A New York City anti-hate group is distributing personal safety alarms to Asian Americans and immigrants to protect them from a recent surge of racially motivated violence. Safe From Hate has donated 3,000 handheld alarms that emit an extremely loud noise to shock and disorient attackers while calling attention from bystanders and law enforcement officials.
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Sabrina Smith was only 17 when a predominately White Mississippi jury convicted her in 1989 for fatally beating her 9-month-old son. “The judge said, ‘we sentence you to death by lethal injection. May God have mercy on your soul,’” she recalled. “All I could say was, ‘may God have mercy on your soul because you
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The European Union aims to vaccinate 70% of its adult population by September. But anxiety over a possible link between the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and reported blood clot cases may put that target in jeopardy. Europe’s vaccine rollout has already been slower than expected. Meanwhile, the continent is confronting a third wave of the pandemic, fueled
Continue ReadingA Korean American woman living in Los Angeles has created a hate crime booklet for Asian American seniors to prepare them in case they are racially targeted. The idea was born amid the coronavirus pandemic, after Esther Lim heard the term “China virus,” a phrase often used by former President Donald Trump, followed by a
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Veronica Pena says she’s spent the past year carefully navigating the Covid-19 pandemic in the mostly restriction-free state of Florida. The Miami Beach resident stopped going to bars, gets regularly tested and has a tight circle of friends she interacts with, who are as cautious as she is. Now, as she waits to get her
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The pandemic’s end is in sight — but right now, the US is in a critical spot. A highly contagious — and potentially more deadly — coronavirus variant is spreading across the US, threatening to send infection numbers spiking once again. Meanwhile, the number of vaccines administered across the country is growing, as officials work
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The Bend Cultural Tourism Commission announces the sixth year of the Bend Cultural Tourism Fund with the opening of its online grant application for Cultural Tourism grants.
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PREP FOOTBALL= Franklin 29, Madison 0 Gresham 17, Parkrose 6 Henley 42, North Valley 0 Jefferson PDX 32, Roosevelt 14 Lincoln 28, Wilson 18 Marshfield 56, Ontario 8 Mazama 38, Banks 0 Nixyaawii 26, Hood River 6 Summit 30, Beaverton 21 POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS= Lakeview vs. Rogue River, ccd. ___ Some high school football scores
Continue ReadingA visitor at the San Diego Zoo was arrested on Friday shortly after taking his two-year-old daughter into an elephant enclosure, according to a press release from the San Diego Police Department. Jose Navarrete, 25, made it into the elephant enclosure with his daughter after passing multiple barriers, the release said. Once the father and
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The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has initiated rule-making for Delta-8-THC and other psychoactive components of hemp and marijuana that currently fall outside the adult-use cannabis market’s system of testing and labeling.
Continue ReadingThe largest asteroid that has been predicted to make a close approach of Earth this year will zip by from a safe distance on Sunday, according to NASA. Scientists estimate the asteroid is between 1,300 and 2,230 feet wide. The near-Earth asteroid, known as 2001 FO32, will be 1.25 million miles, or more than five
Continue ReadingHyun Jung Grant was one of the victims of the Atlanta spa shootings Tuesday, leaving behind her two children. “She was a single mother who dedicated her whole life to providing for my brother and I,” her son Randy Park wrote on a GoFundMe page after the shooting. “It is only my brother and I
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Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James will be out indefinitely after suffering a high ankle sprain in Saturday’s game, according to the team’s website. The injury occurred in the second quarter of the Lakers’ 99-94 loss to the Atlanta Hawks at Los Angeles’ Staples Center. While chasing after a loose ball in the second quarter
Continue ReadingPerfectly Frank‘s customers are a loyal bunch. Last year, they carried the restaurant through the darkest days of the pandemic with donations. Now, they’re carrying each other — with donated meals. The restaurant, a nearly 16-year staple in Norfolk, Virginia, has begun a free meal initiative to feed the community with meal donations from customers.
Continue ReadingAfter schools moved online a year ago because of the pandemic, one public school science teacher was determined to make his chemistry labs interactive and accessible. Jonte Lee, a teacher at Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, DC, figured the way to do so was to connect to the students on social platforms. As a
Continue ReadingTom Cornish, a 96-year-old World War II veteran, continues to serve his country decades later by knitting and donating hundreds of hats to the Salvation Army. Cornish, who lives at the Champlin Shores senior living community in Minnesota, took to knitting hats during the coronavirus pandemic. Last year, the veteran donated 400 handmade hats to
Continue Reading Republican Julia Letlow will win the special election in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District, CNN projects. Letlow will take the seat that her late husband Luke, who won last year’s election but died in December after being diagnosed with Covid-19, was never able to hold. She will make history as the first Republican woman to represent
Continue Reading Republican Julia Letlow will win the special election in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District, CNN projects. Letlow will take the seat that her late husband Luke, who won last year’s election but died in December after being diagnosed with Covid-19, was never able to hold. She will make history as the first Republican woman to represent
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The Big Butte Challenge is a 10-week event that encourages people to support the local community. The goal is to reach the summit of five buttes in Central Oregon and get a free beer sponsored by a local brewery.
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People were waiting in line for almost two hours Saturday, just to get inside the Sun Mountain Fun Center in Bend. COVID-19 restrictions limit occupancy to 50 percent, but people are eager to get out.
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