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Blount reinstated to UO football team

2009-11-09T11:53:00+08:00

The Register-Guard LeGarrette Blount has been reinstated to the Oregon football team and will be available to play Saturday when the Ducks host Arizona State at Autzen Stadium, coach Chip Kelly announced Monday morning. Blount was suspended by Kelly after the senior running back punched a Boise State player in …

Cottage Grove hiker charged with espionage in Iran

2009-11-09T11:53:00+08:00

For 100 days, friends and family members of Cottage Grove resident Josh Fattal and two other American hikers detained in Iran have kept vigil, fighting for the trio’s safe return. On Monday, they got daunting news. A senior Iranian prosector accused the hikers of espionage, according to the state news …

Police chief rules that police acted within policy in arrest of Van Ornum

2009-11-09T11:53:00+08:00

Eugene Police Chief Pete Kerns has ruled that police officers who arrested Ian Van Ornum and two others at a downtown rally in May 2008 acted within policy. Kerns made the announcement at a news conference Monday afternoon. Van Ornum was stunned with a Taser stun gun during his arrest. …

Ex-official from Westfir under arrest in theft case

2009-11-09T11:53:00+08:00

WESTFIR — The former Westfir city recorder of 14 years was arrested Sunday in connection with the alleged embezzlement of more than $11,000 during a one-year period, according to the Oakridge Police Department. Oakridge police arrested Elizabeth Louise Murray, 54, on charges of first-degree aggravated theft, first-degree theft, official misconduct, …

Lane County commissioners’ pay on table today

2009-11-09T11:53:00+08:00

The Lane County Board of Commissioners will talk about pay today — their own, to be specific. The board will consider asking voters next spring to tie the commissioners’ compensation to the consumer price index, a measure of the change in price of goods and services over time. The move …

DeFazio touts health bill equity

2009-11-09T11:53:55+08:00

Oregon’s Medicare patients and the medical professionals who treat them stand to benefit from the health care reform bill the House of Representatives passed late Saturday, said Rep. Peter DeFazio. Among other things, the bill fixes longstanding state-to-state inequities in how the federal government pays for health care for the …

Board considers levy for Extension

2009-11-09T11:53:55+08:00

The Lane County Board of Commissioners today will discuss whether to put a property tax increase on the May ballot to raise $5 million over five years for the local arm of the Oregon State University Extension Service. If placed on the ballot and approved by voters, the measure would …

Reports arrive for Oregon school performance

2009-11-09T11:53:55+08:00

Oregon schools have received their first marks under the state’s revamped rating system — and more than three in five fell right in the middle. Sixty-one percent of the 1,171 schools that were rated earned a “satisfactory” under the new system, which includes a pared-down rating scale of just three …

Good reason to remember war’s toll

2009-11-09T11:53:55+08:00

It was the Sunday after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks when, amid the rolling hills of Verdun, France, we went looking for his grave. That’s not easy in a World War I cemetery — Meuse-Argonne — where 14,195 U.S. soldiers are buried. But, finally, there it was before us: …

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

2009-11-09T11:54:54+08:00

Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11 Some offices will be closed and some services will be unavailable Wednesday. Schools: Closed. Lane Community College: Closed. University of Oregon: Open. Lane Transit District: Regular service. Banks: Some open, check your local branch. Stock market: Open. Lane County garbage sites: Closed. Lane Apex: Regular …

BRIEFLY COMMUNITY

2009-11-09T11:54:54+08:00

Riverfront design ideas on display at EWEB Design concepts for waterfront development along the Willamette River in downtown Eugene will be on display for the public at a 6 p.m. meeting tonight at the Eugene Water & Electric Board’s North Building, 500 E. Fourth Ave. The designs, developed by local …

CALENDAR

2009-11-09T11:54:54+08:00

Elmira TODAY West Lane Technical Learning Center Board — 6 p.m., West Lane TLC Building, 24936 Fir Grove Lane. Work session on budget. At 7 p.m., regular meeting, enrollment report; financial report; discussion of Oregon school accounting software and internal auditing procedures. 935-2101. Eugene TODAY Eugene Redevelopment Advisory Committee — …

BRIEFLY METRO

2009-11-09T11:54:54+08:00

Fire at Rosboro plant extinguished quickly SPRINGFIELD — Rosboro employees briefly evacuated their forest products plant in Springfield Monday night after one of the plywood presses caught fire. Springfield Fire Department Battalion Chief Dana Burwell said no one was hurt in the fire, and firefighters were able to control the …

OBITUARIES

2009-11-09T11:54:54+08:00

Doris Carter COBURG — A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. today at Central Presbyterian Church in Eugene for Doris Carter of Coburg, who died Nov. 8 of cancer. She was 71. She was born Aug. 18, 1938, in San Francisco. She married Rolland Carter on Dec. 26, …

FOR THE RECORD

2009-11-09T11:54:54+08:00

Deadlines The For The Record deadline is noon the day before publication for Tuesday through Saturday newspapers, and noon Friday for Sunday or Monday newspapers. Items may be delivered to The Register-Guard newsroom at 3500 Chad Drive, mailed to The Register-Guard, P.O. Box 10188, Eugene, OR 97440, or faxed to …