HINESBURG, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont family’s chicken is back home after hitching a ride last month in the undercarriage of their pickup truck and ending up 13 miles away in the state’s largest city. WCAX-TV reports that someone having coffee on Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace, an outdoor pedestrian mall, spotted the chicken and knew
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — According to a health official in South Africa, methanol was found in the blood of the 21 teenagers who died last month in a bar in South Africa’s city of East London. Final toxicology reports will show if the levels of methanol were fatal and South Africa’s
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI and Justice Department recently disrupted the activities of a hacking group that was sponsored by the North Korean government and that targeted U.S. hospitals with ransomware. The agencies were able to recover half a million dollars in ransom payments. That’s according to Deputy Attorney
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Endowment Fund that distributes money to public schools and other entities lost $400 million in the fiscal year that wrapped up at the end of June, state officials said Tuesday. Investments Manager Chris Anton told the Idaho Land Board the fund lost about 13%
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency says it will spend $8 million on ads aimed at stemming the rising number of traffic deaths caused by speeding. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration campaign called “Speeding Wrecks Lives” will run on television, radio and digitally, targeting drivers from ages 18 to 44. The
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress were among those arrested by Capitol Police on Tuesday afternoon as part of an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court. Wearing specially made green bandanas with “Won’t Back Down,” they marched from the Capitol to the Court, which has been
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Amazon said Tuesday it has sued the administrators of more than 11,000 Facebook groups allegedly responsible for facilitating the purchase and sale of fake reviews on Amazon’s marketplace in seven countries. The group operators are accused of recruiting people to write fake or misleading product reviews in exchange for money or
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business The Biden administration is pushing to fill hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity jobs in the United States as part of a bid to close a talent shortage US officials describe as both a national security challenge and an economic opportunity. On Tuesday, the administration announced a multi-agency plan to create
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard and Katherine Dillinger, CNN Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday that she has endorsed the recommendation of the agency’s vaccine advisers to use the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine as a two-dose primary series in adults. It’s the fourth coronavirus vaccine available in the United
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency says it will spend $8 million on ads aimed at stemming the rising number of traffic deaths caused by speeding. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration campaign called “Speeding Wrecks Lives” will run on television, radio and digitally, targeting drivers from ages 18 to 44. The
Continue ReadingResearch by the Oregon State University College of Engineering and Portland State University suggests a trio of roadway treatments would enable people age 65 and older to travel on foot more safely.
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The owner of the Middle Eastern, Lebanese- influenced restaurant, Joolz, on Wall Street in downtown Bend said after changes brought on by the pandemic, supply issues, rising prices, and indoor floods, it’s the employee shortage that has led to it temporarily closing its physical location.
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN The Atlanta-area prosecutors scrutinizing former President Donald Trump‘s attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia said Tuesday that all 16 of the “fake electors” who participated in a plan to subvert the Electoral College are now targets of an ongoing criminal investigation. Court documents filed
Continue ReadingMOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A man serving time in federal prison on weapons charges is now accused of killing an Alabama teenager in 2007. Police in Mobile, Alabama, say 39-year-old Jhordis Deshon Woods was charged in the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Shaywanna Robinson. Robinson was killed when someone burst into a residence, fired a single
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales A 31-year-old man who was working for the production crew of the NBC show “Law & Order: Organized Crime” was shot and killed as he saved parking spots early Tuesday morning, New York City police said. The victim was later identified as 31-year-old Johnny Pizarro of Queens, according to an NYPD press
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its “high” risk category for travel on Monday with five places and discontinued its Covid-19 program for cruise ships. The agency said on its website that it would continue to publish guidance for cruise ships, but its voluntary program
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business It has been an absolutely brutal year for investors in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin has lost more than half its value in 2022. Now hovering around $23,000, the price of a single bitcoin has plunged more than 65% below last year’s all-time high of nearly $70,000. The
Continue ReadingBecause of its continued popularity, the Bend Police Department announced Tuesday it will host a second Community Academy this fall.
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN Even when the temperature soars into the 90s, Linda Morris won’t turn on her air conditioning until she feels she’s about to faint. Instead, the retired postal worker tries to escape the heat in the unfinished basement of her Hickory Hills, Illinois, home. She brought down a chair so she can
Continue ReadingCNN By Tami Luhby, CNN Even when the temperature soars into the 90s, Linda Morris won’t turn on her air conditioning until she feels she’s about to faint. Instead, the retired postal worker tries to escape the heat in the unfinished basement of her Hickory Hills, Illinois, home. She brought down a chair so she
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