Home

The Denver Rockets? Why the Nuggets originally had a different name

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:16 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Denver Nuggets won their first NBA championship in franchise history in 2023 after defeating the Miami Heat in five games.The team and the fans came out in droves to celebrate this win, with Denver Mayor Michael Hancock even declaring the day "Nuggets Nation Day." Watch replay: Nuggets 2023 championship parade and rally in Denver But the team wasn't always known as the Denver Nuggets.The team was founded in 1967 as part of the American Basketball Association and was known as the Denver Larks. Before their first season in the ABA even started, they again changed their name to the Denver Rockets, a name the team kept until 1974.Why did they change the name?Even though the Denver Rockets were still part of the ABA until 1976, a looming merger into the NBA was the reason behind the second name change.If you're familiar with NBA teams, you might know about the Houston Rockets.Denver Rockets' Spencer Haywood drives around Los Angeles Stars Craig Raymond to go in for...

Residents ‘shocked’ at BSO and Lauderhill police behavior during man’s arrest

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:16 GMT

Witnesses were stunned to see the takedown of a man’s arrest in Lauderhill and even more shocked at what they heard from officers. “I heard him screaming that’s what I noticed first,” said a resident who did not want to be identified. She said it was the screaming that led her to grab her phone and start recording Thursday morning, at first from her window.A man was taken down by Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and their K-9, assisted by Lauderhill police.“He started screaming louder and louder so I went outside from the patio,” continued the witness. In the video, the man can be heard letting out shrilling screams of pain while the K-9 remained gripped tightly onto him. “Y’all get him off of him?” The resident was heard yelling out to the officers in the cellphone video. “So I was telling them to take the dog off of him because he wasn’t resisting.”The footage captured one officer yelling to get inside ...

2-year-old to be released from Holtz Children’s Hospital after spending 207 days, undergoing liver transplant

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:16 GMT

A family was heartbroken after their baby was born with a host of medical challenges, but the child’s future is much brighter after a stranger provided the gift of life.Two-year-old Noah Langlois is leaving Holtz Children’s Hospital on Thursday following a stay of a year and three months. Noah was born premature and hardly weighed a pound. He spent the next 207 days in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.As he turned 1, his mother found a strange lump on his stomach.It turned out to be a tumor that covered most of his liver. The tumor was so big, it was very difficult for the toddler to breathe and eat.“He, unfortunately at that time, had a lot of odds stacked against him. For one thing, he had been a preemie child. He had significant lung problems,” said Dr. Juan Pablo Solano, pediatric physical therapist at Holtz Children’s Hospital. The child received multiple rounds of chemotherapy, and doctors performed a minimally invasive procedure ...

18-year-old, infant hospitalized after shooting in Miramar neighborhood

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:16 GMT

Police are investigating a shooting in a Miramar neighborhood that sent an 18-year-old victim and an infant to the hospital.7Skyforce hovered above the scene along the 8000 block of West Heather Lane, near Palm Avenue, just after 6:10 p.m., Thursday.The infant was seen with her head bandaged as she was being carried into the back of a Miramar Fire Rescue truck, presumably by her mother.Video also showed several paramedics hoisting the gurney where the older victim lay and wheeling it into an ambulance.Police believe the shooting was domestic in nature. They said the adult victim was shot in the arm, and the infant’s injury was not caused by a gunshot.It’s unclear whether the incident happened inside a home or on the street.Miramar Police officers have cordoned off the street in front of a home, as they continue to investigate.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this breaking story.

Manchester, NH man allegedly stabbed woman, arrested in connection with her murder

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:16 GMT

A 54-year-old man was arrested for the murder of Laurie MacLellan, 59, in Manchester, New Hampshire, officials said.Robert Eastman was charged with second degree murder following an investigation in MacLellan’s death. Manchester police responded to Hanover Street around 2 a.m. Thursday morning where they found the victim with apparent stab wounds dead at the scene. Eastman allegedly caused her death by “manifesting an extreme indifference to the value of human life by stabbing her in the face and abdomen with a knife,” the attorney general reported.Eastman is set to be arraigned Friday.

