SEATTLE (AP) — The city of Seattle will pay $1.86 million to the family of a man who died of a heart attack after a caution note attached to his address delayed medics’ response. William Yurek, 48, died in his town house in 2021 after his son called 911 and arriving Seattle Fire Department medics
Continue ReadingBy Jonathan Park, CNN (CNN) — Seven Starbucks locations across San Francisco will shut down effective October 22, the company told CNN on Tuesday. When asked why the company decided to close these stores, a Starbucks spokesperson said it was part of a larger evaluation of their store portfolio. “Each year as a standard course
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona governor Katie Hobbs said this week her administration is terminating land leases that for years have given a Saudi-owned farm nearly unfettered access to groundwater in the parched southwestern state. On Monday, Hobbs said the state had canceled Fondomonte Arizona’s lease in western Arizona’s Butler Valley
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Michael Duane Zack III, condenado en 1997 por los asesinatos de dos mujeres que conoció en bares a lo largo de la península de Florida en 1996, fue ejecutado mediante inyección letal este martes en la prisión estatal, según el Departamento Correccional de Florida. Zack, quien se reunió con su esposa
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A judge has denied the city of Phoenix’s legal request seeking extra time to clean up the city’s largest homeless encampment. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott Blaney ruled in September that Phoenix must permanently clear the encampment on the edge of downtown by Nov. 4. The city asked for a stay
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon is home to several fault lines that cause dozens of earthquakes every year. The most known earthquake threat is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 700-mile fault located off the Pacific coast that puts Oregon at risk for a 9.0+ magnitude earthquake. A quake of that size could cause five to
Continue ReadingBy Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A group of eight House Republicans joined with Democrats Tuesday in a historic vote to remove Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker. The House will now have to elect a new speaker. The vote in the House of Representatives on the motion to vacate was 216-210, with Florida
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP presidential candidate Mike Pence, the former vice president, chastised a group of hard-right Republicans who ousted Kevin McCarthy from his role as House speaker Tuesday, saying that “chaos is never America’s friend.” Pence was onstage at a national security and foreign policy forum
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Acclaimed director Sofia Coppola is giving viewers another peek at her upcoming biopic “Priscilla,” which takes the focus off the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll and shines a light on his iconic wife Priscilla Presley. A new trailer released on Tuesday shows the beginnings of the union between Priscilla
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is accepting public comment on proposed updates to the rules for excluding individuals from Oregon State Parks who commit violations, including endangering the safety of visitors and staff (OAR 736-010-0020 and 736-021-0040). The Exclusion Rule Advisory Committee, which includes representatives from the mental health community, attorneys, agency
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Kristen Holmes and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump spent the last two days in a Manhattan courtroom, listening intently to the civil trial where the fate of his business and his brand is at stake. Once he walked outside the courtroom’s wooden doors, he unleashed on everyone involved
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Awards totaling $1,382,696 will be distributed to 171 Oregon arts organizations through the Oregon Arts Commission’s Operating Support Program for fiscal year 2024. Ranging from $3,000 to $25,000, the unrestricted awards are available to nonprofit organizations with arts at the core of their mission and budgets of more than $150,000. The Arts
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — A federal appeals court has expanded the scope of a ruling that limits the Biden administration’s communications with social media companies, saying it now also applies to a top US cybersecurity agency. The ruling last month from the conservative 5th Circuit US Court of Appeals severely limits the
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House of Representatives has entered uncharted territory after the success of a last-ditch, right-wing effort to remove fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy from the speakership. A resolution called a motion to vacate was brought forward by Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz and passed Tuesday with the support
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN)– Hay una larga lista de antiguos aliados y exasesores que le han dado la espalda al expresidente Donald Trump o de los que él se ha distanciado. Ninguna persona en la política estadounidense, desde luego ningún presidente reciente, tiene una lista tan amplia de aliados de alto perfil convertidos en enemigos. Su
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Thanks to Pacific Power’s Blue Sky program participants, the popular Blue Sky renewable energy program ranked first in overall green pricing sales in a national study by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL recently released its ranking of leading utility green power programs based on 2022 data
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Automakers posted big increases in new vehicle sales during the summer, despite high prices, rising interest rates and even a limited strike against Detroit companies. Industry sales rose 16.3% from July through September as consumer demand stayed strong despite an average new vehicle loan rate of
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Firefighters completed a three-day, 984-acre prescribed burn Saturday about 11 miles southeast of Bend, U.S. Forest Service officials said.
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit mayor has been indicted on a federal bribery charge for allegedly demanding $50,000 in bribes to facilitate the sale of a city property to an outside party. The indictment Tuesday alleges Inkster Mayor Patrick Wimberly accepted the bribes from September 2022 through this past April. Prosecutors say the bribes
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN) — La película del concierto de Taylor Swift no se ha estrenado todavía y ya está batiendo récords de taquilla. Cinemark, una cadena de cines con alrededor de 500 salas, dijo que la venta de boletos para “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” está “estableciendo récords de preventa nacional” con una demanda “10
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