster than ever before.”Accenture joins a growing list of technology companies racing to take advantage of a broader interest from businesses looking for new AI tools that can analyze data, help make decisions and potentially replace some tasks currently performed by human workers. Much of the interest is on “generative AI” tools such as ChatGPT that can produce works of writing on command, as well as images, computer code and other media.Late in May,...

Denver police suspect a drug deal led to shooting that wounded 10, including 1 suspect, during Nuggets’ NBA celebration

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:47:26 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Denver police suspect a drug deal led to shooting that wounded 10, including 1 suspect, during Nuggets’ NBA celebration.Source

2 Northeast DC teens arrested, charged in armed carjacking

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:47:26 GMT

Two teenagers were arrested and charged in an armed carjacking that happened in Northwest D.C. on Monday.Police said that the two 14-year-old boys, of Northeast D.C., stole a vehicle in the 6900 block of 4th Street shortly before 11:30 a.m.The suspects approached the victim, who was inside the vehicle. One of the boys brandished a handgun and demanded the victim get out of the vehicle, police said.The teenagers got into the vehicle and drove away but were apprehended by police.Police said the vehicle and a BB gun were recovered.Both boys are charged with armed carjacking and an unauthorized use of a vehicle. One of the teenagers was charged with possession of a BB gun in public space, police said.Source

Only 1 city has Denver beat in this category over the last decade

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:47:26 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Denver is now an NBA championship city. After the Denver Nuggets won against the Miami Heat in Game 5, the team picked up its first-ever Larry O'Brien trophy.But basketball isn't the only sport Denver plays, and the Nuggets aren't the only local team that has won a championship.If you only count the four major professional sports played in America, three Denver teams have won their league's respective championships: The Denver Broncos in 1997, 1998 and 2015, the Colorado Avalanche in 1996, 2001 and 2022, and, of course, the Denver Nuggets in 2023. Are the champion hats given to the Denver Nuggets misspelled? The only Denver team that hasn't won a championship is the Colorado Rockies. In 2007, they made it to the World Series, only to be swept by the Boston Red Sox in four games.The three Denver teams that have won have all done once so in the last decade, and in that regard, there is only one city that has the Mile High City beat: Los Angeles.That's because LA ha...

Trump pleads not guilty in classified documents indictment

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:47:26 GMT

Former President Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges on 37 counts following a Department of Justice indictment alleging he violated both the Espionage Act and obstructed justice in taking classified records from his presidency and refusing to return them.The arraignment was Trump’s second this year but his appearance in a Miami courthouse was his first on federal charges. He is the first former president or candidate for president to face such charges.Trump, who is the odds-on favorite to win the 2024 GOP presidential primary, previewed in a conversation with conservative radio host Howie Carr how he would plead.“I just say, ‘not guilty.’ I didn't do anything wrong. I did nothing wrong. Presidential Records Act. It’s not even a criminal event. There’s no criminality here. It’s ridiculous,” Trump said during the interview. Trump was indicted Thursday in connection with the investigation led by special counsel Jack Smith, with the unsealed document revealing Trump would a...

Video shows shooting during Nuggets celebration in LoDo

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:47:26 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A total of 10 people, including one suspect, were shot early Tuesday morning as celebrations of the Denver Nuggets NBA championship win took place in Denver's LoDo neighborhood.According to Denver Police Commander Matthew Clark, this appears to be related to a drug deal that was taking place in the same area as the shooting. Previous: 10 people shot in LoDo after Denver Nuggets win NBA Finals The suspect who was shot, 22-year-old Ricardo Vazquez, was taken into custody and police said they found a gun and suspected fentanyl pills in his possession.What was described as "bundles" of fentanyl pills were also recovered by investigators at the scene of the shooting. A vehicle containing additional suspects was also found in the parking lot where the shooting occurred at the intersection of Market Street and 20th Street. No one in that vehicle was injured, Clark said, but a gun was discovered near the driver seat and 33-year-old Raoul Jones was taken into custody.At le...

Trump arrives in federal court for arraignment in documents case

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:47:26 GMT

MIAMI — Donald Trump arrived at a federal courthouse Tuesday afternoon to be arraigned on criminal charges that he hoarded classified military secrets at his estate in Mar-a-Lago after leaving office.Trump has indicated he intends to plead not guilty to all 37 felony charges, including 31 counts of willful retention of national security records and six counts for allegedly obstructing the federal effort to recover those documents.At the courthouse, authorities booked Trump and his co-defendant, longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta. That booking was expected to include Trump getting fingerprinted, but he was not expected to have a mug shot taken.Trump was set to appear before a federal magistrate judge at a 3 p.m. hearing and enter his “not guilty” plea. The arraignment will trigger a lengthy pretrial process as prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers attempt to hammer out agreements on evidence in the case and schedule a trial.If found guilty, Trump could face a lengthy prison term. Yet he has al...

Police: Post-baseball game brawl in Worcester ends with 3 suspects charged

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:47:26 GMT

Police in Worcester say three suspects were charged after a fight allegedly broke out on a baseball field as well as a subsequent attempted assault. The Worcester Police Department said the charges came after officers were called to Kendrick Field on Brooks Street around 7:30 p.m. on Monday for a report of a “large fight” that occurred after a game.Police arrived to find no altercations occurring and soon began investigating, learning that a fight had started at the end of a game while players were shaking hands, according to the department.In a news release, Worcester PD said the fight allegedly involved both players and family members and led to an adult male receiving minor injuries after he was tackled.According to the release, as the investigation continued, a family at the scene “appeared to be agitated” and “was asking where the person was who punched their relative.”At one point, police say a teenager with the family, described as a 17-yea...