By MATTHEW BROWN ASSOCIATED PRESS BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A man drove his pickup truck into a family as they walked in a tourist village bordering Glacier National Park and opened fire with a shotgun, killing one man and mortally wounding a toddler who was in her mother’s arms before the mother’s sister-in-law managed to
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw’s news conference after his first All-Star Game start was nearly over when Blake Grice spoke up. The 10-year-old from Denver said his grandfather was a Dodgers fan and a Redondo Beach native who died of brain cancer. Meeting Kershaw allowed Blake to check
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The second-place finish at world championships was beside the point for Ukraine’s best high jumper, Yaroslava Mahuchikh. “For me, it’s gold,” she said Tuesday night, as she looked down at her newly won prize, one nobody would have been right to expect four months ago
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The second-place finish at world championships was beside the point for Ukraine’s best high jumper, Yaroslava Mahuchikh. “For me, it’s gold,” she said Tuesday night, as she looked down at her newly won prize, one nobody would have been right to expect four months ago
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — An elections director in Washington state’s most populous county says her office is asking the sheriff’s office to investigate people who planted signs near ballot boxes warning voters they were “under surveillance.” In a statement Tuesday evening, King County Elections Director Julie Wise blasted what she called an effort to scare voters,
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — An elections director in Washington state’s most populous county says her office is asking the sheriff’s office to investigate people who planted signs near ballot boxes warning voters they were “under surveillance.” In a statement Tuesday evening, King County Elections Director Julie Wise blasted what she called an effort to scare voters,
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — An elections director in Washington state’s most populous county says her office is asking the sheriff’s office to investigate people who planted signs near ballot boxes warning voters they were “under surveillance.” In a statement Tuesday evening, King County Elections Director Julie Wise blasted what she called an effort to scare voters,
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Stacker takes a look at McDonald’s menu items from abroad.
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Despite the global pandemic and other recent challenges, happiness abounds around the world. Stacker compiled a list of the world’s happiest countries
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Stacker collected information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke to find the states with the highest prevalence of stroke deaths.
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Healthy Families of the High Desert has been awarded a $13,500 grant from Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation to support the basic needs of families in Deschutes County. The funding will help families get baby birth certificates, pay fines, purchase hygiene items, car seats camping toilets and showers, baby proofing items
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The look of disbelief on British 1,500-meter champion Jake Wightman’s face as he crossed the finish line captured the evening best. “Crazy,” he said. Nothing quite went to script, yet everything seemed almost perfect on a wild Tuesday night at the world championships. The in-stadium
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The look of disbelief on British 1,500-meter champion Jake Wightman’s face as he crossed the finish line captured the evening best. “Crazy,” he said. Nothing quite went to script, yet everything seemed almost perfect on a wild Tuesday night at the world championships. The in-stadium
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LAKEVIEW, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Department of State Lands announced Tuesday that Crump Lake in Lake County will remain closed to public access amid continued drought and low water levels. The Department has enacted an emergency closure restricting foot traffic, motor vehicle access and other public uses of Crump Lake for 180 days. The restrictions are
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oasis Village is partnering with Heart of Oregon Corps and Redmond High School for construction of shelter units for Redmond’s unhoused. Plans call for Heart of Oregon Corps’ YouthBuild workers to construct up to 15 units and Redmond High School Construction Technology classes to construct one or two units per semester
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Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Las primarias de Maryland están programadas para poner a prueba las opiniones de los votantes demócratas sobre el establecimiento del partido y la voluntad de los republicanos de apegarse a lo que ha sido una fórmula ganadora para el Partido Republicano en el estado azul profundo. El gobernador republicano Larry Hogan,
Continue ReadingBy NARDOS HAILE Associated Press A Sesame Street-themed amusement park has apologized and promised more training for its employees after a video showing a costumed character waving off two 6-year-old Black girls during a parade went viral online. The nine-second video, posted to Instagram on Saturday by Jodi Brown, the mother of one of the
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Amnesty International says Myanmar’s military has laid landmines that have killed and injured people in and around villages in Kayah, a conflict-affected region near the border with Thailand. The human rights groups said its researchers who visited the region found that landmines were laid around people’s homes and churches in an area
Continue ReadingBy EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Three migrants and two Mexican citizens are dead and a dozen migrants are recovering from injuries following a highway accident in northern Mexico. Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said the three dead migrants included a girl from Honduras. The nationalities of the other two victims remained
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