Alexandra Ferguson Nogales, Arizona (CNN) — Las botas hechas a mano de David’s Western Wear, a poca distancia del cruce peatonal de Nogales, han sido durante 44 años las favoritas de los clientes de ambos lados de la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos. David Moore dice que alrededor del 99% de sus clientes eran
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The city of Bend expressed dismay Thursday at a spate of racist comments voiced by anonymous online visitors to a meeting of the city’s Human Rights & Equity Commission and said they will look for ways to allow public input “in a meaningful and constructive way.”
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — “Peggy y Molly” eran una pareja hecha para internet. Peggy es una robusta y musculosa Staffordshire bull terrier, y Molly es una urraca, un ave australiana más conocida por abalanzarse sobre los humanos en época de reproducción que por hacerse amiga de los perros. En los cuatro años transcurridos desde que su
Continue ReadingWXIA, CNN By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — An attorney discipline judge in California has recommended that ex-Trump election lawyer John Eastman be disbarred, according to an opinion released on Wednesday. Eastman will lose his ability to practice law within days, because the court’s decision involuntarily revokes his license, according to the opinion. Judge Yvette Roland’s
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The latest work by Redmond writer Frank Zafiro, an author of over 50 novels, is his participation in Paranoia Blues, a collection of short crime fiction stories inspired by Paul Simon songs. His contribution, “A Hazy Shade of Winter,” follows an aging mob enforcer through a day of his life.
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green says some 3,000 people displaced by Lahaina’s wildfires are still living in hotels more than seven months after the August blaze. But he told a news conference that between 25 and 30 of them are moving to longer-term housing each day. Green says
Continue ReadingVIENNA (AP) — Two large portraits of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been spray-prainted on a property owned by the family of a former Czech foreign minister behind a monument to Soviet soldiers in Vienna. The portraits on the wall behind the monument, which already was painted in Ukraine’s blue and yellow
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — A woman who purchased a vacant lot in Hawaii was surprised to find out a $500,000 house was built on the property by mistake. She’s now mired in legal wrangling over the mix-up. In 2018, Annaleine “Anne” Reynolds purchased a lot in Hawaiian Paradise Park, a subdivision in the Big Island’s Puna
Continue ReadingBy Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Several New England universities and colleges have reached a pinnacle of at least $90,000 for undergraduate tuition and costs starting this fall. Yale University, Tufts University, Boston University (BU), and Wellesley College are among a few private institutions that will top this year’s costs for tuition, housing and other expenses, according
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El Gobierno de Colombia ordenó este miércoles la expulsión de todo el cuerpo diplomático de Argentina en su país, en reclamo por las declaraciones que el presidente de ese país, Javier Milei, hizo en contra del mandatario colombiano, Gustavo Petro, a quien en una entrevista con CNN llamó “asesino terrorista”. “Las
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan has been convicted of racketeering, bribery, fraud and giving false statements to investigators in a sprawling pay-to-play corruption scandal at City Hall. The federal jury reached the guilty verdict on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after lawyers finished closing arguments. Chan’s lawyer says they’ll
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Rebel Wilson is hoping to help young people feel empowered when it comes to sex and intimacy by revealing that she lost her virginity at the age of 35. “Not everybody has to lose their virginity as a teenager,” Wilson told People magazine in an interview published on Wednesday
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — Bob Uecker will be back behind the microphone when the Milwaukee Brewers play their home opener Tuesday against the Minnesota Twins. How heavy a broadcasting workload the 90-year-old Uecker will have the rest of the season remains uncertain. “Bob Uecker calling the first pitch of the Brewers home opener is the official
Continue ReadingBy Ali Main and Dana Bash, CNN (CNN) — Former Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said Wednesday he will not run as a third-party candidate. “I appreciate the encouragement I’ve gotten to pursue a third-party candidacy. I believe we need a country that once again feels like everyone has a stake in what we’re doing and
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Tourism on the High Desert generates more than $330 million a year, according to Visit Bend. Some of that money will come in during this week’s spring break. For Kambria Connor, visiting Bend with friends is tradition. “Our family comes here like once a year for a ski trip,” Connor said Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice broke with the GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country’s strictest school vaccination policies. West Virginia is only one of a handful of states in the U.S. that offers only medical exemptions to
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One week after voting to find a new location for a sex offender transitional housing program within a year, Deschutes County commissioners voted, again 2-1, on Wednesday to terminate the current provider’s contract and close the controversial SE Bend triplex location opened a few months ago.
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Security in Congo’s mineral-rich east has deteriorated since recent elections, with a rebel group allegedly linked to neighboring Rwanda making “significant advances and expanding its territory,” the U.N. special envoy for the conflict-wracked African nation said Wednesday. Bintou Keita told the U.N. Security Council this
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Una batalla de años entre Disney y Florida está a punto de terminar después de que las dos partes llegaran a un acuerdo. En una reunión la mañana de este miércoles, miembros de la junta del Distrito de Supervisión de Turismo de Florida Central, organismo que gobierna el distrito fiscal especial
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Kansas’ Republican-controlled legislature has advanced a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors to the governor’s desk. The Senate voted 27-13 on Wednesday after the House voted 82-39 earlier in the day to advance the measure. The measure now awaits a decision from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, who vetoed a similar measure last year.
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