By Serenitie Wang, CNN When I left a Covid-ravaged Hong Kong, I was in search of a sanctuary. It was early March and the city was in the throes of the biggest coronavirus outbreak per capita in the world. Little could I have known as I boarded the plane that my cunning escape plan would
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A new Korean restaurant has opened in downtown Bend, and its owners say it’s the only Korean restaurant in Central Oregon. Yoli is at the corner of Wall Street and Newport Avenue, and serves lunch and dinner five days a week.
Continue ReadingCNN By Chandelis Duster, CNN The Republican Party of Texas over the weekend adopted a resolution at its state convention that rejects President Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election, further aligning the state party establishment with former President Donald Trump in pushing false election claims. “We reject the certified results of the
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The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance in locating whoever is responsible for criminal mischief to the Deschutes County Public Services building at 1300 NW Wall Street in Bend. On Monday, the sheriff’s office received a report of three second-story windows in the building being shot with BBs. The incident likely
Continue ReadingCNN By Matt Rivers, CNN We had to apologize for being late. The traffic was horrible, we explained. It was only after nearly an hour of crawling through near standstill traffic on a Tijuana, Mexico, highway that we saw the crash that caused the rush-hour snarl. Two vehicles, a pickup truck and an old four-door
Continue ReadingBy Matt Rivers, CNN We had to apologize for being late. The traffic was horrible, we explained. It was only after nearly an hour of crawling through near standstill traffic on a Tijuana, Mexico, highway that we saw the crash that caused the rush-hour snarl. Two vehicles, a pickup truck and an old four-door sedan
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Roller hockey teams are squaring off at The Pavilion in Bend all weekend long. The Oregon Regional of the North American Roller Hockey Championships got underway on Friday afternoon. There are 21 teams and more then 200 hockey players, from under 8 to adults. The finals are in Irvine, California next month.
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The Bend Chamber held its annual Young Professionals Summit on Friday at COCC. Attendees were between the ages of 21 and 40. Speakers during the day-long event talked about how to network, how to be a leader and adapt to change, and give tips on negotiating salaries. NewsChannel 21’s Carly Keenan served as emcee.
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State Rep. Jason Kropf, D-Bend, has been appointed by Oregon House Speaker Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis, to serve as chair of the House Judiciary Committee.
Continue ReadingBy Kristin Fisher, CNN The US Space Force has hit a critical milestone: dedicated basic training for its early recruits. As dawn breaks on Day 38 of basic training at Joint Base San Antonio, a bugle playing reveille blasts over the loudspeakers as a sergeant can be heard screaming, “Are you prepared to join the
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man has pleaded guilty in the kidnapping and murder of his 3-year-old child and child’s mother. Michael Wolfe pleaded guilty Friday in Yamhill County District Court to aggravated murder and second-degree murder in the 2019 murders of Karissa and Billy Fretwell, KOIN-TV reported. Wolfe has been in jail since
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Verizon and AT&T won’t power up some wireless towers near airports until next summer to give airlines more time to make sure the new service won’t interfere with planes. But the airline industry is not happy about the deal. The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that the companies agreed
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Verizon and AT&T won’t power up some wireless towers near airports until next summer to give airlines more time to make sure the new service won’t interfere with planes. But the airline industry is not happy about the deal. The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that the companies agreed
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After a long winter and some surprising spring snow dumps, ODOT crews have cleared Oregon Highway 242, the McKenzie Pass Highway, and the gates open for all travelers on Monday.
Continue ReadingBy Caroll Alvarado and Sara Smart, CNN A New York man who was caught on camera claiming to be an “off-duty trooper” while going on a racist road rage tirade has been charged with a hate crime, Sergeant Daniela Portillo with Newburgh police confirmed to CNN. Cellphone video of the incident taken on June 11
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Calculus and chemistry were too hard. Nobody took him seriously as a baseball player, either. Hayden Buckley says some of his dreams were crushed early. These days, though, the dream is golf. And it’s not so far-fetched to think this 26-year-old, whose Plan A was
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Making his first public appearance since the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection began its hearings laying bare his desperate attempts to subvert democracy and remain in power, former President Donald Trump on Friday lashed out at the committee as he continued to tease his
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Vince McMahon is in the middle of a corporate firestorm, but he still opened the company’s wrestling telecast “Smackdown” on Friday. “Mr. McMahon,” the executive’s in-ring persona, kept things short. “It’s a privilege as always to stand before you here tonight,” McMahon said to the crowd in Minneapolis,
Continue ReadingMONTREAL (AP) — Charles Leclerc has received a 10-place grid penalty because Ferrari changed his engine ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix. An engine failure knocked Leclerc out of last week’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix while leading and Ferrari has since deemed the engine “beyond repair.” The FIA announced after Friday’s second practice that Leclerc had
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California pair not only smuggled drugs to five other states but repeatedly impersonated federal law enforcement officers as part of the nationwide scheme, a U.S. grand jury alleged this week. A federal grand jury in Sacramento on Thursday indicted Quinten Giovanni Moody, also known
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