BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Here’s the city of Bend’s road and traffic report for the week of Sept. 25-Oct. 1. 2022 Bend Fall Festival – Event taking place Saturday, September 29 through Sunday, Oct. 1 at 5 p.m. Various Road closures in Downtown Bend:NW Minnesota Avenue between NW Wall Street and NW Lava Road.NW Oregon Avenue
Continue ReadingBy DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A human rights foundation says a prominent Uyghur scholar specializing in the study of her people’s folklore and traditions has been sentenced to life in prison in China. The San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation says Rahile Dawut was convicted on charges of endangering state security in December
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Un hombre de California admitió haber mentido sobre su cáncer terminal tras recibir miles de dólares en donaciones para jugar en un torneo de las World Series of Poker, según informa Las Vegas Review-Journal. Robert Mercer afirmó tener cáncer de colon en fase terminal 4 y convenció a la gente
Continue ReadingBy Maija Ehlinger and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has told Volodymyr Zelensky never to “insult Poles again” after the Ukrainian president suggested his neighbor was putting on a show over their disputes on grain exports. The Polish leader fired back at Zelensky after the Ukrainian leader offered a veiled
Continue ReadingBy DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press The shocking accusation this week by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that India may have been behind the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia has raised several complex questions about the nature of Sikh activism in the North American diaspora. Canada is home to the largest Sikh
Continue ReadingBy Eric Zerkel and Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — A rock formation in the Mississippi River normally only reachable by boat is accessible by foot for the second year in a row as water levels plummet. Tower Rock juts out of the Mississippi River in Perry County, Missouri, south of St. Louis and around 25
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A fire and subsequent explosions at a golf ball factory in southern Taiwan have killed at least five people and injured more than 100 others, and five people are still missing. The fire began on Friday night at the factory in Pingtung county and raged overnight. Authorities said rescuers were still looking
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Early-season snowfall can catch many people off-guard in the woods, as it did a hiker lost on the Tam McArthur Trail west of Bend, who sought assistance by Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue.
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN WITTE and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Residents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia experienced flooding Saturday after Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island, bringing rain, damaging winds and dangerous surges. The storm came ashore near Emerald Isle with near-hurricane-strength winds of 70
Continue ReadingBy Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — A California man has admitted to lying about having terminal cancer after receiving thousands of dollars in donations to play in a World Series of Poker tournament, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Robert Mercer claimed to have terminal stage 4 colon cancer and convinced people to donate to
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — A 23-year-old Venezuela man is preparing to say goodbye to a pet squirrel he says he brought from his home country on a journey to Mexico. Yeison is among the millions of Venezuelans in recent years have fled because of political and economic upheaval. He’s spent
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Biden administration’s grant of temporary legal status to nearly 500,000 Venezuelans already in the United States may complicate its messaging abroad. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned in May that anyone contemplating a journey to the U.S. would be swiftly deported
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — The world of online gaming takes its place this year at the Asian Games as an official event for the first time, with gold medals in play across seven top titles. The Asian Games has long featured other so-called “mind games,” like bridge and chess, so
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Lynne from the Humane Society of Central Oregon brings by Beckham and Conrad, two of several rabbits the shelter now has up for adoption, ready to hop into your lives.
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge, Konstyantyn Gak and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN (CNN) — The general leading Ukraine’s counteroffensive along the southern front line says his forces have broken through in Verbove – and predicts an even bigger breakthrough to come. “On the left flank [near Verbove] we have a breakthrough and we continue
Continue ReadingCNN By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge, Konstyantyn Gak and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN (CNN) — The general leading Ukraine’s counteroffensive along the southern front line says his forces have broken through in Verbove – and predicts an even bigger breakthrough to come. “On the left flank [near Verbove] we have a breakthrough and we
Continue ReadingBy Ibrahim Dahman, Kareem Khadder and Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out strikes on what it called Hamas targets in Gaza on Friday, after militants in the enclave launched incendiary balloons towards Israel for the first time in over a year. The hostilities came after more than a week
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In late 2020, Sen. Bob Menendez met with Philip Sellinger, a private practice lawyer and former fundraiser for the senator, to assess his potential fit as the next U.S. attorney for the state of New Jersey — and to discuss one case in particular. If appointed,
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The inaugural, three-day Cascade Equinox Festival got underway Friday at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond, featuring more than 50 musical acts. Our KTVZ.COM Poll asks if you plan to attend the event. Kelsey McGee spoke with the director for the Deschutes County Fair and Expo Center. She also spoke with someone who attended the
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. government shutdown would have disrupted many services that Americans rely on and squeezed federal workers. Social Security checks would have still gone out, but other government functions would have been severely curtailed. Late Saturday, Congress averted a crisis by passing a temporary funding bill to
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