ATLANTA (AP) — The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office has promised to pay a private security company $1.4 million after some of its employees walked out of the jail in August. The office announced Wednesday it will send the payments electronically by the end of the week. Strategic Security Corporation ended its contract with the county
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s elections board has dismissed protests filed by several Republican candidates trailing narrowly in their races last month who have questioned well over 60,000 ballots cast this fall. The Democratic-majority board agreed Wednesday to throw out the protests of GOP Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin and three legislative
Continue ReadingBy Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Republicans in the North Carolina House pushed through a measure restricting the powers of the incoming governor and other Democrats, overriding outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto. The bill passed with 72 members voting for the override and 46 against. Three House Republicans who opposed the measure last month
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Bend-La Pine Schools and Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity said Wednesday they are partnering on a second affordable home ownership project that will provide school district employees and others in the community the opportunity to purchase homes near Summit High School and Pacific Crest Middle School. Skyline Crossing will feature 15 cottage-style
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats failed in their bid to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after the Senate rejected a razor-thin vote that hinged on the pivotal rejections of independent Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. If the nomination had been successful, the
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Nechirvan Mando, CNN (CNN) — The US’ key anti-ISIS partners in Syria said on Wednesday that the ISIS detention facilities they guard are coming under attack and that they have been forced to halt anti-ISIS operations, complicating the US military’s efforts to prevent the terror group from reconstituting
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer ZURICH (AP) — Saudi Arabia scored a major win in its campaign to attract major sports events to the kingdom when it was formally appointed as the 2034 World Cup host on Wednesday. Still, many questions remain about the tournament as well as the 2030 World Cup, which will be co-hosted by
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Central Oregon Scouts BSA will be collecting and recycling Christmas trees in your community on the weekends of December 28th and 29th and January 4th and 5th. Here’s the full announcement: We request a donation of $10 but will gladly accept any donation over that amount. The money raised from the scouts’
Continue ReadingChronicle of Philanthropy BEND, OREGON (AP) — Eliza Wilson is a little nervous as she draws the microphone close, but she is determined to share her life story. “My father was a disabled veteran,” she says. “I first experienced homelessness when I was 5 years old.” Wilson, who’s 36, leads programs focused on unhoused youth.
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s parliament has approved legislation drafted by the government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico that could effectively ban doctors from protesting against low pay. The law was adopted as the government’s response to a move by more than 3,000 doctors in the country’s hospitals, a majority, to quit their job
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Agriculture, with significant input from Oregon’s dairy industry and processors, said Wednesday it is launching its milk testing and monitoring program this week, aiming to protect farms, farmworkers and communities from H5N1 avian influenza. Select processors will begin collecting raw (unpasteurized) milk samples this week, and more
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Park, Elizabeth Wolfe, Josh Campbell and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Weeks of mysterious drone sightings across New Jersey are prompting heightened security concerns – and mounting frustrations – from residents, military personnel and federal, state and local officials. While the state’s governor says there’s no threat to public safety, other state officials
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says she is suing a Saudi Arabian agribusiness over what she calls “excessive pumping” of groundwater. She alleges that the Fondomonte alfalfa farm in western Arizona is violating a public nuisance law even though the area has no groundwater pumping regulations. Mayes said
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer The new film “September 5″ is a fictionalized account of ABC’s live coverage of the hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Olympics. The film, rated R and opening in theaters this week, stays in the newsroom where the sports broadcasters attempt to follow the quickly escalating story. Associated Press Film Writer Lindsey
Continue ReadingPor Jack Guy, CNN Una imagen de una ardilla atrapada en un árbol fue nombrada ganadora general de los Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards de este año, con una rana en una burbuja y un besugo persiguiendo a un águila calva entre los ganadores de la categoría. “Stuck Squirrel” de Milko Marchetti fue elegida ganadora
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Lynsey Harris sits down with DIY Cave partner Tim Willis to share creative ideas for brightening up your holidays with beautiful, handmade gifts.
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Hannah Kobayashi “has been found safe,” her family said Wednesday, more than a week after police declared her voluntarily missing amid fears she may have been abducted. “We are incredibly relieved and grateful that Hannah has been found safe,” Kobayashi’s sister, Sydni, and mother, Brandi Yee,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The suspect in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO plans to fight extradition to New York to face murder charges, but officials hope to get him back with what’s called a governor’s warrant. The process could happen quickly or take more than a month. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hannah Kobayashi, the missing Hawaii woman whose disappearance prompted a massive search and a missing persons investigation in Los Angeles, has been found safe, police said Wednesday. Kobayashi vanished last month in Los Angeles. She missed her connecting flight and planned to explore the city the next day, but
Continue ReadingPor Gustavo Valdés, CNN en Español Universidades en Estados Unidos están advirtiendo a sus estudiantes extranjeros tomar medidas si quieren viajar fuera del país durante las vacaciones de invierno, al resaltar la incertidumbre sobre los cambios inmigratorios que pueda tomar el nuevo Gobierno de Donald Trump que se inicia el 20 de enero. Algunas les
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