(Update: Adding video) La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) – La Pine Community Health Center has received $500,000 from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust toward construction of its new three-story, 27,000-square-foot Wellness Center – one of 30 grants to nonprofits serving the Oregon community that totaled more than $7.5 million. The $500,000 amount put LCHC among the
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Half of U.S. adults say Israel’s 15-week-old military campaign in Gaza has “gone too far,” a finding driven mainly by growing disapproval among Republicans and political independents, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Broadly, the poll
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — Cada año, los estadounidenses en los estados de EE.UU. en los que cae nieve esperan con gran expectativa ver si la marmota Punxsutawney Phil detectará su sombra. Y todos los años, tomamos el pronóstico del tiempo de la marmota Phil: ¿seis semanas más de invierno o una primavera temprana? Y su
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — Mientras que en Estados Unidos es el Día de la Marmota, en México el 2 de febrero se dedica a celebrar el Día de la Candelaria y a comer tamales. Es algo que se ha convertido en una tradición nacional: el Día de Reyes (6 de enero) se parte una rosca
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Una explosión de gas en la capital de Kenya dejó al menos tres muertos y 280 heridos el jueves por la noche, según las autoridades del país del este de África. El incendio comenzó cuando un camión que transportaba gas explotó en el distrito Embakasi de Nairobi sobre las 11:30
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Big Tech stocks once again carried Wall Street to a record Friday, even though the majority of stocks fell amid worries about the downside of a hot economy. Big gains for Meta Platforms and Amazon helped drive the S&P 500 index up by 1.1% to
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For months, the underdog in the presidential primary refused to concede defeat. He fought hard in state after state, even as the front-runner amassed a delegate advantage that would be virtually impossible to overcome. The extended feud between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell McCluskey, Amy Cassidy, Larry Madowo, Bethlehem Feleke and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — A gas explosion at an unlicensed cooking gas-filling plant in Kenya’s capital on Thursday night killed at least three people and injured 280 others, according to authorities in the East African country. The blaze started when a truck carrying gas blew
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Adem Bona and Dylan Andrews each scored 18 points to allow UCLA to hold off Oregon State, 71-63 on Thursday night. The Bruins, who play seven of their final 11 games at Pauley Pavilion, now have won their last five straight against the Beavers. Will McClendon hit a 3-pointer with 11:06
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Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Much of Alaska has plunged into a deep freeze, with temperatures well below zero. Anchorage has seen some of its coldest temperatures in years and the mayor opened warming facilities for people who are homeless or don’t have reliable heating. To the south
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK and PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Daily life largely returned to normal for most of the nearly 5,000 residents of East Palestine, Ohio, months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire a year ago, but the worries and fears
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Isabella Warren has a wide variety of weekend events to sample, from making chocolate to the Sunriver Brewing K-9 Keg Pull and a party to prepare for Galentine’s Day, the day before Valentine’s Day, for women to celebrate their friendships. There’s much more to choose from, or post your own event, at http://events.ktvz.com.
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackson Shelstad scored 20 points, tying his career high with four 3-pointers, and Oregon defeated Southern California 78-69 on Thursday night, sending the Trojans to their sixth straight loss. Shelstad made all of his first six shots, including three 3-pointers. He scored 15 of the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Vukasin Masic scored 23 points as Portland beat Pacific 65-60 on Thursday. Masic added seven rebounds for the Pilots (8-15, 2-6 West Coast Conference). Juan Sebastian Gorosito scored 19 points while shooting 4 for 10 from beyond the arc and 7 of 7 from the free throw
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A US warship’s destruction of an incoming Houthi missile in the Red Sea this week marks the first use in this conflict of an advanced weapons system dubbed the Navy’s “last line of defense.” The Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) was deployed by Navy destroyer the USS Gravely Tuesday night against
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Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hardly a day goes by without news of another set of layoffs or business failure in journalism, an industry in the midst of a decades-long decline that has only seemed to accelerate lately. The news website The Messenger, in business for less than a year,
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Guillermo Barraza buzzes with a nervous energy as he watches himself transform. Hands delicately paint stripes of bright pink eyeshadow onto Barraza’s angular face as newscasters and makeup crews bustle around him. Tonight, in a small studio set in the heart of Mexico
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — From its inception, the newscast La Verdrag was meant to radically transform the way the LGBTQ+ community are viewed in Mexican society. First broadcast in October, the program goes against the grain in a highly “macho” country where nearly 4 in every 5
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