Month: August 2022

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, on Tuesday, arriving to controversial stop in her tour in Asian countries which has become a flashpoint amid rising tensions between the US and China. Pelosi and other members of Congress stepped off a US military plane that landed in Taipei on Tuesday evening, where they were greeted by a contingent of Taiwanese officials on the tarmac. The plane traveled from Kuala Lumpur on a flight path that avoided the South China Sea and the Chinese mainland, according to the tracking website. FlightAware. Pelosi visited Taiwan’s parliament on Wednesday…

Equifax sent incorrect credit scores this spring for millions of customers applying for home and auto loans, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. As one of the top three credit reporting companies in the United States, Equifax provides financial information and consumer scores that affect whether people are approved for products including mortgages, credit cards and car loans. and what interest rate they pay. Most credit scores range from 300 to 850, with consumers with higher scores getting more favorable terms. The magazine reported that millions of Americans were affected by the Equifax error, with some scores changing as much…

To try to offset an ongoing crisis in athletics, the Oregon Athletic Officials Association and the Oregon School Activities Association are recruiting officials for the fall high school sports seasons. There is an immediate need for officials in football, volleyball and soccer. If you’re interested, you can register at osaa.org/officials, and you can find the official association nearest you at newofficials.org. Options here in Southern Oregon include: — Rogue Valley Football Officials Association, Commissioner John Campbell, 541-538-0274 or johnd.campbell1@gmail.com. — Southern Oregon Volleyball Officials Association, Commissioner JoAnn Hartley, 541-531-2514 or jghartley@ccountry.net. — Southern Oregon Soccer Officials Association, Commissioner Xavier Valdes,…

Jackson County public health officials are offering advice on how to deal with wildfire smoke. File photo Jackson County Public Health officials are offering advice Jackson County Public Health advises people to be aware of smoky conditions and to take protective measures when air quality worsens. Smoke levels can rise and fall quickly based on changing winds and the volume of smoke produced by local and regional fires, public health officials said. See the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality air quality website at oraqi.deq.state.or.us/home/map for updates on smoke conditions at monitoring sites across the state, including Ashland, Talent, Medford, Shady…

WINCHESTER – After a two-and-a-half-hour closed session, the Frederick County School Board voted 4-3 Tuesday night to appoint John Lamanna as the school division’s interim superintendent, effective Aug. 8. Lamanna previously served on the School Board from 2002-2019 and was board president from 2007-10 and 2016-2019. He also ran as an independent for chairman of the Frederick County Board of Supervisors in 2019, but lost to Republican Charles DeHaven Jr. “‘I am very happy and satisfied to have the confidence of the board,’” Lamanna told The Star in a telephone conversation after the meeting. “And I’m really looking forward to…

A 12-year-old girl who had been held captive was found walking along a road in rural Alabama on Monday after escaping from a nearby home, leading authorities to discover two decomposing bodies where the ‘had arrested The Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday that Jose Paulino Pascual-Reyes, 37, of Dadeville, Ala., had been arrested and charged with first-degree kidnapping, three counts of capital murder and two counts of abuse of Corpse. It was not clear if Mr. Pascual-Reyes had a lawyer. Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett said at a news conference that shortly before 8:30 a.m. Monday, a driver noticed…