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Local Sports – Blasters Lose 3 straight

Taking a look at Coast Radio Sports… West Salem held the Three Rivers Sandblasters scoreless for a five-run shutout win in Florence last night.  The ‘Blasters managed six hits in the American Legion baseball contest, but never got a base-runner past 2nd.  West Salem’s Post 20 put up eight hits […]

3rd Oregon News Minute from the AP

OR–3rd NewsMinute/256 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press   NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) – The Japanese dock that was washed away in last year’s tsunami and landed on the Oregon coast last week is attracting thousands of visitors to Agate Beach near Newport. State officials say 11,000 […]

Local News – Dialysis Clinic; Tax Evader; Child Porn; Japanese Dock

Cost Cutting Measures could put Dialysis Clinic back on track. Florence planning commissioners are being asked to approve modifications to a proposed dialysis clinic that developers say will significantly reduce construction costs and get the project moving again.  The original design review for the 62-hundred square foot facility on Kingwood […]

2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

OR–2nd NewsMinute/294 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press   EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A federal court jury has convicted a former Florence real estate agent of income tax evasion, failure to file tax returns and witness tampering. The U.S. attorney’s office says Randall Johnson filed federal […]

NW Sports from the AP

NW–SportsMinute/364 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press   EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Jimmy Rider drove in the winning run with a shallow pop fly that landed just inside the left-field foul line in the bottom of the ninth, lifting Kent State to […]

1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

OR–1st NewsMinute/326 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press   PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland police say an armed man they thought was holed up in a parking garage at Portland State University has vanished. Lt. Robert King said yesterday that 54-year-old David Chilton fled into the […]

Local Sports – Ducks even series; Sandblasters drop two

Taking a look at Coast Radio Sports… The Oregon Ducks snapped Kent State’s 21-game win streak yesterday, manufacturing three runs in the seventh inning and then hanging on for a 3-2 victory at PK Park.  The win came after the Golden Flashes came out on top Saturday night 7-6 to […]