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Burger King cerrará hasta 400 restaurantes en EEUU este año

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:44:56 GMT

La popular cadena de comida rápida Burger King reveló que planifica el cierre de hasta 400 restaurantes antes de finales de 2023, trascendió este lunesEl CEO de Restaurant Brands International Inc., propietaria de Burger King, dijo que se están preparando para cerrar entre 300 y 400 locales, según confirmó TODAY.com.Sin embargo, para el CEO, Joshua Kobza, esto no es algo del todo negativo debido a que dijo que la compañía “históricamente” cierra “un par de cientos” de restaurantes Burger King cada año, en una llamada anunciando los resultados de ganancias del primer trimestre.En lo que va del año, varios grandes franquiciados de Burger King se han declarado en bancarrota: Toms King, con sede en Illinois, EYM King, con sede en Michigan, y Meridian Restaurants Unlimited, con sede en Utah. “Te meto en la cara”: clienta enfurecida arremete contra empleado de un Burger King Demandan a Burger King por el tamaño de sus hambur...

4 victims identified in deadly Cañon City plane crash

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:44:56 GMT

FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — FOX31 has learned the names of the four people who died after a small Cessna plane crashed near Cañon City Saturday morning.According to the Teller County Coroner's Office, Bruce Claremont, Laurie Aves, and Roger and Katherine Duncan, all from Florence, were killed in the crash. ‘Then we heard people crying for help’: Witness of HVAC collapse feels lucky her family left unscathed The crash happened at around 9:30 a.m. Saturday, but the site was not located until Sunday morning. The NTSB said the crash happened in a mountainous area southeast of Victor, a historic gold mining town about 115 miles southwest of Denver.The single-engine Cessna T-41B was flying from Fremont County Airport to Centennial Airport, FAA Public Affairs Specialist Ian Gregor told FOX31 Sunday.The cause of the crash is still being investigated.

Short-term rentals in Colorado can be worth a year's salary for owners

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:44:56 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A property owner can make the equivalent of a healthy yearly salary with a short-term rental in Colorado. Cabins fetch high prices as short-term rentals on sites such as Airbnb or VRBO, according to a release of revenue projections from AirDNA which collects short-term rental data. In 25 areas, a cabin has the potential to bring in at least $64,000 a year. The state's median household income was just over $80,000 in 2021. On average, Colorado cabins can make around $75,000 a year - a literal household's worth of income for a short-term rental owner. ‘There were kids down there,’ survivor describes collapse at Gaylord Rockies that injured 6 Four of these locations are in Colorado including Breckenridge, the Rocky Mountain National Park area, Denver and the Colorado high country. A Breckenridge cabin has the annual potential to make $87,534 a year, considering an occupancy rate of 67% and an average daily rental rate of $422. A Rocky Mountain National Park area cabin...

Former elementary school teacher faces judge after inappropriate acts toward students

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:44:56 GMT

The City of Miami Police Department arrested 29-year-old Eric Bernard Givens after he abused his position of authority when he made inappropriate actions towards minors in an elementary school.On Friday, Givens was arrested by the City of Miami Police Department officers after detectives found out that he was connected to two separate incidents with underage girls, one of them involving rape. He faced a judge on Monday where he faced several charges, including offenses against students by authority figures, molestation of a child and battery.The latest occurrence started in March when a 10-year-old girl, who attended Gibson Charter School in Miami, messaged Givens about students failing the third grade. She then started to receive text messages from him about wanting to see her and missing her.He would eventually send the girl a photo of himself wearing only his boxer briefs. During an audio and video recorded statement, Givens admitted he was in possession of his cellphone when he ...

Australia: Victoria Police use air wing tech to rescue woman lost for five days in bushlands near Bright

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:44:56 GMT

(TMX) – A woman missing for five days in the Australian bush survived on lollipops and a bottle of wine until her rescue, police said.A 48-year-old woman identified as Lillian was on holiday in Bright, Victoria, late last month when she decided to drive to Dartmouth Dam, according to Victoria Police. She hit a dead end on a dirt road in the Mitta Mitta bushland, and when she tried to turn her car around, it became stuck in the mud, police said.When she didn’t call to check in with family due to a lack of cellphone service in the area, they reported her missing on April 30.“Extensive” searches were carried out over the following days, but there was no sign of her, police said.A video shared by Victoria Police shows the agency’s Air Wing finally locating her at her car on Thursday, May 4.“Lillian was found a good 60km away from the nearest town and due to health issues she was unable to try and walk for help so stayed with her car,” Wodonga Police Station Sergeant Martin Torpey ...

