By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jurors have delivered split verdicts in a case that stemmed from the search for a 3-year-old boy who went missing from Georgia. The boy was found dead hundreds of miles away at a squalid compound in northern New Mexico. The boy’s father was convicted Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — A former New York stock broker who fled his job and family to fight alongside Islamic State militants in Syria has been sentenced to life in prison. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov was sentenced on Tuesday. He previously was convicted of aiding the terrorist group as a sniper
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE and MARIA SHERMAN Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Maren Morris has filed for divorce from her husband Ryan Hurd, citing the prominent country music couple’s “irreconcilable differences” after five years of marriage. Morris filed the divorce complaint in Nashville circuit court on Oct. 2, writing that the couple have been separated
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The subsidiary of a Chinese-owned company has been ordered by Arkansas to divest itself of 160 acres of agricultural land under a new law. The order announced by Arkansas on Tuesday is the the first such action under a wave of new laws restricting foreign
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he M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust published Tuesday its Summer 2023 Grants Report, listing dozens of grants to nonprofits around the Northwest, including two sizable sums to Central Oregon organizations.
Continue ReadingBy DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A draft congressional report on Brazil’s Jan. 8 riots on Tuesday accused ex-President Jair Bolsonaro of being the insurrection’s mastermind and recommended he be criminally charged with attempting to stage a coup. The report by Sen. Eliziane Gama followed months of hearings by a committee
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Athletics reliever Trevor May ripped Oakland owner John Fisher and implored him to sell the franchise while announcing his retirement Monday in an empassioned video message. Fisher’s parents founded Gap, Inc., and Fisher became majority owner of the A’s in 2005. He is attempting to relocate the A’s to Las Vegas
Continue ReadingBy Camryn Justice Click here for updates on this story AKRON, Ohio (WEWS) — Each and every year on Oct. 14, Akron resident James Anderson embarks on a challenge to test his endurance for the anniversary of his sobriety. From climbing Mount Kilimanjaro twice to doing burpees for eight hours straight and running an Ironman,
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(Update: Adding settlement with state financial agencies) SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum joined 50 attorneys general Tuesday in announcing a $20 million settlement with payment processor ACI Worldwide. Oregon will receive approximately $200,000 from the settlement, which resolves a 2021 testing error that led to processing $2.3 billion in unauthorized mortgage
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Multiple computer systems for almost all of Kansas’ courts have been offline for five days because of what officials call a “security incident.” The problem has prevented courts in 104 of the state’s 105 counties from accepting electronic filings and has blocked public access to many
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Britney Spears wrote that she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake more than 20 years ago. That’s according to a peek inside her hotly anticipated memoir published Tuesday in People magazine. She wrote in an excerpt from “The Woman In Me” that she wouldn’t have got the abortion but “Justin
Continue ReadingBy LORENA ESTRADA, SHELDON FOX, JULIAN QUINTANA Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — Officials have questions after a man was caught on camera trying to set a pickup truck on fire. The suspect, 34-year-old Marc Maggisano, bonded out of jail Monday night and refused to speak to 7News. Surveillance video
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US has seen more instances of “coercive and risky” behavior from Chinese pilots against US aircraft in the last two years over the East and South China Seas than in the entire decade before that, the Pentagon’s top official in charge of security in the
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG, AAMER MADHANI and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced major setbacks even before he departed for the Middle East on Tuesday, as Jordan called off the president’s planned summit with Arab leaders after a
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A ridge of high pressure will continue to build over the region and provide significantly warmer than normal afternoon high temperatures. The chance for Bend and Redmond to reach the 80-degree mark on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday is on the table. A blend of computer models gives us the 80° highs for this week while
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In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, the High Desert Museum is embarking on a yearlong series of exhibitions and public programs to explore and reflect on the ESA’s impact on the High Desert and beyond.
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A prosecutor says a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a 21-year-old man during a traffic stop won’t be criminally charged. Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy told news outlets on Tuesday that the deputy clearly ordered Jarveon Hudspeth not to reenter his vehicle, but he did so and started to
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The estimated future cost to clean up 19 sites contaminated by nuclear waste from the Cold War era has risen by nearly $1 billion in the past seven years. That’s according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Republican candidate for governor of Michigan has been sentenced to two months behind bars for joining a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper on Tuesday also ordered 42-year-old Ryan Kelley to pay a $5,000 fine for his misdemeanor conviction stemming
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers say they are appealing a narrow gag order imposed on him in his federal 2020 election interference case. Trump’s lawyers said in court papers filed Tuesday that they will challenge an order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan that bars him from making statements
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