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1+ hour, 36+ min ago (369+ words) Oregon health officials this week announced a new policy change to make it easier for people enrolled in Medicaid to access birth control. As of Tuesday, Oregonians enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan, the state's Medicaid program, can now walk into a pharmacy and get over-the-counter birth control pills and emergency contraception without a prescription and without paying out of pocket. The change comes through a standing order approved by the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Board of Pharmacy, which lets pharmacists provide the medications to Oregon Health Plan members and bill Medicaid directly " eliminating the need for a prescription to get the contraceptives at no cost. Emergency contraception has been available over the counter for years, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2023 approved the first oral contraceptive pill, Opill, to be sold without a prescription. While people…...

1+ hour, 58+ min ago (422+ words) December 17, 2025 / 10:23 PM PST / CBS LA After self-deporting to South Korea in June, U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park has spent the last six months isolated away from his family, in a country he hasn't lived in since he was a child." "It's scary," he said. "There's a good chance I'll never make it back home." Park, a Purple Heart recipient after being shot in combat, struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder after returning home. While he had a green card, his legal status was jeopardized after he was charged with drug possession and failure to appear in court 15 years ago." Given Park's military service, immigration officials allowed him to remain in the U.S. They told him that his deportation order would not be enforced if he had regular check-ins with immigration agents, according to his attorney, Danicole Ramos. For more than a decade,…...

2+ hour, 22+ min ago (41+ words) Harry Benjamin and the team look back on the 2025 F1 season from McLaren's HQ. Chequered Flag Season Review Harry Benjamin and the team look back on the 2025 F1 season from McLaren's HQ. More More Like This Episodes...

4+ hour, 2+ min ago (211+ words) YUMA, AZ (AZFamily) " Yuma police are asking the public for help in finding a Native American teenager who has been missing for two weeks, sparking a Turquoise Alert. Seventeen-year-old Maria Acedo was last seen walking from Cibola High School about 4 p.m. Dec. 2 and never returned home. Family members say she did not have her usual cellphone. She is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall and 256 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. She was last seen wearing a black sweater, white pajama pants and carrying a black backpack. Anyone with information should call the Yuma Police Department at 928-783-4421. The Turquoise Alert was established to assist in locating missing persons, including members of the Indigenous community. The death of Emily Pike, a San Carlos Apache tribal member, sparked the creation of the new system. The difference between an Amber Alert and a Turquoise…...

4+ hour, 22+ min ago (1696+ words) What The Scopes Trial Was Really About Authored by J Scott Turner via RealClearScience, This is the centennial year for the Scopes "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925s "trial of the century". In the dock was John Scopes, a substitute high school teacher who was accused of violating the states recently passed Butler Act, which prohibited any state school from teaching any theory of the origin of man that contradicted the account in Genesis. Scopes conviction was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court on a technicality." By any objective measure, the Scopes trial should arouse no greater attention in 2025 than Daytons 1925 Strawberry Festival. It set no legal precedent, led to no repeal of the Butler Act, and everyone involved just got on with their lives. Yet here we are, still talking about it a hundred years later, in commemorative conferences,…...

4+ hour, 25+ min ago (406+ words) Add two more players to the growing list of Arizona State football players who have declared for the NFL draft. This time, it's running back Raleek Brown and cornerback Keith Abney II, both of whom had eligibility remaining. Abney's declaration isn't necessarily a surprise. He had a breakout season, even earning first-team All-American honors from one outlet. The first-team All-Big 12 selection is projected to go anywhere between the first and third rounds. Abney's season was highlighted by 44 tackles, 12 pass breakups, two forced fumbles, and two interceptions, one of which was a game-saving interception in the win over West Virginia. In that same game, he saved a touchdown by knocking away a West Virginia pass in the end zone on a fourth-down play. Abney is one of five players remaining on the team who came in during Dillingham's first year. He…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago (258+ words) FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - The Flagstaff City Council voted unanimously to terminate its contract with technology company Flock Safety, ending the use of automated license plate recognition cameras throughout the city. All 32 Flock cameras positioned around Flagstaff were deactivated immediately following the Dec. 16 vote and are scheduled for removal. The decision comes despite recent attempts by the Flagstaff Police Department to address privacy concerns by shortening data retention from 30 days to 14 days and restricting database access to local agencies, including the Coconino County Sheriff's Office and Northern Arizona University Police. The police department has also implemented a policy banning the technology's use for federal immigration enforcement. However, council members determined that lingering public concern regarding privacy and data sharing outweighed the potential benefits to public safety. "This is not a question of trusting our police chief, it's much bigger than Flagstaff. We…...

5+ hour, 8+ min ago (218+ words) Arizona lawmakers passed legislation to establish independent oversight of state prisons last session. Now, they want to fund it. Sen. Shawnna Bolick (R-Phoenix) and Rep. Walt Blackman (R-Snowflake) are sponsoring bills in the state Legislature which would fund the new independent correctional oversight office. They want to grant $1.5 million to the project. Blackman and Bolick blamed Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs for not ensuring the oversight office got funded last session. The original legislation did have $1.5 million attached, but that didn't make it into the state budget. The original bipartisan oversight legislation was prompted by an uptick in inmate murders and assaults, including a triple homicide at a Tucson facility in April. Bolick and Blackman's legislation showed up online on Monday hours before the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry announced two recent inmate deaths. Leron Indian recently died at a…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago (448+ words) City leaders voted down a data center in Chandler last week, but Arizonans can expect to see even more proposed. The state offers tax breaks for data center projects "significant incentives, Governor Katie Hobbs says, are "clearly working." On Wednesday, she suggested state lawmakers take another look to find "the right balance." "We should look at the incentives to make sure they're doing the right thing, and that we have a better strategy around it," she said. But Hobbs isn't calling for a statewide mandate, noting that some communities in Arizona want to be home to data centers. "That property tax base is really helpful to some cities that are growing," she said. While the Chandler City Council rejected a proposed data center in that city, the controversial Project Blue is moving forward in Pima County. Tucson residents opposed to…...

7+ hour, 15+ min ago (536+ words) PEORIA, Ariz. " A West Valley Republican and a Democrat are joining forces to call for the release of a Peoria small business owner being held in federal immigration detention, arguing she is being unlawfully confined despite having no criminal record. 12News was the first to report on the detention of Kelly Yu, a business owner and employer of 30 people who has been held at the Eloy Detention Center for months. Her case has since drawn the attention of Arizona state lawmakers as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to detain her. RELATED: Arizona Democratic lawmakers make plea to Trump administration, call for release of Kelly Yu from ICE detention Brent Peak, a Democrat, and Lisa Everett, a Republican, say Yu's case cuts across partisan lines and highlights what they describe as the prolonged and indefinite detention of a non-criminal immigrant. "Kelly is…...