The 11-year old local non-profit aids families by donating fees for sports registration. Now, thanks to a $5 million grant from Dick’s Sporting Goods, the group can help kids across the country.
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Residents are wondering why, and when it will reopen. NewsChannel 21 was told there are plans to reopen the building by the end of the month. Until then services can be accessed online.
Continue ReadingAn off-duty firefighter shot two people, killing one, at a Los Angeles County fire station Tuesday morning, officials said at a news conference. The off-duty employee, a firefighter specialist and engineer, was found dead in a burning home about 10 miles from the scene of the shooting, officials said. Officials did not identify the victims
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story YUCCA VALLEY, California (KABC) — A procession was held early Tuesday morning for a San Bernardino County sheriff’s sergeant who authorities say was fatally wounded by a motorcyclist at the end of a chase in the Yucca Valley area. Sgt. Dominic Vaca, 43, was airlifted to the hospital
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BRADBURY, California (KABC) — Incredible video shows a wild encounter with a bear in a Southern California backyard. The frightening incident was caught on home surveillance video on Memorial Day. Hailey Morinico, 17, said she heard the family dogs barking in her backyard and saw a massive mama
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Democratic state Rep. Melanie Stansbury will win the special election in New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District, CNN projects. Stansbury’s victory will give the narrow Democratic majority in the US House a bit more breathing room. The Albuquerque-based seat has been vacant since March, when Democrat Deb Haaland stepped down to become President Joe Biden’s interior
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Serena Williams says she’d like to give Naomi Osaka a hug after the world No.2 withdrew from the French Open on Monday. Osaka’s departure from the tournament follows her decision not to participate in any media conferences at Roland Garros, initially citing mental health reasons. She has since revealed that she “suffered long bouts of
Continue ReadingThree Montana sheriff’s deputies woke up to an unexpected guest at their Milwaukee vacation house — an uninvited teenager who had wound up in the wrong house, one of the deputies told CNN. The deputies were staying at an Airbnb while attending a training session in Wisconsin, Deputy Charles Pesola told CNN. Pesola, from Flathead
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The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo were postponed a year, due to the pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped Bend’s Mel Lawrence from training hard, in hopes of competing on the world’s biggest stage this summer.
Continue Reading Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel excoriated the Commission on Presidential Debates in a letter on Tuesday, threatening to advise any future Republican nominee against participating in general election presidential debates unless significant changes are made to the commission. The letter is the latest example of the top Republican committee litigating something that was a
Continue ReadingAmerican shoppers may want to brace themselves for yet another possible supply crunch — this time with meat. JBS USA, the country’s top beef producer and its second largest producer of pork, suffered a cyberattack this weekend, prompting reported shutdowns at company plants in the United States and globally. On Tuesday evening, an official from
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A small brush fire broke out along railroad tracks near the Bend Parkway and Empire Avenue Tuesday afternoon, prompting closure of the northbound off-ramp, a brief shutdown of the BNSF Railway and evacuation of the adjacent Lonza Bend Research facility, officials said.
Continue ReadingDemocrats are intensifying their demands for Congress to pass sweeping voting rights legislation, but even with the party in control of the House and the Senate, major obstacles remain. Texas state Democratic lawmakers are calling for federal action after they derailed a restrictive voting bill, and President Joe Biden is sending a grim warning about
Continue ReadingMajor meat producer JBS USA suffered a cyberattack on Sunday. The attack affected servers supporting its IT systems in North America and Australia, the company said in a news release. “The company is not aware of any evidence at this time that any customer, supplier or employee data has been compromised or misused as a
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Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday announced updates to county risk levels under the state’s public health framework to reduce transmission and protect Oregonians from COVID-19, with three counties improving but Crook and Jefferson counties remaining at the High Risk level.
Continue ReadingHere’s a look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Facts The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock index comprised of 30 “blue-chip” US stocks. It is meant to be a way to measure the strength or weakness of the entire US stock market. The Dow began in 1896 with 12 industrial stocks. Dow Jones
Continue ReadingTwo tweets by Elon Musk in the past two years have run afoul of an agreement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that Tesla lawyers must pre-approve certain posts he makes on the social media site, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The Tesla CEO is known for his
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Legislators have brought guns into the Oregon Capitol for personal protection. Protesters have carried semi-automatic rifles onto the grounds and into the building. Later this year, doing so will be outlawed under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Kate Brown that was earlier passed by the Legislature.
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A year after the Warm Springs Tribal Police Department’s roughly half-century-old jail was closed, amid COVID and other issues, the U.S. Interior Department has approved construction of a new facility, Police Chief Bill Elliott said Tuesday.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ORANGE BEACH, Alabama (WALA) — Gerri Womack Garon said she got a little surprise when she was about to plop down in a comfortable beach chair on the sand in Orange Beach. Snake! The reptile — we’re not sure of the species — was making good use of
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