VALE — Gary Smith, Brogan, said last year’s Malheur County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Academy was a very worthwhile educational venture and highly recommends it to people who want to learn more about the local sheriff’s office and what it does. Full Story »
ONTARIO — A number of state agencies are bracing for possible cuts in staff and services, depending on the outcome of a vote in January on two tax increases passed by the 2009 Legislature. Full Story »
ONTARIO — Help Them To Hope volunteers are working feverishly toward D-Day (delivery day), set for Dec. 22. Full Story »
It was a look of pure loathing. My poor dog just stood there while I held the door ajar beckoning him outside as the frigid air billowed into the kitchen. Full Story »
Ontario — A space heater placed under a trailer is the likely cause of a house fire Saturday. Full Story »
PAYETTE — Payette resident James Underwood, 71, a retired business lawyer, said he is not necessarily opposed to nuclear power, although he does have questions about it. Full Story »
PORTLAND — The Obama administration says Oregon is better off to the tune of nearly 10,000 jobs because of the federal stimulus program, but assessing the impact of stimulus spending remains largely a subjective exercise. Full Story »
Extended hours end ONTARIO Because of the decline in demand for the H1N1 flu vaccine, the Malheur County Health Department is ending its extended hours to serve people wanting the to get the vaccine. The clinic is closing at its regular time at 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and it will no longer be open on Saturdays. Full Story »
PORTLAND (AP) — Interstate 84 was closed Saturday from the Portland area to Hood River due to extreme icy conditions, while a fatal accident on the freeway east of Baker City slowed traffic. Full Story »
IDAHO FALLS (AP) — Count Egon Lamprecht among the thousands of experts still perplexed and haunted by SL-1. Full Story »
Search of river for 21 firearms comes up empty BUHL (AP) — Police in southern Idaho say they will return to the Snake River to search for 21 stolen firearms after divers came up empty. Full Story »
Ontario — What does the 30,000 Afghan troop surge mean to Eastern Oregon’s Oregon Army National Guard outfit? Full Story »
EUGENE (AP) — You've got to figure Jesus would appreciate this whole deal: Homeless families getting some of their needs met by a sketchy-looking group of bikers — long-haired, leather-clad, smoking cigarettes and riding rumbling Harleys down Highway 99 on a sunny Saturday morning in late November. Full Story »
EUGENE (AP) — The father of a teenage Oregon girl who had not seen or heard from his daughter in nearly a decade says he learned of her death and the murder charges against her mother in a phone call from a social worker. Full Story »
WASHINGTON — Democrats plan to allow the government’s debt to swell by nearly $2 trillion as part of a bill next week to pay for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The amount pretty much equals the total of a year-end spending spree by lawmakers and is big enough to ensure that Congress doesn’t have to vote again on going further into debt until after the 2010 elections. The move has anxious moderate ... Full Story »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators on Friday shut down Republic Federal Bank in Florida, the 131st to succumb so far this year as U.S. banks big and small have been undermined by sour loan portfolios and the battered economy. Full Story »
NEW YORK (AP) — The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: Full Story »
VALE — An Ontario man charged with rape of a minor is set to enter a plea Monday morning at Malheur County Circuit Court. Full Story »
ONTARIO — Ontario resident Larry Roberts can remember the cold. Full Story »
TWIN FALLS — The state Board of Education has approved the University of Idaho’s plans to sign a five-year agreement with J.R. Simplot Co. aimed at keeping a cash-strapped agricultural research center open until 2014. Full Story »
BOISE — A Harvard professor and activist is running for Idaho governor as a Democrat after battling the alcoholic beverage industry in a failed attempt to fund substance abuse treatment through a beer and wine tax hike. Full Story »
GRANTS PASS (AP) — ‘‘Not Frank’’ doesn’t want his real name getting around. It could cost him his crop, even if it’s behind a 6-foot electric fence. And ‘‘Not Frank’’ isn’t completely legal himself. Full Story »
PORTLAND — A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to the USA Patriot Act by an Oregon lawyer once wrongly suspected in the 2004 terrorist bombing in Spain. Full Story »
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department has received $936.1 million in the sale of warrants it had received from JPMorgan Chase & Co. as part of the support it provided the bank during last year’s financial crisis. Full Story »
SALEM (AP) — At Chemeketa Community College, they call him The Investor. Full Story »
A 6-day-old sheep relaxes with its mother at a zoo in Tokyo, Dec. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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