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Month: June 2024

Gov. Kotek, department director announce elimination of Oregon’s police training backlog

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Gov. Tina Kotek and Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) Director Phil Castle announced Monday that the department eliminated the police training backlog, which reached up to seven months at its peak. This was achieved through increased training capacity, drastically reducing wait times for Basic Police training. The

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Chappell Roan draws Bonnaroo crowd after festival organizers made last-minute switch to bigger stage

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — It’s all rise for Chappell Roan. The emerging pop star drew in a major crowd at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee over the weekend, validating festival organizers’ decision to move her performance to a bigger stage to accommodate anticipated crowds. Some Chappell supporters even began camping out around

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Use of popular diabetes drug in preconception or early pregnancy may not be tied to higher birth defect risk, studies suggest

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Some studies have raised concerns about a potential link between the widely used type 2 diabetes drug metformin and an increased risk of conceiving a baby with birth defects. But new research now suggests that the use of the medication among men planning to conceive or women in early

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Steve Bannon won’t be spending his prison term in a ‘Club Fed’ as he had hoped, sources say

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — When former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon goes to prison, he won’t be serving time at what’s known as a “Club Fed,” the most comfortable type of facility in the federal system, as he had wanted, according to people familiar with the arrangements. Instead of a minimum-security prison camp, where many nonviolent offenders serve

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139 people in Russia seek medical help with botulism symptoms. Ready-to-eat salads may be to blame

MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities say at least 139 people in Russia have sought medical assistance with symptoms of botulism over the past few days, an outbreak that could be linked to ready-to-ear salads. Foodborne botulism is rare. It’s caused by a toxin produced by a type of bacteria called Clostridium botulinum. Eating foods contaminated with

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