By Jackie Wattles, CNN Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts lost at sea, but they stumbled on something else — a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was destroyed shortly after takeoff in 1986. The History Channel and NASA revealed Thursday that the Challenger segment was
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s largest city has seen a record 17 police shootings this year. The latest happened early Thursday, when Albuquerque police say they shot a man who lunged at officers with a knife. Police Chief Harold Medina said the shooting happened more than 12 hours
Continue ReadingBy STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Atlanta Falcons starting left tackle Jake Matthews has arrived for Thursday night’s game against the Carolina Panthers in time to play after his wife, Meggi, gave birth to a baby boy earlier in the day. The Falcons posted a video of a Matthews in shorts
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators have proposed changes to the state’s robust residential solar market aimed at encouraging more at-home battery systems that store power for use at night. People with solar panels can sell their extra energy to power companies for bill credits. Major utilities want to see
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — PGA Tour Champions money leader Steven Alker shot a bogey-free 6-under 65 to share the first-round lead at the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Alker has to finish no worse than fifth to win the Charles Schwab Cup and is in good position after posting six
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If conditions are favorable, the Prineville District of the Bureau of Land Management plans to begin burning 367 acres of hand piles next week in the Steelhead Falls Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project area, adjacent to the community of Crooked River Ranch.
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Dave Chappelle’s representative is pushing back on a report that claimed “Saturday Night Live” writers were staging a boycott ahead of his hosting the show this weekend. On Wednesday, The New York Post, citing an anonymous source, reported writers on the show were going to sit out on the episode.
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Tony Finau has had one of his best years by winning in back-to-back weeks on the PGA Tour this summer. He’d like to finish on a high note. Finau is off to the right start. He shot a 65 in the Houston Open and shares the lead with Alex Noren and Aaron
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN For over 50 years, ecologists have studied and debated the mystery of the Namib Desert’s “fairy circles,” circular patches, mostly barren of grass, that have spread across 1,100 miles in the arid grasslands of Southern Africa. Despite their whimsical name, akin to the term “fairy rings” for circular patterns of fungi
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Next Wednesday evening, the Bend City Council will hold a public hearing and consider adopting a new Camping Code, which would regulate camping on city-owned property and city rights-of-way, like public streets, sidewalks and landscape strips.
Continue ReadingBy Kristin Fisher and Jackie Wattles, CNN The Artemis I mission team will attempt to get the mega moon rocket off the ground again next week, even though it endured hurricane-force winds and incurred minor damage at the launchpad due to Hurricane Nicole, a NASA official said Friday. The space agency is still targeting a
Continue ReadingMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Strikers Luis Suárez and Edinson Cavani will be at the World Cup in Qatar after coach Diego Alonso included them in his squad. Suárez and Cavani are both 35 and are expected to play in their fourth and last World Cup. Uruguay is in Group H with Portugal, South Korea and
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell A federal judge on Thursday ordered sanctions against attorneys for former President Donald Trump in his failed lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and numerous others that he claimed conspired to undermine the 2016 presidential election. Judge Donald Middlebrooks ordered Trump lawyers Alina Habba, Michael Madaio, Peter Ticktin, Jamie Alan
Continue ReadingCNN, WKMG, WPLG By Emma Tucker and Sara Smart, CNN Trip Valigorsky’s beachfront home in a tight-knit community in Volusia County, Florida had been in his family for nearly 15 years before it was washed away this week, as the dangerous storm surge and powerful winds caused by Hurricane Nicole swept across Florida. “This home
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — En menos de una semana, un empresario de 30 años que alguna vez fue aclamado como un J.P. Morgan moderno vio cómo su imperio digital, incluidos miles de millones de su propia fortuna, se evaporaba en una espiral mortal que sacudió los cimientos de la criptoindustria de un
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers have declined the $3 million 2023 team option on right-handed reliever Brad Boxberger and have claimed right-hander Tyson Miller off waivers from the Texas Rangers. The Brewers now must pay Boxberger a $750,000 buyout instead. Boxberger went 4-3 with a 2.95 ERA, 68 strikeouts and 27 walks in 64
Continue ReadingBy Pierre Bairin, Natacha Bracken, Sharon Braithwaite and Antonia Mortensen, CNN The diplomatic fallout between France and Italy over a stranded migrant ship in the Mediterranean Sea is far from over. The French government on Thursday suspended a deal to take 3,500 asylum-seekers currently in Italy, as Paris criticized the newly appointed right-wing Italian government
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado said in a letter to Democratic House colleagues Thursday that he is running for Caucus Chair, the fifth highest position among Democrats if they maintain their majority and fourth if they switch to the minority. Neguse currently serves as the co-chair of the Democratic Policy and
Continue ReadingBy PAUL BYRNE and EMILIO SANABRIA Associated Press ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Keeping your eye on the ball takes on a new meaning when you consider the World Cup-dedicated collection by Paraguayan artist Lili Cantero. Decoratively detailing the lavish stadiums of the upcoming tournament in Qatar — the first to take place in the Middle
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Two of the more notable games on Friday’s college basketball schedule are taking place on an aircraft carrier and in a baseball stadium. No. 2 Gonzaga will face Michigan State on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the San Diego harbo r to
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