Summit Health Oregon, the largest independent multispecialty, physician-led medical group in Central Oregon, announced Friday its partnership with Pulse Heart Institute, a leading cardiovascular service provider in the Pacific Northwest.
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kyrie Irving will rejoin the Brooklyn Nets to play in road games. The Nets decided Friday their point guard would practice with them and play road games, even though he remains unable to play at home because he doesn’t meet New York City’s vaccine mandate.
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The mayor of Long Beach, California, launched a campaign for a U.S. House seat in Southern California, a day after long-serving Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal announced he would retire at the end of his term. Mayor Robert Garcia began his run with an video in which he dedicated his campaign to
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN With the Omicron variant spreading quickly across the US, several school districts are sending Covid-19 antigen tests home for the holidays to help curb a spike when they return to school in January. The school systems include Marin County Schools in California, Chicago Public Schools, several cities in Massachusetts,
Continue ReadingBELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A woman has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for sabotaging railroad tracks near the U.S.-Canada border in Washington state just before a train carrying crude oil was due to pass through. Ellen Brennan Reiche of Bellingham was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle for
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN The Marine Corps has discharged 103 service members for refusing to take the Covid-19 vaccine, as the military begins carrying out enforcement actions for its vaccine mandate. As of this week, 95% of active duty Marines are vaccinated, according to the latest data from the Marine Corps released Thursday, but the
Continue ReadingCNN, WABI By Sara Smart, CNN After binging on episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, many fans of the show think they can successfully duplicate the medical procedures that the doctors perform on the show. For one Maine teenager, that came true. What started out as a routine morning for Kristen Iarrobino and her 16-year-old son, Cyrus,
Continue ReadingBy ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos learned a painful lesson last year when they were forced to play a game without a quarterback. So, they’re isolating third-stringer Brett Rypien as a precaution with the new, highly transmissible form of COVID-19 leading to a spike in infections across
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Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The former Afghan government’s ambassador to the United Nations has resigned after the country’s current Taliban rulers sought to replace him with their own envoy. The U.N. says Ghulam Isaczai informed the world body Thursday that he stepped down the day before. Afghanistan’s U.N. Mission tweeted that another diplomat, Naseer Faiq,
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The Sisters Folk Festival announced Friday it will celebrate its 25th annual event over the Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2022 weekend in beautiful Sisters, Oregon. Festival tickets go on sale Wednesday Dec. 22.
Continue ReadingBy WLOS Staff Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — An Asheville man is sentenced to 28 years in prison for using Snapchat to solicit teenage girls to produce child pornography and perform sex acts with him in exchange for money. The United States Department of Justice says Coyoami Ruiz
Continue ReadingBy Brendan Kirby Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A Mississippi man conceded this week that he took money from kiosks in Fairhope, Saraland and Mobile – but argued it did not amount to a federal crime. On Friday, a jury agreed. The jury found Stanley Aubrey Baker not guilty
Continue ReadingBy Talia Clarke Click here for updates on this story KENNEBUNK, Maine (WMTW) — The daughter of a Maine police chief is sharing her journey from opioid addiction to recovery in hopes of helping other Mainers. “It was so fast from fun to not fun anymore that I was trapped at that point,” Kaitlin MacKenzie
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Record-breaking Central (Iowa) quarterback Blaine Hawkins and North Central receiver Andrew Kamienski highlight The Associated Press Division III All-America team released Friday. Hawkins also won the Gagliardi Trophy as the nation’s top Division III player after setting an NCAA record with 63 touchdown passes. North Central (Iowa)
Continue ReadingBy Nick Sloan Click here for updates on this story SMITHVILLE, Missouri (KCTV) — The Missouri Department of Conservation rescued an injured bald eagle this week at Smithville Lake. Officials say the bald eagle was not shot and did not have broken wings, but blood tests are being performed to see if it’s suffer from
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — An attorney running to be governor of Nevada who cites his legal work as a qualification is fighting efforts by the state bar to reprimand him. A disciplinary panel sent Republican Joey Gilbert a draft letter of reprimand alleging he had harmed
Continue ReadingBy KELSEE WARD Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Vietnam veteran Jim Jeneral is reunited with his beloved Corvette after having to sell it due to hard times. Jeneral said the car has been in his family since the day it left the factory, that was 36 years ago. Now
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Gov. Kate Brown announced Friday the appointment of two judges to fill new positions on the Deschutes County Circuit Court that were created by the Legislature in House Bill 3011 earlier this year, for a total of nine.
Continue ReadingBy ANGELO FICHERA and SOPHIA TULP Associated Press Jake West was a seemingly healthy 17-year-old before he collapsed during football practice and died of sudden cardiac arrest. It happened in 2013, years before the coronavirus pandemic — but that hasn’t stopped headlines about his death from being misappropriated in a widely shared video seeking to
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