BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Now in its 19th year, Central Oregon’s Blue Ribbon Campaign highlights the issue of child abuse and the community’s role in keeping children safe. KIDS Center and MountainStar Family Relief Nursery organize this annual event, presented by SELCO Community Credit Union and supported by these sponsors: The Bulletin, Central Oregon Daily,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York City plans to intensify a crackdown on subway fare-beating by sending at least 800 police officers specifically to keep watch on turnstiles, officials announced Monday. It’s the latest in a string of recent moves to address concerns about safety and unruliness in the nation’s busiest subway system. Hours after
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican-controlled Senate has tweaked a proposal initially designed to keep the state’s tourism records hidden from public scrutiny. The move on Monday marked an effort to add more sunshine into how the state secures high-profile events. Last month, the GOP-dominant House approved legislation that would
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two men charged in a brazen prison escape and ambush at an Idaho hospital that left three correctional officers with gunshot injuries were arraigned in Boise on Monday. Skylar Meade, the escaped inmate, and Nicholas Umphenour, a former inmate who used to live in the same
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A man who made threats against then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in 2022 was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Monday, Justice Department officials announced during a news conference on threats to state election workers. Joshua Russell, from Ohio, made multiple death threats, according
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey has a well-earned reputation as a home to backroom political dealing, but some advocates see that as changing. A lawsuit brought by Rep. Andy Kim aims at breaking the boss-dominated culture in this Democratic stronghold. That and first lady Tammy Murphy’s departure from the
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN Español) — El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, no tuvo contratiempos este lunes para registrarse como candidato presidencial del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), en un acto público en el que dijo que el 28 de julio habrá elecciones con o sin la oposición. El oficialismo en Venezuela nombra a Nicolás
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — For the 13th year, the women of Central Oregon are being asked to donate gently used and new bras to Soroptimist’s “Bras from Bend” drive throughout April. A small gift of a no longer needed undergarment can make a huge impact on the lives of other women halfway around the world.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — An early morning dispute over smoking on a New York subway train has led to one man being stabbed multiple times and another man being arrested. Monday morning’s incident happened on a Brooklyn train bound for Manhattan. Police received a 911 call for a person in distress and discovered a 52-year-old
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By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The abortion pill mifepristone is the subject of ongoing lawsuits, as anti-abortion advocates have claimed that the drug is not safe and that the US Food and Drug Administration didn’t study it enough to approve it. Mifepristone was approved by the FDA decades ago and has been shown to
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police on Monday launched an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro’s two-night stay at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia, amid widespread speculation from his opponents that he may have been attempting to evade arrest. A Federal Police source with knowledge of the investigation confirmed
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York City’s celebrity owl Flaco was suffering from a severe pigeon-borne illness and high levels of rat poison when he crashed into a building and died last month, officials at the Bronx Zoo said Monday. The Eurasian eagle-owl was found dead in a Manhattan courtyard on Feb. 23, a
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico has declared an epidemic following a spike in dengue cases. The U.S. territory of 3.2 million people has reported at least 549 cases so far this year, compared with a total of 1,293 cases for all of last year. The island’s health department says more than 340
Continue ReadingIn a story published March 25, 2024, about detection of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number of commercial birds in the U.S. affected since 2022. The outbreak has affected 82 million birds, wild and commercial.
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer RALEIGH, N,C, (AP) — Tennessee didn’t wilt when North Carolina State built a 20-point lead. Just as importantly, the Wolfpack didn’t either after Lady Vols climbed all the way back within a single bucket. And that sent Wes Moore’s squad on to the Sweet 16 of March Madness again.
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) –– El gobernador de Florida, el republicano Ron DeSantis, firmó este lunes un proyecto de ley que prohíbe a los niños menores de 14 años tener sus propias cuentas de redes sociales, según un comunicado de prensa de su oficina. Los jóvenes de 14 y 15 años podrán tener cuentas con el
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A bill that ultimately would have let voters decide whether or not abortions should be legal in Louisiana, a state with a near-total ban, has failed after a Republican-controlled committee rejected it. The legislation proposed an amendment to Louisiana’s constitution that would enshrine reproductive rights
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(Update: Statement from St. Charles) WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Monday the first in what’s expected to be more long long lists of Oregon projects funded through the half-dozen final fiscal 2024 spending bills Congress passed late last week and President Biden quickly signed into law, to avoid a government
Continue ReadingKCAL, KCBS, WSVN, CNN By John Miller, Elizabeth Wolfe and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Authorities searched Sean “Diddy” Combs’ homes on Monday because he is a target of a federal investigation carried out by a Department of Homeland Security team that handles human trafficking crimes, according to a senior federal law enforcement official briefed
Continue ReadingBy KATHRYN POST Religion News Service (RNS) — Sarah Bowen says she’s been doing the work of an animal chaplain since she was 6 years old. Raised in the Midwest as a Presbyterian preacher’s kid, she was often hauled to hospice facilities and funeral homes but noticed that the chipmunks and other animals crumpled by
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