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Following are recent area graduates: Brian Henry Adler graduated from Gettysburg College with a bachelor's degree in political science.

Question: I think butterfly bush is really beautiful, and I've had it in my yard for years.

Main Category: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Also Included In: Genetics ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 01 Jul 2009 - 6:00 PDT The potential of forest biotechnology to help address significant social and environmental issues is being "strangled at birth" by the rigid opposition of some groups and regulations that effectively preclude ...

Irrigation has transformed desert near Hermiston into farmland, one way that water resources play a crucial role in Oregon.

Health officials say a bat found in Central Point last week has tested positive for rabies.

Bite into a juicy watermelon that has become a hallmark of the Hermiston area and you'll be chewing on 100 years of history.

Oregon State University-Cascades Campus has started a master of arts in teaching program for middle and high school teachers.

Mosquitoes in West Richland have tested positive for the West Nile virus - the first confirmation of the virus in Benton County this year.

The judicial appointments of former president George W. Bush suggests that his motivation for appointing nontraditional judges was driven more by ideology and strategy than concerns for diversity, a new analysis shows.

For the study, researchers followed 166 girls ages 13 to 17 with court orders to receive treatment for criminal behavior in either specialized foster care or a group-care facility.

Scientists are warning that a new form of unregulated whaling has emerged along the coastlines of Japan and South Korea, where the commercial sale of whales killed as fisheries "bycatch" is threatening coastal stocks of minke whales and other protected species.

Cory Michael Papp, 33, formerly of Benton County, Oregon, pled guilty today in federal court to knowingly possessing computer disks and computer generated media that contained visual depictions of actual minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Didn't your mother teach you how to share? If so, you might already have the key to having some wheels without the aggravation of actually owning a car.

Ok, who out there knows that St. Paul is home to a Cereal Disease Laboratory , and if so, did you know that the USDA facility is helping combat a potentially catastropic wheat fungus, projected by some scientists as capable of demolishing most of the world's supply of the vital grain? A recent LA Times article details the threat of the fungus, ...

Some plants can increase ozone production by 50 times Some plants can increase the rate of ozone production by up to 50 times, according to a study.

In the state budget, higher education takes its traditional beating --a strange strategy for the 21st century Someday, this recession will be over.

A study by Oregon State University researchers suggests that school-based prevention programs begun in elementary school can significantly reduce problem behaviors in students.

Spot news that sticks with the spot that made the news can make for pointillist reading.

Placing teenage girls with a history of juvenile delinquency in specialized foster-care programs had an unexpected consequence: It kept them from getting pregnant, researchers found.

Robert Hrdinsky, 25, a South Salem High grad and Oregon State University alum, is in Tehran photographing the country's response to the disputed election results.