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2 plants on CU Boulder campus blooming for first time in 40 years

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:49:41 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — University of Colorado’s campus in Boulder is experiencing a rare bloom of a plant that only shows its flowers once every half-century. Agave plants are common in the southwest but are not native to the Boulder area. Several of them were planted outside the campus’ 30th Street greenhouse in 1997. Almost three decades later, two have finally bloomed. “They’re very slow to mature. They’re about 30 to 40 years to fully mature,” John Clark, director of greenhouses for ecology and evolutionary biology at CU Boulder, said. According to Clark, the two plants began to change on May 12. He believes the unusually wet spring encouraged them to bloom. Headed to the lake? Check for toxic algae blooms “Of course, they have to be fully mature but we think the rain when they were fully mature helped spur them to flower,” he said. They sprout a large stalk resembling asparagus, which can grow 6 to 8 inches per day. When it reaches a height of about 15 feet, it for...

4-year-old boy killed in hit-and-run crash in Hyde Park

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:49:41 GMT

An investigation got underway in Hyde Park Tuesday night after a hit-and-run crash that left a four-year-old boy dead, Boston police said. Police said a call came in around 9:30 p.m. reporting a crash involving a child in the area of 165 Wood Avenue.Police said the boy was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries where he was pronounced dead.“Preliminary investigation is that a suspect motor vehicle struck the child, did not stop, and fled the area,” Boston police said in a statement.A large police presence was seen around Wood Avenue shortly after 11 p.m., with authorities seen searching the area. Police said an accident reconstruction team also responded to the crash site. The search for the person involved in this crash was ongoing as of 11 p.m. Police have asked anyone with information about this incident to contact them.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Pan-roasted zucchini, Mediterranean style

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:49:41 GMT

Home gardeners like to complain about their gardens being overrun with zucchini when the fruit starts to kick into high gear in midsummer. But for people who love the prolific, vining summer squash, that’s a blessing and not a curse.There are just so many ways to incorporate zucchini into a warm-weather menu beyond the no-fail quick breads, vegetarian pasta dishes and fried appetizer we all know and love and try to replicate at home.Depending on what you serve it with, zucchini can be a really smart dish for the health-conscious. It’s one of the best sources of carotenoids (an antioxidant that can enhance your immune system and help prevent disease). Zucchini also has zero fat and is rich in water and fiber, two compounds which can aid healthy digestion. And one cup of raw, chopped green or yellow zucchini has just 33 calories.Because it has such a mild taste, it plays well with others, taking on the flavor of whatever it’s cooked or topped with.This simple Mediter...

12 MLB teams score in double digits for 1st time since 1894, when record 13 accomplished feat

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:49:41 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball had a night of offense not seen in 129 years, with 12 teams scoring double-digit runs.Three games ended 11-10 on the same day for the first time.Twelve teams tied May 30, 1884, for the second-most with double-digit runs in one day, trailing only 13 on July 4, 1894, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.The Chicago Cubs topped the scoring Tuesday night by routing Washington 17-3 and Arizona outlasted Atlanta 16-13. San Francisco beat Cincinnati, the New York Mets topped the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City edged Detroit, all by 11-10. Elias said that score had never before occurred three times on the same day.In more mundane 10-3 routs, the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Baltimore and Minnesota defeated Seattle.Cleveland topped Pittsburgh 10-1 .San Diego fell just short, stranding a runner at second in the ninth inning of a 9-1 victory at Toronto.There were 15 games Tuesday — the completion of the suspended Giants-Reds game counts as Monday in the reco...

Adrift for months, Australian and his dog lived on raw fish until Mexican fishermen rescued him

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:49:41 GMT

MANZANILLO, Mexico (AP) — Lost at sea for months on a disabled catamaran, with no way to cook and no source of fresh water but the rain, Australian Timothy Shaddock said he expected to die.There was a lot to like about the experience, he said. Like when he would plunge into the sea for a swim, or when his dog, Bella, would stir him to keep going. “I did enjoy being at sea, I enjoy being out there,” he said. He recalled the full moon in early May that illuminated his turn away from the Baja Peninsula, his last sight of land until he came ashore Tuesday. Shaddock, 54, smiling and good humored, was the living image of a castaway, with a long blonde beard and emaciated appearance, as he joked with a group of reporters Tuesday, standing in front of the fishing boat that rescued him at a port on Mexico’s Pacific coast. He granted that there were “many, many, many bad days,” but declined to elaborate.Shaddock and his dog left northwest Mexico in a catamaran in late April, he said, pl...

