April 2024

Oregon Housing and Community Services, partner announce $11.5 million for Individual Development Accounts

April 27, 2024 2:08 pm KTVZ News Partners

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Housing and Community Services, in partnership with Neighborhood Partnerships, this week announced $11.5 million in funding to support the Individual Development Account Initiative statewide. An Individual Development Account (IDA) is a matched savings account, where the money participants save is multiplied up to five times by the program. As Oregonians

Assailants ambush and kill 3 police officers in southern Chile, shaking the country

April 27, 2024 2:08 pm The Associated Press

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Authorities say armed assailants have ambushed and killed three law enforcement officers in southern Chile before setting their car on fire. It’s the latest attack on police to revive security concerns in the South American country. It remains unclear who carried out Saturday’s assault on Chile’s national police force in the

Columbia student protesters are demanding divestment. Here’s what the university has divested from in the past

April 27, 2024 1:42 pm CNN Newsource

WABC, CNN By Clare Duffy and Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — One of the core demands over the past week by the pro-Palestinian student groups at Columbia University has been for the school to withdraw investment funds from what they describe as companies profiting from Israel’s military action in Gaza. Columbia’s endowment is worth

Barr, who said Trump shouldn’t be near Oval Office, says he will vote for him in 2024

April 27, 2024 1:35 pm CNN Newsource

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who previously said that Donald Trump shouldn’t be near the Oval Office, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Friday that he would vote for the former president over President Joe Biden in the 2024 election. “I think that Biden

Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests at White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza

April 27, 2024 1:25 pm The Associated Press

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The war in Gaza spurred large protests outside a glitzy roast with President Joe Biden, journalists, politicians and celebrities Saturday but went all but unmentioned by participants inside, with Biden instead using the annual White House correspondents’ dinner to make both jokes and grim

Blinken to travel to Israel, other key Middle Eastern countries amid stalled hostage and ceasefire negotiations

April 27, 2024 12:43 pm CNN Newsource

By Samantha Waldenberg, Jennifer Hansler and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia this week to meet with regional partners as talks between Israel and Hamas remain deadlocked, the State Department announced over the weekend. “The Secretary will discuss ongoing efforts to achieve a

Massachusetts police bust burglary ring that stole $4 million in jewels over six years

April 27, 2024 12:39 pm The Associated Press

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts State Police announced they had busted a burglary ring that stole around $4 million in jewels mostly from the homes of South Asian lived in more than two dozen communities over the past six years. Four people, including two brothers, who were members of the Providence-based gang were arrested and

Alaska’s Indigenous teens emulate ancestors’ Arctic survival skills at the Native Youth Olympics

April 27, 2024 12:36 pm The Associated Press

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The athletes filling a huge gym in Anchorage were ready to compete, cheering and stomping and high-fiving each other as they lined up for the chance to claim the state’s top prize in their events. But these teenagers were at the Native Youth Olympics, a statewide

3 children in minivan hurt when it rolled down hill, into baseball dugout wall in Illinois

April 27, 2024 12:35 pm The Associated Press

WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — Three children were hurt when the minivan they were in rolled down a hill into a concrete baseball dugout in northern Illinois’ Woodstock. The children, ages 12 and 13, were hospitalized with mild to moderate injuries. Police say they were among four children in the parked minivan which is believed to

One year after the end of COVID-19 pandemic emergency, Oregon is among top states keeping people covered

April 27, 2024 12:25 pm KTVZ News Partners

More than 1 million people keep Oregon Health Plan benefits due to efforts to expand coverage options SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — With more than 90 percent of the state’s 1.5 million renewals complete, more than 4 out of 5 Oregonians are keeping their Oregon Health Plan or other Medicaid benefits. During the COVID-19 Public Health

Wyden applauds new Biden administration rules to improve nursing home and home-based staffing, care

April 27, 2024 12:20 pm KTVZ News Partners

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued a statement this week after the Biden administration finalized several rules aimed at improving health care for Americans in nursing homes, those receiving home and community-based services through Medicaid, as well as updates to Medicaid-managed care to strengthen health services covered by these plans:

Tornado kills at least 5, injures 33, in Chinese metropolis as region battles deadly floods

April 27, 2024 12:19 pm CNN Newsource

By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — At least five people were killed and 33 injured in a tornado Saturday that struck Guangzhou, a city of 19 million people in southern China, according to Chinese state media. Authorities say 141 factory buildings were damaged but no residential houses collapsed, according to the Xinhua news agency. It

Tennessee governor signs bill allowing teachers and staff to be armed on campus

April 27, 2024 12:15 pm CNN Newsource

By Amanda Musa and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation Friday allowing teachers and school staff in the state to be armed in school buildings and campuses, according to the General Assembly’s website. State legislators approved the bill Tuesday, which authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to

Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site in John Day opens for the 2024 season on May 2

April 27, 2024 12:14 pm KTVZ News Partners

JOHN DAY, Ore. (KTVZ) — Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site in John Day welcomes visitors to its Interpretive Center and Museum for the 2024 season starting Thursday, May 2. The Kam Wah Chung building and museum is a National Historic Landmark that preserves the home and businesses of two Chinese immigrants, Ing “Doc” Hay and Lung On. For more

Spillover speeds: AAA study finds raising speed limits on interstates can increase crash rates on nearby roads

April 27, 2024 12:05 pm KTVZ News Partners

Raising speed limits on highways could lead to more crashes on nearby roads, according to new research by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. This “spillover effect” can lead to dangerous clusters of crashes or “hotspots” on local roads within a one-mile radius of the interstate.

RNC asks Secret Service to keep protesters farther from convention location

April 27, 2024 11:59 am CNN Newsource

By Shania Shelton and Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — The Republican National Committee is asking the Secret Service to keep protesters farther back from the July convention in Milwaukee than is currently planned. RNC counsel Todd Steggerda wrote in a letter dated Friday that the city of Milwaukee’s current proposal “creates an elevated and untenable safety risk to

Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after his return to New York from upstate prison

April 27, 2024 11:48 am The Associated Press

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer said Saturday that the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction. Attorney Arthur Aidala said Weinstein was moved to Bellevue Hospital in

Three ultra-rare little birds have new home: Oregon Zoo welcomes sihek kingfishers

April 27, 2024 11:39 am KTVZ News Partners

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Zoo is home to many critically endangered species, but perhaps none as rare as its newest arrivals: a trio of sihek (SEE-heck) kingfishers. Once native to the island of Guam, these tiny, brightly colored birds have been extinct in the wild for decades. Only 110 are left in the

‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Woman rescued from rubble as Nebraska tornado hits

April 27, 2024 11:28 am CNN Newsource

By Sarah Fili Click here for updates on this story BLAIR, Nebraska (KETV) — Omaha’s weather leader saw a rain-wrapped tornado tear across Washington County, leveling homes on Highway 75 outside Blair. Moments later, KETV NewsWatch 7’s Sarah Fili captured the destruction. “My ears started just popping the high pressure and got down in the

‘Everything is in shambles’: Workers survive direct hit from tornado at Garner Industries in Nebraska

April 27, 2024 11:21 am CNN Newsource

By Alex McLoon Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (KETV) — Workers in Lincoln survived a direct hit at the Garner Industries building. KETV NewsWatch 7’s Alex Mcloon reported how people worked together to get them home. “Gone. No, roof, no nothing and everything is in shambles,” said Duane Johns. Seventy people

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