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January 14, 2025

Elijah Caudill stabs 4 in Denver downtown mall, two die including 71 yr old flight attendant



https://denverite.com/2025/01/13/16th-street-mall-stabbing-suspect-elijah-caudill-victims-celinda-levno/
Elijah Caudill arrested in 16th Street Mall stabbings, victims include flight attendant Celinda Levno

Denver police say they chased down the suspect just after he allegedly stabbed a fourth person on the 16th Street Mall. The attacks left two dead and two injured over the weekend
Denver police say they chased down and arrested 24-year-old Elijah Caudill on Sunday night in connection with a series of stabbing attacks over the weekend on the 16th Street Mall.

The attacks left two people dead — including Celinda Levno, an Arizona-based American Airlines flight attendant — and injured two others.

“This tragedy has been absolutely devastating for me as she was my sister in law and friend for over 40 years,” Rochelle Perkins, Levno’s sister-in-law, told Denverite. “We shared our love of horses and animals in general.”

According to a statement released by the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, Levno was a flight attendant for over 30 years and had a love for music and animals. Levno was on a layover in Denver at the time of the attack.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/denver-police-arrest-stabbing-suspect-wanted-deadly-stabbings-near-16th-street-mall/

Police in Denver have arrested the suspect wanted in a series of stabbings, some of them deadly, near the 16th Street Mall over the weekend. The arrest of Elijah D. Caudill followed the latest stabbing late Sunday night.


Caudill, 24, appeared in a Denver courtroom on Monday morning. He was being held without bond on investigation of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder.

The first three stabbings happened along 16th Street between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday, according to investigators.

The first stabbing that happened was initially reported at approximately 6:20 p.m. Saturday after the victim self-transported to the hospital. This stabbing happened as the man was leaving work in the area of 16th Street and Tremont Street at about 5:10 p.m. Saturday. The adult male victim was slashed in the face.

According to police, the victim said he was walking along the 16th Street Mall when a male ran up behind him, slashed him in the face and then ran away. The victim described the suspect as a while male in his 20s, wearing a black hat, black pants, and a blue sweatshirt.

Just minutes after the first attack, there was a reported stabbing in the area of 16th Street and California St. about 5:20 p.m. Saturday. The adult female victim was stabbed in the throat and rushed to the hospital where she died Sunday morning. The woman was an American Airlines flight attendant in Denver on a layover. After her death, American Airlines has stated that crews laying over "will be temporarily relocated from downtown Denver to a hotel near the Denver airport."






January 12, 2025

Former Child Actor Killed in LA Fires

https://www.newser.com/story/362333/blind-former-child-actor-dies-in-la-fires.html

Former Child Actor Killed in LA Fires
The Australian actor was blind and had cerebral palsy

A former child actor is tragically among the victims of the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. Rory Sykes, who was on the British TV show Kiddy Kapers in the '90s, died at his family's home in Malibu on Wednesday, according to his mother, Shelley Sykes. He was 32. People reports the announcement was made in a post on X.

Sykes, who was blind and had cerebral palsy, had only recently relocated to the US after living in Australia, according to 9 News. He was living in a cottage on his family's 17-acre estate when the Palisades Fire set it ablaze. His mother said she tried to save him, but she claims she was unable to because the water had been turned off by Las Virgenes Municipal Water and she was injured.

"He said, 'Mom, leave me,' and no mom can leave their kid. I've got a broken arm. I couldn't lift him. I couldn't move him." The fire department said Sykes died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
January 12, 2025

Diet Writer's Advice Failed to Help Herself, after 30 years, the drug Mounjaro is the only thing that's worked

Diet Writer's Advice Failed to Help Herself
Rebecca Johns explains that after 30 years, the drug Mounjaro is the only thing that's worked


For 30 years, Rebecca Johns tried every diet under the sun and still failed to stop gaining weight. Her story might be familiar to many, but it comes with a twist: Johns was writing about diet tips and fads all the while for various magazines. As she recounts in the Atlantic, her first such byline came in 1995 when she weighed just under 200 pounds and hoped to stay under that threshold. By 2017, she weighed just under 300 pounds.

"No one has ever known so much about healthy eating and been less successful at following her own advice," she writes. In September 2023, as her doctor warned her about diabetes and checked her toes for gangrene, she decided to try Mounjaro, one of the popular new GLP-1 drugs being used to lose weight.


Since then, "I've lost almost 80 pounds with very little effort," writes Johns, who has no qualms about going public with her decision. "Given my long history as a diet-tips pusher, dispensing all that pithy advice, I figure the least I can do now is be honest about the one thing that's actually worked." Johns explains how the drug has changed her relationship with food, including the "when and why" of her eating. She no longer thinks about food constantly and feels full at meals.

The question is what will happen when she goes off the drug, likely in March when her insurance stops covering a portion of it. "The only thing I know for certain is that gaining the weight back is not an option," she writes, which could mean a return to "white-knuckling" her way through the cravings as in previous years. "And that scares me."

https://www.newser.com/story/362062/she-wrote-about-diets-for-years-kept-gaining-weight.html

January 11, 2025

ground level view of Pasadena devastation... guy bikes through burned areas

skip ahead to about 25 minutes in

January 10, 2025

picture from the funeral

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