LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sabrina Ionescu had 31 points in the highest-scoring triple-double in WNBA history and tied Candace Parker’s league record of three triple-doubles in the New York Liberty’s 116-107 victory over Las Vegas on Wednesday night. Ionescu also had 13 rebounds and 10 assists. She hit a career-high seven 3-pointers in eight tries
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After a two-year absence, the Western Region Juniors baseball tournament returns to Bend next month, with 13 teams competing at Caldera High School.
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Program said in a report Thursday. The UNDP estimates
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Program said in a report Thursday. The UNDP estimates
Continue ReadingBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A global athletic competition is starting in Birmingham, Alabama, after a yearlong delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The opening ceremony for the World Games 2022 is set for Thursday night at Protective Stadium. It will kick off 10 days of competition in nearly 40 sports around the metro area with
Continue ReadingBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A global athletic competition is starting in Birmingham, Alabama, after a yearlong delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The opening ceremony for the World Games 2022 is set for Thursday night at Protective Stadium. It will kick off 10 days of competition in nearly 40 sports around the metro area with
Continue ReadingYUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking a one-year prison sentence for a school board member in southern Arizona for illegally collecting four early ballots during the 2020 primary election. If probation is instead imposed, prosecutors said the judge should enforce a provision of Guillermina Fuentes’ plea deal that bars her from holding public office
Continue ReadingCNN By Kara Scannell, CNN The head of the Internal Revenue Service has asked a watchdog to investigate the decision to conduct rare tax audits of former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the agency announced Thursday. “The IRS has referred the matter to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax
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A Bend man faces drugged and reckless driving charges after a crash Wednesday night that killed a Terrebonne motorcyclist on state Highway 126 west of Redmond, Oregon State Police said Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, Shawn Deng and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Beijing on Wednesday announced a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for residents to enter public venues, becoming the first city in mainland China to do so as it attempts to contain a highly infectious Omicron subvariant. From July 11, people will need to show proof of vaccination to
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two drug traffickers have been hanged in Singapore, bringing the number of executions this year in the city-state to four. Activists said the prison department gave the belongings and death certificates for Malaysian Kalwant Singh and Singaporean Norasharee Gous to their families after their execution Thursday morning. Rights groups said
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — More than a dozen opposition parties are running in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but they are no match for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s behemoth Liberal Democratic Party, which has reigned postwar Japan almost without interruption. The dominance of the LDP is taken for granted here, calling into
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korea activist says he launched more huge balloons carrying COVID-19 relief items toward North Korea. It came days after the North vowed to sternly deal with such activities and made a highly questionable claim that things floating across the border were a source
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and world’s richest man, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, Insider reported on Wednesday. Musk, who posted a tweet on May 24 saying “USA birth rate has been below min sustainable
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and world’s richest man, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, Insider reported on Wednesday. Musk, who posted a tweet on May 24 saying “USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50
Continue ReadingBy Kiely Westhoff and Aya Elamroussi, CNN One of the two police officers injured in a shooting during a July Fourth celebration in Philadelphia didn’t realize he had been shot until he arrived at a hospital and found a bullet lodged in his hat, he told CNN. Officer Sergio Diggs and deputy John Foster were
Continue ReadingCNN By Kiely Westhoff and Aya Elamroussi, CNN One of the two police officers injured in a shooting during a July Fourth celebration in Philadelphia didn’t realize he had been shot until he arrived at a hospital and found a bullet lodged in his hat, he told CNN. Officer Sergio Diggs and deputy John Foster
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Generous local donors have pushed the Latino Community Association across the finish line in its campaign to meet a $75,000 challenge match from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. Thanks to the support of 31 returning donors and 165 new donors since July 2021, the Trust has granted LCA an additional $75,000
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Yellowstone National Park area’s weather forecast the morning of June 12 seemed fairly tame: warmer temperatures and rain showers would accelerate mountain snow melt and could produce “minor flooding.” A National Weather Service bulletin recommended moving livestock from low-lying areas but
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Yellowstone National Park area’s weather forecast the morning of June 12 seemed fairly tame: warmer temperatures and rain showers would accelerate mountain snow melt and could produce “minor flooding.” A National Weather Service bulletin recommended moving livestock from low-lying areas but
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