SALEM, Ore. (AP) — One of Oregon’s largest labor unions says it’s going to try to oust a Democratic state lawmaker who has been a longtime labor ally. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 said Monday it had filed paperwork to initiate a recall effort against Rep. Paul Holvey of Eugene, Oregon Public Broadcasting
Continue ReadingBy ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has met with his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo during a two-day trip aiming to strengthen economic ties between the Muslim-majority nations. With a backdrop of heightened global geopolitical tensions, Widodo hosted Raisi at a ceremony Tuesday in the colonial-style
Continue ReadingBy MARK DIDTLER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Jose Siri, Randy Arozaena and Luke Raley homered, and the major league-leading Tampa Bay Rays beat the sliding Toronto Blue Jays 6-4. Tampa Bay leads the major leagues with 94 home runs. The Rays opened a three-game lead over Baltimore in the AL East. Toronto’s
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN COONEY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lourdes Gurriel Jr. extended the longest active hitting streak in the majors to 15 games, going 4 for 4 with a homer, double and two RBIs as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-3. Pavin Smith also homered for the Diamondbacks, who have won eight of
Continue ReadingBy JOHN PERROTTO Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Tucupita Marcano hit his first career grand slam, rookie Luis Ortiz pitched into the eighth inning and earned his first major league victory and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Texas Rangers 6-4. Ortiz allowed two runs and five hits in 7 2/3 innings, picking up the win
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — An 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother died after they were swept away by a central California river they were traveling in with their mother during what authorities call extraordinarily dangerous conditions. The two children were swept by the rushing waters of the Kings River Sunday
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Some Bend parents are having a hard time getting their kids into public swim lessons.
Continue ReadingChris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Even in a land known for gargantuan, record-breaking infrastructure, this project is turning heads. At 15 miles long (24 kilometers), eight lanes wide and featuring artificial islands and an undersea tunnel, China’s $6.7 billion Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge is nothing if not ambitious. To much fanfare in the country’s state
Continue ReadingCNN By Victoria Butenko, Anna Chernova and Sam Kiley, CNN (CNN) — A group of anti-Putin Russian nationals – who are aligned with the Ukrainian army – has claimed responsibility for an attack in Russian’s southwestern region of Belgorod, as Moscow said it was fighting a group of saboteurs there. Shelling damaged an administrative building,
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a U.S. deportation law that fueled family separations at the southern border is “neutral as to race,” striking down an unprecedented Nevada ruling that had determined it was racist and unconstitutional. Section 1326 of the Immigration and Nationality Act
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities in Guam warned anyone not living in a fully concrete house to head to safety elsewhere, and emergency shelters began to fill as residents braced for Typhoon Mawar, a powerful storm that could deliver the biggest hit in two decades to the U.S. territory in
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him, authorities said. Zachary Porter, 20, of Lake Bluff,
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Adults who have obstructive sleep apnea have up to an 75% increased risk, on average, of developing long Covid after a SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with people without sleep apnea, a new study found. Women with obstructive sleep apnea had up to an 89% increased risk, while men had a
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Florida captain Aleksander Barkov left Game 3 of the Panthers’ Eastern Conference finals matchup against the Carolina Hurricanes during the first period on Monday night. Barkov took a hit from Carolina’s Jack Drury with about 7 minutes left in the opening period, without any obvious
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Actor Jeremy Renner’s hopes to expand a measure for the film industry to northern Nevada were effectively dashed Monday when the bill’s sponsor said it’s too late to entertain in the current legislative session. A bill moving through the Nevada Legislature would provide
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A 23-year-old man has lost his arm after he was attacked by an alligator near a pond behind a bar in southwest Florida early Sunday morning, officials say. “The responding crew treated a male patient who had an above the elbow amputation of his upper right extremity. Bystanders applied
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Firefighters on the Crescent Ranger District plan to conduct a 126-acre prescribed burn Tuesday in the Gilchrist State Forest about six miles southeast of Crescent and east of Highway 97.
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Twenty-six people in Tennessee have been recently convicted or face charges for possessing “switches,” devices that convert semi-automatic firearms into a machine guns, which can be made with 3-D printers and bought on the internet, federal law enforcement officials said during a news conference Monday. Federal
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is asking a state legislative panel for changes to a Senate bill that would address a constitutional crisis that has left thousands of people accused of crimes without attorneys. Kotek’s letter comes after lawmakers and policy experts have spent over than a year crafting the legislation, Oregon
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Monday that a satirical LGBTQ+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will again be welcome at the team’s annual Pride Night, nearly a week after the team rescinded its original invitation. “We have asked the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to take their place on the
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