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The Sugar Fairy Bakes sets opening date for Malta shop

Published Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:19:11 GMT

MALTA, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The Sugar Fairy Bakes is officially ready to open its new shop at 2110 Ellsworth Boulevard in Malta. The bakery will be opening on Saturday, April 1. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Owner Stacie Blair announced that she would be opening a second location during the ribbon cutting at the Mechanicville shop’s one year anniversary on December 17, 2022. The new location is a retail bake shop with all the baking being done in Mechanicville. The baked goods will be delivered fresh to Malta each morning."Please be patient and keep in mind this is a soft opening," said Blair in a Facebook post. "There is no instruction book and it will take time for us to navigate what works and what doesn’t for our second space." Allie B’s opening second location on Albany’s South End The Malta bakery will have custom cake decorating and a window where visitors can see the artists decorating the cakes. This new location w...

Colorado wilfdfire burning on 1,088 acres near Florissant; 100 homes evacuated

Published Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:19:11 GMT

A wind-whipped wildfire west of Colorado Springs, spreading from Park County into Teller County south of Florissant, had burned across more than 1,088 acres Friday morning, forcing evacuations of about 100 homes.A Lake George Fire Protection District dispatcher said the U.S. Forest Service took over efforts to manage the fire early Friday morning. Helicopters dropped water on flames Thursday, the dispatcher said.Firefighters worked through the night trying to contain flames burning in rough terrain, but heavy wind, gusting at speeds up to 40 miles per hour, complicated fire suppression.The authorities classified the fire as “human-caused,” saying it started on private land along Park County Road 403, southwest of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, and then spread into Teller County.Most of the evacuated homes are located along the front edge of the fire near Divide, dispatchers said Friday morning. No buildings had burned, they said, and no injuries were repor...

Loveland parents furious after teachers leave during school threat investigation

Published Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:19:11 GMT

LOVELAND, Colo. — Loveland parents are furious after they say they weren’t told about a possible school safety threat until after police investigated and the district canceled classes.“When you drop your kid off, like we do every day, we trust that they’re okay, and it turns out like this. How safe are our kids?” said Steven Johnson, a parent of two sophomores at Loveland High School.He and his wife, Amber, were heading to work after drop-off Wednesday morning, until they got a set of troubling text messages from their son. He had gotten to his classroom door, and it was locked with no one inside.“A message came in at 9:46 a.m. from my son, and it says, ‘There was no teacher in my first class. So they told us to sit in the lunchroom,'” Amber read from her phone, “Then [her son] says, ‘There is a threat to the school about a school shooting.’ That was at 9:57 a.m.”Read more at our partner, Denver7.

Denver weather: Blustery mostly sunny blue skies and extreme red flag fire danger

Published Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:19:11 GMT

Sunny blue skies and wind, with dry ground and grass, combined to create favorable conditions for fire, which looms as a threat Friday and into the weekend for residents of Denver and other Front Range cities.The high temperature in Denver will hit 53 degrees Friday, increasing to 65 degrees on Saturday and 68 degrees on Sunday under mostly sunny skies, according to the National Weather Service.Around Colorado, the weather service Friday morning issued an air quality alert for areas west of Colorado Springs where a wildfire burning near Lake George in Park and Teller counties was kicking up smoke.Humidity as low as 10% across the high plains means any outdoor burning or sparks could ignite fire. Weather service officials issued a red flag fire danger warning covering Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and the southeastern quarter of the state.Fire weather watch for Saturday afternoon across the Palmer Divide due to increasingly dry and windy conditions. Be sure to avoid any o...

CHP officer shoots man at homeless encampment along 405 Freeway

Published Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:19:11 GMT

Northbound lanes of the 405 Freeway in Hawthorne were closed Thursday evening after a California Highway Patrol officer shot a man while responding to a fire at a homeless encampment, authorities said.The incident unfolded just before 8 p.m. when the officer received a call reporting a fire near the on-ramp to the 405 at Rosecrans Avenue. When the officer arrived, they encountered a person who became uncooperative and began throwing bricks at them, a CHP spokesperson said.That’s when the officer opened fire, striking the man, authorities said. He suffered non-life-threatening wounds.Sky5 images show traffic was backed up for over a mile as officers shut down northbound lanes to investigate.The California Highway Patrol shut down 405 Freeway lanes in Hawthorne after a shooting involving CHP officers on March 30, 2023. (KTLA)The California Highway Patrol shut down 405 Freeway lanes in Hawthorne after a shooting involving CHP officers on March 30, 2023. (KTLA)The California Highwa...

