REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Redmond man was arrested this week after he tried to run from officers, and a later search of his backpack turned up nearly 400 grams of methamphetamine and a small amount of cocaine, police said Thursday. Redmond Police Street Crimes detectives arrested Christopher Lee Hughes, 39, on drug delivery and
Continue ReadingBy Jesse Zanger Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS, WLNY) — Big changes are coming to New York City’s iconic Fifth Avenue. The city plans to transform the stretch between Bryant Park at 42nd Street and Central Park at 59th Street into a “pedestrian-centered boulevard.” The vision includes widening sidewalks, and
Continue ReadingMANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A mother convicted of abandoning her newborn son in the New Hampshire woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022 has been handed a suspended sentence. A judge said Thursday that Alexandra Eckersley must maintain contact with mental health providers as part of her suspended sentence. Eckersley is the daughter
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Dozens of farmers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are scrambling to feed their flocks after a struggling organic broiler chicken producer abruptly closed a year after getting a $39 million federal loan. Pure Prairie Poultry shuttered its Charles City, Iowa, processing plant after filing for bankruptcy in September. The company had provided chicks
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de México presentó una iniciativa de reforma a la ley Federal del Trabajo para regular las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores de plataformas digitales, como choferes y repartidores. Abarcaría a cerca de 658.000 personas, según datos del Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT). La reforma otorgaría a estos trabajadores acceso
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer How a sperm and an egg fuse together has long been a mystery. New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works like a lock and key across the animal kingdom, from fish to people. “We discovered this mechanism that’s really fundamental across all vertebrates as far as we
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades. Experts say the settlement with 1,353 people who allege that they were abused by local Catholic priests is the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast are digging out from mountains of sand after Hurricanes Helene and Milton clobbered them with back-to-back hits in less than two weeks. Storm surge as high as 10 feet swept sand into communities. The fine, white sand helps make Florida’s beaches
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind of the group’s Oct. 7 2023, attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off. Sinwar’s killing on Wednesday decapitates the Palestinian militant group that has already been reeling from months
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A Virginia elections official who faced criminal charges that were later dropped over a botched vote count in the 2020 presidential election is accusing the state attorney general in a lawsuit of malicious prosecution. Michele White’s lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court. She says she was wrongly vilified in the only criminal
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of Oklahoma parents, teachers and ministers are suing to stop the state’s top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans. The lawsuit filed Thursday with the Oklahoma Supreme Court also asks the court to stop State Superintendent Ryan Walters from spending
Continue ReadingBy Rick Westhead Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Content advisory: This article includes allegations of sexual assault. The Ontario Provincial Police has acknowledged that one of its employees did not follow the organization’s policy when an alleged victim of sexual assault called a local detachment earlier this year to
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Aiello Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA (CTV Network) — Federal Canadian cabinet ministers Filomena Tassi, Carla Qualtrough, and Dan Vandal announced Thursday they will not run for re-election. Senior government sources tell CTV News at least one other – Marie-Claude Bibeau – doesn’t plan to run again, setting the stage
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson, formerly of pop group One Direction, said in a statement released Thursday that they are “completely devastated” by the death of their former bandmate Liam Payne, who they called their “brother.” “The memories we shared with him will be treasured
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida voters and election supervisors in hurricane affected areas will have extra time and flexibility to ensure they still have the ability to vote in November elections after Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended several election rules and deadlines. DeSsantis on Thursday extended early voting to Election Day for
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris says the death of Hamas’ top leader, Yahya Sinwar, “gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.” Harris made the comment Thursday at a Wisconsin college campus where she was campaigning. Harris said the war must end with Israel secure, the hostages
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Divorce records for Arizona’s Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego and his ex-wife, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, are now public. The records were unsealed on Thursday after the Arizona Supreme Court declined to block their release, which follows a request from the conservative news outlet Washington Free Beacon. The records offer
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, scientists have found evidence that marine mammals could be inhaling microplastics, according to new research that detected the potentially harmful particles in the breath of bottlenose dolphins off the coasts of Louisiana and Florida. Microplastics are small pieces of plastic defined as less than 5 millimeters
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — A new study adds to a growing set of evidence that women who use hormonal birth control have higher rates of breast cancer, but experts have stressed that the overall risk remains low. The latest research, published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA, analyzed years of health records for
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By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Losses from Hurricane Milton could reach as high as $34 billion, according to an early estimate of both flood and wind damage from research firm CoreLogic, with between $4 billion to $6 billion of those losses being uninsured flood damage. And that is only an estimate of
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