Monday, Aug 25, 2008
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer & Brandon Smith

First Newscast:

1. Flags at public buildings are at half staff today across Oregon to honor Scappoose firefighter Robert Hales.

2. The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals Friday denied an appeal brought by opponents of liquefied natural gas.

3. Mike Van Meter reports on Deschutes County Commissioners voting to put a Bend Area Transit District proposal on the November ballot.

4. Construction is underway at the new Gateway Transit Center in Springfield.

5. Paving began this morning on Highway 126 between Eugene and Florence.

6. Lane Community College student Matt Keating is one of 65 Oregon delegates at the Democratic National Convention.

7. Austin Jenkins reports on medicinal marijuana users packing into a hearing room in Olympia, Washington today about a proposal to limit the number of pot plants they can grow.

Center:

1. Interview with Olivia Nakato from Uganda and Mimi Netra from Indonesia. They are participating in WILD - Women's Institute on Leadership and Disability.

2. Mixed Voices shares poetry.

3. Master Gardener Renate Tilson says it's tomato time!

First Newscast:

1. Oregon's graduating high school seniors have scored above the national average on the math, reading and writing portions of the SAT.

2. Oregon State men's basketball coach Craig Robinson introduced his sister Michelle Obama last night at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

3. Chris Lehman reports on the Oregon Senate Democrats proposed agenda for 2009.

4. The costs of fighting large fires in California and elsewhere has forced the U.S. Forest Service to divert money set aside for roads, trails and recreational improvements.

5. The King County Medical Examiner's Office says it has been informed that a 15-year-old Oregon boy buried in a sand cave-in at Dash Point State Park has died.

6. Authorities have taken all 200 sheep and 55 horses from the property of an 80-year-old woman who was repeatedly neglecting them.

7. Winchester Bay lost a landmark to fire this morning when the bar and restaurant known to locals as the Oasis burned down.

Center:

1. Interview with Lane Community College student Matt Keating at the Democratic National Convention.

2. Angela Kellner speaks with Mike Leachman with the Oregon Center for Public Policy about the latest census numbers on poverty and health insurance.

Second Newscast:

1. EPUD is experiencing an outage in the Jasper Meadows area due to a tree on the line.

2. Two major area hospitals announced they've come to a settlement in an anti-trust lawsuit.

3. Becca Bartleson reports on the excavation of an old family cemetary at the site of the Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend in Springfield.

4. The University of Oregon football team learned this week that starting quarterback Nate Costa will need surgery to repair a knee injury.

First Newscast:

1. Eugene Police have arrested two men in what's being called a murder for hire in the shooting death of Lance McBride.

2. Mike Van Meter reports on the 9 candidates running for the Bend City Council.

3. A judge has upheld new limits on lobbyist gifts in Oregon's government ethics law.

4. A Snohomish County, Washington sheriff's officer says rescuers are en route to find three hikers who say they are caught in deteriorating weather on Three Finger Mountain east of Granite Falls.

5. Oregon officials say an autopsy show former Portland Trail Blazers center Kevin Duckworth died when his enlarged heart failed.

6. Scientists from OSU and the Natural History Museum in London have announced the findings of the oldest known fossil parts of a gecko preserved in amber after 100 million years.

7. A California man who took explicit photos of a 16-year-old girl has been sentenced to almost six years in prison.

8. Comcast Sportsnet Northwest and OSN-IMG have arrived at an agreement to televise UO sports.

9. UO star defensive back Patrick Chung will honor his  fallen friend and teammate Todd Doxey by wearing his number 29 jersey for Saturday's game against Washington.

Center:

1. Interview with Ken Waldman, Alaska's fiddlin' poet.

2. Interview with Karen Lonon-Jones of Reedsport. She's in Denver as a Democratic delegate.

Second Newscast:

1. Don Wimberly reports on the death penalty imposed on Joseph Edward Duncan in Boise.

2. Most of the stubborn forest fires in Oregon are near containment or being allowed to burn to clear out fuel that could cause problems in the future.

3. Claude Offenbacher reports on OSU scientists who say a new analysis of a 200-mile long fault line off the southern and central Oregon coast shows it is more active than the San Andreas fault.

4. Major souther Oregon shippers say they will file a petition to allow a new railroad to move their freight over the Siskiyou Mountains to northern California after the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad raised rates.

First Newscast:

1. Chris Lehman reports on the state's economic revenue forecast.

2. Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson has ruled that a Philomath police officer who shot at a suspect in a kidnapping and hostage situation was justified in doing so.

3. 36 members of the Oregon Disaster Medical Team are departing tonight for Texas in preparation for hurricane Gustav's landfall.

4. The mother of the 18-year-old high school senior hit by a car while running in the Hood to Coast race sustained a stroke from the crash, plus other injuries.

5. The Portland Trail Blazers and the family of Kevin Duckworth will hold a public memorial service Saturday.

6. Washington state education officials say 628 schools and 57 districts are failing to meet federal guidelines for adequate yearly program.

7. Angela Kellner reports on the Lane Coalition for Healthy Active Youth and their Springfield farmer's market survey.

8. Skywest Airlines says it will provide flights between Coos Bay-North Bend and Portland when Horizon Air ends service October 11th.

Center:

1.  Interview with Sahar Wali with Obama for America about tonight's events for supporters of Barack Obama.

2. Tom Banse reports on how the Bonneville Power Administration is dealing with a pile of new connection requests from wind farm developers.

3. Natural World correspondent John Cooney reports from the Noth Jetty on the Siuslaw River.

Second Newscast:

1. Military officials say 20-year-old Private Tan Q. Ngo of Beaverton died Wednesday in Afghanistan.

2. The Skagit County, Washington sheriff's office says a fast team of 3 rescue hikers is trying to reach 2 hikers stranded on a mountain ledge.

3. Heather Meldrum reports on tonight's meeting in Newport that will help decide the catch for next year's recreational halibut season.

4. Rachael McDonald reports on a back to school event for Eugene's 4-J teachers and staff that addressed the challenges ahead.

First Newscast:

1. Glenn Mosley reports on the northwest ties of Sarah palin, John McCain's choice for Vice President.

2. The Chairman of Oregon's Republican Party, Vance Day, says he thinks McCain's VP choice is great for Oregonians.

3. Congressional contender Joel Haugen is withdrawing as a GOP candidate and will appear on the ballot under the label of the Independent Party.

4. Rachael McDonald reports on a Eugene judge who invoked a seldom used law to summon jurors off the street.

5. Ricardo Serrano wants to prevent his wife from testifying against him in his death penalty case.

6. Country music star Willie Nelson arrived in Salem today in his bio-diesel powered tour bus to celebrate the expansion of Oregon's first commercial bio-diesel plant.

Center:

1. Interview with John Frohnmayer about his view of American politics today after he dropped out of Oregon's Senate race.

2. Rachael McDonald speaks with Helen Miller, Team Commander for the Oregon Disaster Medical Team.

Second Newscast:

1. Heather Meldrum reports on area police departments reminding motorists to slow down in school zones as children return to class next week.

2. Idaho is about to become the first in the nation with a plan to protect roadless forest areas.

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