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Alzheimer’s drug gets FDA panel’s backing, setting the stage for broader use

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:35:39 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health advisers on Friday unanimously backed the full approval of a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug, a key step toward opening insurance coverage to U.S. seniors with early stages of the brain-robbing disease.The drug, Leqembi, received conditional approval from the Food and Drug Administration in January based on early results suggesting it could slow Alzheimer’s progression by several months. The FDA now is reviewing more definitive results to decide whether the drug should receive the agency’s full endorsement.The decision carries extra significance because insurers have held off on paying for the infused treatment until it has full FDA approval.The FDA panel of outside advisers voted 6-0 that a large company study confirmed the drug’s benefits for patients with mild or early Alzheimer’s. The nonbinding vote amounts to a recommendation for full approval, and the FDA is scheduled to issue a final decision on the matter by July 6.The FDA’s initi...

México aprueba nueva norma para el teletrabajo: empleadores tendrán que ayudar al pago del Internet y la energía

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:35:39 GMT

(CNN Español) — El Diario Oficial de la Federación del Gobierno de México publicó este viernes una nueva norma que regirá el teletrabajo a partir de diciembre, y que aplica para quienes realicen más del 40% del trabajo desde un domicilio diferente al centro laboral.Entre las disposiciones resalta que los empleadores deberán proveer insumos ergonómicos, como una silla, y otras herramientas necesarias para la labor.También los empleadores deberán sufragar proporcionalmente el pago del Internet y la energía eléctrica, así como otros servicios que sean utilizados en el trabajo como el celular, la computadora, tabletas electrónicas, impresoras o tintas.Por su parte, el empleado deberá validar que cuenta con las condiciones ergonómicas y psicosociales adecuadas para el teletrabajo, demostrar visualmente que tiene un espacio apto con buena iluminación y ventilación a través de evidencias como fotos o videos; incluso una comisión de seguridad e higiene podría programar una visita de e...

Aurora PD releasing video of teen’s death after being shot by officers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:35:39 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Aurora Police Department is releasing the body camera video of a deadly police shooting of a 14-year-old boy last week. Jor’Dell Richardson allegedly robbed a vape store in Aurora and was caught in an alley behind the small strip mall. Richardson was allegedly armed when an officer shot and killed him last Thursday. Police kill 14-year-old armed robbery suspect in Aurora Police said there was a group of teenagers with hoodies and masks on running from them before the shooting. This is live video from the Aurora Police Department and may contain sensitive visual and audio material. Viewer discretion is advised. Press conference video provided by Aurora Police DepartmentAn attorney for the boy's family, who already viewed the body camera video, said one officer could be heard saying the word “shoplifting.” Two officers chased the 14-year-old and shot him moments later. Only one shot was fired.

Denver weather: Severe storm chance Saturday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:35:39 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will stay stormy Friday night with even better chances for storms through the weekend.Weather tonight: Isolated stormsThere will be scattered to isolated storms Friday afternoon and evening across the Front Range and Eastern Plains. The best chance for rain in the metro Denver area will be from 2-6 p.m. Biggest tornadoes in Colorado of the past decade Some storms could turn severe on the Eastern Plains, where a marginal risk for severe weather is in place.Skies will clear overnight with temperatures falling into the mid-50s.Weather tomorrow: Severe storms east Saturday will stay in the same pattern with afternoon high temperatures in the 70s and a chance for scattered afternoon storms.Similarly to the last several days, the best chance for storms on the Front Range will be after 1 p.m. but they will likely start earlier into the higher elevations and mountains.Some storms east of Interstate 25 could turn severe, with hail and strong winds where a m...

Record number of Colorado police decertifications in 2022

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:35:39 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The number of Colorado peace officers being stripped of or turning over their certification was at record levels in 2022. Bodycam video shows former Loveland cop punching handcuffed woman Loveland Police Chief Tim Doran explained in a video released Friday why he fired Russell Maranto, 28, for unnecessary use of force. Body camera video has been released of a now former Loveland police officer punching a woman in the face after she spits on him while she was in custody. The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office investigated the incident but the district attorney’s office has not yet filed criminal charges against Maranto, Doran said.The Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training Board, which certifies police officers in the state, maintains a database of how many officers lose their certifications each year - whether from criminal charges, false reporting or other infractions. In 2022, there was an all-time record of 43 decertifications and relinquishments. As ...

