PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech coalition government has survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote over opposition claims that it is mishandling the economy and immigration. Only 85 opposition lawmakers in the 200-seat lower house of Parliament voted on Thursday to dismiss the five-party government led by conservative Prime Minister Petr Fiala. The main opposition centrist ANO party
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police say a man who crashed a car at the Chinese Consulate earlier this month was armed with a crossbow and arrows and swung a knife at officers before a police sergeant killed him. San Francisco Police Acting Commander Mark Im says an
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A Mill City man claimed his $1 million Powerball win this week with a ticket from the October 9 drawing. Thomas Willard, 77, said he plays when the jackpots grow to large amounts and only missed the record prize by one number – the Powerball.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The effort to build the Central Oregon Center for the Arts has taken a major step forward with the hiring of a consulting company to assist the COCA Board of Directors as it builds its operating and organizational infrastructure. This effort will be led by John C. Jepson, a Netzel Grigsby
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Beth Holloway was after one thing for 18 years: answers about what happened to her missing daughter. She said she got them Wednesday when Joran van der Sloot, long considered the chief suspect in her daughter’s 2005 disappearance in Aruba, admitted in submitted court filings to
Continue ReadingCAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A Marine was killed in a homicide at Camp Lejeune and a second Marine was held on suspicion of being involved, the base said. Base authorities took the Marine into custody about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday after an incident that occurred in a barracks room on the North Carolina base earlier
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican court employees say they will go on a five-day strike starting Thursday to protest proposed funding cuts, threatening an already creaky court system. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed eliminating funds for the judicial branch, arguing that judges made too much money and often protect criminals. The court employees’
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Una ciudadana de doble nacionalidad ruso-estadounidense que trabaja para Radio Europa Libre fue detenida en Rusia y acusada de no registrarse como agente extranjero, informó la organización de noticias este miércoles. Alsu Kurmasheva trabaja actualmente como periodista y editora del servicio tártaro-bashkir de Radio Europa Libre/Radio Libertad (RFE/RL, por sus siglas
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This November 1 through December 30, Central Oregonians can donate gift cards and cash towards KIDS Center’s annual Gift Card Drive. The drive supports healing for local children who have experienced abuse, by reducing some of the stress and financial pressure on their family.
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, Kayla Tausche and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden tied the wars in Ukraine and Israel together during a primetime Oval Office address Thursday, making an impassioned appeal to the American people to support two fellow democracies that he says are facing existential threats. The president has often cast this
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM, KIM TONG-HYUNG and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hamas fighters likely fired North Korean weapons during their Oct. 7 assault on Israel, a militant video and weapons seized by Israel show, despite Pyongyang’s denials that it arms the militant group. South Korean officials, two experts on North Korean
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — PacifiCorp announced Wednesday it has been selected for award negotiations on two major, competitive infrastructure grants by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office. “These Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships grants, funded by the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, support wildfire mitigation projects that will greatly benefit our customers
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, Haley Talbot and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Several Republicans who opposed Rep. Jim Jordan’s House speakership bid said they are experiencing angry calls, menacing messages and even death threats since casting their votes, increasing the already tense and chaotic atmosphere in the GOP as they struggle to elect a speaker. Rep.
Continue ReadingCNN By Melanie Zanona, Haley Talbot and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Several Republicans who opposed Rep. Jim Jordan’s House speakership bid said they are experiencing angry calls, menacing messages and even death threats since casting their votes, increasing the already tense and chaotic atmosphere in the GOP as they struggle to elect a speaker.
Continue ReadingCNN By Melanie Zanona, Haley Talbot and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Several Republicans who opposed Rep. Jim Jordan’s House speakership bid said they are experiencing angry calls, menacing messages and even death threats since casting their votes, increasing the already tense and chaotic atmosphere in the GOP as they struggle to elect a speaker.
Continue ReadingBy ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The house on Villegas Street, in the heart of Old Havana, looks nothing like the stately two-story home it used to be a century ago, with its high ceilings, wrought iron railings, semicircular arches and stairs covered in white marble. Its former elegance is such that local
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — A 79-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing a South Carolina deputy investigating his family over sexual abuse and an officer responding to the shooting. Investigators say Frederick Hopkins wounded five other officers in October 2018, firing from a sniper’s
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Thousands of ordinary citizens got into legal trouble for their parts in Catalonia’s illegal independence bid that brought Spain to the brink of rupture six years ago. Now they are hoping to be saved. Spain’s acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is negotiating with Catalan separatist parties
Continue ReadingBy ED KOMENDA and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — After the deadly wildfire that destroyed the historic town of Lahaina this summer, people across the world focused their attention on the green leaves sprouting from a scorched, 150-year-old banyan tree as a symbol of hope. Teams rushed to save it. But arborists
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI, STEPHEN GROVES and KEVING FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Refusing to give up, Rep. Jim Jordan told GOP colleagues Thursday he was still running for the House gavel — leaving Republicans few viable options after his hardline backers resisted a plan to expand the temporary speaker’s powers to re-open
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