Click here for updates on this story GRANGER, Indiana (WBND) — A new 20-megawatt solar farm, the size of 30 football fields, was unveiled in Granger Thursday. The “St. Joseph Solar Farm,” completed in March of this year, is so big, it can power close to 3,000 homes every year. State and local officials were
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The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners will host a public hearing on the Community Development Department’s Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2021-22 on Wednesday, May 12, at 11 a.m.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story South Bend, Indiana (WBND) — Downtown South Bend and the Civic Theatre are hosting the first-ever ‘Fringe Festival’ over the weekend. More than two dozen acts will be performing over the course of the next three days. “Fringe is a very exciting, worldwide movement that started in Edenborough,
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The Ochoco National Forest has released the final Environmental Assessment and Decision Notice for the Ochoco Wild Horse Herd Management Plan project.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — Judges with the Texas Court of Appeals sided with Houston firefighters in a decision that could cost city taxpayers millions. In a long-running battle over Houston firefighters’ salaries, the city of Houston tried to have their collective bargaining rights declared unconstitutional. It would have been
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — A man was arrested Wednesday after allegedly talking to an undercover Harris County Precinct 1 constable deputy and crossing state lines with the intention of meeting a minor for sex. Deputies say a U.S. Air Force veteran from Lake Charles, Louisiana came to Houston thinking
Continue ReadingA urologic surgery resident in Pennsylvania is raising money to help India as it battles a horrific Covid-19 outbreak. Ruchika Talwar, a 28-year-old resident at the University of Pennsylvania, said she and a group of area physicians have raised almost $500,000 in one week to help send supplies directly to state-run hospitals in India that
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story DECATUR, Georgia (WGCL) — A nearly 100-year-old man was found shot to death inside his Decatur home, and now two people are behind bars. On Tuesday, DeKalb County police responded to a home on the 800 block of Wintergreen Lane after receiving a person shot call around 10:20
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SANDY SPRINGS, Georgia (WGCL) — A Sandy Springs mother woke up Thursday morning to find her four-year-old son and dog falling through the floor of her apartment. The 10-foot hole is now fixed but the renter says it took four months too many. “So I jumped up, my
Continue ReadingHalima Cisse, a 25-year-old Malian woman who gave birth to nine babies in Morocco on Tuesday, is in good health. Her nonuplets, five girls and four boys, have a way to go, according to Youssef Alaoui, the medical director of Casablanca’s Ain Borja clinic, where the babies were born. “There is still work to do
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden on Friday argued the US needs the kind of large-scale investments his economic proposals call for in the wake of a disappointing Friday jobs report that fell well below expectations. “We can’t let up, this jobs report makes that clear. We’ve got too much work to do,” Biden said, speaking from the
Continue ReadingUS Capitol Police said Friday that there has been a 107% increase in threats against members of Congress this year compared to 2020 and the department is “confident” the number of cases will continue to increase. “As the Department has previously reported, the number of threats made against Congress has increased significantly. This year alone,
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Here is the city of Bend’s road and traffic report for the week of May 10-16.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS , Idaho (East Idaho News) — An Idaho Falls woman will spend time confined to her house and on probation after stealing a relative’s identity and racking up thousands of dollars in dental bills. Toni Jo Lepper, 50, received the sentence of 60 days of house
Continue ReadingIt’s the little chopper that could. After four historic flights, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter is ready to fly to a new destination. The 4-pound chopper will make a one-way flight to its next airfield on Friday. As with previous flights, Ingenuity will take off from Wright Brothers Field, but it’s not coming back. This time,
Continue ReadingThe Texas House of Representatives is expected to pass an election overhaul bill Friday that would add new voting restrictions and penalties, the latest effort in a slew of Republican-pushed initiatives nationwide that seek to curtail voting access. The GOP-led Texas House early Friday morning advanced Senate Bill 7 on an 81-64 party-line vote to
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story RIGBY, Idaho (East Idaho News) — It is an “absolute blessing” that two students and a custodian were not more seriously injured or killed after being shot Thursday morning at Rigby Middle School. Dr. Michael Lemon, the trauma medical director at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, said during
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — Las Vegas police are investigating a report of a missing 2-year-old boy last seen east of the Strip. About 3:11 p.m. on May 5, the child, identified as Amari Nicholson, was reported missing in the area of 3600 block of Paradise Road near Sands
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — Ahead of Mother’s Day, there is a push to get Black mothers out of jail. Organizations across the country are bailing Black mothers out of jail for Mother’s Day. Here in Las Vegas eight moms get out in time to spend Mother’s Day with
Continue ReadingThe world’s most famous electronic stock market can’t compete with the stubbornness of a 90-year-old billionaire. For decades, Warren Buffett has refused to split Berkshire Hathaway’s sky-high Class A shares, which traded hands Friday at a staggering $436,312. Buffett’s persistence finally caused a Y2K-like problem this week at Nasdaq. Here’s the issue: Nasdaq’s 32-bit computer
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