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Former DPD detective arrested at Littleton mall involved in separate lawsuit 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:31 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A former Denver Police detective has bonded out of jail, after allegedly pulling a gun on a man Wednesday night in Littleton. Martin Vigil, who retired from the Denver Police Department in 2019, reportedly pulled out a gun and pointed it at another man in the food court after an argument.  Retired Denver detective allegedly pointed gun at man at Southwest Plaza Mall FOX31 has learned Vigil is facing a lawsuit for allegedly coercing a 14-year-old boy into a murder confession. Lawrence Montoya spent 13 years in prison before being exonerated in 2014 after DNA evidence proved he wasn't involved in the murder.According to the lawsuit, "Lawrence was stripped of his teenage years and adulthood; he was deprived the opportunities to gain an education, develop a career ..." A video sent to FOX31 by Montoya's attorneys shows a detective pounding the table while questioning Montoya. "We have evidence. We have fingerprints, we have shoe prints, w...

Denver family pleads for answers in loved ones 2021 death

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:31 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Investigators are still searching for answers after the remains of 19-year-old Emriel Krantz were found on the side of Highway 72 in Gilpin County on June 18, 2021. According to the Gilpin County investigators, her body was found at the bottom of a steep hill, about 20 to 30 feet down from the highway. They believe she had been there about a week. "As parents, I'm traumatized. I can't believe someone would just have no respect for human life. She was just a kid," said her mom Candace Krantz, who is desperate to find out more information about her daughter's death. Investigators told FOX31 they started their investigation near 55th Avenue and Federal Boulevard in Denver where Emriel spent a lot of time. They tracked down several leads but each one came up empty-handed. Human remains found in Saguache County "Someone knows something, someone or people were definitely a part of what happened and what took place to her," Krantz said.The family hopes by speaking out it...

Fundraiser to benefit injured Denver Police officer

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:31 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A nonprofit, known for helping injured first responders, is set to host its annual motorcycle run for Denver Police Sgt. Justin Dodge.Dodge was injured in downtown Denver during the Denver Nuggets championship parade. He has since had one leg amputated below the knee.The group hosting the fundraiser is called MC-1 Foundation and this is the 10th year it has held an event to help a first responder and their family. Officer injured by fire truck during Nuggets parade has leg amputated "We are existing to help first responders that are injured, in the line of duty," the nonprofit's president Mark Miller said.The foundation was started by Miller, a Jefferson County Sheriff's deputy, in honor of fallen Sgt. Dave Baldwin who was killed in the line of duty in 2014."Dave was my sergeant, and, I just felt I needed to do something, in his name," Miller said.The honor run is on Sept. 24. and starts at Columbine High School, and ends at 144th Avenue and Washington Street.MC-1...

Tim McGraw and Brad Paisley drop new tunes, hope to ride current country music surge on the charts

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:31 GMT

Country music is hot right now. So hot, country stars own the top three spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.Hoping to also be on top are these two hotties, Tim McGraw and Brad Paisley, which is why they’re dropping new tunes.Tim McGraw, singing: “When i die, there’s standing room only, standing room only.”Tim McGraw and his big cowboy hat just dropped “Standing Room Only,” and he’s tugging at the heartstrings. Tim McGraw: “I wanted this music on this album sorta to reflect life in general, be life-affirming and positive, and like I said, it all sort of formulated during what we were going through and as we were coming out out of it and getting our feet back under us.”Tim McGraw, singing: “Standing there soaking wet.”Tim McGraw: “The junkyard with the cars, to me, represents shedding of the past, shedding the grudges.”The new single is off his new album of the same name that comes out Aug. 25.Tim McGraw: ...

Over-the-top ‘Meg 2’ bites off more than it can chew

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:31 GMT

Many, many times bigger than Bruce the “Jaws” shark, Meg is the mighty undersea Megalodon that helped make “The Meg” a hit 2018 monster movie.“Meg 2: The Trench” picks up where that left off. We are back in the vast, expensive and elaborate Oceanic undersea lab founded by Jiuming, a Chinese billionaire (martial arts star Wu Jing).  He speaks Chinese at a glittering reception praising environmental studies as we read the English subtitles (“Meg 2” is a Chinese co-production).Here again is Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor, the unofficial guardian of the endeavor who will soon find himself facing continual life or death crises but never shake his resolve to do one thing at a time.As a series of spectacular underwater scenes unfold, you might see the submersibles and think sadly of the real-life submersible implosion that claimed the lives of five people trying to explore the Titanic.But that passes quickly as “Meg 2” settles into being a campy, virtually non-stop series of increasingly ab...

