Missouri law banning minors from beginning gender-affirming treatments takes effect
By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Two new laws restricting transgender Missourians’ access to gender-affirming health…
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Crews on 22,000-acre Lookout Fire also fighting two new nearby blazes; Bedrock Fire reaches 71% containment
As Central Oregon continues to deal with unhealthy smoke levels from fires to our west, firefighters tackling the Lookout, Bedrock and other fires on…
Continue ReadingHBCU president lauds students, officer for stopping Jacksonville killer before racist store attack
By RUSS BYNUM and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A campus security officer tipped off by observant students likely…
Continue ReadingDenver to pay $4.7 million to settle claims it targeted George Floyd protesters for violating curfew
DENVER (AP) — Denver will pay $4.7 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged that protesters were unjustly targeted for violating the…
Continue ReadingNews outlet asks court to dismiss former Mississippi governor’s defamation lawsuit
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A local news outlet that helped expose a wide-reaching public…
Continue Reading2 adults and 2 young children found fatally stabbed inside New York City apartment
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a family of four has been found stabbed to death inside a New York City apartment. The dead were a mother, father and…
Continue ReadingPowerful quake and aftershocks rock Indonesia’s Bali and Java islands. No casualties reported
DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful earthquake and two strong aftershocks have rocked Indonesia’s resort island of Bali and other parts of the…
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Oregon investors in Lear Capital eligible for compensation as part of bankruptcy plan
Investors who purchased retail precious metals from Lear Capital are eligible to receive compensation as a part of Lear’s bankruptcy plan, the…
Continue ReadingFEMA changes wildfire compensation rules for New Mexicans affected by last year’s historic blaze
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced changes to its wildfire compensation rules after last year’s…
Continue ReadingWisconsin Supreme Court chief justice accuses liberal majority of staging a ‘coup’
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The conservative chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court told the new liberal majority in…
Continue ReadingUniversity of North Carolina faculty member is killed in campus shooting, and a suspect is in custody, school says
By Sara Smart and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — A suspect is in custody after a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday…
Continue ReadingNewspaper group publisher G. Ogden Nutting has died at 87
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — Newspaper publisher G. Ogden Nutting has died. He was 87. The newspaper in Wheeling, West Virginia, where Nutting’s…
Continue ReadingSpanish soccer federation leaders ask president Rubiales to resign over his kiss of player
By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Leading officials within the Spanish Football Federation asked suspended president Luis Rubiales to…
Continue ReadingFormer NFL player Marshawn Lynch gets November trial date in Las Vegas DUI case
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A November trial has been scheduled for former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch on misdemeanor charges following his arrest a year…
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Deschutes County Harm Reduction team to offer overdose prevention info at downtown Bend intersection
Deschutes County Health Services’ Harm Reduction team will be sharing overdose prevention information and resources in downtown Bend for two hours…
Continue ReadingFlorida prays Idalia won’t join long list of destructive storms with names starting with ‘I’
By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press Floridians pray that when Idalia hits the Gulf Coast it won’t join the long list of destructive Atlantic Ocean…
Continue ReadingCoalition of Egyptian parties criticize government in rare act of public dissent
Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A new coalition of Egyptian political parties has publicly criticized the country’s current government for…
Continue ReadingUN envoy warns resumption of war remains threat in Yemen unless parties reach new cease-fire deal
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations’ top official in Yemen warns that the Arab world’s poorest country will remain a…
Continue ReadingMilitia fighters attack village in northeastern Congo, causing battle in which 14 people die
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s army says fighters for a militia groupi attacked a village, setting off a…
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Gov. Kotek, C.O. officials say they are ‘committed to working together with urgency’ on shelter options before winter
After a three-day visit to Central Oregon late last week, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and several local officials issued a joint statement Monday, saying…
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