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By CONNOR MCCARTHY Click here for updates on this story TROUTDALE, OR (KPTV) — The city of Troutdale is looking to attract more restaurants through incentives to help reduce initial costs of opening their doors. Earlier this year, the Troutdale City Council passed a resolution that will waive all initial sewer System Development Charges (SDC).
Continue ReadingBy RUSSELL KINSAUL Click here for updates on this story FERGUSON, MO (KMOV) — Toni Eggerson is one of 80 tenants at Pleasant Valley Apartments in Ferguson, formerly known as Canfield Green Apartments, who had a letter posted on her apartment door Sunday. “Said that I owe them $18,000,” she said. And if she didn’t
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By Melissa Alonso, CNN A drive-by shooting at a bus stop in Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday left one teen dead and two other children injured, police said in a series of tweets. The shooting occurred around 6:30 a.m. at Dr. W.J. Hodge and Chestnut streets, as children waited for the bus, the Louisville Metro Police
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By JAMEY KEATEN and DREW COSTLEY Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The harmful health effects of air pollution kick in at lower levels than previously thought, the World Health Organization said Wednesday as it set a new standard for policymakers and the public in the first update of its air quality guidelines in 15 years.
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By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson conceded Wednesday that a post-Brexit trade deal with the U.S. was not imminent as he voiced confidence that the decades-long U.S. ban on imports of British lamb would be lifted. A day after President Joe Biden downplayed the prospect of a trade
Continue Reading By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson conceded Wednesday that a post-Brexit trade deal with the U.S. was not imminent as he voiced confidence that the decades-long U.S. ban on imports of British lamb would be lifted. A day after President Joe Biden downplayed the prospect of a trade
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s president called on Germans to face the country’s cruel colonial past as he opened a new museum in the capital’s center that will be home to two of Berlin’s state museums. The Ethnological Museum and the Museum for Asian Art both contain artifacts that were looted
Continue ReadingBy BLAKE SUMMERS, CONTENT PRODUCER RYAN BRESLIN, REPORTER Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Vanderbilt University Medical Center is struggling with blood shortages and pleads for donations with the American Red Cross. Over the course of the pandemic, the Red Cross says they have had thousands of cancelled blood drives
Continue Reading By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna might be extremely consumed with rolling out her popular lingerie line, but finishing her forthcoming album is still a priority. The multi-Grammy winner is just taking her time to “experiment.” She suggests her new music will sound much different than her previous projects.
Continue Reading By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police are investigating an incident in which the government prisons minister allegedly threatened to kill two ethnic minority detainees inside a prison. Lohan Ratwatte, state minister of Prison Management and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation, resigned last week following a public outcry after he was accused
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Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — “Y así, amigos míos, nace Aukus”, dijo Scott Morrison, primer ministro de Australia, en septiembre de 2021, invocando el extraño nuevo acrónimo y escoltado por las banderas de su país, el Reino Unido y Estados Unidos. “Una nueva asociación de seguridad trilateral reforzada entre Australia, Reino Unido y Estados Unidos”,
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Austrian junior rider Leila Gschwentner was taken to the hospital with a shoulder injury after colliding with a public bus during a training ride at the world cycling championships. The Austrian cycling federation says the crash took place in the city of Leuven. The 17-year-old Gschwentner was riding the course that will
Continue Reading By Christina Carrega, CNN The number of women inmates serving life without the possibility of parole has risen 43% since 2008, adding to an already aging prison population nationwide, according to a new report from the Sentencing Project, an organization that advocates for criminal justice policy changes. That means nearly 2,000 women now serving life-without-parole
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna might be extremely consumed with rolling out her popular lingerie line, but finishing her forthcoming album is still a priority. The multi-Grammy winner is just taking her time to “experiment.” She suggests her new music will sound much different than her previous projects.
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN New air quality guidelines published on Wednesday by the World Health Organization could prevent millions of deaths globally each year, the UN agency said. Fine particulate matter, or PM 2.5, is the tiniest pollutant yet also among the most dangerous. When inhaled, it travels deep into lung tissue where it can
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Fewer than one-third of Americans want to see the Roe v. Wade decision overturned, according to a set of three polls released over the past week, with key elements of Texas’ restrictive new abortion law also garnering relatively little support in the polls. In a Marquette Law School survey released Wednesday,
Continue ReadingCNN By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Fewer than one-third of Americans want to see the Roe v. Wade decision overturned, according to a set of three polls released over the past week, with key elements of Texas’ restrictive new abortion law also garnering relatively little support in the polls. In a Marquette Law School survey released
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September is Blood Cancer Awareness month, a time to educate the public on different blood cancers. A La Quinta woman was diagnosed with polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer, about 22 years ago. She’s made it a point to live her life to the fullest. Polycythemia vera is a rare blood cancer that causes bone
Continue Reading By RIZWAN ALI AP Sports Writer ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has accused an unnamed individual in India of sending threatening emails that caused New Zealand to abandon its cricket tour in the country. New Zealand scrapped its tour to Pakistan moments before the start of the first one-day international in Rawalpindi last Friday after citing
Continue Reading By Kara Fox, CNN In his United National General Assembly debut on Tuesday, United States President Joe Biden declared a “new era” of US diplomacy, making a case for international cooperation as the world stands at an “inflection point in history.” But the President’s call for unity comes as the US is embroiled in a
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