Monday, August 9, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

 First Newscast:

1. The DOD says another soldier assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord has died in Iraq.

2. Oregon AG John Kroger say he has reached an agreement with a FL-basd manufacturer of electronic cigaretts to halt sales in OR.

3. Authorities have arrested a Washington County man accused of shining a green lazer into the eyes of a sheriff's deputy.

4. Crime in downtown Salem appears to have declined since the city closed it's transit mall at Courthouse Square.

5. Rachael McDonald reports the Oregon Ducks football team is preparting for thier first game of the season.

6. Angela Kellner reports the first ever IB World Student Conference in the US is happening at OSU.

7. Operations manager of the new facebook data center under construction in central OR says he's taking a differnt approach.

8. Medford fire officials say an exploding gasoline container blew the top off a moving van.

Center:

1. Angela Kellner reports on veterans looking for work as part of our "Living with War at Home."

2. Rachael McDonald reports on a new Courthouse garden program that brings former prisoners, students and court staff together.

3. Mike Van Meter has the latest on the Rooster Rock fire.

Second Newscast:

1. Chris Lehman reports on a political experiment is under way this week in Salem.

2. The Eugene City Council will vote whether to continue the city's downtown exclusion zone.

3. Oregon has issued another algae alert - for Fish Lake.

4. Doug Nadvornic reports a large sockeye salmon run in Idaho. 

First Newscast:

1. The US House vote on a state aid package today should spare the jobs of hundreds of Oregon teachers.

2. More Oregonians are working fewer hours, according to new federal statistics.

3. A real estate web site says the city of Bend has seen housing values decline at a steeper rate than any other metropolitan area in the nation during the past year.

4. The state has agreed to sell the former Oregon School for the Blind to Salem Hospital for $6-million.

5. Doug Nadvornick reports on the EPA reigniting a contentious debate in Idaho about cleaning up metals around a superfund site.

6. The leaders of the Latgawa indian tribe in southern Oregon say their tribe is legitimate - even though the federal gov't does not recognize them as a tribe.

7. Rachael McDonald reports on the Fern Ridge Review, a new weekly paper.

Center:

Music in: Bob Stenson Trio "Chiquilin de Bachin"

1. Anna King reports on a Hanford whistle-blower who spoke about safety violations at the nuclear reservation.

2. Jes Burns reports on luminescent seafood.

3. Leslie Hildreth reports on Newman's Fish Market in Eugene.

Music out: Colin Linden "You Can't Get The Stuff No More"

4. Dorothy Velasco reviews the Ashland Production of Twelfth Night.

Second Newscast:

1. The average price for a gallon of gas in Oregon has topped $3 to reach the highest level in nearly 2 years.

2. Parvin Road at the historic Parvin covered bridge near Dexter will close for nearly a year beginning Wednesday.

3. Olivia Awbrewy reports on a van on fire near the Lane County Jail.

4. Austin Jenkins reports on the tax-exempt status of Great Wolf Lodge in Washington being scrutinized.

First Newscast:

1. Investigators are zeroing in on a white pickup that Kyron Horman's stepmother was driving the morning more than 2 months ago that the 7-year-old vanished from his Portland school.

2. The multibillion dollar liquidation of Salem-based Sunwest Management is offering some hard lessons for investors.

3. A U.S. Forest Service report says housing development on privately owned forest land needs to be added to the list of threats to the nation's forests.

4. Laura McCandlish reports on Oregon Freeze Dry in Albany making ingredients used for energy storage in electric cars.

5. The state is trying to foreclose on some property at the Pronghorn Golf Resort in central Oregon to recover $1.2-million from a loan for a solar energy project.

6. Olivia Awbrey reports on researchers and growers watching out for a foreign fruit fly that infested crops last year.

7. A conservation group has staked a mining claim on the Illinois River in Southwest Oregon.

Center:

Music in: Nevada Newman "Southern Hospitality"

1. Interview with Florence author Brenda Duffy.

Music out: Mark Newman "Dead Man's Shoes"

2. Angela Kellner reports on a recent job fair in Springfield that attracted about 400 vets.

Second Newscast:

1. Chris Lehman reports on Oregon Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley attacking his Democratic opponent on jobs.

2. Austin Jenkins reports on a judge who blocked the release of petition signatures for a measure to expand domestic partnerships for gay couples in Washington.

3. A Washington state man wanted on rape and kidnapping charges in the Seattle area has been arrested on the Oregon coast just south of Florence.

4. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has appointed an Oregon official as his next head of environmental policy.

First Newscast:

1. Governor Ted Kulongoski says he's not going to cancel furlough days for workers at the Oregon State Hospital.

2. Austin Jenkins reports on more than 5,000 Washington families who will lose their welfare benefits.

3. An Oregon woman has been arrested after a 12-year-old girl was reported misisng and later returned safely to her family.

4. Anna King reports on the fish and wildlife departments of Oregon and Washington teaming up to study how new fish nets on the Columbia River might help wild fish.

5. City officials in Cannon Beach want the public to stop feeding the wildlife.

6. The Oregon watermelon harvest is in full swing now after about a 2-week delay because of cool weather.

Center:

1. Interview with Becky White and her band The Secret Mission.

2. Natural World.

Second Newscast:

1. The Eugene City Council voted 6-2 Wednesday to make parking free in part of downtown for the next 2 years.

2. Police in Klamath Falls say they are trying to identify a body found by hikers in a remote area near Steen Sports Park.

First Newscast:

1. A federal appeals court has cleared the way for old growth logging in a reserve in Deschutes County.

2. Officials have closed the Pacific halibut fishery off the central Oregon coast.

3. Angela Kellner reports on Tamarack Wellness Center needing financial assitance for their fitness and aquatics programs.

4. Counterfeiters operating in the Eugene/Springfield areas are bleaching $5 bills and reprinting them as high-quality but phony $100s.

5. The City of Eugene is welcoming residents into air conditioned spaces and spray-play parks as temperatures rise.

Center:

1. Interview with David Heine & Bruce Kubert, producers of the film "The Last Season: The Eugene Emeralds and Civic Stadium."

2. Commentator John Frohnmayer muses over the health of the economy.

Second Newscast:

1. An EWEB official has filed a fedeal lawsuit claiming that Eugene Police used excessive force and violated her civil rights during a 2009 drug raid.

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