The Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation has announced seven nonprofit honorees — two from Bend organizations — to receive the foundation’s annual “birthday” award – this year, the focus is celebrating “grit” in the community.
Continue ReadingBy LIBBY SMITH Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — Christina Rich is a breast cancer survivor. It’s a moniker she never expected, but she wears it proudly. “When I found the lump and went into my nurse, she said, ‘Ah, you’re young. It’s probably nothing, but let’s get it checked out,’”
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is recommending his state increase public school funding as he prepares to leave office. The Republican governor on Thursday detailed his budget proposal to a legislative panel. The recommendations come days after Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders was elected the state’s next
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights supporters secured another win Thursday as voters in Montana rejected a ballot measure that would have forced medical workers to intercede in the rare case of a baby born after an attempted abortion. The result caps a string of ballot defeats, months after the Supreme
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO and MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writers A vast majority of the quarterback changes made in the offseason have not worked out for NFL contenders looking to stabilize the position and win right away. The Denver Broncos have struggled to find their footing with Russell Wilson. The Indianapolis Colts benched Matt Ryan. Carson
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN A new study estimates that 1 in 50 deaths of otherwise healthy children under age 5 around the world is due to a common virus that’s currently surging in the US: respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. And in high-income countries, 1 in 56 babies who are born on time and are
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Supreme Court says a white man whose murder conviction in the killing of a Black man was vacated because he killed himself while his appeal was pending should not have been legally exonerated. Thursday’s ruling reverses lower court rulings that vacated the conviction of Kenneth
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats maintained their narrow leads in key Arizona contests on Thursday, but the races for U.S. Senate and governor were still too early to call with about a fifth of the total ballots left to be counted. Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly led Republican Blake Masters by
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The mother and grandfather of an 11-year-old California girl who was allegedly tortured and starved for years have been arrested and charged with murder, while her grandmother faces abuse charges. Leticia McCormack, 49, and her parents pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday in the San
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Elon Musk warned Twitter employees Thursday to brace for “difficult times ahead” that might end with the collapse of the social media platform if they can’t find new ways of making money. Workers who survived last week’s mass layoffs are facing harsher work conditions and growing uncertainty about their
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawsuit filed by the state of California accuses 3M, Dupont and 16 smaller companies of covering up the harm caused to the environment and the public from chemicals that have over decades found their way into waterways and human bloodstreams. Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the lawsuit Thursday against the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN Trump Organization Controller Jeffrey McConney testified about the mechanics behind him tacking on fringe benefits to salaries and bonuses at the direction of high-level executives, as the company’s criminal trial in New York resumed on Thursday. McConney reiterated he followed instructions from former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg and other
Continue ReadingIONIA, Mich. (AP) — A woman has been ordered to stand trial on second-degree murder and other charges after five bicyclists were struck by her vehicle as they rode in a charity event in western Michigan. MLive.com reports that Ionia County District Judge Raymond Voet said during a preliminary hearing Thursday that Mandy Benn was
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — La celeste ya tiene su lista de convocados para el Mundial: en Qatar compartirán cancha estrellas con una vasta experiencia mundialista como Luis Suárez, Edinson Cavani y Fernando Muslera e integrantes de las generaciones más jóvenes como Darwin Núñez, Federico Valverde y Matías Vecino, que están brillando en el
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Polls closed three days ago in Arizona, but counting for the 2022 midterm elections continued into the weekend as officials tallied votes cast in Maricopa County and across the state in races including Senate and governor. Arizona’s votes are announced in waves and typically take past Election
Continue ReadingSUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Spencer Knight made 40 saves in his first shutout of the season and the third of his career, leading the Florida Panthers to a 3-0 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. Nick Cousins, Aleksander Barkov and Sam Bennett scored for Florida, which handed Carolina its second straight loss following a four-game winning
Continue ReadingBy Alex Rogers, Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN Mitch McConnell’s high-spending super PAC has a suggestion for their party’s campaign committee: Consider picking candidates in primaries who won’t collapse in the general election. Others see a much bigger issue: Former President Donald Trump and his polarizing presence on the campaign trail — especially as
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Senior U.N. and Russian officials are to meet for talks in Geneva on Friday on extending the deal that returned Ukrainian grain to world markets and was supposed to eliminate obstacles for Russian exports of grain and fertilizer. The agreement expires Nov. 19, and Ukraine
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Happy Thursday, Central Oregon! Clouds will thicken a bit Thursday night and lows will be in the mid-teens to low 20s. Clouds will continue to thicken Friday, but we will stay dry for our Veterans Day. As lows drop to the mid-teens to mid-20s, we will see some overnight snow showers that could trickle into Saturday morning.
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — Desde que Xi Jinping, presidente y líder de China, fue ratificado para un tercer mandato como secretario general del Partido Comunista —una inédita movida que muestra un poder concentrado no vista en décadas—, el mundo se pregunta cómo afectará este hecho al rol global del gigante asiático, cuya importancia no
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