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Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade Grand Marshal is Greg McKelvey
McKelvey is the band director at Battle Ground High School
New Police Oversight Board Still On Track Despite Challenges, A Trip to Court
But advisory committee members say they’re left in the dark about the progress of city code they helped form.
Maxine Dexter, Janelle Bynum, Dan Reyfield and Elizabeth Steiner secure nominations; other races too soon to call.
AP Decision Notes: What to Expect in Oregon's Primaries
Oregon has multiple hotly contested primaries upcoming, as well as some that will set the stage for high-profile races in November. Oregon's 5th Congressional District is home to one of the top Democratic primaries in the country.
First Meeting of Transportation Committee Statewide Tour to be at Portland Community College
The public is invited to testify at the Portland meeting of the 12-stop Transportation Safety and Sustainability Outreach Tour ...
Forest Service Waives Recreation Fee for National Get Outdoors Day
National Get Outdoors Day aims to connect Americans with the great outdoors and inspire them to lead healthy, active lifestyles. By...
Acclaimed Portland Author Renée Watson Presents: I See My Light Shining
The event will feature listening stations with excerpts from the digital collection of oral testimonies from extraordinary elders from...
Portland Parks & Recreation’s Summer Free For All Returns for 2024
Parks Local Option Levy brings the city a full slate of free movies, concerts (including pop icon Sheila E), Free Lunch + Play, the...
GFO Library Open on Memorial Day
We are remaining open to give our patrons an opportunity to use the library on a day off from work. ...
Jury deliberations begin in trial of Idaho man charged in triple-murder case
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Jury deliberations began Wednesday in the case of an Idaho man charged with murdering his wife and his girlfriend's two youngest children in what prosecutors said was a callous scheme for money, power and sex. “Three dead bodies ... and for what?” prosecutor...
Seattle police chief dismissed from top job amid discrimination, harassment lawsuits
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s embattled police chief has been dismissed, Mayor Bruce Harrel said Wednesday. Harrell said at a news conference that he met with Adrian Diaz on Tuesday and they agreed Diaz should step down. He will work on special assignments for the mayor with the...
Duke tops Missouri 4-3 in 9 innings to win first super regional, qualify for first WCWS
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — D'Auna Jennings led off the top of the ninth inning with a home run to end a scoreless pitching duel between Cassidy Curd and Missouri's Laurin Krings and 10th-seeded Duke held on for a wild 4-3 victory over the seventh-seeded Tigers on Sunday in the finale of the...
Mizzou uses combined 2-hitter to beat Duke 3-1 to force decisive game in Columbia Super Regional
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Laurin Krings and two relievers combined on a two-hitter and seventh-seeded Missouri forced a deciding game in the Columbia Super Regional with a 3-1 win over Duke on Saturday. The Tigers (48-17) had three-straight singles in the fourth inning, with Abby Hay...
The Skanner News May 2024 Primary Endorsements
Read The Skanner News endorsements and vote today. Candidates for mayor and city council will appear on the November general election ballot. ...
Nation’s Growing Racial and Gender Wealth Gaps Need Policy Reform
Never-married Black women have 8 cents in wealth for every dollar held by while males. ...
Multiple recent announcements from the Biden administration offer new hope for the 43.2 million borrowers hoping to get relief from the onerous burden of a collective
Op-Ed: Why MAGA Policies Are Detrimental to Black Communities
NNPA NEWSWIRE – MAGA proponents peddle baseless claims of widespread voter fraud to justify voter suppression tactics that disproportionately target Black voters. From restrictive voter ID laws to purging voter rolls to limiting early voting hours, these...
'Star Trek' actor George Takei is determined to keep telling his Japanese American story
TOKYO (AP) — The incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, including children, labeled enemies during World War II is an historical experience that has traumatized, and galvanized, the Japanese American community over the decades. For George Takei, who portrayed Hikaru Sulu...
Seattle police chief dismissed from top job amid discrimination, harassment lawsuits
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s embattled police chief has been dismissed, Mayor Bruce Harrel said Wednesday. Harrell said at a news conference that he met with Adrian Diaz on Tuesday and they agreed Diaz should step down. He will work on special assignments for the mayor with the...
Republican blocks confirmation of first Native American federal judge for Montana
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker from Montana blocked a Biden administration judicial nominee who would have been the state's first Native American federal district court judge, officials said Wednesday. Attorney Danna Jackson with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai...
With a new War Rig and a fleet of motorbikes, 'Furiosa' restarts the motorized mayhem of 'Mad Max'
NEW YORK (AP) — When it was time to start making “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” production designer Colin Gibson went to a garage in Australia to find some old friends. It had been years since 2015’s “Fury Road” wrapped production. Many of the vehicles seen in the film had...
The Beach Boys, going into the sunset, look back on years of harmony and heartache in documentary
Both the Beach Boys and “The Beach Boys” — the new documentary dropping Friday on Disney+ — are all about blending a range of voices. The three Wilson brothers — Brian, Carl and Dennis — along with cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine, brought a harmonic revolution to...
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies at 53
NEW YORK (AP) — Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America's food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53. Spurlock died Thursday in New...
Major leaguers praise inclusion of Negro Leagues statistics into major league records
CHICAGO (AP) — Buck Leonard. Charlie “Chino” Smith. Turkey Stearnes. Baseball players and fans...
From electric vehicles to deciding what to cook for dinner, John Podesta faces climate challenges
WASHINGTON (AP) — John Podesta was two months into his new role as President Joe Biden’s global climate envoy...
Boeing reaches deadline for reporting how it will fix aircraft safety and quality problems
Boeing is due to tell federal regulators Thursday how it plans to fix the safety and quality problems that have...
Polls close and South Africa counts votes in election framed as its most important since apartheid
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans voted Wednesday at schools, community centers, and in large white tents set...
US pledges 5 million in aid to Western-leaning Moldova to counter Russian influence
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday pledged 5 million in aid to...
Brazil's president withdraws his country's ambassador to Israel after criticizing the war in Gaza
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil withdrew its ambassador to Israel on Wednesday after months of tensions between the...
Vice President Kamala Harris has engaged with Arab leaders from Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates while attending the U.N. climate summit in Dubai on the future for Gaza while calling on Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians from the Israeli bombardment. The Israel-Hamas war was a key focus for her visit to the COP28 summit
Buttigieg is asking airline CEOs to, at a minimum, provide lodging for passengers stranded overnight at an airport and give out meal vouchers for delays
