Deschutes County Circuit Judge Wells Ashby held an emergency hearing late Friday afternoon on a request for an injunction to block the city’s planned clearing of a homeless encampment next week on Hunnell and Clausen roads, then set another hearing for Monday, saying he needs more information.
Continue ReadingWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A sponsor is giving away 20,000 tickets to Women’s World Cup matches as sales in New Zealand remain sluggish in a country where rugby is the national sport. FIFA says 1.25 million tickets have been sold to matches in Australia and New Zealand. Of those 320,000 have been sold to
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Baseball’s All-Star Game drew a record low in viewers for the second straight year. The National League’s 3-2 win over the American League in Seattle on Tuesday night was seen by 7,006,000 viewers on Fox, down from 7.51 million last year. The game drew a 3.9 rating, down from a 4.2
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Los abogados del expresidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump solicitaron a un juez que se descarte el informe final y la evidencia de un jurado investigador especial en Georgia que pasó meses indagando sobre los esfuerzos de Trump y sus aliados para anular las elecciones de 2020. Los abogados de Trump
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Mandy Moore is calling out a porch pirate. The singer and actor posted a photo from her home security camera footage on her Instagram story on Wednesday, showing a person who she alleges stole a package from her front door. “People are the worst,” she wrote, going on to
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Arizonans have endured scorching temperatures for more than two weeks and that hot streak is about to get even hotter, with a brutal heat wave starting to take shape ahead of the weekend. Temperatures in Phoenix have reached 110 degrees Fahrenheit every single day this month. On Wednesday, the
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — Dieciocho estudiantes de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) reprobaron un examen porque, según su profesor Melvin Campos Ocampo, utilizaron ChatGPT para responder preguntas de desarrollo en un curso integrado de Humanidades, que forma parte del primer año de ingreso a este centro de enseñanza superior. Así lo dio a
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Oklahoma State has had plenty of turnover in the transfer portal. The Cowboys lost at least eight starters among 18 players who went into the transfer portal since last season. They also added 14 players from the portal. Five of the Cowboys that left went
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Miracle and Jason Kravarik, CNN (CNN) — The planned demolition of the house where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death last year will be delayed until October, officials at the university said Wednesday. The university in Moscow was given the three-story home on King Road earlier this year by its
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(Update: adding local alert weather forecast video) How are you doing Central Oregon? We are in store for much warmer temperatures for the remainder of the week. Breezy conditions will stay with us through Thursday in the Warm springs and Prineville areas. Evening temperatures will dip down between the mid to upper 50’s now, through
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — C.R. Roberts helped Southern California beat Texas with a record-setting performance in a 1956 road game played in segregated Austin. He has died at 87. USC says Roberts died of natural causes in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk. Roberts set a single-game rushing record
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Las esperanzas de la inminente adhesión de Suecia a la alianza de seguridad de la OTAN empezaron a desvanecerse este lunes, cuando el presidente de Turquía, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, planteó un obstáculo de última hora al vincular su aprobación de la candidatura del país nórdico a la ansiada adhesión de Turquía
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday filed its appeal of a federal judge’s decision earlier this week allowing Microsoft to close its $69 billion merger with Activision Blizzard. The legal filing comes after the FTC’s failed effort to block the deal over allegations that the merger would harm competition
Continue ReadingSabrina Clay, CNN (CNN) — Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is facing a civil rights investigation into how Black women giving birth are treated in its hospital. “Maternal health is a priority for the Biden-Harris Administration and one in which the HHS Office for Civil Rights is working on around the country to ensure
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is appealing the 18-year-prison sentence handed down to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. It is also challenging other far-right extremists’ punishments that were shorter than what prosecutors had sought. While
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A prosecutor in Argentina has launched an investigation into potential crimes against humanity in Venezuela following a criminal complaint filed by the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Federal prosecutor Carlos Stornelli noted that the complaint pointed to the responsibility of several high-ranking members of the Venezuelan National Guard in human rights
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE and DAVID BAUDER Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A former Donald Trump supporter who became the center of a conspiracy theory about Jan. 6, 2021, filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Wednesday, saying the network made him a scapegoat for the U.S. Capitol insurrection. Raymond Epps, a former Marine
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to bolster his country’s nuclear fighting capabilities as he supervised the second test-flight of a new intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the mainland United States. North Korea’s state media reported Kim’s comments a day after the
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The Bonneville Power Administration said Wednesday it is moving forward with more than $2 billion in multiple transmission substation and line projects necessary to reinforce the grid, including a new substation near Prineville and 53-mile power line to La Pine in fast-growing Central Oregon.
Continue ReadingSYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse running back LeQuint Allen will rejoin the team next month after reaching a settlement in his lawsuit against the school. ESPN and Syracuse.com reported the settlement. Allen was set to miss this season after being suspended for the fall semester after a fight with another student in December 2021. But
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