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Independent Assessment Committee investigating KHSC

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:41:56 GMT

An independent panel of nursing experts sent by the Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) have begun an investigation into inadequate staffing concerns at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). The investigation, focused on KGH’s Connell 10 internal medicine unit, kicked off on Monday due to the ONA and members feeling that the “current work environment fails to support the delivery of quality, safe patient care and puts these vulnerable patients at risk of serious harm”, with an aim of ultimately improving the specialized care patients receive in the unit.An Independent Assessment Committee (IAC) at a specific unit is deemed necessary when concerns have already been brought to the attention of the employer but the issues haven’t been resolved to the satisfaction of nurses or the ONA. The process involves three RN experts examining professional responsibility and assessing workload issues, reviewing evidence from both union members and hospital administrators. O...

Trump ballot case to be heard by Colorado Supreme Court

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:41:56 GMT

DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear appeals from both a liberal group that sought to disqualify Donald Trump and the former president himself after a state judge ruled that Trump "engaged in insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, but can still appear on the state's ballot.Oral arguments will take place on Dec. 6, the court announced. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox The appeals were filed Monday night. The ruling by District Court Judge Sarah Wallace on Friday — which said Trump is not covered by the Constitution’s ban on insurrectionists holding office — was the latest in a series of defeats for the effort to end Trump's candidacy with Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.A group in Michigan has filed an appeal with that state's Supreme Court.The constitutional provision has only been used a handful of times since the years after the Civil War. It was created to prevent former Confederates from returning to government positions....

Coloradan's young doodle dies from contagious respiratory illness

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:41:56 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Dog owners across Colorado are being warned by local veterinarians who are seeing an increase in a deadly respiratory disease sweeping across the state."We've had cases that require oxygen, some require surgery and there have been fatalities with this throughout the region, unfortunately," said Dr. David Israel, medical director of the Veterinarian Emergency Group on Colfax Avenue. Denver dog becomes ill, tests positive for meth after walk in RiNo Israel said that right now, his clinic and other emergency clinics around Colorado are seeing multiple cases of this infection daily. "We are seeing one or two or three or even more of these cases coming up," Israel told FOX31.Over the past several months, Israel said the clinic has seen dogs with a respiratory disease similar to kennel cough, but this year, the regular treatments aren't working. "It's progressing to pneumonia, which is infection in the lungs, and getting much sicker than we’ve seen in the past," Israel...

Video shows suspects in 18 car break-ins in Highlands Ranch

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:41:56 GMT

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) — On Sunday morning, Jason Franklin and his wife realized their cars and others in their Highlands Ranch neighborhood had been broken into."There's five just on my block," Franklin said. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox When he checked his home security video, he saw a woman rifling through his vehicles and then loading into a truck with a man.The Douglas County Sheriff's Office said it received at least 12 reports involving 18 vehicles that were broken into early Sunday morning. The streets that were hit included Strathfield Lane, Walden Court, Laguna Circle, Goldsmith Drive and Weeping Willow."These are crimes of opportunity," Sheriff Darren Weekly said. He said all but one of the vehicles were unlocked, and nearly $7,000 in property was stolen."They were looking for anything from clothes to sunglasses. There was one firearm stolen from one of the vehicles," Weekly said.Security video shows a woman rifling through v...

NBA Hall of Famer hosts 23rd Thanksgiving drive for Miami community

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:41:56 GMT

NBA Hall of Famer, Alonzo Mourning hosted his 23rd annual Thanksgiving drive. Families passed through the Overtown Youth Center for boxes of Thanksgiving goodies that will help them feed their loved ones this holiday.“Sometimes we don’t have money… It’s a good thing they got this here,” said one attendee. Several organizations helped raise more than $20,000 dollars that went toward purchasing more than 400 meals this year.“With the cost of living going up, people being displaced, it’s a struggle for a lot of families now,” said Mourning. So however we can, and when I say ‘we,’ I mean the Mourning Family Foundation and Overtown Youth Center, however we can provide some relief and support and some hope and encouragement and some love, we do it.”Volunteers and organizers got up early to pack up the boxes and load them into the truck, preparing for Tuesday afternoon’s event.“It reminds you of what’s most impor...

