Monday, April 19, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

First Newscast:

1. It's taken a decade, but the U.S. Attorney's Office in Portland says it has collected $1.1-million in penalties and interest from a man who defrauded investors in the marketing of commodities options.

2. Rachael McDonald reports on environmental advocates encouraging people not to idle their cars when it's unnecessary.

3. Greenpeace is opposing Facebook's plan to build a data center in Prineville.

4. Scientists from around the world are in Ashland this week for a conference at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Forensics Laboratory.

5. A door-to-door magazine seller accused of raping a Portland woman five years ago has pleaded not guilty.

Center:

Music in: Om Gaia "Ancient Mother, Beloved Children"

1. Interview with poet Helen Frost.

Music out: Jake Langley "Here And Now"

2. Chris Lehman reports on two Eastern Oregon GOP incumbents facing an anti-tax backlash in their re-election bids.

Second Newscast:

1. Lawyers for an Oregon man who won a sex abuse lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America are asking for $25-million in punitive damages.

2. Washington County authorities say more than $250,000 in gold has been stolen from the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals.

3. The body of a man who jumped off a Salem bridge in February has been recovered from the Willamette River near Newberg.

First Newscast:

1. The FBI will investigate the Portland Police shooting last January of Aaron Campbell.

2. Jes Burns reports on the lack of affordable housing in Oregon and the nation.

3. The resignation of the head of the Oregon Attorney General's Environmental Crimes Unit apparently stems from the way a water sample was collected in a lawsuit.

4. Rachael McDonald reports on a group opposing the renaming of Beltline Highway hoping to get a measure on the November ballot.

5. Doug Nadvornick reports on University of Idaho officials say they plan to stop operating a farm research station.

6. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Jackson County Sexual Assault Response Team have developed a brochure for theatergoers who attend the play "Ruined."

Center:

Music in: Riverside City College Jazz Ensemble "African Skies"

1. Angela Kellner tours the Clothesline Project at the Eugene Veteran's Clinic with Sonja Fry, a Military Sexual Trauma Social Worker.

Music out: Naxos "September 2001"

2. Bing Bingham speaks with Antelope-area rancher Nathan Steckley about the differences between recycling in the city and on the farm.

Second Newscast:

1. Dozens of students are left to finish out the year at another school after 3 charter schools in Sisters were shut down by financial problems.

2. Kim Scott Graham, a former Cottage Grove police officer who pleaded guilty to possessing child porn, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.

3. Glenn Mosley reports on the annual Edward R. Murrow Awards presented at Washington State University.

4. The League of Women Voters and Springfield Chamber of Commerce is hosting a candidates forum tonight for Position 2 on the Lane County Board of Commissioners.

5. A Salem police officer delivered his own son at home after his wife went into labor.

First Newscast:

1. The name of Lance Cpl. John Granville of Selma will be added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in D.C. on Memorial Day.

2. The Portland Water Bureau is draining 9 million gallons of water from the reservoir on Mount Tabor because of a sample taken Monday had E. Coli bacteria.

3. Lane Transit District will begin making changes to its bus service that amount to the second largest reduction in its history.

4. An Oregon prison inmate has been indicted on new charges, including murder.

5. A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a WA man with an interstate murder-for-hire scheme.

6. Austin Jenkins reports on a new law redirecting lottery proceeds to higher education.

7. Houston Rockets point guard Aaron Brooks has been named the league's most improved player.

8. UO will celebrate Earth Day this Saturday.

Center:

Music in: Frank Kim Brough "Sure As We're Here"

1. Interview with Mitra Chester and Laura Lee Laroux about the Carnival of Couture.

2. Natural World with John Cooney.

Second Newscast:

1. A Vancouver, WA man who did not return from a hike has contacted authorities to let them know he is okay.

2. Due to recent snow in the Cascades, three ski resorts will remain open an extra month.

3. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has launched an interactive carbon calculator.

4. Earth Day events.

First Newscast:

1. The number of cigarettes sold in Oregon declined in the first year of a statewide ban on smoking in bars.

2. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has changed teh Endangered Species Act classification of the Oregon Chub to threatened from endangered.

3. Governor Ted Kulongoski has appointed Bob Repine to serve as Acting Director of the Oregon Department of Energy.

4. Angela Kellner reports on students from Network Charter School rallying in Kesey Plaza to raise awareness about their plight to find a new location.

Center:

1. Interview with Ken Kesey biographer Robert Faggen.

2. Interview with Emily Proudfoot with the City of Eugene Parks and Open Spaces about plans for a skatepark.

3. Commentator John Frohnmayer talks about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder suffered by soldiers and veterans.

Second Newscast:

1. Tiffany Eckert reports on the demobilization ceremony for about 400 Oregon National Guard soldiers in Eugene.

2. Sharece Bunn reports on a survey by the City of Eugene for residents to envision Eugene over the next twenty years.

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