France: Russia is funding Wagner Group mercenaries in Mali
By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — France has condemned the Malian transitional authorities’ decision to allow the deployment…
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Suit settled over trans teen’s suicide at detention center
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The mother of a transgender teenager who died by suicide at a youth detention center in Maine has settled a wrongful death…
Continue ReadingTesla to halt games on infotainment screens in moving cars
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be…
Continue ReadingTesla to halt games on infotainment screens in moving cars
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be…
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Boy, 7, killed in head-on crash on icy Highway 97 near Chiloquin
A 7-year-old boy suffered fatal injuries and five other people were injured Wednesday evening when a van driver lost control due to icy conditions on…
Continue ReadingGiant marine reptile skull discovery reveals new evolutionary theories
By Hannah Ryan, CNN The discovery of a giant marine reptile skull in the United States has revealed new theories about the speed of evolution and how…
Continue ReadingKim Potter didn’t use her ‘knee to pin down a person for 9 ½ minutes,’ judge says in sentencing
CNN By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The judge presiding over Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial justified the former policewoman’s two-year…
Continue ReadingPassenger seen on video punching flight attendant pleads guilty, DOJ says
By Stella Chan, CNN A woman who punched a flight attendant on a May Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento to San Diego pleaded guilty to…
Continue ReadingNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope rolls out for Christmas launch
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope is finally on the launchpad. The space observatory, safely tucked inside an Ariane 5 rocket,…
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Fishing closures extended for Columbia River, tributaries to protect record-low steelhead run
Fishing for steelhead will remain closed into next year for the mainstem Columbia from The Dalles Dam upstream to the Oregon-Washington border and in…
Continue ReadingFormer EDD employee pleads guilty to unemployment fraud involving prison inmates
By Web staff Click here for updates on this story CALIFORNIA (KCRA) — A Southern California woman has pled guilty to…
Continue ReadingNew Year’s Eve in Times Square still on, with smaller crowd
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Revelers will still ring in the new year in New York’s Times Square next week, there just…
Continue ReadingTimes Square New Year’s Eve celebration will be scaled back, city says
By Laura Ly and Jason Hanna, CNN Next week’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be “scaled back,” with fewer…
Continue ReadingShe was against the COVID-19 vaccine, then ended up in a two-month coma. This is her message.
By Brittany Hope Click here for updates on this story CAMERON PARK, California (KCRA) — Andrea Arriaga Borges tested…
Continue ReadingIcy conditions on I-94 cause crashes and vehicle runoffs in Wisconsin
CNN By Gregory Lemos, Paul P. Murphy and Judson Jones, CNN Icy road conditions have caused vehicle crashes and runoffs on Interstate 94 in…
Continue Reading‘His decency got him killed’: Mom shares details about her son, co-defendant in Holley case
By Infinite Scroll Enabled Lisa Robinson Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) — There are…
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Oregon reports 31 more COVID-19 related deaths, 1 in Deschutes County; 1,197 new cases
There are 31 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, including one in Deschutes County, raising the state’s death toll to 5,590, the Oregon Health…
Continue Reading40 federal judges confirmed in 2021; Biden nominates 2 more
By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is making two final nominations to the federal bench this year as he caps…
Continue ReadingJoan Didion, famed American essayist and novelist, has died
Jacqui Palumbo and Scottie Andrew, CNN Acclaimed American writer Joan Didion, an essayist and novelist who rose to prominence in the 1960s, has died…
Continue ReadingSuspect in rapper’s slaying arrested at Atlanta airport
ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected in the shooting death of a rising Texas rap artist on an Atlanta area interstate was arrested as he…
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