PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Portland man is facing murder charges in connection to a deadly fire in Clackamas County in March. According to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, 31-year-old Bobby Lee Grady Alsup III was served an arrest warrant on Wednesday in connection to the alleged homicide of 31-year-old Kaley Ann Snow. Vancouver police […]
May 13—Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) teams from FEMA will be available this week to assist in communities affected by the March 14 tornadoes. Teams will help residents navigate the federal assistance process, which includes the DSA that will begin in areas of Logan County and may move to the other impacted counties in the weeks […]
(PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — It’s pretty clear that Amtrak is on a roll. The Amtrak Cascades rail service in Oregon experienced its highest ridership in its 30-year history in March with 14,263 riders—a 57% increase over March 2023. For Amtrak officials, it’s a sure signal that momentum continues to build with growth in ridership throughout 2023 […]
Polish farmers marched through Warsaw on Friday to protest against the European Union’s climate policies and to oppose the pro-EU government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The march was organised by Solidarity, a farmers’ trade union that is strongly opposed to the EU’s farming policies, in particular a policy known as the Green Deal which […]
China launched its first Long March 6C rocket, helping the nation further its goal of launching 100 orbital missions this year. The 131-foot (43-meter) Long March 6C rocket took off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in China’s mountainous Shanxi province at 11:21 EDT on Monday, May 6 (0321 on May 7). The two-stage, single […]
MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Not everyone in Malmo was welcoming the Eurovision Song Contest to town. Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested in the Swedish port city on Thursday against Israel’s participation in the pan-continental pop competition. Protesters waving green, white and red Palestinian flags packed the historic Stortorget square near Malmo’s 16th-century town hall before […]
TOKYO, May 9 (Reuters) – Japan’s inflation-adjusted real wages in March fell 2.5% from a year earlier, marking declines for two straight years, labour ministry data showed on Thursday. The pace of declines accelerated from the previous month’s 1.8% drop as the rising costs of living outpaced nominal wages, the data showed. Japan is seeing […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The ghost of Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign is ringing up significant support in state primaries despite her withdrawal from the race in March shortly before Donald Trump had clinched the Republican nomination. The backing for Haley — most recently in Indiana, where she grabbed more than 21% of the votes on Tuesday […]
May 7—The Whitman County Coroner’s Office confirmed the death of a Pullman woman in March was a homicide. Jamie Wilson-Spray, 25, died March 26 from asphyxia due to compression of the neck, according to a news release from the Whitman County Coroner delivered Saturday. Her husband, 36-year-old Jacob Spray, was arrested March 27 for the […]
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered and marched near the Met Gala in New York City on Monday night, with several arrested by the New York Police Department (NYPD). Amid a heavy police presence, protesters marched down Madison Avenue one block east of the gala venue, carrying Palestinian flags, banging drums, and chanting “free, free Palestine!” […]
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a remembrance march to honour the victims of Nazi atrocities at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The demonstrators chanted slogans at the marchers, unfurling Palestinian flags and banners reading “stop genocide”. Survivors of the Holocaust and the Oct 7 Hamas attacks on Israel took part in the march on Monday, […]
May 6—Editor’s note: The march started around 6 a.m. and ended just after 6:30 a.m. Check out the Post Bulletin later this morning for more coverage on the event. — Original: The Med City Nursing Alliance, an independent effort to unionize nurses at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, is organizing a silent march on Monday, May […]