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Sherwood High School teacher accused of sex abuse
The sheriff's office investigated the case because Keesee's husband is a Sherwood Police officer who worked as the resource officer at the school. He is not under ...
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West Virginia teen facing year in jail over NRA shirt- Oregon residents arm themselves on Glock blocks
A West Virginia eighth-grader who was suspended from school for refusing to change his National Rifle Association T-shirt faces up to one year in jail and a $500 fine after being formally charged with obstructing an officer. Jared Marcum, 14, appeared before a judge Monday and was hit with formal charges that carry a maximum $500 fine and up to a year in jail. The Logan County Police ...
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Genetic engineering and thealien wheat in Oregon
But that doesn’t mean consumers are wrong to have concerns about its effect on the environment and on non-bioengineered crops. U.S. agribusiness has rushed to embrace the GMO (for genetically modified organism, though genetically engineered is a more accurate term) possibilities, with almost all of our corn, soy and canola now featuring genes that have been tinkered with, usually to make ...
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College World Series Cards Sent Packing by Oregon State
OMAHA, Neb. | Oregon State used a seven-run fourth inning to break open the game against mistake-prone Louisville, and the Beavers stayed alive in the College World Series with an 11-4 victory on ...
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Budget homeless on council agenda
ASHLAND — The City Council will tackle homeless issues, adopt a two-year city budget and decide whether the city should cover health insurance costs for its own employees rather than paying an outside insurance company to provide ...
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Smoothies may have been tainted
ASHLAND — An Ashland coffee shop sold smoothies made from berries that were possibly tainted by hepatitis A, leading county health officials to recommend that customers look into getting a ...
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Traffic counters are hard at work
I noticed someone sitting at the corner of Riverside and Main Street all day yesterday (Tuesday, June 11), apparently counting passing vehicles. Is the city counting traffic because there may be some change in store at that intersection? Or is it even a city ...
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My kingdom for a cane
Alick depends on a cane for balance because of a muscle disorder. But in her "Hadoucane" series, her disability becomes a source of power playing off a martial arts move called hadouken popular in the "Street Fighter" video ...
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Enchanting fairies bring Dream to life
The fairies wear costume designer Linda Cho's gorgeous, period costumes and little fairy wings that in one scene actually flutter. They slip in and out of the woodsy darkness at will and sleep, perhaps, inside enchanted-looking mushrooms. The design distances the fairies at once from both the Athenian aristocrats and the rustic ...
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Medical marijuana suspects face new charges
The Duckworths face added charges of a single count each of racketeering, three counts each of money laundering and a single count each of possession of substantial amounts of marijuana in excess of 150 grams, said Leland Duckworth's attorney Leland ...
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Chief recommends liquor denial
A pub proposed for the old Shenanigan's bar location has gotten a thumbs down from Medford police Chief Tim George, citing the owner's criminal record and nine citations for improperly painting a building without ...
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Missing Oregon cat turns up with hitchhiker
HELENA, Mont. — A well-traveled Oregon cat named "Mata Hairi" will soon be reunited with her owner after spending nearly 10 months traveling thousands of miles with a hitchhiker who rescued her from the ...
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Prosecutors ask judge to delay bomb-plot sentencing
PORTLAND — Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to delay sentencing for the Somali-American man convicted of plotting to bomb a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland's town square. Mohamed Mohamud, 21, is scheduled to be sentenced June 27, but the prosecutors have asked for a delay of two to three ...
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Judge rules NLRB overstepped its authority in Portland port dispute
PORTLAND — A federal judge has reopened the dispute over which union workers at the Port of Portland should perform the task of plugging and unplugging refrigerated cargo ...
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Crews make gains on Wests wildfires
Wildfires also were burning in other parts of Colorado as well as California, where more than 700 firefighters battled the Carstens fire. That fire near the main route into Yosemite National Park in the Central Sierra foothills began Sunday afternoon and has burned about 11/2 square miles or 900 acres, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant ...
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Asante begins renovating Family Place
Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center has begun renovating the hospital's Francis Cheney Family Place, which provides affordable lodging and solace to patients and their families based on availability and financial need, according to a news release from ...
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Four injured in rollover crash near Shady Cove
Four people were seriously injured, two critically, in a Monday afternoon rollover crash on Highway 62 about four miles west of Shady Cove that closed part of the highway for about four hours, authorities ...
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Police charge driver in death of soccer traveler
SALEM — The driver Oregon police say fatally struck a man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles from Seattle to Brazil for the World Cup has been ...
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U.S. set stage for arming Syrian rebels week ago
AMMAN, Jordan — The U.S. military began laying the groundwork to arm and support Syrian rebels more than a week ago, using a military exercise being held in Jordan as a cover for bringing in personnel and ...
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Obama vows more oversight of data searches
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in ...
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Evos patrons are warned of possible hepatitis exposure
An Ashland coffee shop sold smoothies made from berries that were possibly tainted by hepatitis A, leading county health officials to recommend that customers look into getting a ...
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Taking neighborhood watch to a new level The Glock Block
Coy Tolonen says more than a dozen of her neighbors have shown interest so far in starting the "Glock Block." Tolonen is taking action after someone stole her favorite ...
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COL BB Oregon State 11 Louisville 4
Ben Wetzler's 6 1/3 solid innings Monday staked Oregon State to an 11-4 win over Louisville, eliminating the Cardinals from the College World ...
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Facebook page created to bully taken down after call from police
NEWBERG, Ore. – No one is sure who created a Facebook page to bully kids at Newberg High School, but Facebook didn't take it down until KATU News, the district and finally the police called the social media giant. Those phone calls were enough to get Facebook's attention and have it take down a very hateful page that had been up since Saturday. The posts on "Nancy ...
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Missing Idaho woman found alive
PASCO, Wash. — Authorities say an Idaho woman who had been missing since Sunday near Pasco has been found alive KNDO reports ( http://tinyurl.com/ma6ozxg) that 21-year-old Rashelle Klontz was found in a wheat field by a farmer. Franklin County Sheriff's deputies say she was laying down in the field when she was discovered and was later able to speak to police. Klontz had been ...
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Portland animal shelters need every bit of help available
Animal abandonment remains a problem across the United States and Portland is no different, the Oregon Humane Society in Portland and Multnomah County Animal Services, routinely receive hundreds of animals each year, many of which are brought to them by the public or authorities who have found the animals wandering the streets.
In 2008, Portland became the buzz of the web when Portland news media reported that a pit-bull had boarded a city bus without anyone accompanying him and went for a ride. On the web, Portland became known as a pet-friendly city because the bus driven had allowed the dog to ride the bus. Read more
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