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Health care advocacy group wants prescription drug cost reduction efforts expanded to all Marylanders

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:11:33 GMT

This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today.An influential health care advocacy coalition announced Monday that it will focus next year on an effort to expand a nascent state agency’s authority to lower prescription drug prices.Vincent DeMarco, president of the Maryland Health Care for All Coalition, said during an afternoon webinar that expanding the authority of the Maryland Prescription Drug Affordability Board will be the group’s primary legislative effort in the 2024 General Assembly session, which is scheduled to begin Jan. 10.The board’s current authority only covers prescription drugs under state and local government health care plans; health advocates have long hoped that any medication costs successfully lowered under that purview would naturally expand to private insurers.Expanding the board’s authority to implement broader cost c...

Coach Prime talks next game against 10th-ranked Oregon

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:11:33 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Deion Sanders' Buffaloes have won three consecutive games. Now, they head to Oregon to face the Ducks who are ranked 10th.This will be Colorado's first game against a Pac-12 opponent and its first game against an opponent ranked in the AP's Top 25 poll after playing a game.Sanders is speaking at the University of Colorado Boulder on Tuesday. He is scheduled to start the meeting at 11 but is often as early as 10:30 a.m. He is expected to discuss two big topics: Travis Hunter's injury and the too-close-for-comfort win over Colorado State University.Hunter has made a name for himself in Colorado as both a star wide receiver and cornerback. During the Rocky Mountain Showdown, Hunter took a big hit from CSU's safety Henry Blackburn. CSU coach: D-back who hit CU receiver has gotten death threats Hunter suffered a lacerated liver and is expected to be out for several weeks, according to FOX Sports’ Skip Bayless.The Rocky Mountain Showdown between CU and CSU is always...

Car towed? Make sure you know your rights

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:11:33 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Have you ever parked somewhere you swear there were no towing signs? But then you show up an hour later and your car is gone. Now, you have to pay hundreds of dollars worth of fees for the towing company to transport and hold your car.The term is called "predatory towing," and it happens more than you think.State Sen. Julie Gonzales championed the "towing bill of rights," which was signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis in June 2022. This year, Gonzales herself was towed by Wyatt's Towing while she said she was parked legally at a business. Wyatt’s Towing is now under investigation by the state attorney general and in the weeks since the senator has been in talks with other legislators about how to strengthen the 2022 bill. Can you be towed without notice in Colorado? Gonzales isn't the only one who has had issues since the 2022 bill was signed. FOX31 has received reports from viewers of towing companies allegedly not following the new rules.Under the towing bill of ...

Disney pouring $60 billion into theme parks, cruises over the next 10 years

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:11:33 GMT

The Walt Disney Co. is planning to invest approximately $60 billion into its theme parks and cruise lines over the next decade, as the company looks to continue growing one of its more successful business segments.The company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that the planned investment is nearly double what it spent in the prior 10-year period.The Disney Parks, Experiences and Products segment continues to do well for the company, with revenue rising 13% in its fiscal third quarter. That’s helped to offset the struggles in its Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution unit, which saw revenue dip 1% in the period.Disney is confident in its plans, saying in a prepared statement that it’s seen growth following previous periods of significant investment, which included the additions of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure, Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World, Avengers Campus at California Adventure and Walt D...

Amazon driver in serious condition after being bitten by rattlesnake in Florida

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:11:33 GMT

PALM CITY, Fla. (AP) — An Amazon driver is in serious condition after being bitten by a rattlesnake while making a delivery to a Florida home, officials said Tuesday.The woman placed a box next to the home’s front door Monday evening when the eastern diamondback snake jumped out and bit her, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. She immediately became ill and called out for help.She was taken to the hospital, where the sheriff’s office said she was in “very serious” condition Tuesday. Her name and age were not released. Officials caught the snake and it was euthanized.Eastern diamondbacks are common in the Southeast U.S. and are the largest rattlesnake. They can grow to about 7 feet (2 meters) in length, but are more commonly about 4 feet (1.2 meters). The toxinology.com website maintained by an Australian university says the eastern diamondback’s bite is fatal in 10% to 20% of cases if not treated.Martin County is on Florida’s ...

