Monday, March 22, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

First Newscast:

1. The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office says a 64 year-old cross-country skier reported missing near Todd Lake Sunday evening has been found safe.

2. A 19-year-old Oregon man died after falling off his skateboard.

3. OPB's Rob Manning reports on Northwest Democrats hailing passage of health care overhaul.

4. Austin Jenkins reports on the beginning of the second week of Washington's special session.

5. Idaho's colleges and universities now have their own reserve account designed to protect them from the types of budget cuts they've faced this year.

6. Anna King reports on a new federal rule that may return the Kennewick Man skeleton to Native American tribes.

Center:

Music in: Dan Penn "Cry Like A Man"

1. SPR's Amanda Loder reports on three cities in the region vying to become the site of the world's fastest internet connection.

2. Anna King reports profiles a NW family that has been transformed by the recession.

Music out: Todd Phillips "Train On The Island"

3. Good Gardening - Eat Your Weeds.

Second Newscast:

1. NW Representatives voted mostly along party lines last night as the U.S. House approved major changes to the nation's health care system.

2. More than 50 families who live in a neighborhood west of Roseburg are concerned they may run out of water this week.

3. Chris Lehman reports on researchers on the trail of the fruit fly in the NW.

4. The NTSB says a pilot flipped his plane to avoid hitting a Creswell home last year.

5. The reward for info leading to the arrest of the so-called "grandpa bandit" is up to $15,000.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

 First Newscast:

1. Gov. Kulongoski ordered flags as all public institutions to be flown at half-staff Thursday in memory of Pfc. Erin McLyman of Eugene.

2. Jes Burns reports on improved unemployment numbers in Oregon.

3. The nation's top ocean research agency says it can't find a better base for its research fleet than the port of Newport.

4. U of W Scentist Peter Ward believes global warming from civilization's release of CO2 will be faster and cause more worldwide flooding. 

5. The state prison in Pendleton went into "modified lock down status" this morning after several inmates started fighting near the dining room.

6. The mother of a man suing the Boy Scouts for $14 million has told a jury her son struggled with alcohol and drugs after being sexually abused by a scout leader.

Center:

1. Interview with Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit.

2. Review of "Pride and Rejudice" by Dorothy Velasco.

Second Newscast:

1. Detectives are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in the town of Scio.

2. An 18-year-old snowboarder was found dead on Mt. Hood about an hour after he was reported missing by friends.

3. Potlatch Corp. says it has sold its particleboard plant in Post Falls, ID to a former sawmill operator.

4. Seattle author Sherman Alexie has won the Pen/Faullllkner prize for fiction for his short story collection"War Dances."

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

First Newscast:

1. Legislation aimed at preventing fraud in OR's initiative process has been upheld by a federal judge.

2. A Clatsop County judge has ordered the former director of the Wintercross Foundation to repay the charity more than $2 million.

3. WA's Superintendent of Public Instrution Randy Dorn has been charged with one count of DUI.

4. Several dozen demonstrators marched Tuesday night through southeast Portland to protest the fatal police shooting of a transient man near Hoyt Arboretum.

5. Tom Banse reports an activist group is urging OR and WA to reap budget savings by swearing off bottled water.

6. Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna says his office is prepared to argue both sides of the health care reform legal fight.

7. Two Reed College students have died in two weeks.

Center:

1. Angela Kellner interviews Milo Mecham of LCOG about broadband expansion in our region.

2. Guy Hand reports on the movement to increase conditions of animals on farms.

Second Newscast:

1. A new USFS study weighs the impact of the Mt. Ashland ski area expansion.

2. A former animal control officer say he is suing Jackson County for wrongful discharge. 

First Newscast:

1. Rachael McDonald reports on the funeral and procession for Army PFC Erin McLyman. The Sheldon High School graduate was killed in Iraq March 13.

2. Angela Kellner reports on a two-day conference for Oregon women veterans.

3. A Portland religious group critical of police violence is calling for a federal Justice Department investigation into the shooting death of a transient in a park.

4. A second suspect in an assault on a Jewish man in Eugene turned himself into police last night.

5. A Douglas County judge has granted a couple's request to drop a lawsuit they filed against a son who disappeared for almost 2 years.

6. Tom Banse reports on the WA State Schools Superintendent Randy Dorn's arrest for drunk driving.

Center:

Music in: Charles Dowd & Tracy Freeze "Left Turn at the Two Burros"

1. Interview with Paul Winberg, the Executive Director of the Eugene Symphony about the death of principal timpanist Charles Dowd.

Music out: Charles Dowd & Tracy Freeze "Borealis"

2. Natural World.

Second Newscast:

1.  Lancair Kits are made by Lancair International in Redmond and has a warning from the FAA that the plane, and ones like it, is apt to stall at speeds higher than 61mph.

2. Anna King reports on the asparagus harvest.

First Newscast:

1. Angela Kellner reports on Lorraine Davis being named UO interim Athletics Director.

2. OPB's Amelia Templeton reports on the WWII Navy plane found near Rockaway Beach.

3. Authorities say 75-year-old Ronald Dumas Sr of Williams drowned in the Rogue River.

4. Police in West Linn are investigating a jewelry store robbery.

5. State Rep Greg Smith of Heppner is drafting legislation to ban all sexual materieal from Oregon prisons.

6. Doug Nadvornick reports on biopower.

7. Rachael McDonald reports on a contest to name two California Sea Lion pups at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

Center:

Music in: Los Lobos "La Venganza de Los Pelados"

1. Doug Nadvornick reports on the results of this year's inaugural wolf-hunting season in Idaho.

2. Chantal Anderson reports on two young girls near Seattle who are raising chickens and selling eggs to raise money for college.

Music out: Leo Kotke "Creature Feature"

3. Commentator John Frohnmayer - opera on the big screen.

Second Newscast:

1. Anna King reports on the disbanding of "The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps."

2. Drivers in OR and WA have until 4/1 to remove studded tires from vehicles.

3. Doug Nadvornick reports on the town of Wauconda, WA that's up for sale. 

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