By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Louisiana company will receive $2.6 million to relinquish the last remaining oil and gas lease on U.S. forest land near Montana’s Glacier National Park that’s sacred to Native Americans. A legal agreement announced Friday would resolve a decades-long dispute over the lease. The 10-square-mile drilling
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press The U.S. Justice Department says a Texas man has pleaded guilty to threatening Georgia officials following the 2020 election. He pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of communicating interstate threats after being accused of posting threatening messages on Craigslist about killing government officials in Georgia. His arrest came amid a
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national health alert Friday to warn clinicians to be on the lookout for infections with the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus. During July and August, as the US saw widespread heatwaves and above-average coastal sea surface temperatures, Connecticut, New York
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Un hombre de 98 años, exguardia de un campo de concentración nazi, fue acusado formalmente de cargos de complicidad en el asesinato de más de 3.300 personas durante el Holocausto, dijeron este viernes autoridades de Alemania. Los fiscales no revelaron la identidad del hombre, de acuerdo con las leyes de privacidad
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Mohamed Al-Fayed, the outspoken Egyptian tycoon who transformed the fortunes of two London institutions, the Harrods department store and Fulham Football Club, and waged a war of words with Britain’s royals after his son was killed in a car crash alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, has died, according to
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rudy Giuliani on Friday pleaded not guilty to Georgia charges that accuse him of trying, along with former President Donald Trump and others, to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state. In filing his not guilty plea with the court, the former New
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA, CARA RUBINSKY and JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Mohamed Al Fayed, the flamboyant Egypt-born businessman whose son was killed in a car crash with Princess Diana, died this week, his family said Friday. He was 94. Al Fayed, the longtime owner of Harrods department store and the Fulham Football Club, was devastated
Continue ReadingCNN By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Tami Manis is officially all business at the front and party in the back after her mullet, measuring 5 feet 8 inches (nearly 173 centimeters), was confirmed as the longest female one in the world. The 58-year-old last cut the back of her hair on February 9 1990,
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president delivered his second-to-last state of the union address and perhaps what was most striking about his 1 1/2 hour speech was what he didn’t talk about: drugs, crime or drug cartels. Experts and inhabitants agree that wide swaths of Mexico are under the de-facto control of drug cartels, but
Continue ReadingCNN, KYW, KPTV, CHESTER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, OREGON STATE POLICE, FLASHALERT.NET By Danny Freeman and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — Officials say an inmate convicted of murder who escaped a Pennsylvania prison Thursday might be headed south toward Mexico. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, broke out of the Chester County Prison, about 30 miles west
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Join Bend Mayor Melanie Kebler and the City of Bend for a State of the City community gathering from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 8 at Alpenglow Park (61049 SE 15th St. in Bend). This year’s State of the City is a family-friendly party in the park! The
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court has upheld the murder conviction of a woman who fatally shot her lover during a confrontation in her bedroom. The majority agreed on Friday to overturn a unanimous appellate decision that had ordered a new trial for Wendy Dawn Lamb Hicks.
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ODOT reopened Oregon Highway 242, the McKenzie Highway, Tuesday morning following reductions in Lookout Fire evacuation levels. A 15-mile stretch of the highway was closed nearly a month ago, on August 18, due to activity from the Lookout Fire, which has burned over 24,000 acres but is now 50% contained.
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Facts Started as an al Qaeda splinter group. Also known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Islamic State (IS). ISIS aims to create an Islamic state called a caliphate across Iraq, Syria and beyond. The
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos, Nimi Princewill and Claudia Colliva, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people were killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo this week during demonstrations against the United Nations’ mission in the country. Protesters in the eastern city of Goma on Wednesday criticized the UN’s Stabilization Mission (MONUSCO), the East African Community and
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — More than 2,000 troops from a Russia-led security alliance have opened military exercises in parts of Belarus near the borders of NATO countries. The exercises of the Collective Security Treaty Organization include troops from Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Armenia is also a member of the CSTO but did not
Continue ReadingWEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Hundreds of law enforcement agents are searching for a man convicted of murder in Pennsylvania for the fatal stabbing of his ex-girlfriend, a day after he escaped from a county jail. The search continued Friday for Danelo Cavalcante, who prosecutors say is an extremely dangerous person and is also wanted
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is going globetrotting to four major meetings before the biggest meeting of all – the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly starting Sept. 18. Secretary-General António Guterres heads first to Nairobi on Saturday for the Africa Climate
Continue ReadingHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — North Carolina State safety Rakeim Ashford has been cleared to return to Raleigh, a day after being taken off the field on a stretcher during the Wolfpack’s season-opening win over UConn. Team spokeswoman Annabelle Myers said tests on Ashford came back “normal” Friday and the 6-foot-1 grad student was being released
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer The move by Stanford and California to the Atlantic Coast Conference was one born out of need not convenience. After watching seven fellow Pac-12 schools follow conference flagships Southern California and UCLA to new homes last month, the success-rich programs at Stanford and Cal had no viable options left
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