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Stuffed? How to burn Thanksgiving calories without leaving home

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:33:44 GMT

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (KDVR) — You might already be digesting your Thanksgiving Day meal — and by now, you might have already finished off seconds.Fitness experts said you can burn some of those calories off with chores you are already doing around your home."One of the great things about Thanksgiving is that there is a lot of opportunity for some high-protein dishes," Lena Hangge said.Hangge and her colleague, Caleb Kinney-Woods, are personal fitness trainers at Lifetime Fitness in Westminster.Don't forget to drink waterThanksgiving sees many meals eaten, sometimes in one sitting, but there's a chance to curb the negative impact of so many carbs, sugars and calories."For every sugary drink that you drink, drink a glass of water," Hangge said. "Don't forget about water, people. Stay hydrated." Here’s what your dog can eat off your Thanksgiving plate Once that meal is in your system, Hangge and Kinney-Woods call it an opportunity to fuel an active day and burn some calories."Don't get...

US 287 reopens from Ted's Place to Wyoming after multiple crashes

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:33:44 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — As Thanksgiving Day wound down, a snowstorm began to move into Colorado. And it didn't take long for the weather to affect the roads.Northern Colorado, including Boulder and Fort Collins, are under a winter storm warning, with the area expected to get 5-12 inches of snow. The warning went into effect Thursday afternoon and is expected to stay in effect until 5 a.m. Saturday. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up for alerts from the Pinpoint Weather team Around 5 p.m. Thursday, U.S. 287 was closed from Highway 14, at Ted's Place, to the Wyoming state line. Multiple crashes were reported on the icy road, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. The closure was from mile points 356-385.The highway reopened later Thursday night.The Denver metro area also was under a winter weather advisory, with a few inches expected by Saturday.A Pinpoint Weather Alert Day has been issued for Friday, with the icy conditions expected to impact travel on the Black Friday shopping ho...

'A work from God': Jerusalem art survives Aurora house fire

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:33:44 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Days before Thanksgiving, a fire tore through an Aurora family's home, destroying almost everything. The family told FOX31 that what the destructive fire spared can only be described as a sign from God: A picture of Jerusalem was left untouched by the blaze. After tragedy, Aurora community leader helps distribute 1,000 Thanksgiving meals Five days after the fire tore through the home on East Layton Place, Renee Unruh is letting it all sink in. “This is my mom's house. She’s 70 years old," Unruh said. "She’s also had a nest egg for her, us and her grandchildren."Saturday around noon, that changed for the family.“A space heater tipped over and it was an older one and it caught on fire, which then caught the couch and blankets we tried to use to put it out," Unruh said.Colorful art left among the ashesThere's not much left of the home where the family made memories for three decades.“There is nothing but soot and piles of things to show for any of that, that’s ...

Is Westminster ready for the return of Donald Trump?

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:33:44 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast Amazon Music With opinion polls showing Donald Trump beating President Joe Biden in key battleground states a year out from the next U.S. election, podcast host Jack Blanchard asks whether Westminster is even remotely ready for the prospect of a second Trump presidency.Britain’s forme...

Geert Wilders stuns with far-right election victory in the Netherlands

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:33:44 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast Amazon Music Far-right leader Geert Wilders came out on top in the Dutch election this week, sending shock waves through Brussels and beyond.In this episode of EU Confidential, host Suzanne Lynch is joined by Eline Schaart and Nicholas Vinocur to break down the results of the vote, and what...

Main Taiwan opposition party announces vice presidential candidate as hopes for alliance fracture

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:33:44 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s main opposition Nationalist Party announced its vice presidential candidate Friday as hopes for a cross-party alliance to challenge the ruling Democratic Progressive Party have fractured and relations with China remain tense. Hou Yu-ih said former legislator and Cabinet member Chao Shao-kang would be his running mate in the January polls. Chao had led a breakaway faction of Nationalist politicians who established the New Party in the 1990s, but has since returned the Nationalist camp as the DPP has held on to power in both the presidential office and the legislature. The announcement comes days after the DPP announced that its presidential candidate, serving vice president William Lai, had recruited former de-facto ambassador to the U.S. Bi-khim Hsiao as his running mate. The Lai-Hsiao ticket is favored to win in the January polls, taking over from incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen, who is limited to two terms. The parties are largely divided by their a...

