OSU great Adley Rutschman reflects on MLB All-Star and HR Derby opportunity in Seattle
The Seattle Mariners, Oregon’s closest MLB team, is hosting the All Star game this year. However, a familiar face is making his all star debut.
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Tourists received no safety warnings before New Zealand volcano eruption killed 22, prosecutor says
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press A New Zealand prosecutor says tourists received no health and safety warnings before they landed on the country’s most active volcano ahead of a 2019 eruption that killed 22 people. There were 47 people on White Island when superheated gases erupted, and most of the 25 who survived had severe
Continue ReadingLos Angeles Times owners sell San Diego Union-Tribune to publishing powerhouse
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of the Los Angeles Times has sold the San Diego Union-Tribune to MediaNews Group. The move was announced Monday and comes less than a week after the LA Times announced was cutting 74 newsroom jobs to deal with financial difficulties. The price of the sale hasn’t been disclosed. Billionaire
Continue ReadingAdley Rutschman adds new wrinkle to Home Run Derby as switch hitter
SEATTLE (AP) — Adley Rutschman added a new wrinkle to the Home Run Derby, even if it didn’t result in a victory. Rutschman displayed his power from both sides of the plate as a switch hitter, swatting a combined 27 homers in his first-round matchup on Monday night. Rutschman had the crowd roaring during the
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Popular La Pine food and drink spot has new, yet familiar owner
Patrick Trowbridge has been coming to Vic’s Bar & Grill in La Pine as a customer for nearly a decade. Now he’s the new owner.
Continue ReadingHouston Rockets forward Jabari Smith Jr. off to hot start in summer league play
By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Houston Rockets forward Jabari Smith Jr. is putting in the work and looks poised to make a leap as he heads into his second NBA season. The No. 3 pick in the 2022 draft capped his first summer league performance this season with a game-winning 3-pointer in a 100-99
Continue ReadingPilot escapes with minor injuries when small plane crashes into hangar’s roof at California airport
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot escaped with only minor injuries after a single-engine plane crashed nose-first into the roof of a hangar at a Southern California airport. The Federal Aviation Administration says the crash happened around 2:30 p.m. Monday while the pilot of the Cessna 172 was practicing landings and takeoffs.
Continue ReadingDay 2 of baseball draft includes 6 players from Wake Forest, plus son of former major leaguer Karros
SEATTLE (AP) — Baseball’s amateur draft has been a fitting conclusion to a historic season at Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons had six players drafted Monday, bringing their two-day total to nine. That’s three more than the LSU team that knocked Wake Forest out of the College World Series and went on to win the
Continue ReadingTrump lawyers ask judge to postpone trial without setting a date in classified documents case
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking a judge to postpone his criminal trial without setting a new date as he stands accused of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate. In a late Monday filing, Trump’s defense attorneys said the case was “extraordinary,”
Continue ReadingRetired Army Capt. Sam Brown mounts 2nd bid for US Senate in Nevada after losing GOP primary in 2022
By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown is running for the U.S. Senate in Nevada again. Brown, who lost the Republican nomination last year to Adam Laxalt, made his candidacy official Monday. He enters a growing GOP primary field vying to defeat Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen,
Continue ReadingMurder suspect who escaped from California medical center recaptured
KCRA, PLACER COUNTY SHERFF’S OFFICE, CNN By Michelle Watson, Cheri Mossburg and Jack Hannah, CNN (CNN) — A murder suspect who escaped police custody in the Sacramento area over the weekend has been found and taken into custody, according to the Placer County Sheriff, who shared the update via social media. Eric J. Abril, who
Continue ReadingRudy Giuliani is negotiating possible resolution to lawsuit brought by 2 Georgia election workers
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice (CNN) — Rudy Giuliani is negotiating a possible resolution in his ongoing court dispute with former Georgia election workers Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and Ruby Freeman, after they accused him of defaming them following the 2020 election and already won nearly $90,000 from him for attorneys’ fees. The
Continue ReadingGym, spa, beauty equipment: Leaked documents reveal hidden details of Putin’s ‘ghost’ train
CNN By CNN’s Matthew Chance and Mick Krever. Video by Oscar Featherstone (CNN) — August 5, 2022 was a day like many others in Ukraine. First light revealed the devastation from a night of Russian bombing. Russian attacks on a residential neighborhood of Mykolaiv that morning brought “significant destruction,” the governor of the region said
Continue ReadingGym, spa, beauty equipment: Leaked documents reveal hidden details of Putin’s ‘ghost’ train
CNN By CNN’s Matthew Chance and Mick Krever. Video by Oscar Featherstone (CNN) — August 5, 2022 was a day like many others in Ukraine. First light revealed the devastation from a night of Russian bombing. Russian attacks on a residential neighborhood of Mykolaiv that morning brought “significant destruction,” the governor of the region said
Continue ReadingGOP battle brews over defense bill as McCarthy under pressure to appease the right on social issues
By Annie Grayer, Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — House GOP leaders are confronting a legislative landmine over a massive defense bill as right-wing lawmakers are pushing for a slew of hot button amendments that could put moderate Republicans in a complicated position and threaten Democratic support for the must-pass bill.
Continue ReadingLongtime AP Pentagon reporter Fred Hoffman, who was lauded for his Vietnam coverage, dies at 100
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fred S. Hoffman, a longtime Associated Press reporter who covered the Defense Department for more than two decades and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for an investigation into the black market in Vietnam has died. Hoffman was 100. Well known within the Pentagon,
Continue ReadingElla soñaba con defender Japón, pero fue víctima de agresiones sexuales en el Ejército. Esta es su historia
Alexandra Ferguson Tokio, Japón (CNN) — Rina Gonoi es una luchadora. Como exsoldado, como practicante de judo y como mujer que lucha en nombre de todas las demás para que aquellos que la agredieron sexualmente se responsabilicen de sus actos. Durante su servicio en las Fuerzas de Autodefensa de Japón (JSDF, por sus siglas en
Continue ReadingBrad Pitt accused of ‘looting’ Chateau Miraval’s assets in new legal filing
By Alli Rosenbloom and Chloe Melas, CNN (CNN) — An ongoing legal dispute over a French estate and winery Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie formerly owned together continues to escalate. In a new court filing obtained by CNN, Jolie’s former investment company Nouvel accuses Pitt and “co-conspirators” of attempting to retain control of Château Miraval
Continue Reading$500 million? $600 million? Shohei Ohtani’s free agency the buzz of the All-Star Game
By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — At some point, Shohei Ohtani will entertain the idea of talking about his pending free agency, and what it could mean to the finances of baseball. But that didn’t stop others from pondering what could happen this offseason when perhaps the most unique free agent in
Continue ReadingA woman accused of burning a Wyoming abortion clinic has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Federal court documents filed Monday show that a woman who authorities say admitted setting fire to what was to become Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors. Details of 22-year-old Lorna Roxanne Green’s proposed plea deal aren’t yet available, but it
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