Fred Meyer announced Monday a Northwest hiring event will take place on Thursday, June 10. The goal of the event is to hire 2,000 associates supporting retail, e-commerce, pharmacy, manufacturing, and logistics operations.
Continue ReadingVice President Kamala Harris is facing the first major diplomatic test of her vice presidency as she looks to tackle the root causes of migration toward the US in her full day of meetings in Guatemala. Harris has been eager to burnish her foreign policy credentials after entering office with little experience in that realm.
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Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed material related to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s book about leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. As part of a broader probe into Covid-19 deaths in New York nursing homes, officials in the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New
Continue Reading The Justice Department will require federal agents to wear and activate cameras whenever encountering the public “during pre-planned law enforcement operations,” according to a memo issued by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. As a part of the Justice Department’s continued efforts to build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve, Monaco reversed a
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department argued in a brief filed Monday that it should be permitted to substitute itself for former President Donald Trump as defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by a longtime magazine columnist, E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape, continuing the argument it had initiated under the previous administration even as the
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Gov. Kate Brown signed a pair of executive orders Tuesday declaring drought emergencies in seven Central and Eastern Oregon counties “due to lack of precipitation and unusually low snowpack and streamflow.”
Continue ReadingThe family of Secoriea Turner, the 8-year-old fatally shot during summer protests in Atlanta last year, is suing the city, alleging the mayor, police chief and a councilwoman permitted the “lawlessness, violence and vigilantism” that led to the girl’s death. The parents briefly spoke Monday to reporters about their little cheerleader and soccer player, who
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Parents and kids can sign up to learn how to become safer from online predators. Check https://www.kidscenter.org/prevention-trainings and the link there to https://www.smartcyberchoices.org/
Continue ReadingFormer Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid pleaded not guilty to a driving while intoxicated charge Monday, months after he was involved in a crash that left a 5-year-old girl with a critical brain injury. The girl, Ariel Young, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, a parietal fracture, brain contusions, and subdural hematomas in
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The day center for dementia patients has been closed since March of 2020. About 30 families were affected by the shutdown.
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Don’t tell Powell Butte’s Meg Mendlin the odds of hitting two holes-in-one in the same round.
Continue ReadingFormer Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid pleaded not guilty to a driving while intoxicated charge Monday, months after he was involved in a crash that left a 5-year-old girl with a critical brain injury. The girl, Ariel Young, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, a parietal fracture, brain contusions, and subdural hematomas in
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Jennifer Reid and her granddaughter, Layla, are looking for something many others in Bend are searching for: a new place to live. And not by choice.
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Portland Audubon is offering a $1,000 reward for information related to two recent bald eagle shootings in the greater Portland area. The information must lead to an arrest or criminal conviction in either case.
Continue ReadingFormer President Barack Obama said Republicans have been “cowed into accepting” a series of positions that “would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago,” telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper he is worried about the state of democracy in the United States in an exclusive interview that aired Monday. Obama, in an
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit the White House this summer, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday. Sullivan said Biden discussed the visit during a call with Zelensky earlier Monday afternoon as part of a planned discussion ahead of Biden’s upcoming trip to Europe. Zelensky confirmed the invitation,
Continue ReadingSenate Democrats are openly frustrated with the immovable man in their caucus — Sen. Joe Manchin — and are now resigned to the likelihood that a bulk of their party’s agenda stands little chance of passing the evenly divided Senate unless 10 Republicans break ranks. Manchin, who for years has defended the right of the
Continue ReadingBoston Mayor Kim Janey announced Monday that she has fired Dennis White as commissioner of the Boston Police Department, effective immediately. The termination stems from White’s ex-wife accusing him of domestic violence 20 years ago, according to his attorney. White has denied those claims and the allegations were resolved in court in 1999, White’s attorney
Continue ReadingThere are no new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, and the state’s death toll remains at 2,694, the Oregon Health Authority reported Monday, along with the lowest daily case count in over three months.
Continue ReadingFormer President Barack Obama said his struggles early in life were “similar” to those of the young men he mentors in Chicago while reflecting on his path to the presidency in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that aired Monday. Obama’s interview with Cooper comes after his latest memoir, “A Promised Land,” was published
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