Oregon State University-Cascades will honor Bend area business and community leaders Bill and Trish Smith during its 22nd annual commencement ceremony on Sunday June 18, for their decades-long community leadership in Central Oregon.
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El acuerdo financiero que vería a Lionel Messi firmar con el club Inter Miami de la Major League Soccer (MLS) incluye una opción para la propiedad parcial del club y una parte de los ingresos de los nuevos suscriptores del servicio de transmisión MLS Season Pass de Apple TV,
Continue ReadingCNN By Megan Thomas, CNN (CNN) — Utensils down. After 17 years and 20 seasons, Padma Lakshmi has announced she will step aside as host and judge of the cooking competition series, “Top Chef.” “After much soul searching, I have made the difficult decision to leave Top Chef,” Lakshmi wrote in an Instagram post on
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) has introduced the Housing Our Military Veterans Effectively (HOME) Act, which seeks to ensure homeless veterans are able to access and receive the care and resources they need. Rep. Mike Bost (IL-12), chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, joined Chavez-DeRemer in introducing the HOME Act as
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — Lionel Messi ya tiene nuevo equipo. No es en Arabia Saudita. Tampoco en su querido Barcelona. El nuevo destino del astro argentino se encuentra en Estados Unidos y es el Inter de Miami de la CNN. Fueron meses de mucha especulación. Se decía que Messi tenía ofertas de varios clubes, pero
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — David Sedaris is publishing his first children’s book, a collaboration with Ian Falconer conceived decades ago and finished shortly before the “Olivia” creator died in March. Toon Books, an imprint of Astra Publishing House, announced Thursday that “Pretty Ugly” will be published Feb. 27 next year. A look at the “age-old
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate eased back from a seven-month high this week, a welcome change for homebuyers navigating high borrowing costs and heightened competition for relatively few homes for sale. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on the benchmark
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — One side of a dormitory for medical students in downtown Tirana has been covered by a mural of Lionel Messi. Argentine painter Maximiliano Bagnasco is taking part in the Tirana MuralFest 2023 and decided to go with the soccer great. The mural of a bearded and
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — One side of a dormitory for medical students in downtown Tirana has been covered by a mural of Lionel Messi. Argentine painter Maximiliano Bagnasco is taking part in the Tirana MuralFest 2023 and decided to go with the soccer great. The mural of a bearded and
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — A top European Union official plans to confront Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an in-person meeting over reports this week that the company has failed to prevent the spread of child sexual abuse material on its platform. Thierry Breton, a European commissioner who has led the charge on regulating
Continue ReadingSOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Jack Swarbrick will step down as Notre Dame’s athletic director next year after a 16-year run in which he helped the school maintain the football program’s independent status amid an unprecedented flurry of conference realignment. Notre Dame says NBC Sports chairman Pete Bevacqua will succeed Swarbrick. Bevacqua will join the
Continue ReadingSOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Jack Swarbrick will step down as Notre Dame’s athletic director next year after a 16-year run in which he helped the school maintain the football program’s independent status amid an unprecedented flurry of conference realignment. Notre Dame says NBC Sports chairman Pete Bevacqua will succeed Swarbrick. Bevacqua will join the
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine is one of the biggest industrial and ecological disasters in Europe for decades. The catastrophe has destroyed entire villages, flooded farmland, deprived tens of thousands of people of power and clean water, and caused massive environmental
Continue ReadingBy DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings are parting ways with star running back Dalvin Cook for salary cap savings after his fourth consecutive season surpassing the 1,000-yard rushing mark. The team announced the move Friday, a day after Cook was informed he was being released, a person familiar
Continue ReadingBy SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — At Cleveland’s Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves to drug screening tests left out in a box on a table with a somber message: “Your drugs could contain fentanyl. Please take free test strips.” Owner Waverly
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say five people were killed in a shooting in an Arab town in northern Israel. It’s the latest in a wave of criminal violence tearing through the country’s Palestinian sector. Israel’s Haaretz newspaper said a gunman arrived at a car wash in the town of Yafa an-Naseriyye, near the city
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., joined Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet in a bipartisan letter urging the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs to consider a long-term solution to increase wildland firefighter recruitment and retention. In their letter, the Senators push for Congress to act before short-term pay
Continue ReadingLianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — Archaeologists have unearthed dozens of Roman tweezers in Britain, revealing the ancient culture’s obsession with hairlessness. The collection has now gone on display in a new museum at Wroxeter Roman City, which in its prime would have been as large a settlement as Pompeii. The simple tools would have
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Mortgage rates dropped this week after a three-week climb, as rates remain volatile amid conflicting economic indicators. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.71% in the week ending June 8, down from 6.79% the week before, according to data from Freddie Mac released Thursday. A year ago, the
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, David Close and Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — A string of sports games and practices have been postponed as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to choke the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast parts of the United States. Around 75 million people are under air quality alerts as wildfire smoke shrouds major US cities,
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