CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois star and NBA player Dee Brown is the new coach at Roosevelt University in Chicago. The NAIA school announced the hiring Monday. Brown is 37 and was a McDonald’s All-American and Illinois Mr. Basketball when he played for Proviso East near Chicago in Maywood. He went on to lead Illinois
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An eight-hour standoff at a La Pine home that involved the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team ended early Monday morning with the arrest of a 42-year-old La Pine man on assault, burglary and other charges, deputies said.
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez, CNN FBI seized the phone of former President Donald Trump’s election attorney John Eastman last week, according to a new court filing from the conservative lawyer. Eastman disclosed the search and seizure in federal court in a lawsuit that he filed in New Mexico on Monday, calling it improper.
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho public utility’s nearly two-decade effort to renew its license for a three-dam hydroelectric project on the Snake River on the Idaho-Oregon Border is moving forward with federal regulators announcing plans to update an environmental study. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this month said it
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho public utility’s nearly two-decade effort to renew its license for a three-dam hydroelectric project on the Snake River on the Idaho-Oregon Border is moving forward with federal regulators announcing plans to update an environmental study. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this month said it
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche winning the Stanley Cup showed the value of speed and skill in a league dramatically tilting in that direction. Facing the Tampa Bay Lightning in the final is also evidence that it’s worth going all in at the trade deadline when the
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales, CNN The parents of accused Oxford, Michigan, school shooter Ethan Crumbley are expected to call their son as a witness to testify at their own trial, attorneys for the parents said in court Monday. Jennifer and James Crumbley were each charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter after their teenage son allegedly
Continue ReadingCNN: WDIV: WXYZ By Mark Morales and Pervaiz Shallwani, CNN Authorities in New York filed lawsuits against 10 companies selling parts for so-called ghost guns, in an effort to hold distributors accountable for the proliferation of mail-order components used to make untraceable guns that lead to shootings. The lawsuits, invoking a newly enacted state “public
Continue ReadingRENO, Nev. (AP) — A 32-year-old Las Vegas man faces up to 28 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to conspiracy and assault charges in connection with the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors say Nathaniel DeGrave and two others arrested in connection with the uprising traveled together and attempted
Continue ReadingBy CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Pitcher Danielle O’Toole has won the inaugural Athletes Unlimited AUX Softball competition, capping a comeback in which she went from nearly worst to first. O’Toole finished with 1,436 points in the two-week, 42-player competition that ended Sunday morning. She had a 1.69 earned run average and tied for the
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Los ojos del mundo van a estar puestos en Madrid a lo largo de esta semana: se lleva a cabo la trigésimo segunda cumbre de la OTAN, una de las más importantes que se han realizado en las últimas décadas porque se va a definir el concepto estratégico de esa
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A regional Planned Parenthood organization is suing Idaho over its “trigger law” abortion ban, contending the ban violates Idaho residents’ rights under the state Constitution and that it is so vague that physicians will not know when they can legally help patients who are miscarrying or
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A regional Planned Parenthood organization is suing Idaho over its “trigger law” abortion ban, contending the ban violates Idaho residents’ rights under the state Constitution and that it is so vague that physicians will not know when they can legally help patients who are miscarrying or
Continue ReadingTROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) — State transportation officials closed Interstate 84 Monday between Troutdale and The Dalles in Oregon along the Columbia River for hours Monday because of a crash that resulted in a fire and fuel spill. The Oregon Department of Transportation said the incident at about 7 a.m. Monday near the Bonneville Dam included
Continue ReadingTROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) — State transportation officials closed Interstate 84 Monday between Troutdale and The Dalles in Oregon along the Columbia River for hours Monday because of a crash that resulted in a fire and fuel spill. The Oregon Department of Transportation said the incident at about 7 a.m. Monday near the Bonneville Dam included
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Having achieved the generational dream of seeing Roe v. Wade overturned, the largest and oldest anti-abortion group in the US is now taking its fight to the state level, with a particular focus on restricting medication abortion. At a joyous National Right to Life Committee convention over the weekend in Atlanta,
Continue ReadingPENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A 1-year-old girl is dead and her 2-year-old sister injured after an 8-year-old boy accidentally shot them at a Florida motel. Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons held a press conference Monday to release details about the Sunday shooting. Simmons said the boy’s father left the gun holstered in his Pensacola motel
Continue ReadingGRUNDY CENTER, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally shooting an Iowa State Patrol trooper last year during a standoff and shootout with police. The mandatory sentence was handed down Monday, a little more than a month after a jury found 42-year-old
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BEND, Ore., (KTVZ) — For the first time since 2019, the High Desert Museum’s signature fundraiser, High Desert Rendezvous, will take place in person at the Museum on Saturday, August 27 from 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm. This marks the 33rd year of the High Desert Rendezvous, making it one of the longest-running fundraisers in Central Oregon.
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. political chief is urging Libya’s rival factions to agree on measures governing the transition to elections during talks in Geneva later this week. Rosemary DiCarlo expressed hope this will lead to long-awaited voting “at the earliest possible date.” She told the U.N. Security
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