Happy Tuesday, Central Oregon! We’re sticking with the partly cloudy skies, with lows in the 40s Tuesday night. While staying partly cloudy Wednesday, we warm a bit more into the upper 70s. Then we see a chance of thunderstorms return Thursday afternoon. This rain is expected to continue off and on all the way through Sunday night. Highs will gradually cool for
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN White House officials met Tuesday with travel industry leaders who pressed the Biden administration to end its requirements that vaccinated international travelers take a coronavirus test before flying to the United States. Airlines for America, representing major US air carriers, and the US Travel Association, representing the broad
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States says it will push for additional sanctionson North Korea if it conducts a new nuclear test explosion. U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials have said North Korea could soon conduct its first nuclear test in nearly five years. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NFL’s free agency, at least when it comes to its top announcing crews, is over for this year. Fox Sports completed its lineup for this season on Tuesday by announcing Greg Olsen as its lead NFL analyst. Fox announced during its upfront presentation for
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Fumar tabaco es muy adictivo y puede tener efectos adversos para la salud a largo plazo. Pero hay esperanza para quienes quieren dejar de fumar gracias a innovadoras apps, líneas de ayuda y estrategias probadas. En 2019, más de 30,8 millones de estadounidenses fumaban, según los Centros para el Control y
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Squid style is en vogue for the Los Angeles Angels. When Andrew Velazquez got on the bus at Angel Stadium for the charter flight to New York, all of his teammates were dressed in the hip street mode of the 27-year-old shortstop known as “Squid.”
Continue ReadingCNN, KOCO, WXYZ, KSBW, KTRK By René Marsh, CNN As heat ramps up ahead of what forecasters say will be a hotter than normal summer, electricity experts and officials are warning that states may not have enough power to meet demand in the coming months. And many of the nation’s grid operators are also not
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby took some rather drastic measures to establish an immediate kinship with his new holder. Former Chicago Bears punter Pat O’Donnell and his family stayed at Crosby’s house for about three weeks this offseason. The Packers are hoping the
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — The game between the Miami Marlins and the Colorado Rockies has been postponed due to rainy weather. It will be made up Wednesday as part of a traditional doubleheader. The Rockies are slated to throw Antonio Senzatela in the first game and Germán Márquez in the second. The Marlins haven’t announced their
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — La guerra de Rusia en Ucrania no da tregua. Estos son los acontecimientos más recientes del conflicto que mantiene al mundo en vilo. La “mayor parte de Severodonetsk” ahora está controlada por Rusia, con tropas “moviéndose hacia el centro”, según el jefe de la administración militar regional de Luhansk. Pero
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Ten people were injured, including a 17-year-old, in a shooting in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, police said. Four people were hospitalized in critical condition, Charleston Police Chief Luther Reynolds said in a news conference Tuesday. A police officer was also wounded by shrapnel and two sheriff’s
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Paul LeBlanc, CNN US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted Tuesday that she had failed to anticipate how long high inflation would continue to plague American consumers as the Biden administration works to contain a mounting political liability. “I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take,” Yellen
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will send Ukraine a small number of high-tech, medium-range rocket systems, a critical weapon that Ukrainian leaders have been begging for as they struggle to stall Russian progress in the Donbas region. The rocket systems are part of
Continue ReadingTransgender swimmer Lia Thomas says she intends to keep competing, with the ultimate goal of reaching the Olympics. In an interview that aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Thomas also disputed those who say she is ruining the integrity of women’s athletics. Thomas joined the Penn women’s swim team as a senior after competing for
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN White House officials met Tuesday with travel industry officials, who pressed the Biden administration to end its requirements that vaccinated international travelers take a coronavirus test before flying to the United States. Airlines for America, representing major US air carriers, and the US Travel Association, representing the broad
Continue ReadingLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police have identified the two women killed over the weekend when two cars crashed during an annual Memorial Day “cruise” night and injured 20 people when the cars struck a crowd of bystanders in Nebraska’s capital city. Lincoln Police said Tuesday that 20-year-old Emily Siebenhor and 22-year-old Edith Hermosillo died in
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As a kid, Eitan Bernath didn’t collect baseball cards, comic books or coins like his peers did. He collected kitchen tools. “My fondest memories from my life are always around food,” he says. Mind you, that life is still young. At just 20, Bernath has
Continue ReadingBy Etant Dupain and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Surging gang violence in Haiti’s capital has left nearly 200 people dead and thousands displaced in the last month alone, according to a United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report. Heavily armed rival gangs began clashing and seizing territory in Port-au-Prince with new intensity
Continue ReadingBUFFALO, Minn. (AP) — A man accused in a shooting attack on a Minnesota medical clinic that killed one staff member and wounded four others last year refused to look at the survivors as they described their pain and terror. Gregory Ulrich is being tried on charges of murder, attempted murder and other counts in
Continue ReadingBy DAVE HOGG Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Roger Clemens has had some big baseball moments in the city of Detroit. Not many of them had him as fired up as the second game of Tuesday’s doubleheader between the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins. The seven-time Cy Young Award winner flew into town from Texas
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