Monday, August 30, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

 First Newscast:

1. Rachael McDonald reports on jury selection in an OR terrorism funding case.

2. Test scores released today show OR students are improving in math, science and reading.

3. A step pay increase of nearly 5% for OR state workers represented by unions goes into effect this Wednesday.

4. A number of restaurants in Eugene have had to close today due to food spoilage caused by yesterday's power outage.

5. Rain and cooler temperatures are helping crews fighting the Scott Moutain fire in the Willamette national forest.

6. Austin Jenkins reports that candidates for US Senate in Washington and for Governor in OR can't even agree on a debate schedule.

7. An OR judge has tossed out evidence seized in a marijuana case because police igonred "no trespassing" signs.

8. A safety campaign aimed at protecting children in vehicles will monitor seat belt usage across OR through Sept. 12th.

Center:

1. Austin Jenkins reports on traumatic brain injury.

2. Mixed Voices

Second Newscast:

1. A millionaire, former doctor has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for sexually abusing an OR boy.

2. St. Vincent de Paul is having a back-to-school donation drive.

3. NW fire update

4. Police say a man died after he accidentally fell from a railroad trestle.

5.  A Bend couple trying to get approval from home wind turbines.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

 First Newscast:

1. Economists say the Salem area is one of 22 metropolitan regions across the nation that are "at risk" of a double-dip recession.

2. Scott Mountain fire update.

3. Idaho fish and game officials say the third person aboard a helicopter that crashed has died.

4. A federal judge denied an appeal today by death row inmate Cal Coburn Brown.

5. Jes Burns reports on Lane County Extension's closure Thursday.

6. A man who helped steal a bronze statue of Sacagawea from a National Park is wanted again.

7. I-5 traffic delays planned.

8.  More WA and OR schools are meeting federal targets.

 Center:

1. Rachael McDonald interviews Dr. Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana, Assistant US Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

First Newscast:

1. Six men who alleged they were sexually abused by an Oregon Boy Scouts leader in the 1980's have settled their lawsuits for undisclosed amounts.

2. A suspet in the deaths of a slain Salem couple has told police she helped the couple's son dispose of his bloody clothing just hours before she and the son were arrested.

3. Oregon has settled on a standard siren sound for a tsunami warning.

4. Reedsport is gearing up to launch its first wave energy buoy sometime this winter. Jes Burns reports.

5. A battle over liability insurance coverage for groups using state property is brewing and a nonprofit that stages civil war re-enactments is caught in the middle.

6. An Oregon woman an her younger brother have been sentenced to nearly six years in prison after using her toddler to gain enterance to a home fro a robbery.

Center:

First Half. Tripp talks with Jim Olney, Executive Director of the Eugene Public Library Foundation.

Second Half. On Viz City a review of the exhibit, "Solitude and Absolute Form" by photographer Jon Meyers

Second Newscast:

 1. Weyerhaeuser is closing its Albany plant and laying off about 70 workers. Laura McCandlish reports.

2. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request to halt construction of a natural gas pipeline from Oregon to Wyoming.

First Newscast:

1. A natural gas pipeline company developing a project in Coos Bay has filed a federal lawsuit against the state, claiming officials are wrongfully delaying the project.

2. Rachael McDonald reports on neighbors of a proposed quarry in rural Cottage Grove came to an appeal hearing in Eugene today to protest.

3. A broken water main is impacting traffic on West 11th Avenue in Eugene near Oak Patch Road.

4. An Army chaplain killed in Afghanistan, Captain Dale Allen Goetz, grew up in Hood River.

5. AAA is forecasting a 10% increase in trips by car this Labor Day weekend.

6. Tom Banse reports on states including Oregon and Washington receiving money to help develop a national standardized assessment test for students.

7. Doug Nadvornick reports on biologists at WSU's Bear Center trying to solve a mystery that has shaken the staff there after two adult bears killed a younger bear.

Center:

1. Laura McCandlish reports on how federal stimulus spending is funding jobs for forestry scientiets, computer analysts and land planners in Oregon.

2. KUOW's Sara Lerner reports on the Washington State Department of Corrections receiving a grant from the Oregon Zoo to help inmates raise spotted frogs.

3. Laura McCandish filed an audio postcard of a bike ride in honor of Eugene's first female mayor Ruth Bascom.

4. Chris Lehman reports on a new TV ad in which former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber accuses rival Chris Dudley of dodging Oregon taxes by living in Washington state when he played for the Portland Trail Blazers.

Second Newscast:

1. The Community Transitions Nursery is selling plants at Springfield Farmer's Market to benefit young adults with special needs.

2. A homeless man who called 911 from the hot tub of a Portland home and asked for towels, hot chocolate and a hug got himself arrested instead.

3. The IRS says more than 100 Oregon non-profit organizations are in danger of losing their tax-exempt status.

4. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it's going to cost about $1.2-billion to repair jetties along the Oregon Coast.

First Newscast:

1. A pilot and homeowner are alive after a small plane crashed into a manufactured home near Portland.

2. Glenn Mosley reports on higher gas prices heading into the Labor Day weekend.

3. Chris Lehman reports on a new agreement for small-scale private timber owners in Oregon to be exempt from future spotted owl regulations if they agree to give the endangered birds more consideration now.

4. A Medford man plans to take his appeal of a mobile tracking device all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

5. An OSU graduate student is climbing high in the Cascade Range this week to study the largest glacier in the state, which is slowly shrinking.

6. Brandon Smith reports on Oregon public health officials say injuries sustained by McMinnville High School football players were a result of several factors.

7. Artist and writer George Hitchcock has died.

Music in: Celtic Fantasy "Fairy Dance"

Center:

1. Interview with Bridget Wolfe & John Crawford, the subjects of a fantasy/documentary "Gateways To Faerie."

Music out: Peatbog Faeries "Captain Coull's Parrot"

2. Commentator John Frohnmayer takes exception with Eugene's downtown exclusion zone.

Second Newscast:

1. Angela Kellner reports on advice from the Eugene Police Department about the Ducks' home opener against New Mexico at Autzen Stadium.

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