SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Housing and Community Services announced awards of more than $73.33 million for the construction of 625 affordable homes in wildfire-affected counties across the state. The Oregon Housing Stability Council (HSC) awarded the latest rounds of program funding during their past meetings. Most of the funding will go toward development of
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s Supreme Court is allowing customers to sue Amazon.com for failing to warn buyers that some products it sells may contain hazardous substances such as mercury. The court on Wednesday refused to review a March appeals court ruling that said the online retail giant violated the state’s Proposition 65 toxic warnings
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s Supreme Court is allowing customers to sue Amazon.com for failing to warn buyers that some products it sells may contain hazardous substances such as mercury. The court on Wednesday refused to review a March appeals court ruling that said the online retail giant violated the state’s Proposition 65 toxic warnings
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Thomas Craig, 35, of Bend, was arraigned Wednesday on a grand jury indictment on second-degree murder, arson and failure to register as a sex offender charges. He is accused of killing Glen Ely, then setting his apartment on fire last week. Craig is due to return to court for a status hearing Sept. 19 after
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Drew Rasmussen has been placed on the 15-day injured list because of a strained left hamstring. Rasmussen last pitched Friday at Minnesota. The 26-year-old right-hander is 5-3 with a 3.41 ERA in 12 starts. He threw a bullpen session on Tuesday and still felt an issue. Right-hander
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Colette Peters, the director of Oregon’s prison system, has now emerged as the leading contender to run the federal prison system, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Peters, who has run the state’s corrections department since 2012,
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers have returned to the Capitol amid mounting frustration to redesign political maps that a federal judge threw out for violating the Voting Rights Act. The Republican-dominated legislature and Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, have been fighting over the boundaries since February. It was
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Las autoridades brasileñas informaron el miércoles durante una conferencia de prensa que uno de los sospechosos, que está bajo custodia, admitió haber matado al periodista británico Dom Phillips y al investigador Bruno Pereira en el Amazonas. La Policía Federal de Brasil identificó al sospechoso como Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira. La
Continue ReadingBy JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Leaders from the New York Mets recently held what’s believed to be an unprecedented meeting with the nonprofit group Advocates for Minor Leaguers to discuss pay and working conditions in the minors, and another meeting is planned soon that will include players from the team’s
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s city council has approved a resolution apologizing for the Massachusetts capital’s role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The resolution approved unanimously Wednesday is non-binding and does not commit the city to funding any specific policies or programs to atone for slavery’s harms. Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson,
Continue ReadingBy JACK SOMMERS Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Zac Gallen pitched seven effective innings despite an early bout of wildness, and the Arizona Diamondbacks used a four-run eighth inning to top the Cincinnati Reds 7-4. Geraldo Perdomo hit a two-run homer for the Diamondbacks, who avoided a sweep after the Reds took the first two
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency says Europe should be more much worried than it is that larger numbers of people from Africa’s Sahel region could seek to move north. Those refugees would be escaping violence, droughts and floods, and threats to food security caused by
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — More than a half-dozen earthquakes were reported off the Oregon Coast early Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. KOIN-TV reports a 3.8-magnitude quake was recorded at 2:54 a.m. about 274 miles (441 kilometers) west of Newport. Over the next four hours, seven more earthquakes were recorded in similar areas.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Colette Peters, the director of Oregon’s prison system, has now emerged as the leading contender to run the federal prison system, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Peters, who has run the state’s corrections department since 2012,
Continue ReadingBy BEN ROSS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Whit Merrifield broke a 2-2 tie with an eighth-inning sacrifice fly and the Kansas City Royals edged the San Francisco Giants 3-2 to avoid a three-game sweep. Andrew Benintendi led off the inning with a pinch-hit double off Giants reliever John Brebbia. Nicky Lopez moved him
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The NFL and NFL Films will donate footage to The HistoryMakers, which has grown to become the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive. Under terms of the agreement announced Wednesday, the NFL will provide two years of funding to The HistoryMakers along with hundreds of hours of footage from
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Central Oregon drug agents concluded a 2-year investigation Tuesday by raiding six Madras and Culver illegal marijuana grows, making five arrests and dismantling an international operation tied to a Chinese cartel that laundered proceeds through Chinese restaurants and other businesses, officials said.
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell say she should face no more than four to five years in prison at sentencing later this month for her role in financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse of teenage girls. They said in court papers Wednesday that Maxwell should not
Continue ReadingBy SHANE LANTZ Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Ryan Jeffers hit an RBI single off the center-field wall to break a scoreless tie in the seventh inning and the Minnesota Twins went on to beat the Seattle Mariners 5-0 on Wednesday. Twins starter Sonny Gray, making his first appearance since going on the injured list
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La administración de Biden organizó un envío adicional de fórmula infantil este jueves, anunció la Casa Blanca, y transportará la fórmula especial desde Suiza a Estados Unidos a través de los esfuerzos en curso de la Operación “Fly Formula”, a medida que el gobierno federal continúa trabajando para abordar la escasez.
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