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Workers uncover eight mummies and pre-Inca objects while expanding the gas network in Peru

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:55:51 GMT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That’s what some gas line workers got when their digging uncovered eight pre-Inca funeral bales.“We are recovering those leaves of the lost history of Lima that is just hidden under the tracks and streets,” Jesus Bahamonde, an archaeologist at Calidda, the company that distributes natural gas in the city of 10 million people, said Friday.He said the company’s excavation work to expand its system of gas lines over the last 19 years has produced more than 1,900 archaeological finds of various kinds, including mummies, pottery and textiles. Those have mostly been associated with burial sites on flat ground.The city also has more than 400 larger archaeological sites that have turned up scattered through the urban landscape. Known as “huacas” in the Indigenous Quechua language, those adobe constructions are on top of hills considered sa...

Foligno is impressed with Bedard and ready to help lead the Chicago Blackhawks

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:55:51 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Nick Foligno texted and called Connor Bedard over the summer, and the veteran had the rookie over to his home.It was a full-circle moment for Foligno ahead of his 17th NHL season.“It brings me back to when I was 19 and I came into the team and I had some really cool older guys to play with,” he said, “like (Daniel) Alfredsson, Mike Fisher and Wade Redden, and the list goes on. I remember going over to Alfie’s house and his four kids, I think I had more in common with them than I did with Alfie at the time.“It was funny to kind of go back to that and remember the feelings that I had and how much those guys helped me.”Through two days of training camp in Chicago, it looks as if Foligno is well on his way to becoming one of the team’s most popular players. He was among several veterans acquired by the Blackhawks in the offseason to add more leadership to the locker room and help with the development of some of their young players, namely Bedard.The chan...

MATCHDAY: Struggling Man United visits Burnley in EPL; Barcelona hosts Celta Vigo

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:55:51 GMT

A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Saturday:ENGLANDErik ten Hag quickly needs to turn Manchester United’s form around. Wednesday’s loss against Bayern Munich in the Champions League was a third straight defeat for his team and its fourth already this season. United is back in Premier League action on Saturday when it travels to Burnley. Former Man City captain and now Burnley manager Vincent Kompany would love to get a statement win against United. Everton is also in need of a morale-boosting result when it travels to Brentford. Sean Dyche’s team only has one point this season and looks like it could be involved in another relegation battle. Defending league champion City is at home to Nottingham Forest and looking to extend its 100% start to the campaign. Crystal Palace hosts Fulham and Luton is at home against Wolverhampton.FRANCEBrest can claim first place in the French league if it beats struggling Lyon at home to move above fellow surprise packag...

Child porn trial set for former cop after 6 delays

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:55:51 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) -- More than three years after law enforcement was tipped off about a child internet sex crime, a retired Cherry Hills Village Police officer has entered a not-guilty plea.Jerry Stinnett appeared at his arraignment via WebEx Friday afternoon on charges of Sexual Exploitation of a Child/Video and Sexual Exploitation of Child Porn Materials. Landry’s Seafood sued for alleged discrimination at Colorado restaurant The 65-year-old was charged back in March of 2022, but his arraignment had been delayed 6 times, and today he asked for yet another continuance.Arapahoe County Judge Joseph Whitfield denied the request and set a trial date for the week of March 25, 2024.The internet service provider Yahoo first tipped the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in July of 2020 that a user had "uploaded and shared images, that they considered to be Child Sex Abuse Materials (CSAM), onto their servers" according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the FOX...

Video: People run for cover during LoDo shooting that hurt 5 people

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:55:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- New video obtained by FOX31 shows people downtown scrambling for cover during the moments of a shooting that left five people hurt.It provides new insight into the fear experienced by people in LoDo last weekend near the 1900 block of Market Street. 5 injured in LoDo shooting late Saturday night At one moment, everything seemed normal. Then came the moments of the shooting when people at neighboring bars ran for cover. Some of them can be seen squatting along rails.Bellator Defense employs security guards for bars in the area, and they said they have an active shooter policy in place. The video shows those guards as they pulled people off the street and got them to the rear of the nearest building where they say they locked the doors.Now, police are releasing new information about the suspect, identified as Keanna Rosenburgh, who is a juvenile. Police are not releasing her exact age. Suspect in LoDo shooting identified, still at-large The Denver Police Depa...