South Plantation High School placed on lockdown, police investigating

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:11:33 GMT

South Plantation High School was placed on “secure” status Tuesday morning following reports of a written threat that was received. The school is located at 1300 SW 54th Avenue in Plantation. Officers with the Plantation Police Department are on scene and investigating the threat. https://twitter.com/PlantationPD/status/1704142988396359778?s=20Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Miami social media influencer ejected from American Airlines flight after in-flight altercation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:11:33 GMT

A social media influencer from Miami got into an argument with passengers on an American Airlines flight.“Call me a [expletive] again, I did nothing wrong,” she said in Morgan Osman. In video footage, she was seen arguing with some passengers that are off-screen. You can hear her raise her voice and shout profanities after a passenger tells her to shut up. “You shut the [expletive] up and your [expletive],” said Osman. She then grabs her bags from the overhead bins and walks towards the front of the plane as passengers laugh. When Osman noticed she was being filmed she responded by saying she was “Instagram famous” before calling the passenger a bum. Osman was previously featured on “Bad Girls Club,” an Oxygen reality television series. According to The New York Post, OSman has claimed that she was seeing Britney Spears’ husband, Sam Asghari, while he was still dating the iconic pop star. It remains unclear why she got kicked off...

Kemi Badenoch cools talk of imminent UK-India trade deal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:11:33 GMT

LONDON — Britain’s trade chief waved away reports that a U.K.-India trade deal is imminent or will be signed during next month’s Cricket World Cup in India.Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch said Tuesday that reports her boss Rishi Sunak will go to India next month to sign a deal to coincide with the England vs India World Cup match are “very optimistic briefing from newspapers” and that “it is possible, but I would not be setting that sort of deadline.”“We have always been very, very specific that it’s about the deal, not the day. We will get there when we have a deal which is mutually beneficial for India and the U.K.,” Badenoch told Westminster’s business and trade committee.“We’ve done a lot, so we’re quite close, but as I said [in parliament] last week …. the last few bits left are always the toughest bits,” she added.There has been fevered speculation over the past month that a deal is getting...

South Korea summons Russian ambassador after Putin and Kim summit

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:11:33 GMT

South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador on Tuesday to demand an immediate stop to the military cooperation between the Kremlin and North Korea, after a meeting last week between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.Seoul “strongly urged Russia to immediately halt its military cooperation with North Korea and comply with [UN] Security Council resolutions,” First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Chang Ho-jin said in a written statement after a meeting with Andrei Borisovich Kulik, the Russian ambassador.Kulik was told that Russian violations of the UN Security Council resolution on non-proliferation would have “clear consequences, and that such actions will also have a very negative impact on U.S.-Russian relations.”Kim and Putin talked about weapons and satellite tech during their summit in Russia and Putin has “gratefully” accepted an invitation to North Korea. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is set to visit Pyongyang in October.

Rudy Giuliani’s former attorneys sue him for more than $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:11:33 GMT

(CNN) — A law firm that represented Rudy Giuliani during recent years of investigations and lawsuits is now suing him for more than $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees, as the former New York City mayor is facing growing bills related to fallout for his actions around the 2020 election for Donald Trump.The law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron said Giuliani had only paid $214,000 of his total legal bill, leaving him $1,360,196 indebted to them for work the firm’s attorneys did on his now-closed foreign lobbying federal criminal investigation; the January 6, 2021-related investigations by Georgia state prosecutors, the House of Representatives and the federal special counsel’s office; and in various lawsuits and attorney discipline probes that materialized after the 2020 election, according to a complaint filed in New York state court on Monday.His last payment to the firm came four days ago, for $10,000, according to the court filing.The firm handled Giuliani’s legal w...