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Election Day-Ballots Need to be Dropped Off or Postmarked Before 8 P.M.
Today, May 17, 2022, is the last day to vote in the Primary Election. Voted ballots must be received at any county elections office in Oregon or Official Ballot Drop Site location tonight by 8 p.m., or mailed and postmarked by May 17, 2022 to be counted.
2022 Midterms: What to Watch as 5 States Hold Primaries
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 is the last day for voters to return ballots. Ballots that are mailed must be postmarked by election day. Ballots deposited in an official drop box must be received by 8 p.m. on election day.
No Sea Serpents, Mobsters but Tahoe Trash Divers Strike Gold
Scuba divers who spent a year cleaning up Lake Tahoe’s entire 72-mile shoreline have come away with what they hope will prove a valuable incentive
House Passes Bipartisan Update to Anti-Poverty Program Led by Bonamici, Thompson
The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) program has not been updated since 1998.
2 Pleasure Boats Catch Fire on Columbia River
Two pleasure boats caught fire on the Columbia River between Vancouver and Caterpillar Island Sunday afternoon. One boat sank,...
WA Childhood Immunization Rates Decline During Pandemic
Immunization rates have decreased by 13% in 2021 when compared to pre-pandemic level ...
Attorney General Rosenblum Warns Against Price Gouging of Baby Formula
This declaration will allow the Oregon Attorney General to take action against any business, or online vendor, who upsells the price...
WA High Court: Drivers Can Get DUIs for Driving While High
A decision that upholds the state’s decade-old law regulating marijuana use behind the wheel of a car. ...
Community Basketball Game and Discussion Events Work to Reduce Gun Violence
Basketball game features Black youth and police officers playing together ...
Native American man sues police alleging bogus detention
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A lawsuit alleges a Salem, Oregon, police officer accused a Native American man of stealing a car he was working on, grabbed him, shoved him onto the hood of his police car and handcuffed him with no justification for arrest. The lawsuit says the officer then...
2 Congressional races get attention in Oregon primary
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two Congressional races are getting national attention in Oregon’s primary election Tuesday but anemic turnout in the vote-by-mail state threatens to dampen excitement around one of the nation's most expensive Democratic House races and a tight Democratic contest between a...
Can Federal Lynching Law Help Heal America?
Despite decades of senseless delays, this new law pushes America to finally acknowledge that racism often correlates to a level of violence and terror woven into the very fabric of this country. ...
The Skanner News Endorsements: May Primary 2022
Primary election day is May 17, 2022. Read The Skanner's endorsements for this important election. ...
Men’s Voices Urgently Needed to Defend Reproductive Rights
For decades, men in increasing numbers have followed women’s lead in challenging gender-based violence and promoting gender equality, so why are we stuck when it comes to abortion? ...
Burying Black Cemeteries: Off the Record
It is a tragedy when we lose a loved one. That tragedy is compounded when are unable to visit their final resting place to honor and remember them. ...
Lawsuit: Students taunted Black student, threatened lynching
Administrators at a Missouri school district that is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation failed to protect a Black teen from repeated racial taunts that culminated with him being threatened with a lynching, a lawsuit alleges. The suit filed this month in state court...
Election 2022: Pennsylvania, North Carolina test Trump clout
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday faces the strongest test yet of his ability to shape a new generation of Republicans as voters in Pennsylvania and North Carolina decide whether to rally around his hand-picked choices for critical U.S. Senate seats. As...
In Buffalo, Biden mourns victims, says 'evil will not win'
BUFFALO (AP) — President Joe Biden mourned with Buffalo’s grieving families on Tuesday, then exhorted the nation to reject what he angrily labeled the poison of white supremacy. He said the nation must “reject the lie” of the racist “replacement theory” espoused by the shooter who...
Get on your bike: Coldplay hopes to lead with a green tour
NEW YORK (AP) — It's often said that fans at live concerts give the band a jolt of electricity. Coldplay wants to literally harness that. The pop superstars have added kinetic dance floors and energy-storing stationary bikes to their latest world tour, encouraging fans to help power...
Celebrated literary mag The Believer back to original owner
NEW YORK (AP) — After a journey even the creative minds at The Believer could not have imagined, the celebrated literary magazine is back in business and again being run by the company which first owned it. Founded in 2003 by the writers Heidi Julavits, Ed Park, and Vendela Vida,...
Wesley Morgan wins Colby award for 'The Hardest Place'
NEW YORK (AP) — Author and journalist Wesley Morgan is this year's winner of the William E. Colby Award for military and intelligence writing. He was cited for his book “The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley." The Colby award, a ,000...
FDA clears COVID booster shot for healthy kids ages 5 to 11
U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized a COVID-19 booster shot for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds, hoping an extra...
In Buffalo, Biden mourns victims, says 'evil will not win'
BUFFALO (AP) — President Joe Biden mourned with Buffalo’s grieving families on Tuesday, then exhorted the...
DA: Church gunman wanted to 'execute' as many as possible
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The man charged with opening fire on a Taiwanese church congregation of mainly elderly...
N. Korea's Kim faces 'huge dilemma' on aid as virus surges
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — During more than a decade as North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un has made...
German prosecutors seek 5 years for alleged ex-Nazi guard
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors on Tuesday sought a five-year prison sentence for a 101-year-old man who is on...
Pope's recipe to heal his painful knee? A shot of tequila
ROME (AP) — Doctors have prescribed a wheelchair, cane and physical therapy to help heal Pope Francis' bad knee....
