SEATTLE (AP) — Natalie Romeo made five 3-pointers in the first half and finished with a season-high 25 points, and No. 9 Washington used a 26-0 run in the first half to race past rival Washington State 94-63 last night. The Huskies (13-1, 1-0 Pac-12) opened Pac-12 Conference play […]
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Cold weather shelter; Aging Well; Dunes restoration grant; speaking “whale”; Dental coverage; and Siuslaw Awards
Cold Weather Shelter openings far exceed last year The Florence cold weather shelter for the homeless was closed last night… one of the few nights in the past three weeks in which it was. Reverend Greg Woods with the Presbyterian Church of the Siuslaw said up until this past weekend […]
Pac-12 Conference play begins for men’s basketball
The men’s Pac-12 basketball schedule gets underway tomorrow night with the marquee matchup being in Eugene as the 13-and-oh UCLA Bruins face the 11-2 Oregon Ducks. The Bruins had been the number one ranked team in the country, but they were displaced this week by Villanova… Oregon is ranked number […]
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STATE TROOPER SHOT-THE LATEST The Latest: Wounded trooper remains in critical condition PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State Police have identified the trooper who was critically wounded in shooting Christmas night. The agency said on its Facebook page that 32-year-old Nic Cederberg underwent surgery at a Portland hospital Monday. […]
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Kyle Lowry scored 27 points and the Toronto Raptors won their franchise-best seventh consecutive road game last night with a 95-91 victory over the skidding Portland Trail Blazers. Lowry, coming off a season-high 36 points last Friday at Utah, had 20 in the second half […]
Pre Christmas searches; First Day hikes; Timber payments; Recycling Christmas; Coastal rehab grants; and Watching whales
Busy times for searchers… The U.S. Coast Guard suspended a search Friday afternoon for a 27-year old man who was swept from the rocks near Cape Perpetua Thursday. The man reportedly fell into the water at Thor’s Well, near Cook’s Chasm just south of Cape Perpetua. That has not been […]
Ducks ranked #20 after 11-2 start
Pac-12 conference basketball set to begin Coach Steve Alford’s best recruiting class for this season was expected to get UCLA back on track following the Bruins’ fourth losing season since 1948. Few could have expected they would be this good, this quick. UCLA is up to number 2 in the […]
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NUCLEAR PLANT Northwest’s only nuclear plant resuming operation (Information from: Tri-City Herald, http://www.tri-cityherald.com) RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Northwest’s only nuclear power plant is reconnecting to the regional power grid after an unplanned shut down. The Tri-City Herald reports that the 1,190-megawatt Columbia Generating Station resumed late Saturday night. […]