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Oregon Attorney General John Kroger today announced that the Oregon Department of Justice has filed tax evasion charges against Bill and Cindy Sizemore.

Several news outlets are reporting that the adult daughter of former state legislator Marian Bergeson died last week in what appears to be a homicide.

Duane Neuschwander, foreman of the isolated Juniper Ranch on the boundary of Malheur and Harney counties, talks to Malheur County sheriff's Deputy Bob Wroten about the disappearance of 33 cattle.

Former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, pictured here in May, is considered the father of the Oregon Health Plan.

The very northwesternmost tip of Oregon. Those little places you passed by and didn't even know it: they are in abundance.

Family members say an assistant federal public defender found slain in her Oregon home didn't express fear about retribution from her clients.

Lin Zastrow's layup at the buzzer gave Wisconsin a 58-57 victory over Oregon on Saturday at the World Vision Invitational in Eugene.

ASTORIA - A weather buoy located 20 miles from the mouth of the Columbia River has stopped transmitting wind data.

An autopsy has found that an assistant federal public defender found dead in her home was strangled.

The reach of last year's economic collapse has extended far beyond Wall Street. Because of the bad bets made by the big banks, thousands of Oregonians have lost their homes and hundreds of thousands more have lost their jobs.

Oregon cheerleader Katelynn Johnson says she's still a little woozy after being hit in the head by a water bottle after Oregon's win at Arizona last weekend.

Oregon state officials say crabbers and seafood processors have agreed on a price for the Dungeness crab season that begins Tuesday.

More Tigard residents say the city should widen Oregon 99W from five lanes to seven lanes than favor adding light rail to combat congestion.

It turns out, whales can be victims of bone-eating worms Every once in a while, Newport's Terry Morse pulls some wild and weird oceanic facts out of his scientific thinking cap.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Friends are mourning a public defender found slain at her Portland home this week, with one of her clients calling her "a fighter." Police on Thursday continued to search the home of Nancy Bergeson and an adjacent wooded area.

While I respect and honor Jake Klonoski's service, for him to question what it would be to serve in a combat zone with those who are opposed to Measure 66 and 67 rankles me, as someone who also served in the military and questions his own knowledge and judgment of the situation .

Oregon State Police are investigating a fatal traffic crash at Oregon 18 and the Lafayette Highway.

If pounding the pavement is what it takes to win, then John Lim has a leg up on the Republican Party nomination for Oregon governor.

Oregon's Senate President Pro Tempore, Senator Rick Metsger , endorsed Representative Brent Barton for Oregon's District 26 senate seat.

The director of the state agency responsible for training and certifying police officers in Oregon has resigned amid an attorney general's investigation.

Duane Neuschwander foreman of the isolated Juniper Ranch on the boundary of Malheur and Harney counties in Oregon, talks to Malheur County Deputy Bob Wroten about the disappearance of 33 cattle.

During an announcement event at the Oregon Lottery office in Salem, Oregon Lottery Director Dale Penn announced the winning number for the game's $1 million top prize.

The Gladstone Democrat says a state ban on allowing teachers to cover their heads or wear religious garb is overdue to be changed.

Gresham has the worst crime rate of any major city in Oregon, according to a new report.

A strong storm slammed the Oregon Coast overnight, bringing with it winds up to 95 mph and heavy rain that's left several rivers at or near flood stage.

If you feel the earth move under your feet and you wonder if there's been an earthquake, there's a seismograph at Southern Oregon University that can tell you what really happened.

Patrons toke medical marijuana in Oregon cafe PORTLAND, Ore. - At first glance, the Cannabis Cafe, in a former adult club called Rumpspankers, looks like any other coffee shop.

With The Oregonian's recent articles and editorials about the state's Business Energy Tax Credit, one could be forgiven for thinking that Oregon has been blindly throwing money and common sense to the wind .

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Strong winds have left scores of Oregon and Washington residents without electricity.

One week, Rhonda Rebmann's niece had the flu. The next, her 10-year-old tabby cat started showing respiratory symptoms.

Oregon's unemployment rate for October remained unchaged from September, despite the 1,900 jobs lost last month.

A gunman fatally wounded a passenger in another vehicle at an Oregon intersection Saturday, setting off a police chase that ended when the suspect crashed and was killed by officers, authorities said.The passenger, 56-year-old Danny K. Le Gore of Hillsboro, was rushed to a local hospital where he died.

Chip Shields Iowa pioneered a common sense approach to reducing minority overrepresentation in the criminal-justice system.

November 20, 2009 Oregon College Saving Plan accounts will be reimbursed in early 2010 based on losses in bond fund Oregon families will recover losses that were alleged to be attributable to OppenheimerFunds' mismanagement of the Oregon 529 College Savings Network, following a landmark legal settlement approved Thursday by the Oregon 529 College ...

