By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge is blocking a 2021 Arizona “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children. Abortion providers were worried the law can lead to criminal charges like assault or child abuse and allege it is unconstitutionally vague. Judge Douglas Rayes on Monday said that
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Far-right Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson’s trial starts this week on one count of felony riot in connection with a brawl outside a Portland, Oregon, bar in 2019. Jury selection began Monday and is scheduled to continue through Thursday, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. Prosecutors allege Gibson instigated a street fight between
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Far-right Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson’s trial starts this week on one count of felony riot in connection with a brawl outside a Portland, Oregon, bar in 2019. Jury selection began Monday and is scheduled to continue through Thursday, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. Prosecutors allege Gibson instigated a street fight between
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man is in custody after police say he admitted hanging a man and killing another man as part of a “purge” that he claimed was directed by a higher power. KSL-TV reports 28-year-old Christian Taele was arrested after police responding to a report of an assault found the
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed to a request from environmental groups to study increasing critical habitat designations in Alaska waters for one of the rarest species in the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries estimates there are about 30 North Pacific right whales left
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Silver Moon Brewing, the third-oldest craft brewery in Central Oregon, RE/MAX Key Properties and Motto Mortgage Cascades announced last week a new sponsorship deal that includes the naming rights to the 2022 Summer Concert Series at Silver Moon Brewing in Bend, consumer engagement, hospitality & customized artist promotions with the mission
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Concession workers at Dodger Stadium have voted to authorize a strike days ahead of MLB’s All-Star Game festivities in Los Angeles. Workers employed by concessionaire Compass Group and its subsidiary Levy Restaurants voted 99% to authorize a strike. Unite Here Local 11 says a strike could begin at any time. The
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — Philadelphia third baseman Alec Bohm exited the Phillies’ game with a dislocated left ring finger after sliding headfirst into second base. Bohm singled to left-center against St. Louis in the second inning with two outs and tried to stretch his hit into a double. He dived into second, immediately began to
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, Katherine Dillinger and Paul LeBlanc, CNN US health officials are urgently working on a plan to allow second Covid-19 boosters for all adults, a senior White House official confirmed to CNN on Monday. The US Food and Drug Administration is making it a high priority, the official said. Second boosters have been
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has fired Dragan Skocic as head coach four months before the World Cup in Qatar. Iranian news agency IRNA on Monday said the 53-year-old Croatian would not be taking the Iran team to soccer’s marquee tournament. Iran is set to kick off its World Cup campaign on Nov. 21 against
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Early on Sunday, July 3, Madeline Bason and her wife, Erica Cardwell, were walking by the Deschutes County Courthouse in downtown Bend.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un grupo de turistas que practicaba senderismo en las montañas Tian Shan de Kirguistán sobrevivió el viernes a una enorme avalancha que les pasó por encima. Uno de los excursionistas, el británico Harry Shimmin, logró captar en video el momento en que la nieve se desprendía de la cima de una
Continue ReadingCNN By Stella Chan and Susannah Cullinane, CNN A Team USA Olympic medal winner says a man attacked her outside a Los Angeles restaurant, hurling a metal object at her and fracturing her eye socket. Kim Glass, a 2008 volleyball silver medalist, posted a video to social media describing her ordeal. The footage shows her
Continue ReadingBy Stella Chan and Susannah Cullinane, CNN A Team USA Olympic medal winner says a man attacked her outside a Los Angeles restaurant, hurling a metal object at her and fracturing her eye socket. Kim Glass, a 2008 volleyball silver medalist, posted a video to social media describing her ordeal. The footage shows her right
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — People have a right protected by the First Amendment to film police while they work, a Western U.S. appeals court ruled Monday in a decision that concurs with decisions made by six of the nation’s other 12 appeals court. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — People have a right protected by the First Amendment to film police while they work, a Western U.S. appeals court ruled Monday in a decision that concurs with decisions made by six of the nation’s other 12 appeals court. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Forestry officials in Oregon said Monday that an invasive beetle known for decimating ash trees throughout North America and Europe was recently discovered west of Portland. The Oregon Department of Forestry said the iridescent green emerald ash borer is considered the most destructive forest pest in North America and had been
Continue ReadingLAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A trial began Monday for a former police officer charged with murder in a man’s death during a 2020 struggle with officers in Las Cruces, New Mexico. A prosecutor said Officer Christopher Smelser didn’t properly use a chokehold that gradually ended the life of Antonio Valenzuela, who fled on foot
Continue ReadingBy Sonia Moghe, CNN A growing chorus of voices is urging Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to drop a murder charge against a bodega clerk who fatally stabbed a man who had gone behind the counter and pushed him. The bodega clerk, Jose Alba, 61, was working at the Blue Moon Convenient Store in Upper
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Florence Pugh quiere que el mundo sepa que está orgullosa de su cuerpo, incluyendo sus pezones. La actriz de “Black Widow” respondió a las críticas “agresivas” y “vulgares” que recibió luego de compartir una foto en las redes sociales del vestido traslúcido que lució en el show de alta costura de
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