TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Rachel Balkovec, hired by the New York Yankees as the first woman to manage a minor league affiliate of a Major League Baseball team, was hit in the face by a batted ball during a drill and will be sidelined for up to a week. Balkovec was struck Tuesday. She will
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The Jefferson County Community Wildfire Protection Plan Steering Committee has released their draft plan update and is inviting public review and comment, with a public meeting on the plan set for next week.
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI, OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Thousands of teachers and other school workers have walked out in Sacramento. The California capital is the second major U.S. school district this month to see a work stoppage over pay and staffing shortages. In Minneapolis, teachers are in their third week of a
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI, OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Thousands of teachers and other school workers have walked out in Sacramento. The California capital is the second major U.S. school district this month to see a work stoppage over pay and staffing shortages. In Minneapolis, teachers are in their third week of a
Continue ReadingWARM SPRINGS, Ore. (AP) — After several days, water service on the Warm Springs reservation in north central Oregon is resuming, although with an indefinite boil water notice. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports community radio station KWSO announced that repairs on a damaged electrical transformer at the water treatment plant finished Tuesday, allowing the Agency Water
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Spring is here, and it’s time to take off the studded tires, the Oregon Department of Transportation reminded Wednesday. Oregon drivers have until Thursday, March 31 to remove them.
Continue ReadingDUMAS, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas authorities say they’ve arrested a 22-year-old man in a shooting at a car show that killed one person and left 26 people wounded. Arkansas State Police said Wednesday it arrested Brandon Deandra Knight, of Jacksonville. He’s charged with battery and aggravated assault. Police say Knight was taken into custody as
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are seeing double-digit viewer increases over last year. The men’s tournament is up 12% over last year. The tournament is also off to its best start in five years, averaging 9.12 million viewers through the second round. The women’s tournament is up 15% overall through
Continue ReadingBy DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Allegations that two evangelical pastors have used their influence with Brazil’s Education Ministry to steer federal funding to friends are causing an election-year scandal for the government of President Jair Bolsonaro. Major Brazilian news media have published stories and leaked audio recordings this week alleging
Continue ReadingBy BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — New LSU coach Matt McMahon brushes aside the specter of possible NCAA sanctions for the program he agreed to take over this week. He says he’s not concerned with how possible punishments might affect his ability to build on the already formidable career coaching
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — BNSF’s two largest unions will ask an arbitrator to throw out the railroad’s strict new attendance policy instead of appealing a court order preventing them from striking. The unions say the policy pressures employees to show up when they are sick or fatigued. The unions
Continue ReadingBy DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Hiring a new general manager and head coach created an expectation that major roster moves by the Minnesota Vikings would follow. They have instead kept their best and costliest players largely intact. Owner and president Mark Wilf spoke out against starting over. General manager
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — In a story published March 23, 2022, about Russia’s decision to partially reopen its stock exchange, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the investment analytics company MSCI is a division of Morgan Stanley. MSCI is an independent company.
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Russia plans to reopen its stock market for limited trading on Thursday, nearly one month after shares plunged and the exchange was shut down following the invasion of Ukraine. There will be heavy restrictions on trading intended to prevent the kind of massive selloff that took place on
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Arizona point guard Kerr Kriisa is a bit wild and more than a handful. Not just for opponents, but sometimes for the top-seeded Wildcats. The Estonian sophomore is the cocky and feisty sort who can drive opponents crazy, taunt their fans and question game officials.
Continue ReadingMONTREAL (AP) — A Quebec judge has sentenced once-celebrated baseball writer Jonah Keri to 21 months in jail for repeated abuse of his ex-wife. Quebec court Judge Alexandre Dalmau’s sentence was considerably higher than the one sought by the Crown, which was for a minimum of one year in jail. Before his July 2019 arrest
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– The Oregon State Marine Board, meeting in Bend April 6-7, will hold a work session on April 6 beginning at 2 pm, preceded by a local boating access facilities tour with the Bend Park and Recreation District.
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Ritchie, CNN Brian Houston, the founder of Australian megachurch Hillsong, stepped down from his role as global senior pastor amid an internal investigation into allegations of misconduct towards two women, the church announced on Wednesday. “We would like to advise you that Pastor Brian Houston has resigned as Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business iPhone owners with an Arizona driver’s license or state ID can now upload either to their Apple Wallet, marking the first time a US state has supported digital versions of this type of identification in the app. But the uses remain very limited, for now. Starting Wednesday, Arizona residents
Continue ReadingCNN By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business iPhone owners with an Arizona driver’s license or state ID can now upload either to their Apple Wallet, marking the first time a US state has supported digital versions of this type of identification in the app. But the uses remain very limited, for now. Starting Wednesday, Arizona
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