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Frontier Airlines pays incentives to agents who charge extra baggage fees at gate

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:48:17 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Frontier Airlines is under fire from passengers after it came out that their policy to charge at the gate for larger bags is an incentive for agents.The budget airline's policy for baggage is that passengers are entitled to one personal item that measures certain dimensions, such as purses, totes, computer bags, briefcases, diaper bags and kids’ backpacks. Southern Colorado has 6 earthquakes in 24 hours, region’s strongest in a decade Those who bring in larger bags for their personal item are subject to a fee at the gate. FOX31 was told by passengers that the fee is $100. But with that fee, the agent who levied the charge, Frontier said, does get compensated for it. This all happens at the gate, so it's either pay or don't fly.Frontier responds about baggage charge at gateFrontier said there's a reason behind the compensation.“It is simply an incentive for our airport customer service agents to help ensure compliance with our policies and that all customers are tre...

Bennet makes his case for a national TikTok ban

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:48:17 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — There is one thing uniting both Democrats and Republicans in Washington D.C. right now: a potential ban on the social media app TikTok.Two Colorado congressmen, Rep. Ken Buck and Sen. Michael Bennet, are leading the push to ban the app. Their concern is that the Chinese government could use the app to spy on Americans and maybe even use it for espionage. Gun reform debate heats up at the Colorado Capitol Bennet talked with "Colorado Point of View" anchor Matt Mauro about TikTok and the growing national security threat China poses.“Tiktok is wholly owned by ByteDance. ByteDance is completely subject to the Chinese Communist Party’s rules on data. And they can suck that privacy whenever they want,” Bennet said. He also said he confirmed that with the head of TikTok U.S.Bennet also said that the average American spends three weeks a year on TikTok.“I think the American people have something better to do with their time,” Bennet said. “I have seen an epidemic in Colora...

At 105, Colorado veteran is West Point’s oldest living graduate

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:48:17 GMT

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) – The staff at Windcrest Senior Living center opted for three wax numbers instead of 105 candles. They figured they’d be easier for Paul Phillips to blow out. Staff members, family and friends threw a birthday party for the World War II veteran Friday to mark a milestone birthday.“Well it makes me feel wonderful, and I wonder how it happened to me,” Phillips told FOX31.From West Point to a WWII POWFew make it as long as he has, and even fewer have a back-story as fascinating.Phillips attended the University of Denver and then the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1940. He is the military academy’s oldest living graduate. Denver veteran survives suicide attempt, now helping others After that, he was off to the Philippines and World War II. He was taken prisoner of war there in 1942 and was moved around several times as a prisoner. One of those times, he was on a ship that was bombed by U.S. forces. They were unaware that Americ...

A culture of secrecy is obstructing British historians

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:48:17 GMT

Andrew Lownie is one of Britain’s leading literary agents and the author of “Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess,” “The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves” and “Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.”Documents are the lifeblood of historians. And while many of these documents will come from private collections of papers — all with their own problems of access — many will come from public archives. In Britain, this is most notably the National Archives at Kew, outside London.Subject to some Freedom of Information (FOI) exemptions, in the United Kingdom, government records must by law be deposited in the National Archives after 20 years — but this is not what is happening, and much of it is down to a continuing culture of secrecy in Whitehall.Whereas in America the assumption is that everything should be released unless there are strong grounds to withhold documents, such as national security or data protection, the complete opposite mi...

World’s cartoonists on this week’s events

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:48:17 GMT

First published on POLITICO.com, U.S., March 6, 2023 | By Matt WuerkerFirst published on Latvijas Avize, Latvia, March 8, 2023 | By Gatis SlukaFirst published on Politicalcartoons.com, U.S., March 4, 2023 | By Dick WrightFirst published in De Volkskrant, The Netherlands, March 2, 2023 | By SchotFirst published on Politicalcartoons.com, U.S., March 7, 2023 | By Pat ByrnesFirst published in Columbia Missourian, U.S., March 7 , 2023 | By John Darkow

Putting the T to the test with bike ride to Braintree

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:48:17 GMT

7NEWS put the T to the test on Friday, sending two crews from Park Street station to Braintree. One took the Red Line while the other rode a bike, setting out to see who could make the trip faster.The team started their trip just before 5 p.m. Friday when most people leave work. Only nine minutes into the trip, the T had traveled one stop to Downtown Crossing. 7NEWS photographer Dusty made it into the South End. At 5:30 p.m., Dusty and the bike were more than two stops ahead of the train. Dusty said he started to slow down as he entered Quincy. Still, the train remained behind Dusty just before 6 p.m. as it entered Wollaston station in Quincy. In the final stretch, the T pulled ahead, beating the bike to Braintree by a narrow margin. The Red Line commute took 1:06 from Park Street to Braintree. Dusty got there in 1:10 on the bike. Though only slightly slower, Dusty said the ride on the bike was very different from a ride on the train. “On the T, I’m sitting ...

