By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Harden had 29 points and a season-high 15 rebounds, Joel Embiid added 27 points and 10 boards and the Philadelphia 76ers rolled to a 122-97 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. It is the first time since Harden was acquired from the Brooklyn Nets
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is accepting applications to fill three positions on the Local Government Grant Program Advisory Committee. The 11-member committee allocates funding to public park and recreation projects throughout the state. OPRD is seeking one county representative east of the Cascades and two representatives of the public, one
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN Tonight, for the 15th consecutive year, people around the world will turn off their lights for one hour. It’s part of a grassroots global campaign called Earth Hour. What is Earth Hour? Earth Hour is an annual tradition started by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, to
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Board of Forestry will hold a virtual informational session starting at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 6. The meeting will be livestreamed on the department’s YouTube channel, and written comments will be accepted. The informational session will include a keynote address followed by a series of panel speakers. The discussion is intended
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch and Christina Maxouris, CNN For more than 33 years, investigators in Norton Shores, Michigan, tried to figure out what happened to Stacey Lyn Chahorski, a young woman who left home to travel the country and last spoke to her mother in September 1988. At the same time, Georgia detectives worked to identify
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Kameron McGusty scored 27 points and Miami advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time, beating Iowa State 70-56 in the NCAA Tournament. Jordan Miller added 16 points on 6-for-6 shooting as No. 10 seed Miami more than held its own in a matchup of
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Sunriver Brewing is getting ready to open its third location in Central Oregon, at the former Jackson’s Corner on Bend’s Eastside — its biggest pub yet.
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump wants to use November’s midterm elections to solidify his continued dominance of the national Republican Party. Few places are more central to that effort than Georgia. Enraged that Republican Gov. Brian Kemp didn’t advance lies that the state’s free and fair presidential
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jalen Green had 23 points including five 3-pointers and the Houston Rockets built a big early lead before coasting to a 125-106 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. Jae’Sean Tate added 17 points and the win snapped Houston’s 11-game losing streak on the road.
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jalen Green had 23 points including five 3-pointers and the Houston Rockets built a big early lead before coasting to a 125-106 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. Jae’Sean Tate added 17 points and the win snapped Houston’s 11-game losing streak on the road.
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The new roundabout being built on Highway 20 east of Bend at Ward and Hamby roads east of Bend is expected to be finished by the end of May, ODOT says.
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s death from cancer this week sparked American women to reflect on the 84-year-old diplomat’s sweeping influence on their lives, 25 years after Bill Clinton made her the United States’ representative to the world. Admirers say Albright’s identities as a child refugee,
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN, VANESSA GERA and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Joe Biden delivered a forceful and highly personal condemnation of Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Saturday, summoning a call for liberal democracy and a durable resolve among Western nations in the face of a brutal autocrat. As he capped a four-day
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Caleb Love hit game-tying and go-ahead 3-pointers 37 seconds apart and North Carolina moved within a victory of its 21st Final Four. The Tar Heels beat UCLA 73-66 in a March Madness matchup of power programs. Love finished with a career-high 30 points, including six 3s
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Here is the ODOT Region 4 construction update for the week of March 27 to April 2. The Oregon Department of Transportation is committed to providing a safe, efficient transportation system. ODOT invests in Oregon’s future through roadway improvement projects. The following projects are located within ODOT’s Region 4 encompassing Central
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas implored Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff to act to overturn the 2020 election results have put a spotlight on how justices decide whether to step aside from a case. Individual justices make
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Through a decades-long career in conservative politics, Virginia Thomas has repeatedly maintained that her political activity represented no conflict of interest with the work of her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. But revelations that Virginia Thomas, who goes by the nickname Ginni, repeatedly urged aides to
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Lexie Hull scored 19 points in her hometown, Haley Jones added 17 points and 10 rebounds, and top-seeded Stanford rolled into the regional final with 72-66 win over No. 4 seed Maryland. The defending national champion Cardinal dominated Maryland for the first three quarters and
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — The northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv has been holding out against Russian forces since the early days of the invasion. But the city located not far from the border with Belarus on the road to Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv is surrounded, and the suffering of residents
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, Michelle Watson and Jason Hanna, CNN Taylor Hawkins, the golden-locked musician who for more than two decades drummed for the Foo Fighters on their way to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died, the band said Friday — an announcement made shortly before the group was to play in Colombia.
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