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The future of jobs in Jackson and Josephine counties, according to the Oregon Employment Department, is in service industries.

A federal grand jury in Eugene has indicted 13 people on mortgage and loan fraud charges arising from the collapse of a central Oregon development company.

Former Hewlett Packard executive Steve Shields is pulling out of the Oregon governor's race, he announced.

Oregon's dirtiest abandoned mine doesn't look like it's going to be cleaned up any time soon, unless someone claims responsibility for it and foots the $50 million bill.

Deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records from Alaska, Oregon, and Washington this past year spiked by nearly 40 percent, while overall removals dropped for the first time in five years, according to new data released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Among the messages: Don't buy false solutions, and Climate Justice Not CO2 Trading.

A cat that died Nov. 7 is the first feline fatality from H1N1 flu, tests have confirmed.

The site of the proposed LNG plant in Warrenton looking towards Astoria. The liquefied natural gas company Oregon LNG has gotten two important thumbs up on its controversial lease with the Port of Astoria, boosting prospects for its plans to build a terminal on 92 acres near Youngs Bay.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski has asked two state agency heads to quickly review whether Oregon's increasingly expensive incentives for renewable energy companies are necessary, especially for wind energy.

Beaverton Police and the Oregon transportation officials busted several illegal movers in a sting operation Tuesday.

A woman is struggling for life at Portland's Legacy Emanuel Hospital after her husband shot her in the back, authorities said Wednesday.

The average price of a gallon of unleaded gas in Oregon rose slightly to $2.76, up half a penny from last week.

Oregon employment officials will announce Monday morning the state's unemployment numbers for October, but state employers are getting word this week that they'll have to pay more in payroll taxes to keep the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund in balance.

A judge has denied a request for a preliminary injunction to block a pair of Oregon ballot measures to decide a $733 million tax increase aimed at corporations and the wealthy.

Opponents of a $733 million tax increase aimed at corporations and wealthy Oregonians have raised $1.2 million to defeat it.

Oregon's hunger rate is growing, according to a new federal report. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual report on Household Food Security released Monday, Nov.

Oregon's H1N1 vaccination strategy is changing to focus on people with chronic health problems, those state health officials say are most at risk for complications from the new flu virus that popped up early this year.

Strong winds and heavy rain pounded the Oregon coast as a powerful November storm blew through.

Eucario Perez Lopez dials for jobs recently at an Oregon Employment Department office in Portland.

A Mormon youth leader in Oregon has been accused of sexually abusing a boy in the mid-1970s in a lawsuit filed Monday in Portland.

The Oregonian reports that three years of data the newspaper obtained under state public record law shows just 10 percent of video gamblers account for about 53 percent of the money lost on the game.

Police discovered at least 200,000 marijuana plants in raids during the busy Oregon growing and harvest season that just ended.

Students at Forest Grove High School listen to a recruiter from Western Oregon University talk about programs and scholarships that can help them go to college.

FisherPoets On The Edge, a three day celebration of poetry, storytelling and songs of the sea and its harvest, will be held on a three day holiday weekend, January 16 - 18, 2010, in Newport, Oregon.

"High School Teacher" kindly sent me this math story in the Oregonian newspaper by former AJC education writer Betsy White.

Oregon, you read. A lot. In fact, our public library patrons regularly check out more books annually than readers in almost any other state in the country.

Sheriff's investigators here say a murder-suicide has left three people dead in a suburban Portland home and the father of one of the victims tells The Oregonian that the dead are his son, daughter-in-law and grandson.

Bill Kernion of Scappoose hands over some dough for his order of halibut fish 'n chips.

Farhad "Fred" Monem is beyond the reach of prosecutors in his native Iran. He is accused of taking $1.2 million in bribes while in his job overseeing Oregon's prison food program.

Suzanne Flynn, in a report released Thursday, said the bond program is "at risk" unless Metro coordinates spending and construction schedules with a comprehensive master plan.

An Oregon woman had filed for divorce just a week before her estranged husband opened fire at the suburban Portland office park where she worked, fatally shooting her and injuring two of her co-workers before killing himself.Teresa Beiser, 36, was asking for joint custody of her two children with Robert Beiser, 39, in what appeared from court ...

Taylor Wood will be the first percussionist to perform as a soloist with the Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon this weekend.

A California man said his son, daughter-in-law and grandson were fatally shot at their home in the area of Bethany, Ore.

Authorities say a van carrying members of a Colorado church group overturned on black ice early Thursday in Eastern Oregon, killing one person and injuring 15, some of them critically.

The Ochoco Lumber Co. is getting $4.9 million in federal stimulus money to build a wood pellet fuel plant.