Groundbreaking transplant of pig heart into living recipient is performed for the second time ever

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:55:51 GMT

(CNN) — For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday.The groundbreaking surgery was done on September 20 at UMMC by the same transplant team that preformed the first such experimental surgery in 2022.In a news release, the hospital said the recipient, 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette, “is currently breathing on his own, and his heart is functioning well without any assistance from supportive devices.”Faucette had end-stage heart disease. He had pre-existing peripheral vascular disease and complications with internal bleeding making him ineligible for a traditional heart transplant, the hospital said in the release. He was admitted to UMMC on September 14 after experiencing symptoms of heart failure.“My only real hope left is to go with the pig heart, the xenotransplant,” Faucette told the hospital in an internal interview several days before the surgery.T...

Dogs sickened by drug-tainted human waste in Boston

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:55:51 GMT

Jamaica Plain residents are demanding a fenced-in dog park after three pooches were poisoned by “drug-contaminated human waste” while out for a walk.The Friends of JP Dog Parks, during a hearing Friday, pressed city officials to do whatever they can to get the neighborhood a safe recreational space where pets can roam freely as soon as possible.The group reports three dogs walking along an unofficial dog path at Southwest Corridor Park near Green Street Station last month had a “run-in with drug-contaminated human waste” and were rushed to the Angell Animal Medical Center emergency department.The dogs survived, but the group says the situation could have easily been worse, with the pets and their owners experiencing “extreme physical and emotional stress, not to mention the expenses incurred.”This scare comes as the city is battling an opioid addiction problem that isn’t only contained in the Mass and Cass encampment.“This is unacceptable, avoidable and needs to be addressed,”...

Ex-FBI agent John ‘Zip’ Connolly’s parole in Massachusetts in jeopardy

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:55:51 GMT

Shady ex-FBI agent John “Zip” Connolly’s “conditional medical release” is up before a Florida parole board next week.This means the former handler of murdered mobster James “Whitey” Bulger could be forced back behind bars.The 83-year-old Connolly was allowed to return to Massachusetts on a medical release on Feb. 17, 2021, because he had about a year to live after being called “terminally ill.” That estimated timeline of his demise has not proven correct.The Florida Commission on Offender Review voted 2-1 to grant Connolly’s medical release, allowing him to “finish out his life in sunshine,” as one supporter testified that day.Now, that same commission has Connolly on the agenda for Tuesday. Zip is 11th on the list of convicts set for “Parole and Conditional Medical Releases/Revocations” in a hearing slated to begin at 9 a.m.Connolly was convicted of second-degree murder in 2008 for wearing his FBI-issued sidearm when he me...

Ticker: Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge; Judge blocks government plan to scale back Gulf oil lease sale to protect whale species

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:55:51 GMT

Amazon Prime Video will include advertising during shows and movies starting early next year, joining other streaming services that have added different tiers of subscriptions.Members of Amazon Prime can pay $2.99 per month in the U.S. to keep their service ad-free, the company said Friday.Streaming services are in a heated tug-of-war over viewers and users are growing more adept at jumping in and out of those services, often depending on price. The platforms risk losing customers with price hikes, but they could lose them if they don’t generate new content that wins over users.Judge blocks government plan to scale back Gulf oil lease saleA federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to expand next week’s scheduled sale of of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases by millions of acres, rejecting a scaled-back plan announced last month by the Biden administration as part of an effort to protect an endangered whale species.The Biden administration on Friday asked the 5th ...

Boston’s economic rebound hindered by vacant office space, remote work, report finds

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:55:51 GMT

A new report paints a sobering picture of what the shift to remote and hybrid work could do to the city’s economy in the months and years ahead, given the reduction in foot traffic and spending seen in the downtown since the pandemic.“Urban Economies on the Precipice: A Tale of Six Cities,” a report issued Friday by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, examines the post-pandemic challenge Boston and five other major cities face in replacing worker-driven economies and managing the impacts of vacant office buildings.“Office-worker-driven economies in major cities are taking permanent hits as hybrid/remote work reduces downtown time and money spent,” MTF states in a document accompanying the report. “As office leases expire, more empty buildings will stress owners, local businesses and city finances.”Office occupancy rates are half that of 2019, MTF states, pointing to data from Kastle Systems that show a 99% pre-pandemic rate. In Boston, downtown occupancy was estimated at 30-35% ...