Graham: Dems double down on indictments, take Biden risk

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:31 GMT

You don’t have to be a hardcore cynic to suspect that one of the goals of Tuesday’s indictment of Donald Trump — the third this year — is to keep the GOP primary electorate rallying around the former president. It’s a transparent political ploy openly discussed by operatives on both sides of the aisle. So if it works, Republican primary voters will have nobody to blame but themselves.But if Trump does win the nomination and then goes on to beat President Biden, whom will Democrats blame then?When Trump was indicted the first time — and on a legal theory just as novel as the one prosecutor Jack Smith used Tuesday — veteran Democratic operative Bob Shrum said that any attempts by Democrats to boost Trump’s candidacy would be a mistake.“I don’t want to run against Trump because he might win,” said Shrum, now the director of the Center for the Political Future at the University of Southern California-Dornsife. “The problem with this ‘help-Trump-win’ strategy — and smart people know this...

Poignant ‘Dreamin’ Wild’ can’t quite hit high note

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:31 GMT

Casey Affleck appears to chase “Manchester-by-the-Sea” thunder in “Dreamin’ Wild,” an emotionally big, time-flipping, conceptually flawed drama about two brothers, one of whom is a hot-headed, downcast genius. Guess which one Academy Award-winner Affleck plays? Affleck and Walton Goggins are, respectively, Donnie or Don and Joe or Joey Emerson aka the real-life Emerson brothers of Fruitvale, Washington, where they have no internet, but they have heart to spare.As adolescents, Don and Joe have a studio in the woods and learn to play instruments and make recordings. They live with their hardworking and devout parents on a thriving farm, where the boys are expected to help out. Played, respectively, by Noah Jupe (“A Quiet Place”) and Jack Dylan Grazer (“Shazam!”) as adolescents, the grown-up Don and Joe learn in early middle-age that an album they recorded 30 years earlier in their “work shack” (built by dad), has developed a national cult following and is in serious danger of br...

Editorial: Credit rating drop demonstrates folly of Bidenomics

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:31 GMT

If there was ever any doubt that President Biden has made a pig’s breakfast out of the economy, renowned credit-rating agency Fitch just downgraded America.Fitch Ratings dropped U.S.. long-term debt one notch from AAA to AA+, citing “expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, and the erosion of governance…”You can stump for Bidenomics all you want, you can declare that a trillion-dollar spend will cost nothing, but you can’t fool a credit agency.Fitch called out rising government deficit, which forecasting a jump to 6.3% of GDP in 2023, from 3.7%  in 2022.We know how we got here, it just comes as a surprise to most on Capitol Hill. There was the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the $500 billion Inflation Reduction Act, the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, the $280 billion Chips Act. It adds up – disaster.There was pushback, the Congressional Budget Office sounded the alarm on the Inflation Reductio...

‘Afire’ crackles with tension, desire & dread

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:31 GMT

German filmmaker Christian Petzold has turned his attention to making films about the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. Petzold began with actor Paula Beer (“Frantz”) and “Undine” (2020), a marvelously mysterious and watery entry with her in the seductive title role.Now, he brings us “Afire,” a film about a group of young people vacationing in a home near a Baltic Sea resort town in danger of being engulfed by nearby wildfires and by their own own overlapping desires. Leon (Thomas Schubert) and Felix (Langston Uibel) are, respectively, a judgmental, brilliant young writer, working on a new manuscript for his hovering, paternal editor; and a young photographer completing a portfolio to apply for admission to a prestigious art school. The two of them engage in some homo-erotic roughhousing in an early scene.After their Mercedes breaks down in the nearby woods, which are alive with the sounds of their insect and animal inhabitants, Leon and Felix discover that Leon’s mot...

Ambrosi: Raising pilots’ retirement age bad for aviation safety

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:31 GMT

Flying has never been safer in the United States. Our country’s current approach to aviation safety is clearly working — the U.S. is the gold standard for aviation safety around the world.Despite this achievement, lawmakers working on the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill are considering introducing new risk and rolling back safety regulations just as passengers are returning to the skies.Right now, some in Congress are seeking to unilaterally raise the airline pilot retirement age from 65 to 67 without scientific study or safety research. What we do know is that this ill-conceived proposal could introduce more risk into our aviation system, disrupt airline operations, cause more flight delays and cancellations, and increase ticket prices for passengers.This political exercise would also put the U.S. in conflict with the international retirement age standard. As a result, some pilots would be limited to flying only domestic routes, and thousands would need to be r...