BSO searching for elderly man with dementia missing from Dania Beach

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:44:56 GMT

Broward Sherrif’s Office deputies need the public’s help in finding a missing 87-year-old man.Officials said George Doughty was last seen on Saturday around 10 a.m. on the 1000 block of Southeast Third Avenue in Dania Beach. The 5-foot-9 elderly man weighs about 40 pounds and has gray hair and brown eyes. According to police, he was last seen driving a silver 2008 Chrysler Sebring bearing Florida tag BRT7G.Doughty suffers from dementia, his family said.Anyone with information on his whereabouts should contact BSO Detective Chris Blankenship at 954-321-4268 or the BSO non-emergency number at 954-764-HELP (4357).

Ex-Neo-Nazi guilty in 2017 slayings of Tampa roommates

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:44:56 GMT

A former member of a neo-Nazi group pleaded guilty Monday to fatally shooting his two Florida roommates in 2017, abruptly avoiding the start of a murder trial in which he had planned to use the insanity defense, according to court records.Devon Arthurs, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and will serve a 45-year prison sentence. The plea deal with prosecutors means Arthur will not face a possible life sentence.Arthurs admitted killing the roommates, Andrew Oneschuk, 18, and 22-year-old Jeremy Himmelman, nearly 6 years ago at the Tampa apartment they shared. Arthurs told police after his arrest that all three had been part of a small, mostly online neo-Nazi group called the Atomwaffen Division and that he shot the pair with an assault-style rifle because they ridiculed his conversion to Islam.Inside the apartment the men shared, authorities said they found guns, ammunition and bomb-making material, along with a framed picture of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVe...

Police investigating after woman with stabs wounds found dead in Chelsea apartment building

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:44:56 GMT

State and local police are investigating after a woman was found dead in a Chelsea apartment building with multiple stab wounds, according to officials.A spokesperson for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said the body of a 59-year-old woman was found at a building on Lafayette Avenue on Monday.According to authorities, the woman had been stabbed several times at one point.No details on a suspect were given, though as of 12:30 p.m., the DA’s office said there was no danger to the public.Both Chelsea police and Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Suffolk County DA’s office continue to investigate.

Ex-girlfriend: Tiger Woods used lawyer to break up with me

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:44:56 GMT

A $30-million legal battle between Tiger Woods and his ex-girlfriend has escalated, with Erica Herman accusing the golf superstar of beginning their sexual relationship when she was his employee and threatening to fire her if she didn’t sign a nondisclosure agreement she now wants voided.Herman, in court documents filed late Friday, also accused Woods of having his lawyer break up with her at an airport in October after falsely telling her they were going on a weekend trip. The lawyer then evicted her from Woods’ $54 million mansion north of Palm Beach.The documents were filed in advance of a scheduled Tuesday hearing where Woods’ attorneys are expected to ask Circuit Judge Elizabeth Metzger to halt Herman’s lawsuit against their billionaire client. They say the former couple’s nondisclosure agreement requires all disputes be settled privately by an arbitrator, not in court.Herman, who managed Woods’ Palm Beach County restaurant before a...

Buttigieg says FAA is about 3,000 air traffic controllers short

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:44:56 GMT

(CNN) — Air traffic control in the United States is understaffed by about 3,000 positions, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told CNN on Friday, as hiring to fill some of that gap opened.The Federal Aviation Administration ATC workforce currently numbers about 11,500 controllers, but “the optimal number is closer to about 14,500,” the secretary said on CNN News Central. The numbers are similar to the agency’s assessment this spring that about one in five controller positions nationwide are vacant.“We have thousands of controllers in training right now but also a number who are eligible to retire,” Buttigieg said.He spoke as the agency began hiring on Friday — targeting 1,500 new entry-level air traffic controllers this year — and published an annual report on the agency’s ATC workforce.That report showed the agency hired 1,026 controllers last year, just shy of its targets, acting FAA administrator Billy Nolen told Congress...