Honesty Liller started using drugs when she was 12. “I just wanted to fit in with my friends,” she said. It was the start of a rocky journey that Liller, now 40, said took her to many dark places and made her a very different person. “With a name like Honesty I would lie, lie,
Continue ReadingChanges to the California correctional system’s Good Conduct Credit (GCC) program took effect Saturday, increasing the rate at which “incarcerated individuals are able to receive credits for good behavior,” a spokesperson for the corrections department said. Good conduct credits and educational achievements can help move up a person’s release date or parole hearing date, the
Continue ReadingAs the Shabbat drew to a close in Israel, funerals for the victims of Friday’s crush at Mount Meron have resumed — and so have the recriminations over the mountaintop disaster that killed 45 people, including children. Flags flew at half-staff on the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, and other public buildings on Sunday, marking a
Continue ReadingEleven people were taken to the hospital after a restaurant deck collapsed on Saturday afternoon, the Hamilton County, Tennessee, Office of Emergency Management said in a news release. Authorities responded to a 911 call around 4 p.m. reporting that more than 40 people had fallen from a collapsed deck at a restaurant in Soddy-Daisy, the
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The United States has fully vaccinated more than 100 million people against Covid-19, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a milestone that comes with optimism about the future. “I think we can confidently say the worst is behind us,” Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University School of Public
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Andrés Ricaurte scored in the third minute and Dallas cruised to a 4-1 win over the Portland Timbers Saturday night.
Continue ReadingLaw enforcement agencies responded to an active shooter situation late Saturday at the Oneida Casino near Green Bay, Wisconsin. The scene was later contained, according to Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, who said in a tweet, “There is no longer a threat to the community.” Melinda Danforth, director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the Oneida Nation,
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A leading Myanmar swimmer has called for the country’s Olympic committee to be expelled from the Olympic Movement, saying “genocidaires do not deserve to be in the Olympics.” In a Facebook post, swimmer Win Htet Oo said by rejecting the Myanmar Olympic Committee he had foregone any chance of competing at the Tokyo Olympic Games
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Mayor Stan Pulliam of Sandy, who is considering a run for governor in 2022, got on stage at General Duffy’s Waterhole in southwest Redmond on Saturday.
Continue ReadingLaw enforcement agencies are responding to an active shooter situation at the Oneida Casino near Green Bay, Wisconsin, a tweet from the casino said Saturday. Officers are working to secure the location, according to the tweet. The casino is telling people not to go near the area as the investigation continues. “All Oneida Casino locations
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Oregon high school students in the Youth Leadership Academy to End Gun Violence spoke with Sen. Ron Wyden at a virtual news conference on Saturday.
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A resolution to censure GOP Sen. Mitt Romney for his two votes to convict former President Donald Trump failed Saturday at the Utah Republican Party organizing convention, where the senator had been booed earlier in the day — a reflection of the anger that persists among the party’s core activists about Trump’s impeachment and Romney’s
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CET canceled Saturday and Sunday bus routes over a year ago, after the pandemic started. Now, those routes are up and running again.
Continue ReadingToday was the last day of the season for Mt. Hood Meadows. Timberline opened its summer Palmer lift this week.
Continue ReadingA year ago, when the Covid-19 pandemic was still in its relative infancy, the head of the World Health Organization stressed that a global approach would be the only way out of the crisis. “The way forward is solidarity: solidarity at the national level, and solidarity at the global level,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom
Continue ReadingA former player for the New York Jets died in an accident during a fishing tournament in Texas on Thursday, according to tournament officials and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Pete Lammons, 77, played six seasons for the Jets, including in Super Bowl III, according to a statement posted on the team’s website. Lammons
Continue ReadingOn most days, Network Capital, a business networking group with over 67,000 members on Facebook, focuses on providing its community with information on job vacancies, higher education, and careers. Recently, however, the group has been flooded with posts from users looking for hospital beds, oxygen and medicines, as a devastating second wave of Covid-19 sweeps
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Happy Sunday Central Oregon! Saturday morning’s shower gave us just over two tenths of an inch of rain in Bend, which is actually a tenth of an inch more than all of April! It was much-needed to help alleviate our drought conditions in Central Oregon. Although there are more cold fronts to pass through the
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On Tuesday, fuel specialists with the Deschutes National Forest, with assistance from Bend Fire and Rescue and the Oregon Department of Forestry, plan to conduct prescribed fire operations on both national forest and private lands southeast of Bend.
Continue ReadingMedina Spirit won the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday. The 3-year-old brown colt was trained by the legendary Bob Baffert, who becomes the winningest trainer in the history of the Derby with his seventh victory. Hall of Fame jockey John Velasquez notched his fourth win at the Run of
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