Tokyo’s Olympic fears give way to acceptance, to a point
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — When the Tokyo Olympics began during a rising number of coronavirus cases, the majority of the host…
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Va. school board OKs revised transgender student guidelines
ASHBURN, Va, (AP) — A northern Virginia school board has voted to expand access for transgender students to school facilities and groups. The…
Continue ReadingHeat wave hits Northwest, sending people to cooling centers
By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — People have headed to cooling centers as the Pacific Northwest began sweltering under…
Continue ReadingHeat wave hits Northwest, sending people to cooling centers
By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — People have headed to cooling centers as the Pacific Northwest began sweltering under…
Continue ReadingPower outages hit Dominican Republic as TS Fred weakens
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Fred has weakened to a tropical depression while sweeping over the…
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‘Dream barn’ goes sour: Tumalo ranch owner frustrated by dispute with unlicensed contractor
Mindy Wolfe had a vision for a dream barn on her 10-acre property in Tumalo. In August 2019, she hired a California-based contractor to make her…
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Deschutes County official dismayed by state’s indoor mask mandate; others voice support
Governor Kate Brown ordered another statewide mask mandate in Oregon starting Friday, saying the Delta variant “changed…
Continue ReadingHuge California fire grows; Montana blaze threatens towns
GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history continued to grow after destroying more than 1,000 buildings,…
Continue ReadingHuge California fire grows; Montana blaze threatens towns
GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history continued to grow after destroying more than 1,000 buildings,…
Continue ReadingCalifornia man charged with spear-gun killing of children
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a California surfing school owner has been charged with killing his two young children with a spear gun in…
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Homeless Leadership Coalition organizes Central Oregon cooling centers as heat wave arrives
With the National Weather Service issuing an excessive heat watch for parts of Central Oregon, members of the Homeless Leadership Coalition are again…
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Oregon reports 8 more COVID-19 related deaths, 2 from Crook County; 1,991 new cases
There are eight new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, including two Crook County residents, raising the state’s death toll to 2,920, the Oregon…
Continue ReadingBiden to host ‘summit’ to rally democracies over autocrats
By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to host a virtual ”summit for democracy” in December as he aims to…
Continue ReadingJudge: House entitled to some of Trump’s financial records
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats who have spent years investigating Donald Trump are entitled to some of the…
Continue ReadingVicente Fernandez remains hospitalized after fall at ranch
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican icon Vicente Fernandez is in critical but stable condition after being hospitalized for a fall last week, according to…
Continue ReadingJudge: Sentencing date won’t change for Md. newsroom gunman
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A judge has agreed to keep in place a Sept. 28 sentencing date for the gunman found criminally responsible in the shooting…
Continue ReadingDurst says he lied to police about night wife disappeared
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Real estate heir Robert Durst testified at his murder trial that he has changed his…
Continue ReadingWarrants served to Texas Democrats, but holdout continues
By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are ratcheting up efforts to end a 31-day standoff…
Continue ReadingHigher but still slim odds of asteroid Bennu slamming Earth
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have fine-tuned the path of the asteroid Bennu and say the odds of it…
Continue ReadingFlorida mother who has been living in daughter’s ICU room tears up at the sight of her child walking
By Rebekah Riess and Steve Almasy, CNN It was just a few trips around a hospital bed but for Agnes Velasquez, seeing her 15-year-old daughter off a…
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