By MATÍAS DELACROIX and JUAN PABLO ARRÁEZ Associated Press LAS TEJERIAS, Venezuela (AP) — Rescue workers using drones and trained dogs are searching for survivors following a massive landslide in central Venezuela, as the death toll rose to 34 and residents described harrowing tales of escape from the water and mud. Jose Medina recalls how
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Happy Monday, Central Oregon! Winds become light and variable Monday night, with mostly clear skies and lows in the low 30s to low 40s. A light northerly flow will keep us a bit cooler Tuesday, but we will not sacrifice any sunshine. As this next ridge of high pressure builds in, we can expect to have
Continue ReadingMALTBY, Wash. (AP) — Washington state has agreed to pay $2.75 million to a woman who was seriously hurt in a rollover crash involving a state Department of Transportation vehicle on Highway 522. On March 5, 2018, Kara Janneh of Monroe was driving her Jeep Cherokee east on the highway near Maltby with her toddler
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and actor who is married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, is among the accusers of Harvey Weinstein who will testify at his rape and sexual assault trial that began Monday, her attorney said. “Like many other women, my client
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. The government said the farm levy would be a world first, and that farmers should be able to
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The San Diego Padres knocked off the 101-win New York Mets in the National League wild-card series. Awaiting them in the National League Division Series is an even bigger challenge in the 111-win Los Angeles Dodgers. The Padres were dominated by the Dodgers during the
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Three Phoenix college freshmen were killed after their vehicle was struck by a wrong-way driver on a highway, authorities said Monday. The Arizona Department of Public Safety told local news outlets they received reports around 4 a.m. Monday about a driver going the wrong way on Interstate 17, roughly 30 miles (48.28
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent A new European study on colonoscopies — the largest of its kind — has complicated results, and it’s left some people wondering whether they should have the procedure to screen for colon cancer. “I think the most important message is that colon cancer screening is effective, and you
Continue ReadingBy KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — When Justin Verlander takes the mound for the Houston Astros in Game 1 of the AL Division Series on Tuesday against the Seattle Mariners, it will have been almost three years since his last playoff appearance. Verlander, who missed almost two seasons after Tommy John surgery,
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press The results of two federal trials won’t be shared with jurors hearing evidence against three men who are charged in connection with a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. A judge made his ruling Monday after a fourth day of testimony against Joe Morrison, Pete Musico and Paul Bellar.
Continue ReadingBy ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Dolphins quarterback Teddy Bridgewater is still showing no concussion symptoms after a hit against the Jets on Sunday caused him to leave the game, but he remains in the concussion protocol after the NFL’s revised concussion rules. Starter Tua Tagovailoa is still in the
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials have issued an air quality advisory for several counties, including Portland, as stale, unseasonably warm temperatures and stagnant air have caused wildfire smoke to linger. Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington, Douglas and northern Klamath will be under the advisory through at least Friday, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. Department of Environmental Quality officials
Continue ReadingVIENNA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia mayor helped a mother and three children escape from a sport utility vehicle that was stalled on railroad tracks with a train approaching. Vienna Mayor Eddie Daniels was headed to work Saturday when he saw the SUV. He says he couldn’t let the family get slaughtered. He helped the
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer The Seattle Mariners turned to George Kirby to close out the team’s wild-card sweep against Toronto. Logan Gilbert gets the ball for Seattle’s return to the AL Division Series. The Mariners have two of baseball’s best young arms in Kirby and Gilbert, and they are hoping the right-handers are
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Art Laboe, the pioneering radio DJ credited with helping end segregation in Southern California, has died. Joanna Morones, a spokesperson for Laboe’s production company, Dart Entertainment, said Laboe died Friday night after catching pneumonia. He was 97. Laboe is credited with helping end segregation in Southern
Continue ReadingHALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A horticulture teacher from Minnesota set a new U.S. record Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after raising a giant gourd weighing 2,560 pounds. Travis Gienger, of Anoka, Minnesota set the new record and won an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California. “Minnesota has a great midyear, but our spring
Continue ReadingBy DAVID R. MARTIN and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A shooting outside New York U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin’s Long Island home is giving the Republican a fresh and personal perspective on a rash of violent crime that’s been a focus of his campaign for governor. Two 17-year-old boys were wounded
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court has put on hold a lower court’s ruling from last week prohibiting voters from canceling their original absentee ballot and casting a new one, blocking at least temporarily the order sought by a conservative group founded by prominent Republicans. The appeals court
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins are heading into the season thinking it could be the last for captain Patrice Bergeron. Team CEO Charlie Jacobs said at the team’s media day that Bergeron is teaching the next generation of players how to be Bruins. Bergeron led the Bruins to
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — La gran explosión que tuvo lugar en un puente de Crimea poco antes del amanecer del sábado restringió fuertemente el tráfico por carretera y ferroviario a lo largo de una importante arteria —tanto civil como militar— en un momento crítico de la campaña de Rusia en Ucrania. A primera vista,
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