ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tampa Bay placed shortstop Wander Franco on the 10-day injured list with a right quadriceps strain. It’s the latest setback for the injury-plagued Rays. Franco aggravated the injury running the bases in the ninth inning of Monday’s 9-5 loss at the Texas Rangers. The right quad has been bothering the 21-year-old
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Boeing employees will still be allowed to perform some safety analysis on the company’s aircraft, but for three more years instead of the five-year extension the company requested, federal regulators have determined. Federal Aviation Administration officials indicated Tuesday that the agency’s decision on the safety-related work was designed to keep a closer
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Data collected from June to next April for most comprehensive study of economic impact of nonprofit arts and culture industry BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A total of 21 Oregon communities and regions, including Central Oregon, will participate in Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6), the most comprehensive economic impact study of the nonprofit arts and
Continue ReadingBy VIN A. CHERWOO AP Sports Writer Andrei Vasilevskiy has won a Vezina Trophy and two Stanley Cups with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Igor Shesterkin is a finalist for the Vezina this year as he leads the New York Rangers in their pursuit of their first championship since 1994 and second in 82 years. The
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — El presidente Joe Biden se reunirá este martes con el presidente de la Reserva Federal, Jerome Powell, en una especie de política performativa que, casi con toda seguridad, no contribuirá en nada a que los estadounidenses puedan pagar con mayor facilidad los artículos de uso cotidiano. Y, seamos
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Warriors and the Boston Celtics is Thursday night in San Francisco, where Golden State is 9-0 this postseason. The Warriors’ Andrew Wiggins will again be tasked with a tough defensive matchup, this time to slow down Jayson
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A police report describes a Memorial Day weekend shooting on a Las Vegas-area freeway as an apparent ambush by Hells Angels members on rival Vagos biker gang members returning from a veterans cemetery ride. Henderson police said Tuesday that Las Vegas Hells Angels chapter President Richard
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — To close out Wildfire Awareness Month, the Oregon Office of Emergency Management is offering simple actions and resources Oregonians can take to stay safe during wildfire season. This includes evacuation best practices and encouraging everyone to know Oregon’s three-level evacuation system: BE READY. BE SET. GO NOW! “With impacts ranging from the
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN Español) — Comienza en Los Ángeles la Cumbre de las Américas y el mapa de presidentes participantes y ausentes —porque no los invitaron o porque decidieron no asistir— toma forma. La presencia de los mandatarios americanos en el encuentro organizado por el Gobierno del presidente Joe Biden está en el centro de
Continue ReadingBy JAVIER CÓRDOBA Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Another attempted hacking of a Costa Rican government agency’s computer system has led the country’s public health agency to shut down its systems to protect itself, complicating the medical care of thousands. At least 30 of the Social Security agency’s 1,500 servers were infected
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN It’s approximately 3,000 kilometers from Severodonetsk to Glasgow. As Russian pressure increases in the strategically key eastern Ukraine city where two-thirds of properties have been reported as destroyed, an international football match in the Scottish city would seem somewhat irrelevant. Ukrainian Taras Berezovets, who worked as a political analyst before the
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle will create a database of homeless camps and provide more than $100 million to a regional group trying to tackle the region’s ongoing crisis of people without homes, the city’s mayor announced Tuesday. “Issues created over decades cannot be solved overnight, but we must reject the status quo where people are
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The judge who presided over Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times says she failed to introduce “even a speck” of evidence necessary to prove actual malice. Federal Judge Jed Rakoff made the assertion in a written decision Tuesday as he rejected post-trial claims
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations for African Americans will release a report Wednesday documenting in detail the harms perpetuated by the state against them and recommending ways to address those wrongs. The recommendations include expanding voter registration, making it easier to hold violent police accountable
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Happy Tuesday, Central Oregon! We’re sticking with the partly cloudy skies, with lows in the 40s Tuesday night. While staying partly cloudy Wednesday, we warm a bit more into the upper 70s. Then we see a chance of thunderstorms return Thursday afternoon. This rain is expected to continue off and on all the way through Sunday night. Highs will gradually cool for
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN White House officials met Tuesday with travel industry leaders who pressed the Biden administration to end its requirements that vaccinated international travelers take a coronavirus test before flying to the United States. Airlines for America, representing major US air carriers, and the US Travel Association, representing the broad
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States says it will push for additional sanctionson North Korea if it conducts a new nuclear test explosion. U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials have said North Korea could soon conduct its first nuclear test in nearly five years. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NFL’s free agency, at least when it comes to its top announcing crews, is over for this year. Fox Sports completed its lineup for this season on Tuesday by announcing Greg Olsen as its lead NFL analyst. Fox announced during its upfront presentation for
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Fumar tabaco es muy adictivo y puede tener efectos adversos para la salud a largo plazo. Pero hay esperanza para quienes quieren dejar de fumar gracias a innovadoras apps, líneas de ayuda y estrategias probadas. En 2019, más de 30,8 millones de estadounidenses fumaban, según los Centros para el Control y
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Squid style is en vogue for the Los Angeles Angels. When Andrew Velazquez got on the bus at Angel Stadium for the charter flight to New York, all of his teammates were dressed in the hip street mode of the 27-year-old shortstop known as “Squid.”
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