In this month’s edition of Ask the Mayor, Bend Mayor Melanie Kebler responds to questions regarding rough roadways, city workers on cellphones, short-term rentals and homelessness issues. You can submit a question at any time at https://ktvz.com/ask-the-mayor/.
Continue ReadingBy Larry Madowo, CNN If this were the plot of a movie, it would be too far-fetched to be believable. South African authorities have taken over management of a maximum-security prison run by a private British security firm after a high-profile convicted murderer was accused of faking his own death in a fire, then escaping
Continue ReadingHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The electronics subsidiary of German company Merck KGaA says it will spend $300 million to expand its specialty gas production facility in eastern Pennsylvania. The announcement Wednesday was attended by Gov. Josh Shapiro. EMD Electronics says it will create the world’s largest integrated specialty gases facility to serve the fast-growing semiconductor
Continue ReadingHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The electronics subsidiary of German company Merck KGaA says it will spend $300 million to expand its specialty gas production facility in eastern Pennsylvania. The announcement Wednesday was attended by Gov. Josh Shapiro. EMD Electronics says it will create the world’s largest integrated specialty gases facility to serve the fast-growing semiconductor
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN Regulators must learn “important lessons” from this year’s banking turmoil, the world’s top financial watchdog has said. Requiring banks to hold more cash to pay out depositors may be one of them. Klaas Knot, chair of the Financial Stability Board, a body of global regulators and government officials, wrote in a
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The head of Wisconsin’s Democratic Party is celebrating U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s announcement she’s seeking a third term. Baldwin said Wednesday she’ll continue to fight for the working class and families struggling with inflation and to oppose Wisconsin’s abortion ban. No Republicans have announced they’re running
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND (AP) — New York Yankees infielders DJ LeMahieu and Gleyber Torres are dealing with leg injuries that kept them out of Wednesday’s starting lineup for the series finale against the Cleveland Guardians. LeMahieu’s quadriceps tightened Tuesday night while he was running the bases in New York’s 11-2 win while Torres was pulled in the
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier has denied accusations that he made racist and anti-Muslim comments when he was in charge of French league club Nice. Galtier added that he will take legal action. RMC Sport and other French media published reports quoting a leaked email from Nice’s former director of football Julien
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, confirmó este miércoles que la Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) investiga a Francisco Garduño, comisionado del Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM), por el trágico incendio en un centro de detención de migrantes en Ciudad Juárez que causó la muerte de 40 personas
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Defender Sergiño Dest, unused by AC Milan for nearly three months, was the only Europe-based player among 23 picked by U.S. interim coach Anthony Hudson for an April 19 exhibition against Mexico at Glendale, Arizona. Four players with no national team experience were invited to training camp ahead of the match: defenders
Continue ReadingBy ARLEIGH RODGERS and RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An evacuation order affecting more than 1,000 people remained in place Wednesday night around a large industrial fire in an Indiana city near the Ohio border where crews worked to douse piles of burning plastics. Multiple fires that began burning Tuesday afternoon were
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Walmart plans to close half its stores in Chicago, a reversal of the retail giant’s high-profile commitment in 2020 to expand in the city as part of its corporate racial justice initiative in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by police. Walmart announced Tuesday that next week it will close four
Continue ReadingCNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Walmart plans to close half its stores in Chicago, a reversal of the retail giant’s high-profile commitment in 2020 to expand in the city as part of its corporate racial justice initiative in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by police. Walmart announced Tuesday that next week it will close
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — President Joe Biden arrived in Dublin on Wednesday primed to trace his ancestral roots on a personal visit for a politician who cites his Irish heritage as a driving force in his life. Biden was headed first for County Louth on Ireland’s east coast,
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN Mountain rescuers in the UK’s Lake District were called out to help hikers who became unwell after taking magic mushrooms. Keswick Mountain Rescue Team were alerted to the intoxicated “group of young adult males” by several calls from passersby on Saturday, the volunteer-led organization reported. Eleven rescuers were dispatched to the
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Cada año debes presentar ante la Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales (DIAN) la declaración de renta con la información sobre tus ingresos, deducciones y gastos del año anterior, para pagar los impuestos que te corresponden si vives en Colombia. Te damos una guía sobre cómo hacerlo y las fechas clave
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s Parliament has given the green light to a new coalition to form a government, led by the center-right Reform Party of Kaja Kallas. Her pro-business party overwhelmingly won the parliamentary election over a month ago, on March 5, with 31.2% of the vote — nearly twice as much
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — Mediante un decreto, el presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, creó una Comisión presidencial encargada de la coordinación nacional “para combatir el tráfico ilícito de drogas sintéticas (como el fentanilo), y armas de fuego y sus municiones”. En su conferencia matutina de este miércoles, el mandatario explicó que en la
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Britain have announced new sanctions aimed at Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov and Roman Abramovich. The penalties target the financial networks of two of Moscow’s wealthiest businessmen who are close allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Usmanov has been subject to U.S. and European
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina and Notre Dame will open the next women’s college basketball season in Paris. The teams announced Wednesday they’ll play in the French capital on Nov. 6. It will be the first time a regular-season NCAA game has been played in the City of Lights. The Gamecocks advanced to their
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