By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business (CNN) — Fox News is on the verge of settling another major lawsuit. Abby Grossberg, the former network producer who filed an explosive complaint against the company earlier this year, is in the final stages of ironing out a settlement with the company, people familiar with the matter told CNN.
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Ending a walkout that held up key bills for six weeks, Republicans showed up for work in the Oregon Senate on Thursday after wresting concessions from Democrats on measures covering abortion, transgender health care and gun rights. The lawmakers’ walkout — the longest in state history
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to hate crime charges for threatening to use his vehicle to hit an Idaho library worker who defended a transgender co-worker, as well as two women he believed were lesbians, according to court documents and the U.S. Justice Department. Matthew Alan Lehigh, 31, of Oregon, on
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to hate crime charges for threatening to use his vehicle to hit an Idaho library worker who defended a transgender co-worker, as well as two women he believed were lesbians, according to court documents and the U.S. Justice Department. Matthew Alan Lehigh, 31, of Oregon, on
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to hate crime charges for threatening to use his vehicle to hit an Idaho library worker who defended a transgender co-worker, as well as two women he believed were lesbians, according to court documents and the U.S. Justice Department. Matthew Alan Lehigh, 31, of Oregon, on
Continue ReadingCarolina Calero (CNN) — Una mujer estadounidense de 21 años murió luego de que un hombre, también estadounidense, la agrediera y empujara por una pendiente cerca de uno de los lugares turísticos más populares de Alemania, el castillo de Neuschwanstein, en Baviera, informó la policía local. La víctima falleció durante la noche tras sufrir heridas
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The biggest problem facing Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka on Thursday at the U.S. Open had nothing to do with Saudi Arabia or the future of the PGA Tour. Rather, it was the eight-shot deficit they shared before they’d even put a tee in the
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The four-day Prineville Rockhound Pow Wow that began Thursday at the Crook County Fairgrounds attracts people from across the nation with its wide selection of rocks, minerals and jewelry.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Thursday night marked the start of the Pacific Crest Endurance Sports Festival. The four-day series of races starts with the Pilot Butte Challenge, a one-mile sprint or run or walk up the 500-foot butte. Saturday is full of runs: a marathon, a half marathon, a Deschutes Dash 10K, a Deschutes Dash
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. But for others among what could be hundreds
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — While the viewing public was very surprised to learn that Kim Cattrall is rejoining the fray on Season 2 of “And Just Like That…,” the continuation series to “Sex and the City,” one veteran from the hit HBO show “wasn’t shocked” at all. Patricia Field, legendary costume designer who
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Fourth-grader Gavin was one of many residents who spoke out at a Redmond City Council meeting in response to a racist note and dead raccoon recently left outside the Mayor’s law office.
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Cascades East Transit will have a Transit to Trails bus to take you on Century Drive to your favorite trail heads. It’s $5 for a one-way trip and $9 for a round-trip.
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill Wednesday that bans diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices at public colleges and universities across the state, his spokesperson confirmed to CNN. The state legislature passed the bill last month largely along party lines with supporters arguing that
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Bryson Stott hit his second homer in three games, Aaron Nola threw 6 2/3 effective innings and the Philadelphia Phillies moved over .500 for the first time in more than a month by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4. Last year’s National League champions have won 10
Continue ReadingWFTS, FACEBOOK, FLORIDA SCANNER, BILL PRICE, GOFUNDME, CNN, Facebook/Florida Scanner By Mallika Kallingal and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Five dogs died Tuesday after an RV caught fire ahead of an American Kennel Club-sanctioned all-breed dog show in Tampa, Florida, according to fire officials. Bystanders noticed smoke coming out from the vent of a parked
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona death row inmate who spent 29 years behind bars has been released from prison. His release Thursday was the result of a deal in which his convictions and death sentence in the 1994 death of a 4-year-old were thrown out and he pleaded guilty to
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor has closed a multiyear investigation into whether former President Donald Trump, or his company, misled authorities to reduce taxes on properties they own in the New York City suburbs. Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah said in a statement Thursday that her office
Continue ReadingBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Buffalo teenager who was driving a stolen SUV involved in a high-speed crash that killed four passengers has pleaded guilty. The 16-year-old appeared in Erie County Court as an adolescent offender Thursday, where he pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter, assault and possession of stolen property. He is expected to
Continue ReadingBy AMANCAI BIRABEN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles should add more city council members, create two new independent redistricting commissions and better enforce ethics rules, a panel of academics tasked with proposing reforms for the scandal-plagued city government said Thursday. The Los Angeles Governance Reform Project shared its recommendations just days after
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