Oregon Board of Forestry to meet in Bend April 27, host forestry tour next day
The Oregon Board of Forestry will hold a virtual meeting starting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 27 in Bend, with a forestry tour the following day.
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Bidens paid 24.6% taxes on $610,702 earnings, returns show
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $610,702 during their first year in the White House and paid $150,439 in federal income taxes. That’s a tax rate of 24.6% for 2021, well over the average federal rate of around 14%. Those totals, released on Friday, tax
Continue ReadingBidens paid 24.6% taxes on $610,702 earnings, returns show
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $610,702 during their first year in the White House and paid $150,439 in federal income taxes. That’s a tax rate of 24.6% for 2021, well over the average federal rate of around 14%. Those totals, released on Friday, tax
Continue ReadingTrejo’s 3-run homer leads Rockies over Cubs 6-5
By MICHAEL KELLY Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Alan Trejo hit a three-run homer in his second at-bat this season, and the Colorado Rockies overcame a tough start by Germán Márquez to beat the Chicago Cubs 6-5. C.J. Cron also went deep and Kris Bryant had two hits against his former team. Trejo didn’t play
Continue ReadingJosh Mandel runs Ohio GOP Senate campaign ‘through churches’
By JILL COLVIN and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel makes no secret of his Jewish religion. He is the grandson of Holocaust survivors, attended Jewish summer camp and sends his kids to Jewish day school. Nonetheless, Mandel has run a campaign steeped in Christianity.
Continue Reading‘We all realize that we will not be forgiven.’ Ukraine braces for new assault after sinking of Russian flagship
CNN By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The war in Ukraine could soon enter a new, even more dangerous phase. Russia, angry over the loss of its Black Sea Fleet flagship, has warned of “unpredictable consequences” if the US continues supplying weapons to Ukraine, while Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky struck a somber note telling CNN the world
Continue ReadingApril 16, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
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Continue ReadingApril 15, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
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Continue ReadingMacron vs. Le Pen: The French presidential election runoff explained
By Joshua Berlinger and Joseph Ataman, CNN It’s Macron vs. Le Pen, round two. France’s presidential election will be a rematch of the 2017 contest, when the far right’s Marine Le Pen faced off against political newcomer Emmanuel Macron. Macron won that race by nearly two votes to one. But while the candidates remain the
Continue ReadingMacron vs. Le Pen: The French presidential election runoff explained
CNN By Joshua Berlinger and Joseph Ataman, CNN It’s Macron vs. Le Pen, round two. France’s presidential election will be a rematch of the 2017 contest, when the far right’s Marine Le Pen faced off against political newcomer Emmanuel Macron. Macron won that race by nearly two votes to one. But while the candidates remain
Continue ReadingRussia renews strikes on Ukraine capital, hits other cities
By ADAM SCHRECK and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has resumed scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond after warning that it planned to step up missile strikes on the capital. Saturday’s strikes are a reminder to Ukrainians and their Western supporters that the whole country remains under threat despite
Continue ReadingBases-loaded intentional walk part of Angels’ win over Texas
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Angels manager Joe Maddon ordered the second bases-loaded intentional walk of his career and only the third in the majors since at least 1950, and Shohei Ohtani homered twice to lead Los Angeles past the Texas Rangers 9-6. Corey Seager joins Barry Bonds in 1998 and Josh Hamilton in 2008 in
Continue ReadingHyo Joo Kim maintains 3-shot lead at LOTTE Championship
By KALANI TAKASE Associated Press EWA BEACH, Hawaii (AP) — Hyo Joo Kim rallied with two late birdies for an even-par 72 to maintain a three-stroke lead Friday in the LPGA Tour’s LOTTE Championship. After dropping strokes on the par-4 seventh and par-3 12th with her only bogeys of the week at breezy Hoakalei Country
Continue ReadingQueen Elizabeth will not attend Easter Sunday service at Windsor, royal source says
By Max Foster and Toyin Owoseje, CNN Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will not join other members of the royal family for an Easter Sunday service at Windsor Castle this year, according to a royal source. It comes just a few days after it was announced that she would not be attending Thursday’s annual Maundy Service
Continue ReadingBiden’s trademark political traits tested by war in Ukraine
By Kevin Liptak, CNN When President Joe Biden labeled Russia’s actions in Ukraine “genocide” this week, the response by his team looked much different than when he declared, also unplanned, that Vladimir Putin shouldn’t be in power. Both comments caught advisers off guard, appearing nowhere in his scripted remarks and going well beyond the official
Continue ReadingArrest made in connection to triple homicide at a Georgia shooting range
WGCL, HAWK FAMILY, CNN By Michelle Watson and Sharif Paget, CNN A Georgia man was arrested in connection with a shooting at a Grantville, Georgia, shooting range that resulted in three deaths last week, authorities said Friday. Jacob Christian Muse, 21, faces three counts of “malice murder” in the shooting on April 8 at the
Continue ReadingTexts show Utah Sen. Lee’s early work to overturn election
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Sen. Mike Lee worked on early efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, helping push legally dubious schemes to keep then-President Donald Trump in power, before he shifted course and quickly backed away. His efforts, revealed in text messages obtained by the House panel investigating last year’s
Continue ReadingMan, 21, arrested a week after 3 killed at Georgia gun range
GRANTVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a fatal armed robbery at a Georgia gun range that left three members of a family dead last week. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Friday that Jacob Christian Muse, of College Park, is charged with three counts of malice murder. Grantville
Continue ReadingEx-WNBA guard pleads not guilty to strangling former partner
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Former WNBA player Shoni Schimmel has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a former partner on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Schimmel has been charged with assault by strangulation of an intimate dating partner and assault resulting in substantial bodily injury. The incident allegedly happened June 13,
Continue ReadingEx-WNBA guard pleads not guilty to strangling former partner
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Former WNBA player Shoni Schimmel has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a former partner on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Schimmel has been charged with assault by strangulation of an intimate dating partner and assault resulting in substantial bodily injury. The incident allegedly happened June 13,
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