An 8-year-old cancer survivor in San Bernardino, California, is using some of the proceeds from her Girl Scout cookie sales to give back to others fighting cancer. Lilly Bumpus, who has been a girl scout for four years, said she sold 32,484 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, crushing the previous record of roughly 26,000 boxes
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Cascade Natural Gas will evaluate and replace some gas pipelines on the west side of Bend. Construction begins on April 12th.
Continue ReadingThe Philippines said Thursday it has discovered illegally built structures on features in the Union Banks, a series of reefs in the South China Sea near where Manila says a flotilla of Chinese fishing vessels, allegedly manned by militias, had gathered in recent weeks. The country’s military said the structures were spotted during maritime patrols
Continue ReadingNational security adviser Jake Sullivan’s meeting with top officials from Japan and South Korea on Friday will focus primarily on North Korea and maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, according to a senior administration official. “Our intention is to discuss every aspect of North Korea policy,” the official said. Sullivan is hosting national
Continue ReadingTwo weeks have passed since the three Atlanta-area spa shootings claimed the lives of eight people, and in that time at least 20 other mass shootings have taken place, from California to Washington, DC. Analysis: A return to normal in America means a return to violence At least seven mass shootings occurred in the week
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department is investigating Rep. Matt Gaetz over allegations involving sex trafficking and prostitution, including involving a minor, according to a person familiar with the investigation. Federal investigators are examining whether Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, reported The New York Times, which first disclosed the investigation into Gaetz. The Florida
Continue ReadingThe United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has announced that it will not sanction athletes who kneel for the national anthem at the Olympic trials in support of social or racial justice movements. The committee released guidance for the athletes, providing examples of the demonstrations that are allowed. They include raising a fist at
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Forty one years. That’s how long I have lived in the United States since emigrating from South Korea to pursue the American dream. Twenty years. That’s how long I spent working multiple jobs, often 14 or 16 hours a day, to raise three daughters as a single mother, all so they could have access to
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Last year, Easter services at the Christian Life Center in Bend looked a little different, because of COVID-19 restrictions.
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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum filed an application Thursday with the U.S. Department of Education, asking for the cancellation of federal student loan debt for thousands of former students, including an unspecified number of Oregonians, who attended ITT Technical Institute.
Continue ReadingJohnson & Johnson said Thursday it still expects to meet its commitments for the promised delivery of an additional 24 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in April, even after a quality problem at one of the company’s contract manufacturers. The plant that had the problem, run by Baltimore-based Emergent BioSolutions, has not yet been
Continue ReadingThere are two new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,385, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
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President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he would be assigning five Cabinet secretaries to serve as his messengers in working with Congress and engaging with the public on the administration’s infrastructure proposal. “While most of the Cabinet will have a role in helping shape and press the jobs plan, today I’m announcing that I’m
Continue ReadingA virtual meeting of Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will take place on Friday to discuss a possible US return to the Iran nuclear deal, said the EU in a statement released Thursday. “The Joint Commission will be chaired on behalf of EU High Representative Josep Borrell by the Deputy
Continue ReadingDon Farmer, one of CNN’s original anchors and a mainstay of both national and local TV news, died Wednesday. He was 82. Farmer and his wife of 49 years Chris Curle, who shared the news of his death, were key building blocks in the 1980 creation of CNN. The husband and wife team anchored a
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Economic Development for Central Oregon announced Thursday its release of the 2021 Central Oregon Largest Employers List, complete with breakouts of the top employers in each Central Oregon community.
Continue ReadingFormer Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin spoke to his supervisor in a phone call shortly after kneeling on George Floyd for over 9 minutes last May to explain his version of what happened. “I was just going to call and have you come out to our scene here,” Chauvin told Sgt. David Pleoger in a
Continue ReadingThe FBI conducted more background checks for firearms purchases in March — a month in which several prominent mass shootings reignited America’s conversation about gun control — than they have in any month so far this year. About 4.7 million Americans initiated gun background checks last month — a 36% increase from February, according to
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The Oregon Judicial Department has launched a new online service – the Electronic Central Violations Bureau, or eCVB – that will allow people cited for a violation to check eligibility for a fine reduction, request a reduction if they qualify, and pay securely from their computer or mobile device at any time of day.
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Ontario announced a province-wide “emergency brake” shutdown beginning this weekend as Canada’s most populous province struggles to cope with a surge in ICU admissions that provincial leaders said they feared was fueled by rapidly spreading coronavirus variants. “The new variants are far more dangerous than before. They spread faster and do more harm than the
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