Three 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.
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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
Continue Reading The financial standing of Black and White Americans is anything but equal. When it comes to wealth and income, major disparities persist despite the years of economic prosperity that preceded the coronavirus pandemic. This long-standing racial divide has garnered renewed attention in the Biden administration, which has committed to improving equity as it guides the
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A senior living facility is bringing some big smiles to several communities throughout Davidson County. Kempton of Hermitage is playing a game of hide and seek with the help of some rubber ducks. “All of the sudden there is this little rubber ducky smiling
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NEW HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — Authorities are looking for the person who threw a boulder at a New Hartford police cruiser over the weekend. It happened between 8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. on Sunday at the New Hartford Resident Trooper’s Office behind the town hall. State police said
Continue ReadingHere’s a look at the life of Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. Personal Birth date: May 11, 1933 Birth place: The Bronx, New York Birth name: Louis Eugene Walcott Father: Percival Clark Mother: Sarah Mae (Manning) Clark Marriage: Khadijah Farrakhan, formerly Betsy (Ross) Walcott, (September 12, 1953-present) Children: Mustapha, Joshua Nasir, Abnar,
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration formally ended the Trump-era policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico until their court dates in the United States, according to a memo issued by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Shortly after President Joe Biden took office, the Department of Homeland Security suspended new enrollments to the program formally known as Migrant
Continue ReadingMonths into President Joe Biden’s first term, supporters of former President Donald Trump are still touting the “big lie” that Trump actually won the 2020 election. One of the prominent supporters of these theories is Trump’s former lawyer Sidney Powell, who is facing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit for promoting the big lie. In defending
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden on Tuesday used stark language as he mourned one of the worst acts of racial violence in US history, marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Biden outlined his administration’s new efforts to combat the country’s racial inequality during a speech in Tulsa, memorializing the hundreds of Black Americans who
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