Video shows Uber Eats delivery man beaten at Brickell City Centre after taking attacker’s phone to lost and found

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:35:39 GMT

Newly released surveillance video captured a brutal beating in Miami’s Brickell section, showing how one man’s good deed took a dangerous turn. The security footage caught every smack, kick and punch in the May 17 incident at Brickell City Centre.The victim, who asked not to be identified, spoke with 7News the day after the attack“He started punching me in my face, over and over and over and over again,” he said.The victim described the injuries he suffered.“I have a bruise on my knee, I have a bruise on my back as well, I have a bruise right here,” he said as he pointed to his elbow.The victim, an Uber Eats delivery man, also had a swollen eye.The victim said he was waiting around a common area of the shopping complex when he spotted an unattended phone.“And I turned it into security, to the lost and found,” the victim said.The next day, he was back in the same spot waiting for a delivery call when surveillance video showed the owner of the phone approaching...

Yale, University of New Haven partnership celebrates first degrees awarded to inmates

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:35:39 GMT

SUFFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Marcus Harvin has two identification cards.One shows he is a fellow at Yale College, which is helping him on a track toward law school.The other shows he is a parolee, just released from the maximum security MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution after spending six years in prison for a highly publicized drunken driving accident that left his two young children injured.Harvin, who hopes to become a defense attorney someday, was back inside the prison Friday for a graduation ceremony at which he received his associate degree in general studies from the University of New Haven. He and six other men make up the first class to matriculate from a partnership between UNH’s Prison Education Program and the Yale Prison Education Initiative.“That name, Yale, means so much because I’m from New Haven and to be able to study at Yale and begin studying in prison is unheard of,” said Harvin. “People even think I’m lying sometimes, so I’ll show them my jail I...

‘I wondered what I’d done wrong in life,’ says man next to passenger who opened plane door on flight

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:35:39 GMT

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Think you always get the bad seat when taking a flight? Then spare a thought for Lee Yoon-jun.The passenger he was seated beside on a recent Asiana Airlines flight allegedly opened the plane’s emergency door – while it was still in the air.“I just felt the horror of death. I thought, I’m going to die. This is it, this is the end for me,” recalls Lee of his hair-raising experience on what was supposed to be a routine less-than-one-hour flight from Jeju to Daegu in South Korea last month.“In disaster movies, everyone always seems to die when a door opens in the air. I wondered what I had done wrong in my life. It was just a fleeting moment, but I had so many thoughts,” he adds.He’d been watching YouTube on his mobile phone when the door opened and an intense wind hit him, blowing away his hat and headphones and making it hard to breathe.Looking up, he saw clouds where the emergency door should have been. The plane had been coming into land, but it was s...

Former prosecutor Gary Zerola found not guilty of rape charges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:35:39 GMT

Gary Zerola, a former state prosecutor, was found not guilty of rape charges Friday, and the jury returned a quick verdict after hearing the accusations alleging that Zerola attacked a woman in 2016.Zerola, 51, was previously acquitted in a separate sexual assault allegations in 2008 and is also accused of raping a woman in 2021.After the trial, Zerola thanked the jury and his lawyers.“I’m just thankful the jury kept an open mind, listened to all the facts,” he said. “They’re the best lawyers in the United States of America because they believed in me from day one and never once doubted my innocence.”The Suffolk County DA also released a statement, which included thanking the survivor who came forward.“We are not afraid to prosecute the toughest cases and we always respect the jury’s verdict,  no matter how disappointing,” the office’s Chief of Communication James Borghesani released in a statement. “There is still a pending 2021 case against this defendant with similar allegat...

Pickleball players take part in fundraising tournament in South Boston for Franciscan Children’s Hospital

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:35:39 GMT

Some friendly competition took place in South Boston Thursday as pickleball players took part in a fundraising tournament to raise money for a local children’s hospital. The event took place at PKL, with all proceeds benefiting the work of Franciscan Children’s Hospital.“We’re here to celebrate the mission of Franciscan Children’s,” said Franciscan Children’s President and CEO Joseph Mitchell.The event was inspired by the Boston Wiffle Ball Challenge, which supported the hospital and the Travis Roy foundation for more than a decade. Roy was a Boston University hockey player who became an advocate for spinal cord injury survivors after he was paralyzed during his first college game in 1995. After his passing and 2020 and the closing of his foundation, organizers this week said the pickleball fundraiser is a new way to honor Roy’s work while helping patients at Franciscan Children’s. The father of one patient said his son helped out with the...