The Oregon Public Utility Commission recently approved an increase in rates for Cascade Natural Gas customers that goes into effect on Wednesday, Nov. 1, averaging just over 3% or $2.56 a month for residential customers.
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN New York (CNN) — Amazon’s good year continues. The e-commerce giant on Thursday reported revenue of $143.1 billion for the quarter ending in September, marking a 13% increase from the same period last year and beating analysts’ estimates. The company reported quarterly profits of $9.9 billion, also beating estimates. Amazon Web Services,
Continue ReadingJOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A grand jury in Illinois has indicted a man who is accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian-American woman and her son. The eight-count indictment against Joseph Czuba tracks the charges that were filed soon after the fatal stabbing of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume.
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Para las víctimas del tiroteo masivo del miércoles por la noche en Lewiston, Maine, era una noche normal. Algunos participaban en un torneo de cornhole mientras otros disfrutaban de una comida. Entonces un atacante acabó con su diversión. Y ahora, otra comunidad estadounidense está de luto mientras siguen surgiendo las identidades
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — A Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet of a US Air Force B-52 bomber flying over the South China Sea on Tuesday, according to the US military. The Chinese pilot “flew in an unsafe and unprofessional manner, demonstrated poor airmanship by closing with uncontrolled excessive speed, flying below,
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The rain and snow chances have ended, other than a few flakes on the peaks of the Cascades, leaving us to focus on the temperatures this weekend. The forecast lows over the next few days will be significantly lower than normal. The mercury in the thermometer is going to drop into the teens in most
Continue ReadingBy MADELINE BARTOS Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Leaders of the Tree of Life congregation say news of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, is reopening wounds as they prepare to mark five years since the attack on their synagogue. On Friday, it will be five years since a gunman
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Prineville District BLM is pleased to announce the selection of a new District Manager and two Field Managers. Amanda Roberts has been selected as the Prineville District Manager, Kyle Hensley as the Field Manager for the Central Oregon Field Office, and Lisa Clark as the Field Manager for the Deschutes Field
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Nearly a foot of snow buried parts of North Dakota on Thursday as the region’s first wintry weather of the season swept through the Rockies and into the northern Plains, slowing travel and frustrating some farmers who still have crops left to harvest. The storm dumped
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Private-equity billionaire Stephen Schwarzman doesn’t think office workers worked hard enough during Covid-19. Schwarzman, the Blackstone CEO whose fortune is estimated at $32 billion, told a crowd of investors at a ritzy Saudi Arabia conference known as “Davos in the Desert” that people who worked remotely during the pandemic
Continue ReadingBy RAVI NESSMAN and AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — More than two weeks after Hamas militants rampaged through a string of sleepy farming towns, many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, not just for failing to prevent the attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward. While the
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER BISRAM Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WCBS) — A 7-year-old boy was struck and killed by an NYPD tow truck while on his way to school with his mother Thursday in Brooklyn. The crash happened at around 7:45 a.m. at the intersection of North Portland and Myrtle Avenue
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Lionel Messi is a finalist for the MLS Newcomer of the Year award. The league announced the finalists for its season awards on Thursday. The league plans to announce the winners through its MLS Cup Playoffs. It’s no surprise that Messi, Argentina’s great who joined Inter Miami CF this summer, is
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the last two living Beatles, have “come together” to finish a song that the late John Lennon wrote and recorded in 1970 called “Now and Then.” For McCartney and Starr, hearing the “crystal clear” voice of Lennon on the completed track was a profound experience. “It’s
Continue ReadingBy NAVEEN DHALIWAL Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WCBS) — The Sikh community is calling on New York City for protection after two recent crimes, one of them fatal. In front of the Sikh temple in Richmond Hill, the Sikh community and local leaders want answers. “I don’t feel safe
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Roughly 900 US troops have been deployed or are deploying to the Middle East amid heightened tensions in the region after a series of attacks on coalition bases that resulted in minor injuries for almost two dozen troops. “These include forces that have been on prepare to deploy orders,
Continue ReadingBy JIM DONOVAN Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Video just released by Philadelphia police shows looters intentionally smashing a car through the front of a medical marijuana dispensary in the city’s Wynnefield section last month. The video shows the Kia car, which had been reported stolen, plowing into the Curaleaf
Continue ReadingBy JASMINE PAYOUTE, SCOTT HEZLEP Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Prince Albert II of Monaco is in Philadelphia — his mother Grace Kelly’s hometown — on Thursday, where he will talk about his foundation’s impact on the Philadelphia Zoo’s education programs and tout a partnership with the city’s Parks and
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — The picket lines are gone at the three Ford plants where workers have been on strike for nearly six weeks in some cases. But the strike at the company isn’t quite over, and there’s no immediate end in sight for the strikes at General
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Men who have sex with men and others who are at high risk of mpox infection should get two doses of the Jynneos vaccine, even now that the recent public health emergency in the United States has passed, according to an independent panel of experts that advises the US
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