Los Angeles County COVID-19 emergency declaration ends Friday

Published Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:19:11 GMT

The end of March is bringing with it a milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles: the end of the county's emergency declaration.The March 31 expiration brings with it the end of COVID-related renter protections, a measure the Board of Supervisors declined to extend in a meeting last week. Another change is masking in health care facilities. Employees will still be required to wear masks around patients, but patients and visitors will not.The emergency order that allowed restaurants to create outdoor seating on public walkways and parking lots is ending as well, though restaurants with an existing outdoor dining permit can continue to operate.

New census estimates show which California counties are losing residents

Published Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:19:11 GMT

California's population continues to shrink, according to United States Census Bureau data.For the third straight year, people left California, according to government estimates. Since the decline began in 2020, the state's population has shrunk by about 500,000 people. For reference, the population of Wyoming is a bit more than 580,000.In new data published by the Census Bureau this week, it's estimated that California's population shrunk by approximately 113,649 people from July 2021 to July 2022.There was a net gain across the state in "Natural Change," the number of births (420,000) and deaths (318,000) during that time frame. But a net loss of more than 217,000 people was recorded as people left the state to move elsewhere. More than half of California's 58 counties lost population during that timeframe.Many of the counties seeing a reduction in population are in Southern California and the Bay Area; two regions in the state that experience some of the highest costs of living i...

Man fatally shot outside 7-Eleven in Culver City

Published Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:19:11 GMT

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man in Culver City Thursday night.The unidentified man was found at about 10:45 p.m. inside a vehicle in the 5900 block of West Washington Boulevard, according to the Culver City Police Department.He was suffering from a gunshot wound to his chest, and he was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Footage from the scene shows police tape around a 7-Eleven parking lot, with a white Mitsubishi sedan crashed into a building adjacent to the convenience store parking lot.No suspect information was immediately available.Alexis Lewis contributed to this report.

Anastasia Elliot Goes to the Circus

Published Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:19:11 GMT

Anastasia Elliot Goes to the Circus: DIY rocker Anastasia Elliot told us about her Britney Spears experience.Anastasia Elliot: I have seen lots of amazing concerts over the years from Idles to the Black Angels to Florence and the Machine and many up and coming indie acts that blew me away.I am going to have to give the best gig I ever saw though to the first concert I ever attended: Britney Spears’ Circus Tour. As a classically trained musician and singer, I could choose many other shows that were maybe more musically or vocally mind blowing, but Circus was a show that impacted me personally at a young age.The extreme attention to detail, set design, costuming, Britney’s command of the stage as an entertainer, and the world building around a concept album are things that greatly inspired my own artistic direction. Growing up attending the opera and the ballet, I have always been obsessed with shows that are grandiose, with no small detail left unpolished.In 2009, when my 15 year old...

What Is “Hot Hemp”?

Published Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:19:11 GMT

View the original article about “Hot Hemp” at Real Tested CBD.According to the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp can be legally grown as long as it contains 0.3 percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or less. Once the hemp is grown, it can be turned into gummies, oils, tinctures, creams, honey, and other products. While the Farm Bill made CBD products legal, THC is still against the law. If a plant has too much THC, it must be destroyed by the farmer.What Is Hot Hemp?Since the passage of the Farm Bill, there have been rumors about people selling hot hemp. This term basically refers to hemp that has more than the 0.3 percent limit of THC. For the most part, this rumor is just a myth. While the hemp plant may sometimes have more than 0.3 percent THC, CBD products never do.At Real Tested CBD, we have not encountered any hot hemp across more than 50 brands. We have tested a broad range of CBD tinctures, CBD gummies, CBD capsules, CBD creams, CBD honey, and CBD oils. None of these products have come anyw...