As mask mandate returns, so do the questions about what masks are most effective
As the mask mandate is reenacted for Central Oregon, the question of how well masks protect against the more contagious Delta variant is being…
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Detectives make arrest in 40-year-old cold case killing of single mother
By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Detectives in California have made an arrest in a 40-year-old unsolved killing after using modern DNA technology to test…
Continue ReadingGuilty verdicts in double-homicide on Nevada tribal lands
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 43-year-old Nevada man has been convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in the 2018 shotgun slayings of two women on a…
Continue ReadingBad food, slivers of sun: Life in Sydney’s hotel quarantine
By MARK BAKER Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Australia-based Associated Press photographer Mark Baker is spending 14 days in mandatory hotel…
Continue ReadingBad food, slivers of sun: Life in Sydney’s hotel quarantine
By MARK BAKER Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Australia-based Associated Press photographer Mark Baker is spending 14 days in mandatory hotel…
Continue ReadingArizona governor blocks cash from schools mandating masks
By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is upping the pressure on the growing number of public school districts…
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‘A perfect story’: Famed Bend golf course designer David McLay-Kidd may cap Bandon Dunes with 6th course
Hundreds of thousands of golfers head to Bandon Dunes each year to find a Scottish feel on the Oregon…
Continue Reading1,150 flee Colombia village caught between 2 armed groups
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian officials say at least 1,150 people fled their homes in the country’s Choco province over the weekend to…
Continue ReadingSenator Ron Wyden talks Afghanistan, spending bills, infrastructure live on KTVZ
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., discussed a wide variety of issues, from the Afghanistan takeover aftermath to the two large pending spending bills and…
Continue ReadingCop’s murder charge dropped over concern about ex-prosecutor
HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against a Houston police officer for his role in a fraudulent drug raid that left two…
Continue ReadingAs COVID-19 surges, 93% of Oregon’s hospital beds are full
By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials are reporting Tuesday that 93% of the state’s hospital beds for…
Continue Reading‘Heartbreaking’: Mississippi gets 2nd field hospital in days
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Missisippi, one of the nation’s least vaccinated states, has…
Continue ReadingThai asphalt giant implicated in Venezuela sanctions case
By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A major Thai asphalt company has been implicated for money laundering in a criminal complaint…
Continue ReadingFlorida state school board takes steps against two districts over mask mandates
By Leyla Santiago and Mallory Simon, CNN Florida’s State Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday at an emergency meeting to recommend…
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Redmond set to celebrate 30 years as ‘Flag City USA’
For 30 years, the Redmond Downtown Flag Committee has made sure the city lives up to its ‘Flag City USA’ label, with what’s now 1,800 flags displayed…
Continue ReadingMLB hires former Marriott, Disney exec to lead marketing
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has hired former Marriott International and Walt Disney Company marketing leader Karin Timpone as executive…
Continue ReadingEx-Nevada inmate gets life for 1984 Colorado hammer killings
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A former Nevada prison inmate was sentenced Tuesday to three consecutive life sentences in the long-unsolved 1984 hammer…
Continue ReadingTreasury Department to release impounded religious tiles
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department is releasing a shipment of tiles that were intended for a northern Virginia mosque but were…
Continue Reading‘Do not give up’: Americans help Afghans in new homeland
By JAMIE STENGLE and JULIE WATSON Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Across the U.S., the agencies that resettle refugees and volunteers are scrambling…
Continue ReadingDeSantis top donor invests in COVID drug governor promotes
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON The Associated Press Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been criticized for efforts to ban mask mandates and vaccine passports.…
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