By MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Principals, superintendents and counselors are filling in as substitutes in classrooms around the United States as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools already struggling with staffing shortages. Dozens of employees from the central office in Cincinnati were dispatched this week to schools at risk
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Un sismo de magnitud 6,1 sacudió la costa del Pacífico Nicaragua en la mañana de este jueves, según datos del Servicio Geológico de EE.UU. (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés). De momento no se reportan víctimas ni daños. Inicialmente el USGS calculó que la magnitud fue de 6,2. La agencia informó
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A garbage truck’s load caught fire Thursday morning and the driver dropped it into an empty lot on NW Hill Street, where Bend firefighters quickly doused it. Brian Gauthier shared this video with us.
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should turn over money to his victims, including a previously deposited $1,400 federal stimulus payment, the US Attorney’s Office of Massachusetts said in a filing. The Wednesday filing is requesting the Federal Bureau of Prisons to turn over funds from Tsarnaev’s inmate trust account. Tsarnaev is
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Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., spoke and issued statements Thursday to make the one-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol and urge colleagues to act on voting-rights legislation.
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN A team of scientists is trying to find out why dozens of children were mummified and buried in catacombs at a convent on the Italian island of Sicily. The first comprehensive study of the child mummies will be led by Kirsty Squires, associate professor of bioarchaeology at Staffordshire
Continue ReadingCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Garner has been named Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, based not just on her career as an actor, but also because of her record as a philanthropist and entrepreneur. The organization said Thursday that Garner will be the guest of honor at a parade through
Continue ReadingTHE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — A fourth resident of a massive Florida retirement community has been arrested on a charge of voter fraud. Charles Barnes was arrested Tuesday on a fraud for casting more than one ballot. The arrest affidavit doesn’t detail the basis for the charge. Barnes entered a not guilty plea on Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Classes in Chicago were canceled for a third consecutive day amid an ongoing fight with the teachers union over remote learning and other COVID-19 safety protocols. Families in the nation’s third-largest district were notified of Friday’s cancelation on Thursday evening, noting that “in-person learning and activities may
Continue ReadingThe freezing level rose significantly over the last 24 hours allowing our mountain roads to clear nicely despite ongoing rainfall. Snow will return to the Cascades later today and continue through the night Friday night. This will clear quickly and the coming weekend will see plenty of sunshine on the slopes. More snow will come
Continue ReadingResearch by the Oregon State University College of Engineering has uncovered a way to improve the efficiency of a type of grid-scale storage crucial for a global transition toward renewable energy.
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says a record 9.5 million COVID-19 cases were tallied over the last week as the omicron variant of the coronavirus swept the planet, a 71% increase from the previous 7-day period that the U.N. health agency likened to a “tsunami.” But there was
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Better Together Central Oregon’s board of directors announced this week that Rutila Galvan-Rodriguez has accepted the position of executive director.
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia is nervously awaiting the outcome of what increasingly looks like a soap opera, with its most famous sports idol in the lead role. The top-ranked Novak Djokovic faces the prospect of deportation from Australia where the Serb had hoped to win his 21st Grand Slam
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia is nervously awaiting the outcome of what increasingly looks like a soap opera, with its most famous sports idol in the lead role. The top-ranked Novak Djokovic faces the prospect of deportation from Australia where the Serb had hoped to win his 21st Grand Slam
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New data from the music industry confirms what a lot of people long suspected — 2021 was a very good year for Morgan Wallen, Adele and vinyl. MRC Data’s year-end report, presented in collaboration with Billboard, shows that Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” ended 2021
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New data from the music industry confirms what a lot of people long suspected — 2021 was a very good year for Morgan Wallen, Adele and vinyl. MRC Data’s year-end report, presented in collaboration with Billboard, shows that Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” ended 2021
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for Los Angeles County failed in their bid to persuade a federal judge to end Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit over gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna and seven others. The Los Angeles Times reports that U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for Los Angeles County failed in their bid to persuade a federal judge to end Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit over gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna and seven others. The Los Angeles Times reports that U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on
Continue ReadingVice President Kamala Harris spoke from the US Capitol on the one-year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, where she said that on that day, “we all saw what our nation would look like if the forces who seek to dismantle our democracy are successful. The lawlessness, the violence, the chaos.” Read her remarks as
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