One of the items voters will face on the May 21 primary ballot soon to arrive in their mailboxes is Bend-La Pine Schools’ five-year local option levy that would allow the district to bridge a funding gap and dedicate resources to important programs and services.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Transit officials say the start date for the $15 toll most drivers will be charged to enter Manhattan’s central business district will be June 30. Under the so-called congestion pricing plan, the $15 fee will apply to most drivers who enter Manhattan south of 60th Street during daytime hours. Tolls will
Continue ReadingBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — An aspiring challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has renewed his calls for change. He led a protest Friday of several thousand people demanding a more robust child protection system and the resignation of Orbán’s government. The demonstrators gathered outside Hungary’s Interior Ministry in Budapest and called for its head
Continue ReadingBy CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — When the Houston Astros take on the Colorado Rockies this weekend, it will be the seventh regular-season series played in Mexico. Major League Baseball’s presence in the country, however, goes far beyond that. Mexico became one of only six countries in the world with an MLB
Continue ReadingBy Shaun Boyd Click here for updates on this story MORGAN COUNTY, Colorado (KCNC) — Jesse McCoppin remembers the day he arrived at Prairie View Ranch in Morgan County. A storm was brewing that day and as the wind picked up, power went out, and the pumps went down at Prairie View Ranch Water District.
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — A proposed ban on menthol cigarettes in the US “will take significantly more time,” US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement Friday, delaying a decision that had posed political risks for President Joe Biden as he runs for re-election. “This rule has
Continue ReadingDECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A judge upheld the disqualification of a candidate who had had planned to run against the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference case. Tiffani Johnson is one of two people who filed paperwork to challenge Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. An administrative law judge
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Texas woman whose conviction for illegal voting in 2016 was overturned on appeal may end up back in court. The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office filed an appeal Thursday, asking for the state’s top court to reinstate Crystal Mason’s conviction after it was overturned in March. “Voting is
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge ordered jurors Friday to keep deliberating after they said they were deadlocked in a lawsuit alleging a Virginia-based military contractor is liable for abuses suffered by inmates at the Abu Ghraib prion in Iraq two decades ago. The eight-person civil jury has deliberated the
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Deschutes County and the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council Skills Lab are sharing the wonder and life lessons that gardening brings with youth residing at the county’s Juvenile Community Justice Facility.
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Este viernes en Chile entró en vigor la ley que reduce gradualmente la jornada laboral de 45 a 40 horas semanales, iniciando este año con una hora menos. La llamada “ley de 40 horas” aplicará cambios paulatinos cada año, reduciendo durante 2024 la jornada de trabajo a 44 horas semanales.
Continue ReadingCNN By Helen Regan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide. The
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — George Mallory is renowned for being one of the first British mountaineers to attempt to scale the dizzying heights of Mount Everest during the 1920s — until the mountain claimed his life. Nearly a century later, newly digitized letters shed light on Mallory’s hopes and fears about ascending Everest,
Continue ReadingBy Christian Olaniran and Jessica Albert Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A former high school athletic director was arrested Thursday morning after allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate the school principal in a recording that included racist and antisemitic comments about individuals at the school. One-time Pikesville High School employee
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Deschutes County commissioners voted unanimously this week to approve a new homeless camp eviction policy and procedure for county-owned lands, although that process is still on hold while the county works to create a managed camp for them to be relocated to.
Continue ReadingAitana Ocana (CNN Español) — El caso Asunta, la nueva miniserie de Netflix, está inspirada en la historia real de uno de los crímenes más mediáticos de España: el asesinato en 2013 de Asunta Basterra, una niña gallega de 12 años de origen chino, por el que fueron condenados sus padres adoptivos, Rosario Porto y
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden went on “The Howard Stern Show” on Friday and repeated his familiar story about the time he supposedly “got arrested” trying to defend the civil rights of Black Americans. As in the past, Biden told the story on Friday while recounting what his mother supposedly said while urging
Continue ReadingWBAL, CNN By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — The recording went viral in January, provoking rage in suburban Baltimore. It seemed that Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert had been caught making racist and antisemitic comments. Angry phone calls overwhelmed the front desk. Employees felt afraid. Security was tightened. Eiswert was placed on administrative leave pending an
Continue ReadingFORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Officials say Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana to help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business. The Journal Gazette reports that the planned data center in Fort Wayne was announced in January, but Google and Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office disclosed
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents. The decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Friday reverses a lower court ruling from 2021 that blocked the
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