How many more weeks of winter? Sounds like it’s the right time for a bowl — no, make that a cauldron — of soup. “People get so excited about soup,” said Caroline Wright, author of the forthcoming cookbook “Soup Club” and founder of a Seattle-based weekly community soup club. “Soup is more than a food,
Continue ReadingThe stabbing of a 36-year-old man on Thursday is the latest in a number of attacks in New York City against people of Asian descent, a surge that has sparked a call for action from advocacy groups. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that the city’s Office for Preventing Hate Crimes and other agencies are
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The Los Angeles Lakers snapped their four-game losing streak with a 102-93 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers Friday night.
Continue ReadingA restaurant owner in Texas is offering free meals to people in need, no questions asked. It is the second time the restaurant has made this offering during the pandemic. Vira Chudasma, owner of Italian restaurant La Riv in Temple, Texas, said that when people started hoarding groceries at the start of the pandemic, she
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A hotel in Roseburg has been fined $31,000 for overcharging dozens of area residents who sought rooms after fleeing a large wildfire in September.
Continue ReadingA man accused of stabbing a 36-year-old Asian man Thursday evening outside the federal courthouse in Chinatown, New York City, will be charged with attempted murder in the second degree as a hate crime, according to NYPD Detective Arlene Muniz. Police say the Asian man was walking on the sidewalk at around 6:20 p.m. when
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The Oregon Supreme Court has upheld that a defendant can be acquitted by a nonunanimous verdict, months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that guilty verdicts must be unanimous.
Continue ReadingWhen a delivery driver’s car began sliding down on an icy Texas driveway, the driver closed her eyes, praying she wouldn’t hit the client’s home. She didn’t hit the house but Chelsea Timmons’ car crushed a flower bed outside an Austin, Texas, home as a snowstorm paralyzed the state last Sunday. She didn’t know it
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A senior adviser in the U.S. Department of Interior has rescinded a January Trump administration decision to grant grazing allotments to an Eastern Oregon ranching family whose members were convicted of arson in a court battle that triggered the takeover of a federal wildlife refuge by right-wing extremists.
Continue ReadingA New Jersey plumber who wanted to help Texans dealing with burst pipes and other damage after last week’s winter storms drove to Houston with a truck full of tools and got to work. Andrew Mitchell and his wife, Kisha Pinnock, decided to make the 22-hour drive from Morristown with their 2-year-old son Blake after
Continue Reading The health director in Tennessee’s largest county resigned Friday after the state health department found that 2,500 Covid-19 vaccine were either wasted or expired and two children were “inappropriately vaccinated” at a county vaccination site. A total of 2,500 doses were either expired or wasted in Shelby County over a 20-day period from February 3
Continue ReadingThe House of Representatives is on track to approve President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package, a major step toward enacting the first legislative priority of the new administration as the devastating fallout from the spread of Covid-19 has left Americans in dire need of further relief. Due to House procedures, a vote is
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Lilly, waiting at the Humane Society of Central Oregon, is a German shepherd mix dog who needs a good home. She needs a home without young children.
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Clean-up efforts were underway in Sisters on Friday after winds gusting past 50 mph Thursday night toppled trees, one of which sent limbs falling onto a mobile home and adjacent fifth-wheel trailer.
Continue ReadingThe FBI has identified a suspect it’s focusing on in the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, according to law enforcement officials. The theory, as CNN has reported, is that Sicknick became ill from bear spray used by the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6, and video evidence CNN previously reported on
Continue ReadingThree people were killed Friday when their single-engine plane crashed into a ravine shortly after takeoff in Gainesville, Georgia, officials said. The plane, a single-engine Cessna-182, crashed about two miles northeast of Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville shortly after takeoff, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Emma Duncan in a statement to CNN. Hall County
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The Supreme Court on Friday once again sided with houses of worship challenging regulations aimed at stopping the spread of Covid-19 in California. The court blocked so-called gathering restrictions in Santa Clara County that critics said treated churches differently than secular businesses in violation of the First Amendment. The issue has bitterly divided the court
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The owner of a horse farm southwest of Portland is facing a felony charge for animal neglect after investigators found nearly 50 horses there were not being given adequate food or water.
Continue ReadingFormer President Donald Trump on Friday endorsed a primary challenger running against Ohio’s Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, who voted to impeach Trump last month, in an early sign of the former President’s plans to exert his influence on Republican primaries ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. “Max Miller is a wonderful person who did a great
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