Screen Actors Guild Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Screen Actors Guild. In 2012, a merger was completed between the Screen Actors Guild…
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Bend Park & Recreation Foundation welcomes three new board members
The Bend Park and Recreation Foundation is proud to announce three new members to its board of directors: Molly Cogswell-Kelley, Aleta Nissen and…
Continue ReadingSalzburg Festival nearly sold out while others in classical music struggle to regain audience
By RONALD BLUM Associated Press SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — While many classical music institutions are struggling to regain audience, the Salzburg…
Continue ReadingThey lost everything in the Paradise fire. Now they’re reliving their grief as fires rage in Hawaii
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As wildfires tear through the Hawaiian island of Maui, residents of a Northern California…
Continue ReadingQ-Pop: Peru’s social media phenomenon Lenin Tamayo fuses Quechua and K-pop
By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — What happens when you take Quechua, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the…
Continue ReadingForensic audit into Lebanon’s central bank reveals misconduct and ‘illegitimate’ commissions
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A forensic audit into Lebanon’s central bank by a New York-based company has revealed yearslong…
Continue ReadingBedrock Fire smoke brings back High Desert haze, new DEQ air quality advisory for Deschutes County
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Lane Regional Air Protection Agency issued an air quality advisory Friday for Deschutes County and…
Continue ReadingKentucky school system closes after ‘transportation disaster’ leaves kids on buses and in schools for hours
WDRB By Amy Simonson and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The largest school system in Kentucky closed schools Thursday and Friday following what the…
Continue ReadingKentucky school system closes after ‘transportation disaster’ leaves kids on buses and in schools for hours
By Amy Simonson and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The largest school system in Kentucky closed schools through August 15 following what the…
Continue ReadingWhat’s next in conference realignment as Pac-4 search for solutions and conferences weight options?
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The Pac-4 schools are in limbo. The Mountain West is open for additions. The American Athletic…
Continue ReadingItaly gets back 266 antiquities from New York seizures after collector approaches Houston museum
ROME (AP) — Italy celebrated the return Friday of 266 antiquities from the United States, including Etruscan vases and ancient Roman coins and…
Continue ReadingLahaina’s historic 150-year-old banyan tree was badly scorched by wildfires, but it’s still standing
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — It was once filled with bright green leaves and sweeping branches that covered its visitors with shade. Now,…
Continue ReadingWhat’s behind the tentative US-Iran agreement involving prisoners and frozen funds
By JON GAMBRELL and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States and Iran reached a tentative agreement this…
Continue ReadingAttorney general appoints a special counsel in Hunter Biden probe, deepening investigation
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel Friday in…
Continue ReadingChild murderer run out of towns in 1990s faces new charges in 2 Texas killings
By ACACIA CORONADO ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who was convicted of killing an 8-year-old girl in the 1980s and then run out…
Continue ReadingKentucky school district rushes to fix bus route snarl that canceled classes and outraged parents
By BRUCE SCHREINER, DYLAN LOVAN and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An overly-ambitious redesign of bus routes for…
Continue ReadingAmazon founder Jeff Bezos buys home in Miami’s ‘billionaire bunker.’ Tom Brady will be his neighbor
MIAMI (AP) — Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is buying an estate on an exclusive man-made barrier island in Miami known as “Billionaire…
Continue ReadingFormer Catholic priest admits to sexual misconduct with 11-year-old boy he took on beach vacation
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former Catholic priest admits he committed acts of sexual misconduct with a child he met through his pastoral duties. Jamie…
Continue ReadingKenosha police arrested a Black man at Applebee’s. The actual suspects were in the bathroom
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have launched an internal investigation after a video posted to social media appears to show an…
Continue ReadingCalifornia judge who’s charged with murder texted court staff that he shot his wife, prosecutors say
By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California judge accused of killing his wife during an argument while drunk…
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