The Growth Management Division at the City of Bend said Wednesday it wants to hear from the community about where to locate areas where people can live, work, and play without requiring a car.
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and nearly two dozen other Democrats are demanding federal regulators probe the mega takeovers inked last month by ExxonMobil and Chevron. In a letter on Wednesday to the Federal Trade Commission, the lawmakers warned the blockbuster Big Oil deals
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Nature provides much of the soundtrack to “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” the debut feature from writer-director Raven Jackson. The film is sparse in narrative and dialogue but loosely follows the life of one woman, Mack, from childhood on in rural Mississippi, jumping back and forth through time.
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — Este jueves, Pedro Sánchez logró el apoyo necesario para su investidura como presidente del Gobierno de España. Los votos clave los obtuvo de los partidos catalanes separatistas, con quienes había negociado una ley de amnistía. El principal reto de Sánchez era cerrar un acuerdo con las formaciones independentistas catalanas, Junts
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Ehling Click here for updates on this story HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper is recovering from a violent crash with an 18-wheeler in west Harris County. The trooper was on his way to the end of a chase in the Katy area when the crash happened
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The effort to ban former President Donald Trump from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrection clause” turned to distant history on Wednesday, when a law professor testified about how the post-Civil War provision was indeed intended to apply to presidential candidates. Gerard Magliocca, of Indiana University, said
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Philadelphia police are investigating after two Temple University students and a third person were robbed at gunpoint Tuesday morning. According to police, the three robberies happened between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. The first incident happened in the 1900 block of N.
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Wind energy developer Orsted is writing off $4 billion, due largely to the cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey whose financial challenges mirror those facing the nascent industry. The Danish company is scrapping its Ocean Wind I and II projects due
Continue ReadingBy JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors played wiretaps in federal court in New York showing a federal narcotics agent leaked sensitive case information about one of Washington’s top criminal targets in Venezuela — Alex Saab. The leak, not previously made public, marks yet another embarrassing case of high-profile
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — An 80-foot-tall (24-meter) Norway spruce from the Binghamton area has been selected as this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and will be cut down and trucked to New York City next week, Rockefeller Center officials announced Wednesday. The tree will be cut on Nov. 9 in Vestal, New York, and will
Continue ReadingBy JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press Prosecutors have dropped charges against a Louisiana state trooper accused of withholding graphic body-camera footage that shows another officer dragging Black motorist Ronald Greene by his ankle shackles during his deadly 2019 arrest. A district attorney said this week that Lt. John Clary has agreed to take the stand in
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden is nominating a top adviser on Asia to serve as the State Department’s second-ranking diplomat. The president is elevating one of the architects of the administration’s efforts to develop a more Asia-focused foreign policy. Kurt Campbell currently is deputy assistant to the president and coordinator
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Mt. Bachelor announced on Wednesday a new partnership with Bend’s Campfire Hotel, to offer seasonal employee housing for the upcoming winter season.
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall. But it didn’t happen. Instead this year’s ozone hole was about average size for the last 20 years, even a bit smaller than 2022’s,
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — La Fiscalía General de Colombia presentó este miércoles una acusación contra el excandidato presidencial Óscar Iván Zuluaga Escobar, y su hijo, David Zuluaga Martínez, quien fue su gerente de campaña, por supuestas maniobras para ocultar los aportes que habría hecho Odebrecht para gastos de propaganda durante las elecciones en 2014.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Meta will soon be forced to seek European users’ consent before using their personal information to deliver those users targeted advertisements on Facebook and Instagram. A European Union-wide ban announced Wednesday dealing with Meta’s handling of user data proposes blanket restrictions which could be finalized as soon as late
Continue ReadingBy J.R. Stone Click here for updates on this story ALAMEDA, California (KGO) — Several elementary school students ended up with cannabis-infused candies in their bag at a trick-or-treating event in Alameda on Sunday. One child was sickened; parents of three others found the marijuana candy before their kids ate it and after warnings went
Continue ReadingBy Tim Johns Click here for updates on this story OAKLAND, California (KGO) — Oakland police are investigating a gruesome discovery near the shores of Lake Merritt on Tuesday. Around 11 a.m. Tuesday morning, cleaning crews discovered a large suitcase floating in the water with a human body inside. Kevin Shomo was part of that
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, facing a backlash from donors calling for her to resign, launched a new effort on Wednesday to fight antisemitism at the Ivy League school. The moves amount to the most comprehensive response to date by Magill to address a crisis gripping
Continue ReadingBy Abbas Al Lawati, Mohammed Abdelbary and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — A small number of Palestinians and foreign nationals have finally been able to leave Gaza, after weeks of intense negotiations resulted in the partial opening of the Rafah crossing with Egypt. The border in the south of the besieged enclave has been seen
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