By JOHN HANNA AP Political Party TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A push by top Kansas Republicans to punish party officials who backed an independent candidate for governor is shining a spotlight on an internal rift. The conflict involving state Sen. Dennis Pyle could hinder GOP leaders’ efforts to steer the state back to the right
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. agriculture officials proposed changes Thursday to the federal program that helps pay the grocery bills for low-income pregnant women, babies and young children, including extending a bump in payments for fresh fruits and vegetables allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The update also adds more whole grains, canned fish
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A civil rights investigation into the treatment of people with mental illnesses by the state of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City and Oklahoma City police was announced Thursday by the U.S. Justice Department. “We will determine whether the state discriminates against mentally ill adults in Oklahoma County,” where
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony, her lawyers and agent said Thursday. Griner was transferred to a penal colony in Mordovia, about 350 kilometers (210 miles) east of Moscow, after a Russian court last month
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has spied one of the earliest galaxies formed after the big bang, about 350 million years after the universe began. The galaxy, called GLASS-z12, and another galaxy formed about 450 million years after the big bang, were found over the summer, shortly after the powerful space
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores and Rosalina Nieves, CNN One US Customs and Border Protection agent is dead and two others injured after a shootout with suspected drug smugglers off the coast of Puerto Rico, according to agency spokesperson Jeffrey Quiñones. “An agent that was transported directly to a hospital in Mayagüez, we were told just a
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Matt McFarland, CNN Business The Tesla board of directors that created the largest compensation package in history for CEO Elon Musk was stocked with friends of Musk, according to court testimony this week. “Yes we’re friends,” former Tesla board member Antonio Gracias said after a long line of questions about his
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Nueva York (CNN Negocios) — Cualquiera que busque comprar un boleto para la nueva gira de Taylor Swift puede correr con porca suerte. Ticketmaster dijo el jueves que “debido a las demandas extraordinariamente altas de los sistemas de emisión de boletos y al inventario de boletos restante insuficiente para satisfacer esa demanda, la
Continue ReadingBy Frederik Pleitgen, Kylie Atwood, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Rob Picheta, CNN American basketball star Brittney Griner has been transferred to a penal colony in Yavas, in the western Russian region of Mordovia, her lawyers said Thursday, ending days of speculation over her whereabouts. Her lawyers, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, thanked everyone who has
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — La estrella de la WNBA Brittney Griner fue trasladada a una colonia penal en Yavas, en la región occidental rusa de Mordovia, dijeron este jueves sus abogados, poniendo fin a días de especulaciones sobre su paradero. Sus abogados, Maria Blagovolina y Alexander Boykov, agradecieron a todos los que se acercaron en
Continue Reading
Stacker investigated industries with the most workplace injuries in Oregon using data from OSHA.
Continue Reading
Stacker compiled a list of the most common birds seen in Oregon from Project FeederWatch.
Continue ReadingBy Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Lt. Mariano Pargas, the acting police chief on the day of the Robb Elementary School massacre, has resigned from the Uvalde Police Department, Mayor Don McLaughlin said Thursday afternoon. Pargas’ resignation comes ahead of a rare Saturday “special meeting” that was called by the city to decide his fate. His resignation
Continue Reading
A 75-year-old Prineville man was killed Wednesday evening when his pickup truck crossed the center line of US Highway 97 north of Madras and collided with a semi-truck, Oregon State Police said Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN A growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio, has sickened more than a dozen unvaccinated children and hospitalized nine of them, and local public health officials are seeking assistance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We asked the CDC for assistance and they will be sending two epidemiologists at
Continue ReadingCNNEE Nota del editor: Wendy Guerra es escritora cubanofrancesa y colaboradora de CNN en Español. Sus artículos han aparecido en medios de todo el mundo, como El País, The New York Times, el Miami Herald, El Mundo y La Vanguardia. Entre sus obras literarias más destacadas se encuentran “Ropa interior” (2007), “Nunca fui primera dama”
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The discovery this week of violently antisemitic graffiti along a popular Maryland walking trail is just the latest in a rising of anti-Jewish vandalism and activity dating back a decade, according to local Jewish leaders. On Monday, graffiti was found along the Bethesda Trolley Trail depicting a
Continue ReadingTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Federal jurors have convicted an Alabama woman in the death of a 3-year-old girl whose disappearance prompted a search for more than a week in 2019. News outlets report 32-year-old Derick Irisha Brown was convicted Thursday of a kidnapping that led to a death and conspiracy in the abduction of Kamille
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has blocked a law pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in colleges. Tallahassee U.S. District Judge Mark Walker on Thursday issued a temporary injunction against the so-called “Stop Woke” act in a ruling that called
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg, Josh Campbell, Alaa Elassar and Andy Rose, CNN The man who was arrested for allegedly driving a vehicle into a group of law enforcement recruits in Whittier, California, was released from jail Thursday night, but the sheriff’s department insists they did not make a mistake. Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez, 22, was released from
Continue Reading