Police arrest murder suspect in Raynham after chase, crash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:16 GMT

A murder suspect was taken into custody Thursday after he allegedly led police on a chase and later crashed into another car in Raynham, leaving one of the car’s occupants with serious injuries, state police announced. State police said troopers initially saw David Lynch, 24, sitting in a BMW SUV in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn hotel in Middleborough around 3 p.m.When approached, police said Lynch rammed a pair of police vehicles and fled onto Route 44. State police said troopers pursued Lynch “for a short period of time” before they lost sight of the vehicle he was driving. Moments later, state police said troopers learned Lynch’s vehicle had hit the second car at the intersection of Orchard Street and Warren Street in Raynham. Police said Lynch and a passenger in the car he was driving fled the scene on foot but were soon taken into custody. Lynch, his passenger and one occupant of the car Lynch allegedly hit were taken to a hospital after th...

Energy Department among federal agencies breached by Russian ransomware gang

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:16 GMT

By FRANK BAJAK (AP Technology Writer)The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday.Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told reporters that unlike the meticulous, s tealthy SolarWinds hacking campaign attributed to state-backed Russian intelligence agents that was months in the making, this campaign was short, opportunistic and caught quickly. A senior CISA official said neither the U.S. military nor intelligence community was affected. Energy Department spokesperson Chad Smith said two agency entities were compromised but did not provide more detail.Known victims to date include Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles, the Nova Scotia provincial government, British Airways, the British Broadcasting ...

Mayhem erupts at Denver Nuggets parade; reports of shooting, cop hit by firetruck

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:16 GMT

The Denver Nuggets championship parade on Thursday was overshadowed by reports of a gunman wounding multiple victims, as well as an incident involving a police officer being hit by a firetruck.Two shooting victims were hospitalized and are currently in critical condition, said Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas during a press conference later in the day.Thomas said the shooting is believed to have been a targeted attack, and was unrelated to the parade celebration.Meanwhile, the officer whose leg was caught under the firetruck in a separate incident was identified as Sgt. Justin Dodge, who is also said to be in critical condition at the hospital.During the press conference at Denver Health, officials said Dodge suffered a limb-threatening injury as he attempted to protect people from the oncoming firetruck, which was carrying Denver Nuggets players.“There were people that had kind of made their way into the street and [Dodge] was trying to protect those individuals from the firetr...

The Revolution release veteran forward Jozy Altidore

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:16 GMT

The New England Revolution on Thursday released forward Jozy Altidore and exercised the club’s one buyout on the player’s Salary Budget change.Altidore, 33, was acquired from Toronto FC and signed to a three-year contract on Feb. 22, 2022. Altidore was brought in to help alleviate the loss of Tajon Buchanan, who left the Revs after the 2021 season to join Club Brugge of the Belgium First Division A.Altidore participated in Two FIFA World Cup’s and four Concacaf Gold Cup tournaments. Altidore spent part of the 2022 season on loan Liga MX side Clun Puebla. He appeared in 10 games this season with one start. He scored a goal on 10 shots.RICH THOMPSON

Federal judge won’t rule on Boston’s new redistricting map

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:16 GMT

The federal judge who deemed the city’s old redistricting map unconstitutional said there’s no need for her to weigh in on the new voting lines.U.S. District Court Judge Patti Saris, did, however, urge both sides to quickly resolve the lawsuit that resulted in her tossing the first map approved by the Boston City Council last fall, to avoid a disruption to the Sept. 12 preliminary election.“It’s important to bring some closure to this, and rebuild some trust, and move forward in the democratic process,” Saris said at a Thursday status hearing.She said the purpose of the day’s hearing was to “clear the air,” and stated outright that she had no intention to rule on anything.“There is, in fact, a serious question in my mind as to whether the case is moot,” Saris said. “The original complaint only addresses the old map. The City Council has adopted a new map, and with the possible exception of a request for attorneys’ fees, I don’t see anything active with respect to the old case.”Saris...