MIAA statewide scores and highlight from Friday’s action

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:48:17 GMT

Boys basketballSophomore Matt Gaffney paced things offensively with a 17-point outburst, while Ben Howard (10 points, 12 rebounds) and Ethan Tracy (10 points, 10 rebounds) each finished with a double-double to guide top-ranked Malden Catholic (21-2) past No. 25 Leominster, 55-38, in the Div. 2 quarterfinals.Eddie McCoy (22 points) and J.T. Veiking (21 points, six boards, six assists) shouldered the load offensively, helping second-seeded Mansfield (23-2) pull away for a 77-50 win over No. 10 Marblehead.Lorenzo Jackson erupted for 29 points, while Josh Campbell added 24 points himself as top-seeded Archbishop Williams (22-1) staved off a challenge from No. 8 Oakmont by rallying for an 88-83 victory in a Div. 3 quarterfinal.Freshmen Andy Batista (21 points, two rebounds, three assists) and Giovanni Jean (14 points, 12 rebounds) set the tone for Lynn Tech (18-4) in a 58-48 win over Worcester Tech in the Vocational Large championship.Girls basketballKailey Sullivan knocked down six thre...

Winderman’s view: An inspiring night for Heat, but with limited Love

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:48:17 GMT

Observations and other notes of interest from Friday night’s 119-115 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers:– The Kevin Love singing made sense from a known-quantity perspective.– Understood.– But for every action, there is an opposing reaction.– Friday night, the opposing reaction was the Cavaliers putting 6-foot-3 Donovan Mitchell defensively on 6-8 Love.– That allowed the Cavaliers’ Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley to concentrate on greater defensive concerns.– The Heat counter was to get Love in the paint at times.– Which is not his game.– And also clogs the paint for Bam Adebayo and Jimmy Butler.– With opponents surely to take note in the playoffs/play-in.– If Love is not converting threes, he can be as much of a liability on the offensive end as the defensive end.– The Cavaliers certainly were aware of how to handle Love.– And might well have offered a blueprint.– Trevor Ariza 2.0?– Love...

Jimmy Butler seizes a needed moment as Heat hold off Cavaliers, Mitchell 119-115

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:48:17 GMT

The face of desperation was the face of the Miami Heat on Friday night when they went down 14 in the third quarter.It turned out to be a good look, or at least a needed look, one that will be further necessary in the heated middle of the Eastern Conference playoff race.Forced to take on some of the best of Donovan Mitchell, the Heat made a needed stand in a 119-115 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers to salvage a 3-3 homestand,While work remains to get out of an Eastern Conference play-in seed and into one of the six automatic playoff seeds in the East, this was a night when the Heat stared down adversity when it was casting its ugliest face.A loss would have trimmed the Heat’s lead at No. 7 in the East to a mere half-game over the Atlanta Hawks, who won earlier in the night.With the game standing within five points in the final five minutes, it left the Heat with their league-high 48th clutch game of the season.Harrowing, as usual.Jimmy Butler led the Heat with 33 points, su...

In MVC heavyweight battle, Andover edges North Andover

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:48:17 GMT

ANDOVER — There wasn’t a seat to be had inside Dunne Gymnasium some 15 minutes before the Andover and North Andover girls tipped off for the fourth time this season, this time with a spot in the Division 1 semifinals on the line.And befitting of the two rivals, for the fourth time in as many games, the outcome wasn’t decided until the final seconds.Despite a nearly superhuman effort from Hannah Martin, who scored a game-high 24 points for the visitors, it was the top-seeded Golden Warriors (24-0) who made just enough plays down the stretch to pull out a 50-43 win to remain unbeaten and earn a date with Wachusett in the semifinals.“Man, do I have so much respect for Hannah, Jackie (Rogers) and everyone on that team,” Andover coach Alan Hibino said. “To go against them four times in one season is such a challenge. This was a classic MVC basketball game between two heavyweights.”There was nothing separating the teams for most of the game except for a two-minute stretch at the beginning...