The founding editor of The Washington Monthly magazine, Charles Peters, has died at 96

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:33:44 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Charles Peters, founding editor of The Washington Monthly and its editor-in-chief for three decades, died Thursday at age 96.In confirming his death in his Washington home, the journal reported that Peters had been in declining health for several years, mainly from congestive heart failure.Peters, a native of Charleston, West Virginia, brought an influential neoliberal voice to the politics of his day, challenging the left as well as the right in political circles cleaved along those ideological lines. He served as the magazine’s editor from 1969 to 2000. The author and journalist James Fallows, who began his career at the magazine, told readers of Peters’ death on the journal’s website.“He matters in the ideals he has set for his country,” Fallows wrote. “That it should be patriotic but not jingoistic, that it can respect the military without being pro-war, that it can celebrate ambition and entrepreneurship without forgetting those left behind, ...

For 90th consecutive Thanksgiving, St. Paul family plays football together for ‘a good time’

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:33:44 GMT

There are no true sides and most definitely no scorekeeping, but there is a lot of love and laughter every Thanksgiving morning when members of the Battis-Bohen family gather for their annual touch-football game in St. Paul.Thursday marked the 90th year the assorted family members have come together to toss around a football and catch up with one another.Mike Battis, 77, has been partaking in the tradition every year since he was 8 and his family played in an alley off Bohland Avenue in the Highland Park neighborhood. At the time there were only about 15 people playing, he said. “Lots of uncles. My dad told me not to let anyone get past the garbage cans. He told me I had to guard there so I said, ‘OK, Dad.'”Soon, the team grew and they had to move to the street in front of the house. Battis’ father had seven brothers and one sister. That one sister, Carmela, married the kid across the street, Thomas Bohen, and that’s what meshed the two families, who st...

Westbound I-70 closed west of Golden after multi-vehicle crash with semitrailers leaking fuel

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:33:44 GMT

A crash involving at least six cars and two semitrailers shut down westbound Interstate 70 between Morrison and Genesee on Thursday night for what law enforcement officials said will likely be an extended, multi-hour closure.The Colorado Department of Transportation advises drivers to detour via U.S. 6 through Clear Creek Canyon or Colorado 74 through Evergreen.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | Two-car crash leaves one dead on Loveland Pass in Summit County Crashes and Disasters | 2 semitrucks on fire on Colfax Avenue, power line down Crashes and Disasters | 3 injured after car crashes into Aurora building Sunday afternoon Crashes and Disasters | Semitruck fuel spill shuts down eastbound I-76 to northbound I-25 Crashes and Disasters | Pedestrian killed, 3 others injured in late night crash on Interstate 70 The I-70 crash was triggered when the driver of a car lost control and a tanker truck carryin...

2 dead in multi-vehicle crash in West Covina

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:33:44 GMT

Two people were killed Thanksgiving evening following a multi-vehicle crash involving two vehicles and a motorcycle.The crash happened near the intersection of Amar Road and Westport Street in West Covina some time after 5 p.m.One of the vehicles believed involved in a fatal crash in West Covina on Nov. 23, 2023. (KTLA)Video posted to the Citizen app showed the disabled motorcycle on its side with a large plume of smoke coming from it.The investigation is in its early stages, but police believe two vehicles and a motorcycle were involved in the crash, according to a West Covina Police Department official.Smoke billows from a motorcycle lying at the scene of a fatal crash in West Covina on Nov. 23, 2023 as seen in a video posted to the Citizen App. Two people who were riding the motorcycle were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.Elizabeth Chapman contributed to this report.