By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Some 175 years after the U.S. government stole land from the chief of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation while he was away visiting relatives, Illinois may soon return it to the tribe. Nothing ever changed the 1829 treaty that Chief Shab-eh-nay signed with the U.S.
Continue ReadingBy Luke McGee, CNN London (CNN) — Four-and-a-half years ago, Britain’s Labour Party suffered its worst election defeat since 1935. The historic election victory of Boris Johnson in 2019 – which allowed him to finally implement Brexit – was supposed to mark another 10 years of Conservative rule in Britain, with Labour resigned to rebuild
Continue ReadingBy CARLOS VALDEZ and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Protesters streamed into Bolivia’s capital, throats hoarse from chanting and feet blistered from a week of walking along the national highway. The throngs of street vendors in the South American country’s vast informal work force ended their nearly 100-kilometer (60-mile) march from
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The word “onigiri” became part of the Oxford English Dictionary this year, proof that the humble sticky-rice ball and mainstay of Japanese food has entered the global lexicon. The rice balls are stuffed with a variety of fillings and typically wrapped in seaweed. It’s an everyday dish
Continue ReadingBy PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ryan Held missed the last Olympics on a technicality. It was a devastating moment, but it motivated him to keep swimming. Now, he’s heading to Paris. The 28-year-old Held has officially become a member of the team in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, a spot that was
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Onigiri is a ball of rice with something inside, similar to how two slices of bread with something in between makes a sandwich. In the same way that just about every American has made and eaten a sandwich, so too have most Japanese eaten onigiri. A Tokyo
Continue ReadingBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Officials in Philadelphia say a police officer has been shot in the neck and is in critical condition. Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel says the 31-year-old officer was struck in neck Saturday night after he and his partner stopped a car with four people inside. An officer saw a person with a
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A fire traced to an unattended Traeger smoker barbecue on the front porch destroyed a home in the Tollgate subdivision northwest of Sisters Friday afternoon. The family inside escaped without injury, officials said, but a firefighter was injured.
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson earns a spot in the Paris Olympics after winning the 100-meter final at the U.S. track trials.
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Callie Weems was reveling in her new role as a mom in the months before a gunman in Arkansas fatally shot her at a grocery store. Her daughter Ivy, now 10 months old, was a constant source of entertainment and wonder, Weems’ mother, Helen Browning, 53, said in a phone
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The fifth annual Friends of the Luau event took place Saturday at Rockridge Park in Bend. The event benefited Partners in Care and Hospice of Redmond Services. It was free to attend, with a suggested donation of $35. On the menu was tri-tip BBQ beef, pork fried rice, pasta salad, and more. The community enjoyed music, a live auction
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It took all 10 rounds of dives to separate Sarah Bacon, Alison Gibson and Krysta Palmer in a dramatic 3m springboard final at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Diving Trials.
Continue ReadingCROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — Two people have been taken to the hospital after lightning struck a tree near a PGA Tour event in Connecticut. The strike happened near a home that is just north of the fifth green at TPC River Highlands. The course is hosting the Travelers Championship this week. Cromwell police started getting
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A jury awarded $13.1 million to an ultramarathon athlete who was severely injured when she fell on a Seattle sidewalk in 2021. The award by a King County jury found that the city of Seattle and the owners of an apartment building are responsible for the amount, the Seattle Times
Continue ReadingBy Pauline Lockwood and Maija-Liisa Ehlinger, CNN (CNN) — Saida Wurie said it was her parents’ lifelong dream to participate in Hajj, the religious pilgrimage that brings Muslims from around the world to Saudi Arabia each year. They’d spent $23,000 on an all-inclusive travel package through a tour company registered in the state of Maryland.
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Izso and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of people gathered in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday to commemorate the 20th birthday of Naama Levy, who has been held captive for 260 days. It was one of the first and most searing viral videos to emerge as the October 7 attack
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, Camila Bernal and Sarah Moon, CNN (CNN) — A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racist statements, according to police. The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations identified
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Summer officially started this week and it feels like it! Areas across the region have been well above normal this last week and we are expected to have some record-breaking highs today in the 90s. We will continue to be warmer than normal into the first half of next week. Normal highs this time of
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday said he floated the idea of having a “migrant league of fighters” to UFC President Dana White, again employing dehumanizing language to describe people who enter the US illegally. “I said, ‘Dana, I have an idea: Why don’t you set up a migrant league
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