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Teresa Marie Beiser, 36, of Gladstone was allegedly killed by her husband, Robert James Beiser.

The nose typically gets lit in red for the Christmas season. The debate over what to do with the Made in Oregon sign is one of those "Yes, but," scenarios that makes running for public office seem like a symptom of insanity.

MONMOUTH - Western Oregon University's enrollment hit another record high this year, officially numbering 5,654 students, 305 more than a year ago.

A pregnant woman was repeatedly beaten with a collapsible police baton before a "cutting instrument" was used to slice open her abdomen and remove her fetus, a detective testified Tuesday.

A man opened fire with a rifle Tuesday at a drug-testing laboratory in suburban Portland, killing a female employee and wounding two other workers before fatally shooting himself, police said.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski has made another surprise trip to Iraq to visit Oregon National Guard troops.

An Oregon woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting the baby out of her womb will remain in jail without bail pending trial.A judge ruled Tuesday that 28-year-old Korena Roberts should remain in custody on aggravated murder charges in the June 5 death of 21-year-old Heather Snively.One of the lead detectives in the case testified at a ...

Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News.com It is very comforting to me that after 10 years of the Oregonian dragging my patients and I through the mud that they have finally become enlightened and crawled out of the closet.

Weather is the topic of many conversations throughout Oregon as the week begins, with massive amounts of snowfall dropping in the Cascades and wind and heavy rain blasting the coast.

Has anyone found anything better then the Newsbank system you can access at the library? It only goes back to '88, and the search system is so, so bad.

The Oregon Department of Energy on Tuesday released a new set of rules for its controversial Business Energy Tax Credits designed to rein in what critics call an excessively expensive program.

The debate on the Affordable Health Care for American Act went late into the night Saturday.

The math isn't so hard when it comes to the faculty of the Tigard-Tualatin school district.

The low-lying sun cast shadows on the basalt field across the river just upstream of the Big Eddy Rapids.

People came from far and wide to take in the Oregon Handmade Bicycle Show last weekend.

A new public opinion study published in the American Political Science Review ranks Oregon 13th nationwide in support for same sex marriage rights, with about 45 percent of Oregonians supporting the cause.

Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance spokeswoman Tara Lawrence said Friday that courts and district attorneys around Oregon are being saddled with extra costs and workload from having to conduct thousands of resentencing reviews.

Selma native Kristy Lee Cook will perform at the annual Veterans Day Ceremony at the Oregon Fallen War Heroes Memorial in Central Point.

A federal judge has ruled that an Oregon orchard company did not break minimum wage laws by deducting money for food and housing from paychecks for seasonal workers.

Chris Dudley's free throw shots were always iffy propositions. Now the former Portland Trail Blazer is in a new arena taking aim at a governor's chair - and Oregon's Republicans think he can score.Dudley hasn't formally announced a bid for the post, but he filed paperwork last week to create a campaign committee."I'll make a decision soon and ...

The Internal Revenue Service says it has more than 1,300 refund checks worth $1,443,545 for Oregon taxpayers that were returned by the US Post Office due to mailing errors.

Oregon corrections officers have voted down a tentative contract with the state, balking at proposed pay cuts tied to unpaid furlough days, union officials said Wednesday.

The state of Oregon has shut down a boarding school for troubled teens in Central Oregon after allegedly finding a pattern of child abuse and neglect of its students, forcing parents around the country to scramble to bring home their children.

Advocates for same-sex marriage are currently touring the state, hoping to drum up enough support to get the issue back on the ballot in 2012.

A 34-year-old man is accused of trying to lure a 9-year-old girl online to have sex with him, federal agents said.

A 20-year-old Portland man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading no contest to criminally negligent homicide in a traffic accident that killed his passenger two years ago.

Oregon officials say that more than 10,000 children already have been added to state health care rolls under a new law that's aimed at expanding health coverage to nearly every child in Oregon.

The Oregon State University fraternity whose member shot a homeless man back in 2006 will be responsible for paying damages to the victim.

Some people who provide child care so parents in low-income families can go to work say new precautions by an Oregon state agency are delaying their payments.

Oregon has seen a boom in wind energy projects, such as this one in the Columbia River Gorge not far from Hood River.

Gay rights backers plan to ask Oregon voters to reverse their ban on gay marriage.

MADISON - Responding to a state lawmaker's complaints about inmates receiving swine flu vaccine while other citizens wait, state Department of Corrections officials said most of the vaccine was going to staff, not inmates.

Uni-Chem, the South Korean company that wants to start making solar cells in the Hynix plant in west Eugene, is just the latest in a string of foreign companies that are coming to Oregon to seek their solar fortune.

The state Department of Corrections says its inmates aren't getting better access to swine-flu vaccine than are others citizens.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is buying more private land for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Southern Oregon.