Nicolas Cage is on everyone’s mind in new film ‘Dream Scenario’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:41:56 GMT

Nicolas Cage’s latest film finds him playing the man of many people’s dreams. He stars in the new comedy “Dream Scenario.” We spoke to the actor about playing a unique character for him and how “Nicolas Cage memes” helped him relate to it.If you dream it, he will come.Nic Cage keeps showing up in everyone’s dreams in “Dream Scenario.”Nicolas Cage: “So when I read this script, ‘Dream Scenario,’ I thought, ‘Well, I think I understand what Paul feels like, I’ll just apply those feelings towards this character.'”Nic has no idea why it’s happening, but that’s not stopping him from going viral.Oh he knows all about that. Thanks to his real life experience with the “Nicolas Cage memes,” which were popular about 14 years ago.Nicolas Cage: “I went through my own experience with the internet and meme-ification and as a result of that video, ‘Nicolas Cage loses his crap...

Former St.Thomas Aquinas High School football payer gives back to community in Miami Gardens as Thanksgiving nears

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:41:56 GMT

As Thanksgiving approaches, former St. Thomas Aquinas and now Alabama football star, Dallas Turner, made sure people in Miami Gardens had something special to eat this week.Turner’s family and Drew Rosenhaus lent a helping hand at at the Flat Tops Forever Barbershop in Miami Gardens, Tuesday.Even though he is still at school, Tuner had to make sure to help spice up Thanksgiving for the community that helped raise him.“Dallas has been a part of our life at this barbershop, he grew up at the barbershop and he’s very familiar with the neighborhood,” said Devon Tuner, Dallas’ father. “He plays for the Ravens, so it’s a real special for him to kinda come back and be able to gave back to the community as he sees, as he ascending in college and becoming an adult, it’s a part of who he is.”

Pre-Thanksgiving Warmth

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:41:56 GMT

We’ve been running warm. For 3 consecutive days, Miami has warmed into the middle 80’s (5-degrees above average for this point in November). There’s more of it on the way. In fact, the warmest and most muggy-feeling day of the week will be on Wednesday. That’s when local winds briefly turn out of the south. That’s also going to provide an excellent chance for registering a record high, with the current record, in Miami, standing at 86-degrees. Meanwhile, plan on seeing a good amount of sunshine with dry conditions. You might be thankful for some minor weather changes, beginning Thanksgiving Day. A weak front is forecast to slip across south Florida which could trigger some isolated showers. Thursday’s temperatures will tend to feel more seasonable, too. Highs will peak closer to 80-degrees with comfortable conditions holding throughout the holiday. Sometimes frontal boundaries make a clean passage and we frequently see them race away. T...

Boston’s official 2023 Christmas Tree arrives from Nova Scotia

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:41:56 GMT

Boston’s official 2023 Christmas tree arrived at Boston Common from Nova Scotia Tuesday ahead of this year’s scheduled tree lighting later this month. Santa Claus was on hand to help welcome the new tree to Boston. Crews were later seen working to secure the tree in place. This year’s tree is a 40-year-old white spruce. It stands 45-feet tall and was donated by landowner Bette Gourley in the town of Stewiacke, Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia has, for decades, sent a tree to Boston as a sign of thanks for relief efforts after a massive explosion in Halifax, Nova Scotia in December, 1917. The explosion happened aboard a munitions ship in Halifax Harbor and devastated part of the city. Boston quickly sent a train loaded with supplies and emergency personnel to aid with the response, as described in a statement from the office of Mayor Michelle Wu.Back for an 82nd year, this year’s Boston Common Tree Lighting is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 30. Festivities will kick off at 6 p.m...

Japan’s pitching sensation Yoshinobu Yamamoto is set to become MLB’s next star

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:41:56 GMT

(CNN) — Watch out baseball fans; Japan’s next big star looks to be on the move.Pitching sensation Yoshinobu Yamamoto is set to make a high-profile switch to Major League Baseball (MLB) during the offseason, after he was posted as a free agent by Japan’s Orix Buffaloes on Monday.The 25-year-old is expected to attract the attention of the league’s biggest franchises and could receive a highly-lucrative contract worth around $200m, per Reuters.A bidding war is expected to get underway on Tuesday and will run until January 4.Yamamoto has certainly impressed during the early part of his career, being awarded the Eiji Sawamura Award – given to the top starting pitcher in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) – on three occasions.He was 16-6 this last season with a 1.21 ERA; form that saw him win his third consecutive Triple Crown – in wins, ETA and strikeouts – in the NPB’s Pacific League.The right-hander, who boasts a fastball comfortably in the mid-to-...