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Month: November 2023

Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization seeks applicants for opening on technical advisory, budget committees

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Community committees are a great way to get involved with the City government. The Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) has an opening for a position on the MPO Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and Budget Committee. How to apply for this committee Fill out the online advisory committee application form at bendoregon.gov/government/committees/apply. Applicants may come

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‘Nope’ star Keke Palmer alleges physical abuse by ex-boyfriend Darius Jackson, court documents say

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Nope” star Keke Palmer alleges in civil court documents that she suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of the ex-boyfriend who is the father of her son. The filing this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court included a request for a domestic violence restraining order against 29-year-old Darius

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Hostage negotiators discussing days-long fighting pause between Israel and Hamas in exchange for freeing large group

By MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — The parties involved in the ongoing negotiations to secure the release of hostages that Hamas is holding in Gaza are working toward a deal that would entail a sustained, days-long pause in fighting in exchange for a large group of hostages being freed, a senior US official familiar with the

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Tensions running high at East Coast campuses over protests around Israel-Hamas war

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — One New England university banned a pro-Palestinian student group. Another suspended some students involved in protests around the Israel-Hamas war. A third saw a protest where scores of students were arrested. The responses are a sign that universities are struggling to deal with protests that have gotten

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Republican faction seeks to keep courts from interpreting Ohio’s new abortion rights amendment

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Four Ohio Republican state lawmakers are seeking to strip judges of their power to interpret an abortion rights amendment after voters opted to enshrine those rights in the state’s constitution this week. Republican state Reps. Jennifer Gross, Bill Dean, Melanie Miller and Beth Lear

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