BPRD youth soccer league enrollment at record high; volunteer coaches needed
Soccer fever is alive in Central Oregon! Enrollment for the 2021 Bend Unified Recreation Soccer League is at an all-time high, with more than 2,300…
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A Trump-era policy that shut out top Chinese students could be hurting America more than Beijing
By Julia Hollingsworth, Yong Xiong and David Culver, CNN When Dennis Hu came home to China for the 2020 Lunar New Year, he thought it would be a…
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Federal pandemic jobless benefit programs set to end Sept. 4; state offers career help
Several pandemic-related temporary federal unemployment benefit programs expire Sept. 4, and the Oregon Employment Department reminded Friday that…
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Bend’s Whitney ‘Hollywood’ Gomez hopes to punch her ticket to Olympic Games in 2024
Whitney Gomez’s Olympic dream has taken her from swimming to water polo to boxing. She’s only been boxing for five years and nearly made the Olympics…
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Deschutes County road construction update: Week of August 8-14
Here is the Deschutes County road construction update for the week of August…
Continue ReadingPerseverance rover’s first attempt to collect Martian sample didn’t go as planned
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Attempting firsts on Mars is hard, even if you’re an incredibly capable and advanced robot like the Perseverance…
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Gov. Brown seeks applicants to fill 2 new Deschutes County judgeships
Gov. Kate Brown announced Friday that she is accepting applications to fill two new judicial vacancies on the Deschutes County Circuit Court.…
Continue ReadingArkansas judge temporarily blocks state law banning mask mandates in schools
By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN An Arkansas judge temporarily blocked the enforcement of the state’s law banning mask…
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Oregon reports 4 more COVID-19 related deaths, 970 new cases
There are four new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,889, the Oregon Health Authority reported…
Continue ReadingTaliban seizes Afghanistan’s second-largest city
The Taliban has taken control of the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, Afghan Member of Parliament Gul Ahmad Kamin told CNN on…
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Coalition of Portland bars requiring proof of vaccination
A coalition of bars in Portland has banded together to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination as the delta variant spreads throughout the state.…
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Black drivers disproportionately stopped by Portland police
Police in Portland stopped a disproportionate number of Black motorists last year, even as they pulled over fewer drivers overall in 2020, compared…
Continue ReadingFlorida reports record high number of new Covid-19 cases this week
By Dakin Andone and Deidre McPhillips, CNN Florida reported 134,506 new Covid-19 cases over the last week on Friday, more than any other 7-day period…
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Wildfire prompts emergency closure of Mount Washington Wilderness Area, PCT
Officials have issued an emergency area closure for the Washington Ponds Fire on the Willamette National Forest, including the entire…
Continue ReadingBesieged on a ‘Taliban-made island,’ Kandahar’s residents see no way out as militants advance ever closer
By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN A wedding hall in the west of Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second city, now lies on the…
Continue ReadingAt least 10 people injured in stabbings on Tokyo train
By Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Ten people were stabbed Friday night on a train in Tokyo by a man with a knife, according to the Tokyo Fire Department. The…
Continue ReadingTexas woman gives birth in same hospital system where her husband died of Covid-19
By David Williams and Carmen Conte Widman Maria Garza spent much of her pregnancy in the ICU of a Texas hospital with her husband Jason, who died of…
Continue ReadingBaby girl with Covid-19 airlifted 150 miles because of Houston hospital bed shortage
By Ray Sanchez and Kay Jones, CNN An 11-month-old girl with Covid-19 is stable and no longer intubated one day after she was airlifted to a Texas…
Continue ReadingFive children were killed in a fire in East St. Louis, Illinois, fire chief says
By Dakin Andone, CNN Five children between the ages of 2 and 9 were killed in a fire early Friday in East St. Louis, Illinois, according to fire…
Continue ReadingSouth Dakota’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: A ‘cautionary tale’ in the age of Covid-19
By Ray Sanchez, CNN Duston Van Balen took a road trip with his family and a wooden urn containing the ashes of a man he considered a brother, with…
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