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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) confirms that they’ve received a report of dead bats found around the Black Forest area and are looking into the issue. CPW says they got a call from a resident who said that there were a number of dead bats on or near their property. The resident said they’ve noticed …

The shocking cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” is a sign that time is running out for one of TV’s most beloved formats. The late-night talk show was invented in the 1950s as a way for networks to own their own programming rather than have it provided by sponsors. Now, amid shrinking audiences and a politically turbulent climate …

Using the world’s most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so rare, strange and unique that they have dubbed it a “cosmic unicorn.” The unique properties of this object, CHIME J1634+44, challenge our current understanding of spinning dead stars and their environments. CHIME J1634+44, also known as ILT J163430+445010 (J1634+44), is part of a class of …

Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian extreme adventurer who made international headlines in 2012 when he livestreamed himself jumping and freefalling for four minutes from a helium balloon that had ascended about 24 miles above the earth, breaking the sound barrier before opening his parachute, died Thursday in a paragliding accident along the Adriatic coast in Italy. He was 56. His death …

Alan Bergman, the three-time Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with his late wife, Marilyn Bergman, to form one of the most celebrated writing duos in the history of movie music, has died. He was 99. Bergman, whose work includes such classics as “The Windmills of Your Mind” — wonderfully employed for the second-season finale of Severance — “Nice ’n’ Easy,” “You …

MONTEREY PARK (KABC) — Authorities are investigating an apparent explosion at an LASD training facility in Monterey Park where at least three deputies were killed. The incident was reported just before 7:30 a.m. Friday at what looked to be LASD’s SEB compound, which houses the sheriff’s department’s special enforcement units and bomb squad. It appears the Sheriff’s Enforcement Bureau personnel …

Skydiver, daredevil and extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner died Thursday. He was 56. The Austrian, who in 2012 became the first person to break the sound barrier with just his body, died in a paragliding crash in Italy. Firefighters at the scene said Baumgartner’s paraglider crashed into the side of a pool in the city of Porto Sant’Elpidio, per the Associated …

Brett Lemieux came onto Fanatics’ radar years ago as a potential sports memorabilia counterfeiter. The company told The Athletic it even altered its authenticity hologram sticker two years ago in part because of Lemieux’s alleged activities. Fanatics conducted several “test buys” of supposed autographed items from marketplace accounts set up by Lemieux, the company said, in order to build a …

A prominent sports memorabilia businessman was found dead after police carried out a search warrant into his allegedly fraudulent operation on Tuesday. Brett Lemieux, 45 of Westfield, Ind., was the founder of noted sports memorabilia site MisterManCave, which he claimed sold more than four million counterfeit items and surpassed $350 million in sales in a 1,200-word Facebook post on the …

It’s been more than a year since Starliner’s failed test flight left a crew stranded in space, and Boeing’s spacecraft still isn’t ready to fly. In a recent update, NASA officials said they are working toward launching a mission aboard Starliner in 2026, and there probably won’t be any astronauts involved. During a press briefing last week, Steve Stich, NASA’s …