By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is pushing ahead with efforts to prod people to get COVID-19 shots after the Supreme Court put a halt to the administration’s sweeping vaccinate-or-test plan for large employers. At a time when hospitals are being overrun with patients and record numbers of people are
Continue ReadingBy Ellie Kaufman, CNN The US military met its recruitment targets for full-time service members for the 2021 fiscal year, which ran from October 2020 to the end of September 2021, but had a more difficult time attracting National Guard and reserve recruits during the same period, according to Pentagon data. The Army’s active-duty force
Continue ReadingBy TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix is raising prices for customers in the U.S. and Canada. The boost comes less than a year and a half since its last price increase, as competition from other streaming services increases. The Los Gatos, California, company said Friday that prices are going up
Continue ReadingBy TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix is raising prices for customers in the U.S. and Canada. The boost comes less than a year and a half since its last price increase, as competition from other streaming services increases. The Los Gatos, California, company said Friday that prices are going up
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Cascades East Transit and local agency partners are launching a Bend Mobility Hub Feasibility Study on Wednesday, Jan. 19 to inform the development and implementation of mobility hubs in Bend.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: JPMorgan, Sherwin-Williams fall; Wells Fargo, ODP rise.
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Paradise Afshar, CNN A Tennessee woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her great-niece and spent 27 years in prison, was exonerated this week. On June 26, 1987, Joyce Watkins, now 74, and her boyfriend at the time, Charlie Dunn, went to pick up Watkins four-year-old great-niece, Brandi, in Kentucky, according
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said one of his biggest regrets in office was not speaking out “much louder” in March 2020, when former President Donald Trump advised the nation to stay home to slow the fast-spreading coronavirus. DeSantis, a close ally of Trump, said he was involved in the early days
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN A former White House adviser to former President Barack Obama pleaded guilty to one federal count of wire fraud for stealing more than $200,000 from a charter school network he helped found and attempting to launder the funds to get a lower interest rate on a mortgage for a Manhattan
Continue ReadingBy Brian Lowry, CNN The Screen Actors Guild nominations were all over the place, but on the television side, they did reveal one significant trend: The recent boon for older actors, driven heavily by, but not limited to, streaming. The nominations saw Martin Short and Steve Martin recognized for Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,”
Continue ReadingBy Antonia Mortensen, CNN Denmark’s former defense minister has been charged with leaking state secrets, he said in a statement Friday. It’s unclear exactly what Claus Hjort Frederiksen, a current opposition lawmaker, said or revealed — or when he allegedly did so. Frederiksen, who also served as chairman of the Intelligence Services Committee, alleged that
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Smoke alarms brought a neighbor, then firefighters to a northeast Bend apartment Friday morning, where they awakened a sleeping occupant who removed a pan of burning food from the stove – prompting a reminder of the danger cooking fires pose.
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna, CNN Labor shortages could mean North Carolina road crews won’t be able to clear roads of snow and ice as fast as usual if a winter storm hits the state this weekend, the governor’s office said. The storm is expected to drop a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El Senado de Argentina informó este viernes que sufrió un ataque informático el miércoles último en horas de la madrugada. En una serie de tuits detallaron que se trató de una acción tipo “ransomware” o secuestro de datos, una técnica que consiste en usar un virus de computadora para bloquear
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Forecasters’ predictions of debilitating snow and ice as far south as Georgia have shoppers scouring store shelves for storm supplies and road crews trying to prevent a repeat of past wintertime debacles. The National Weather Service says from 2 inches to 5 inches of
Continue ReadingMICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a northwest Indiana man allegedly killed his roommate by repeatedly spiking her beverages with windshield washer fluid because he felt she was disrespecting him by not approving of his heavy drinking. Fifty-nine-year-old Thomas Holifield of Michigan City is charged with murder in the June 1 methanol poisoning death
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has hired former Jacksonville Jaguars assistant Sterling Lucas as its outside linebackers and defensive ends coach. University trustees approved a two-year contract on Friday that will pay Lucas $350,000 a year. Lucas takes over for Mike Petersen, who left this month to join the new staff of coach Billy
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press NEW YORK Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales. The CEOs of both companies were aware of the deal and signed off on it, the complaint alleges. The original redacted lawsuit, filed in December
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press NEW YORK Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales. The CEOs of both companies were aware of the deal and signed off on it, the complaint alleges. The original redacted lawsuit, filed in December
Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Your Netflix bill is about to go up again. The streaming media company said Friday it is raising the prices on its plans in the United States and Canada. In the United States, the subscription price for the standard plan rose $1.50 to $15.49. The basic plan went up $1
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