Thai high court suspends prime minister candidate and will rule on whether he broke election law

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:49:41 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday agreed to suspend Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat, a candidate to become prime minister, from his duties as a member of Parliament pending its ruling on whether he violated election law.The court’s announcement came on the verge of a likely second vote in Parliament whether to confirm Pita as prime minister. His party was the top finisher in May’s general election and assembled an eight-party coalition that won 312 seats in the House of Representatives. However, the coalition failed to win enough support in an initial vote last week from the Senate, which votes together with the lower house to name the new prime minister.The court’s announcement still would allow Pita’s nomination and selection as prime minister, at least until a ruling.Thailand’s state Election Commission had referred Pita’s case to the court, saying there was evidence he had violated election law over his alleged undeclared ownership of media ...

Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed after Wall St logs 15-month high close on AI hopes

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:49:41 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday after Wall Street’s frenzy around artificial intelligence and stronger-than-expected profit reports from big financial companies helped pushed U.S. stocks to their best level in more than 15 months.Shanghai and Hong Kong fell on selling of property shares after troubled developer China Evergrande reported its total debts rose in the past two years to about $340 billion.In Hong Kong, New World Development fell 2.2%, Country Garden declined 0.7% and China Resources Land gave up 0.8%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 1.2% to 18,782.40 while the Shanghai Composite index declined 0.3% to 3,189.81. The property market, a major driver of growth in China, has languished after regulators reined in lending to try to bring debt in the industry under control In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 gained 0.8% to 32,759.60 while the Kospi in Seoul lost 0.1% to 2,604.12. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 climbed 0.6% to 7,324.00. Shares rose in India and Ba...

‘Oppenheimer’ stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:49:41 GMT

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The movie about a man who changed the course of the world’s history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster, dramatic and full of suspense.On the sidelines will be a community downwind from the testing site in the southern New Mexico desert, the impacts of which the U.S. government never has fully acknowledged. The movie on the life of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the top-secret work of the Manhattan Project sheds no light on those residents’ pain.“They’ll never reflect on the fact that New Mexicans gave their lives. They did the dirtiest of jobs. They invaded our lives and our lands and then they left,” Tina Cordova, a cancer survivor and founder of a group of New Mexico downwinders, said of the scientists and military officials who established a secret city in Los Alamos during the 1940s and tested their work at the Trinity Site some 200 miles (322 kilometers) away.Cordova’s group, the Tular...

No winner in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing. Jackpot reaches $720 million

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:49:41 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Mega Millions jackpot has risen to an estimated $720 million after no winning ticket was sold — again. It’s now one of two national lotteries with enormous jackpots but equally enormous odds against winning them.No ticket for Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing matched the white balls 19, 22, 31, 37, 54 and the gold Mega Ball 18.The new jackpot is Mega Million’s 7th largest-ever, the lottery said in a news release. On Monday, the nation’s other big lottery game — Powerball — also went without a winner, and its jackpot now stands at an estimated $1 billion, the third-largest ever for that game.For Mega Millions, the estimated $720 million jackpot in the next drawing would only be distributed to a winner who chooses an annuity paid over 29 years. Nearly all grand prize winners opt to take a cash payout, which for Tuesday night’s drawing was an estimated $369.6 million.The largest-ever Mega Millions jackpot was $1.537 billion won by an anonymous player in South C...

Mothers hope for answers as authorities announce ‘person of interest’ in deaths of 4 women in Oregon

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:49:41 GMT

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The announcement that authorities are holding a person of interest in the case of four women found dead this year around Portland has mothers of the victims hoping they may finally get answers about what happened to their daughters. One of the victims was Charity Lynn Perry, 24, whose body was discovered April 24 in a state park along the Columbia River Gorge. Her mother, Diana Allen, said Tuesday that she learned the news about the person of interest from traditional and social media, although she is in communication with a detective on the case. “I’m in the dark about a lot,” Allen told The Associated Press. “But the detective and I understand why this is required. We don’t need anything messing up this investigation.”Allen said she knows Charity died in April, but she has not been given an exact date and authorities were unable to tell how she died just from looking at her. The state medical examiner has not determined the cause or manner of death for Charity o...