Associated Press BOONE, N.C. (AP) — Several businesses from a quaint mountain town in the Blue Ridge Mountains are concerned how Tropical Storm Helene’s devastation in western North Carolina will affect the local economy. The town of Boone relies on fall tourism as visitors come to see the leaves change color. Some businesses experienced flooding
Continue ReadingAssociated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Power is still out for well over 1 million people in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina five days after Hurricane Helene tore down trees and destroyed much of the electric grid. The hardest hit areas are places like Augusta, Georgia, and the Greenville-Spartanburg area in South Carolina. In
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NewsChannel 21’s Tracee Tuesday was on hand as the eight Bend City Council candidates, including three incumbents, shared their views on tackling various aspects of the housing crisis at a forum Monday night hosted by the group Partners for Affordable Housing. You can watch the debate recording on their YouTube page.
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The beginning of October is more in line with what should be happening in August. Highs in the 80s are more reminiscent of a summer day than the early part of fall. This will be reversed Wednesday as a weak cold front moves through the Pacific Northwest and cools the area down. No moisture to
Continue ReadingWEST POINT, Va. (AP) — An advocacy group says a Virginia school board has agreed to pay $575,000 in a settlement to a former high school teacher who was fired after he refused to use a transgender student’s pronouns. Conservative Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom announced the settlement Monday, saying the school board
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Washington (CNN) — El enorme alcance y la escala de la devastación causada por el huracán Helene en dos estados clave que podrían determinar el resultado de las elecciones, Georgia y Carolina del Norte, han convertido la tormenta en un tema de campaña instantáneo. El Gobierno Biden-Harris se está ocupando de lo que
Continue Readingmondemanola (CNN Español) –– El presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, recibió este lunes a su par salvadoreño Nayib Bukele en la Casa Rosada, donde mantuvieron un encuentro a puertas cerradas, sin declaración conjunta. Además del encuentro bilateral que tuvo lugar por la tarde, su agenda involucró una reunión con funcionarios y equipos técnicos de ambos
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will soon help end the everyday household debate over whether the food in the fridge is still good to eat. The state is the first to ban food labels such as “sell by” or “best before” under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. There are more than
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi attorney general requesting an execution date for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate. Richard Gerald Jordan is 78. He was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter that year in Harrison County. The Mississippi Supreme Court rejected his latest appeal Tuesday.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — AVID Cider Co., Bend’s original cidery, just launched Northwest is Our Core, its new initiative to promote conservation and raise funds for two Pacific Northwest nonprofit organizations: Oregon Wild and Conservation Northwest. Avid’s cider is made by locals, for everyone. Their Pacific Northwest pride is not only closely tied to the
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit filed by the state accusing TikTok of deceiving its users about the video-sharing platform’s level of inappropriate content for children and the security of its consumers’ personal information. In a 3-0 ruling issued Monday, a three-judge panel of the state appeals court reversed
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina election officials say they will do everything in their power to ensure that voters in the crucial presidential swing state will be able to cast their ballots despite the devastation of Hurricane Helene and the destruction of basic infrastructure only about a month before the November election.
Continue ReadingAP Auto Racing Writer Paralyzed in a racing accident nearly 25 years ago, Sam Schmidt has spent much of the last quarter century trying to prove to others that there is a way to have a meaningful life with a traumatic spinal cord injury. On Tuesday, he cut the ribbon on a not-for-profit Conquer Paralysis
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — This past weekend, Bend-based nonprofit Street Dog Hero hosted their largest low-cost spay and neuter clinic yet, providing services to 50 animals in Central Oregon. Street Dog Hero opened their first-ever veterinary suite at their facility in Bend in 2023 and has since opened their doors to the public by offering
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry says that he plans to call the Legislature into a special session in November, marking the third such gathering this year, with the hopes of overhauling the state’s current tax system that the Republican said is failing residents. While detailing his proposed tax plan,
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A Georgia judge signaled Tuesday that he sees a need to bring clarity to the meaning of a “vague” new election certification rule approved by Donald Trump allies that critics say will inject chaos into the battleground state after Election Day. State and national Democrats have sued the GOP-controlled
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is again claiming that special counsel Jack Smith is trying to influence the November presidential election by seeking to make new evidence and witness testimony public as voters start to go to the polls. In a court filing Tuesday, the Republican White House nominee argued that more redactions are needed in a brief that Smith has filed under seal that
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová, Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee, Arlette Saenz, Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Haifa, Israel (CNN) — Iran launched dozens of missiles toward Israel on Tuesday in what it said was a response to the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and others – potentially taking the region closer to a wider conflict.
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová, Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee, Arlette Saenz, Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Haifa, Israel (CNN) — Iran launched dozens of missiles toward Israel on Tuesday in what it said was a response to the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and others – potentially taking the region closer to a wider conflict.
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová, Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee, Arlette Saenz, Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Haifa, Israel (CNN) — Iran launched dozens of missiles toward Israel on Tuesday in what it said was a response to the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and others – potentially taking the region closer to a wider conflict.
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