Redmond man to hold backpack, school supply drive Saturday at Sam Johnson Park
Redmond’s Brandon Graves is holding a backpack drive, along with free pencils, colored pencils, glue sticks and more on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon…
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Fact check: Prominent Republicans spread false claim about Taliban executing a man from a helicopter
CNN By Daniel Dale, CNN Numerous Republicans, including Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas, promoted a false claim on Monday and Tuesday…
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The Big Playback is back: Five C.O. football teams to host games Friday night
This Friday will mark he first time in two years Central Oregon high schools have played football in September, though only five months since they…
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‘We are one community’: Bend restaurant reserves honorary table ‘for the fallen’ 13 in Afghanistan
There’s an open table with 13 reserved seats and 13 beers on it at Bend Burger Company on Northeast Third Street.…
Continue ReadingParis slams on the brakes and sets 30 kph speed limit to reduce pollution
CNN By Jeevan Ravindran and Barbara Wojazer, CNN Authorities in the French capital of Paris are forcing drivers to slow down, setting a speed limit…
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BLM rounds up, removes hundreds of wild horses in Eastern Oregon, to be put up for adoption
Hundreds of wild horses roaming the rangelands of Eastern Oregon are being gathered and removed because of extreme drought and…
Continue ReadingHow a museum founder battled Ida to save precious pieces of the history of Louisiana’s enslaved people
CNN, WDSU By Amanda Jackson and Michelle Krupa, CNN As Hurricane Ida barreled through LaPlace, Louisiana, on Sunday, a museum founder hunkered down…
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Bend fire official offers safety tips on how to avoid lithium-ion battery fires
Lithium-ion batteries have been known, in some cases, to spark fires. They have been the cause of at least two garage fires this…
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Bend’s Sparrow Bakery closing original Scott Street location
Bend’s Sparrow Bakery announced it is closing its original SE Scott Street location, due to severe hiring and staffing challenges, but will keep its…
Continue ReadingBonnaroo organizers cancel this year’s festival, citing flooding from heavy rains
WSMV By Melissa Gray, CNN Organizers of the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee have canceled this year’s event, citing…
Continue ReadingCalifornia recall contender Larry Elder makes misleading claim that young people don’t need Covid-19 vaccines
CNN, KGO By Maeve Reston, CNN Larry Elder, the leading GOP candidate vying to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom, said he doesn’t think…
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Air quality more favorable
Smoke levels for Tuesday have not been as poor as they were Monday, and should not reach those same conditions for the most…
Continue ReadingBiden administration taps emergency oil stockpile amid Louisiana gas crisis
CNN, HLN, WDSU By Matt Egan, CNN Business The Biden administration is releasing 1.5 million barrels of crude oil from America’s emergency…
Continue ReadingHurricanes, wildfires, and drought: US finds itself battling climate disasters on several fronts
CNN, MISSISSIPPI HIGHWAY PATROL, FACEBOOK, US COAST GUARD, WAFB, WAPT, WDAM, WDSU, WLOX, WSMV, Mississippi Highway Patrol/Facebook By Rachel Ramirez,…
Continue ReadingThe latest on Afghanistan
CNN By Joshua Berlinger and Adam Renton, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights…
Continue ReadingBiden’s first August as president shreds his momentum and tosses daunting new challenges in his path
CNN By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden tried twice last month to get to his beach house on the Delaware coast.…
Continue ReadingAn Afghan YouTuber was killed at Kabul airport. Many more fear the worst.
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Masoud Popalzai and Rob Picheta, CNN Four days after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, 20-year-old YouTuber Najma…
Continue ReadingTaliban members escorted Americans to gates at Kabul airport in secret arrangement with US
CNN By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent The US military negotiated a secret arrangement with the Taliban that resulted in members of the…
Continue ReadingSouth African researchers keep wary eye on yet another new coronavirus variant
CNN By Maggie Fox, CNN Genetics researchers who have been watching for new coronavirus variants say they’ve seen a troubling new lineage that…
Continue ReadingCool, hazy, dry
GOOD TUESDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… While a low-pressure center over southern British Columbia will rotate cooler air into the NW, it will not bring…
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