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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 ...
Idaho governor faces Trump-backed candidate in GOP primary
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Republican Gov. Brad Little is fighting back a primary challenge on Tuesday from his lieutenant governor, Janice McGeachin, a Donald Trump-backed candidate who twice attempted a power grab last year when Little was out of state on business. The intraparty contest...
5-term Idaho attorney general in tough GOP primary battle
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s five-term Republican attorney general has handled his duties in the deeply conservative state for 20 years with a strategy he describes as calling legal “balls and strikes.” He's facing two challengers who see a more activist role for the office. ...
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. ...
Tensions over racial justice shadow Louisville mayor's race
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — On Valentine's Day, a man appeared in the doorway of a Louisville campaign office and fired shots at mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg. He wasn't hit — a bullet grazed his sweater — but some of the tensions still lingering over this city flared once again. ...
Livestreamed carnage: Tech's hard lessons from mass killings
These days, mass shooters like the one now held in the Buffalo, New York, supermarket attack don’t stop with planning out their brutal attacks. They also create marketing plans while arranging to livestream their massacres on social platforms in hopes of fomenting more violence. ...
Buffalo suspect: Lonely, isolated -- and a sign of trouble
CONKLIN, N.Y. (AP) — In the waning days of Payton Gendron’s COVID-19-altered senior year at Susquehanna Valley High School, he logged on to a virtual learning program in economics class that asked: “What do you plan to do when you retire?” “Murder-suicide,” Gendron typed. ...
Maggie Peterson, famous for 'The 'Andy Griffith Show,' dies
Maggie Peterson, whose character on “The Andy Griffith Show” developed a memorable infatuation with Mayberry sheriff Andy Taylor, has died, her family said Monday. She was 81. A post to her Facebook page said Peterson died in her sleep on Sunday with her family present. According...
New this week: Harry Styles, 'Angelyne' and 'The Valet'
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — The gripping documentary “Hold Your Fire," directed by Stefan Forbes, chronicles a 1973 Brooklyn...
NBC, Fox offer fall television plans, to a point amid change
NEW YORK (AP) — Something was missing when Fox announced its plans for the fall television season: a schedule. It was one of several signs of how the business has changed since networks resumed their annual glitzy presentations for advertisers, which had been suspended because of...
Musk: Doubt about spam accounts could scuttle Twitter deal
LONDON (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can't move forward unless the company shows...
Stocks rise on Wall Street; report shows strong retail sales
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in afternoon trading on Wall Street Tuesday as investors review an encouraging...
War Crimes Watch: Targeting schools, Russia bombs the future
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As she lay buried under the rubble, her legs broken and eyes blinded by blood and thick...
Censure vote vs. Sri Lankan leader fails as crisis simmers
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's governing party on Tuesday defeated a move in Parliament to urgently...
Sweden, Finland push ahead with NATO bids as Turkey objects
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden and Finland on Tuesday pushed ahead with their bids to join NATO even as Turkey insisted...
Vatican minister visits Ukraine as pope toes delicate line
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, is heading to Kyiv this week as...
