Monday, July 14, 2008
Hosted by: Brandon Smith & Angela Kellner

First Newscast:

1. Rachael McDonald reports on the fire that destroyed part of Glide High School.

2. Fire officials have revised their damage report for the Valley View fire in the suburbs east of Spokane, Washington.

3. The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.5% last month, slightly lower than 5.6% in May.

4. Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley had the best fundraising quarter of his campaign, raising more than 1.4 million dollars.

5. Federal appeals judges have told the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to take another look at its plans for about 4.5-million acres in Eastern Oregon.

6. An earthquake measuring 4.2 was recorded near the Central Oregon town of Maupin.

Center:

1. Tom Banse reports on the biofuels industry in the Northwest.

2. Chris Lehman profiles the use of art therapy at the Oregon State Hospital.

3. Renate Tilson has advice for attracting wildlife to the garden on Good Gardening.

4. Austin Jenkins reports on how Washington's projected budget gap may influence the gubernatorial race.

Second Newscast:

1. Jackson County says it can no longer afford to send inmates to Yamhill County for imprisonment.

2. An inmate being transported from an Oregon State forest work camp escaped this morning.

3. There's been another clash between a cyclist and a motorist in Portalnd.

4. Oregon officials say that married women who have changed their names should remember to get a county-certified marriage certificate before they go to get their drivers's license renewed.

First Newscast:

1. Natural gas customers in Oregon should brace for double-digit increases in their monthly bills this fall.

2. Gas prices in Oregon fell two pennies a gallon, on average, in the past week.

3. Rachael McDonald reports on one way to conserve gas and reduce benzene pollution: don't idle.

4. Most people arrested for an immigrant violation in Oregon end up at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington.

5. Austin Jenkins reports on the controversy over allowing ranchers to graze their cattle on state wildlife lands.

Center:

1. Interview with cowboy poet Van Criddle.

2. Anna King reports on the import of Mexican rodeos to the Northwest.

Second Newscast:

1. Angela Kellner reports on the small wildfires the Oregon Department of Forestry is battling.

2. Silverton Police Officer Tony Gonzalez was arraigned on sex abuse charges as the grand jury readies a case against him in the shooting of an Irish citizen.

First Newscast:

1. The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals has remanded Jordan Cove Energy Project's application to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos County.

2. The pilot of a small plane has died in a crash while landing at the Central Oregon resort town of Sunriver.

3. Fires in Oregon are beginning to recede and yesterday was a relatively quiet day.

4. In the past week, six bears have been killed in the Florence and Yachats areas.

5. Rachael McDonald reports on the cat at the Bijou.

Center:

1. Angela Kellner gets a sneak peek at the soon-to-be-opened Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend hospital in Springfield.

2. Rachael McDonald visits the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History's exhibit of shoes.

3. Brandon speaks with Brad Heller, an OSU senior, and Ivan Lomalah of Microsoft, about a project in Uganda.

Second Newscast:

1. Anna King reports on a bacteria affecting oysters.

First Newscast:

1. A ruling by the state Land Use Board of Appeals has created another setback for the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos Bay.

2. An Oregon doctor charged with manslaughter in the deaths of 3 patients in Australia has been moved to a federal detention center in Los Angeles pending his extradition.

3. A new workers' compensation ruling by the state may make it a little tougher to find a doctor to treat injuries on the job.

4. Rachael McDonald reports on a mandate for manufacturers of TVs and computers to fund a program to recycle their products beginning in 2009.

5. The Oregon Lottery plans to introduce a new game similar to a raffle to give players a little better odds of winning.

6. The Coburg-based Monaco Coach Corporation is closing 3 RV plants in northern Indiana, costing 1400 jobs there.

Center:

1. Interview with best-selling author and comedian Beth Lisick.

2. Natural World with John Cooney.

Second Newscast:

1. The Oregon University System has chosen a new communication service to improve preparation and response to campus emergencies.

First Newscast:

1. Oregon Republican Senator Gordon Smith says Democrat Jeff Merkley is breaking the law by continuing to appear in campaign ads paid for by the State Democratic Party.

2. Rachael McDonald reports on the six-month jail term handed down to Oregon soldier James Burmeister.

3. Tom Banse reports on an Army deserter from Idaho and the peace activists out to support him.

4. The Oregon Department of Transportation is doing lots of road construction while the weather is good.

5. A grizzly bear attacked an Oregon man in a campground in Montana last night.

6. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is lowering the water at Foster Reservoir on the South Santiam River to repair two spillway gates.

Center:

1. Rachael McDonald speaks with Helen Burmeister about her son James' prison sentence for going AWOL from the Iraq war.

2. Andrew speaks with Paul Biondi about the benefit concert for musicians medical care.

Second Newscast:

1. Angela Kellner reports on the state's newly-released interactive database of landslides to inform communities of the potential risk.

2. Basketball coach Ernie Kent and the University of Oregon have agreed to terms on a new contract.

3. Six Starbucks locations in Oregon and 19 in Washington will close.

4. Residents of Wheeler County in Central Oregon have ousted the District Attorney who supported plans for an 8-bed treatment center for the menatlly ill.

5. Authorities in Benton County say they're trying to identify a man found in the Willamette River in North Albany.

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