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His Helping Hands opens for winter season with new commercial kitchen
EPHRATA — What started as a one-day Christmas coat giveaway for 35 people has grown into a community effort servin…
U.K. reaches deal with Spain to keep open Gibraltar border
MADRID (AP) — An 11th-hour breakthrough in protracted negotiations will keep open Gibraltar's crucial border with Spain following the United Kingdom's full departure from the European Union, Spanish Foreign Ministe…
Land Use Board: Oregon recreation trail must be reconsidered
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The farm impacts of a recreational trail southwest of Portland in Yamhill County weren’t properly analyzed, so the project must be reconsidered, according to a state land use board.
Putin wishes Russians brighter New Year, 'return to normal'
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin wished Russians a brighter new year Thursday as he praised the nation for its courage and resilience amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Security firms say suspicious object on oil tanker off Iraq
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sailors involved in transferring fuel oil from an Iraqi tanker in the Persian Gulf to another vessel owned by a shipping company traded in the U.S. discovered a “suspicious object…
Energy officials award incentive pay to Hanford contractors
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Department of Energy is awarding nearly $77 million in incentive pay to four contractors for their work at the Hanford nuclear reservation in fiscal 2020.
Jordan sentences protest leaders of teachers union to prison
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A court in Jordan on Thursday sentenced five leaders of the national teachers' syndicate to a year in prison over recent protests demanding a salary increase, a lawyer for the teachers said.
Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — The Catholic priest who for decades had been one of the Vatican’s top experts on the Latin language died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Milwaukee. A United Methodist Church bishop in the West…
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres.
The Latest: China OKs 1st homegrown vaccine for coronavirus
BEIJING -- China has approved its first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine for general use, marking the addition of another vaccine as the virus surges back around the world.
US jobless applications remain elevated at 787,000, but down 19,000 from previous week
WASHINGTON (AP) — US jobless applications remain elevated at 787,000, but down 19,000 from previous week.
Claims for jobless benefits fall to 787,000, down 19,000
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 19,000 but remain elevated at 787,000 as a resurgent coronavirus grips the U.S. economy.
Replacement plan for NC license plates begins with new year
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Millions of North Carolina motor vehicles will soon be getting a freshen-up when it comes to their license plates.
Biden inauguration to feature memorial for COVID victims
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is planning a lighting ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to honor those killed by the coronavirus the day before he is sworn into office on Jan. 20.
AP Entertainment Digest for Thursday, Dec. 30, 2020
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French exporters sound alarm over US tit-for-tat tariffs
PARIS (AP) — French wine exporters are warning that they'll take a billion-euro hit in 2021 from the latest ratcheting-up of punitive tariffs between the United States and Europe in a trade row over aircraft subsid…