Latest Hot Stories
-
Perry accuses Romney of hiring illegal immigrants during debate
October 19, 2011 -
HEALTH DEPARTMENTS: “GET YOUR FLU SHOT”
October 19, 2011Health departments around Oregon are advising people to get flu shots now. Health officials say everyone except infants less than six months old should get a shot. They say the same three strains of flu prevalent last year are expected to hit again this year. Flu shots are available from health care providers and pharmacies. Linn County says free flu shots may be available this week from Health agencies or soup kitchens in Albany, Lebanon, and Sweet Home.
-
Victoria Jackson Part 2
October 17, 2011 -
VOTE ON STUDDED TIRE BAN POSSIBLE
October 13, 2011The Oregon Supreme Court has finally cleared the way for a Portland man to circulate petitions calling for a statewide vote on banning studded tires. Jeff Bernards was opposed from the outset by a group led by a former Governor Kulongoski spokeswoman, who now works for a public relations and lobbying firm hired by tire companies. He won in court, so he can now try to collect 80-thousand signatures. He says he will try to collect 110-thousand signatures, to be sure the studded tire ban qualifies for the ballot. Bernards says studded tires cause more damage to Oregon roads than the state can afford to fix. Opposition to the measure is expected from drivers in rural areas.
-
FLU SEASON IS HERE!!
October 12, 2011The first flu case of the season requiring hospitalization has been confirmed by the Oregon Health Department. A 61-year old Lincoln City woman was treated and has recovered. The flu vaccine is now available at health care providers, at some local health departments, and at pharmacies. Health officials recommend a flu shot if you’re a senior citizen, if you have a chronic medical condition, if you are pregnant, or if you live with an infant. For more information call 1-800-978-3040 or go online to flu.oregon.gov.
-
STOCK UP ON PEANUT BUTTER
October 11, 2011A major financial newspaper reports that the price of peanuts has gone from $450 a ton to $1150 a ton in just one year. Skippy, Jiff, Planters and Peter Pan peanut butter producers have announced wholesale price increases of 25%-to-40%, beginning at the end of the month or next month. The peanut harvest is short this year, due to droughts in Texas and Georgia, and some farmers rotating out of peanuts due to a glut on the market last year. Be prepared for hefty price increases for that PBJ.
-
MURDER SPREE ENDS
October 6, 2011A couple is being charged with two murders after being nabbed in California…and there may be a third murder charge. An alert CHP trooper noticed the 1999 Plymouth Breeze believed to have been stolen from missing 19-year old Lafayette, Oregon man Cody Myers. It was parked beside I-5 north of Sacramento. After confirming that the car was wanted out of Oregon, a felony traffic stop took down David Pederson and Holly Ann Grigsby without incident. The two are wanted for the bloody killing of Pederson’s step-mom in Everett, Washington, and for the killing of Myers, whose body was found near Corvallis two days ago. A 2010 Jeep Patriot, and Pederson’s dad are still missing. Neither have been seen since the Everett murder.
-
MISSING OREGON TEEN’S BODY MAY HAVE BEEN FOUND–NEW LEADS IN SEARCH FOR MURDER SUSPECTS
October 5, 2011About 15 local, state, and federal agencies are still looking for two people suspected of an Everett, Washington murder, who are thought to have killed or harmed a missing Lafayette, Oregon teen. 19-year old Cody Myers was last seen Saturday, headed to Newport. However, today, investigators said the body of a young adult male was found in an undisclosed mid-Willamette Valley wooded location. ID and cause of death are pending an autopsy and notification of the victim’s family. Murder suspects David Pederson and Holly Ann Grigsby are thought to be driving Meyers’ white 1999 Plymouth Breeze in the area. They have been reported in Linn, Benton, Polk, and Marion counties. 31-year old suspect Pederson is 5-10, 165, short red hair and hazel eyes, with numerous tattoos on his upper body, and one on his cheek. He and Grigsby are wanted for the bloody killing of Pederson’s step mother in Washington State. Additional new information released today indicates that they may have traveled to Oregon in a 2010 black Jeep Patriot with Washington tags, missing from the step mother’s residence. If you see the suspects or either car, call any police agency. UPDATE–UPDATE California Highway Patrol officers located the 1999 Plymouth Breeze being sought and took Pederson and Grigsby into custody north of Sacramento.
-
LEADING ECONOMIST TALKS DOUBLE DIP IN OREGON
October 4, 2011Tim Duy, the University of Oregon economist who publishes his index of Oregon economic indicators every month says the state now has a better than even chance of slipping into a double-dip recession. His index has fallen for five months in a row, now. Duy says another recession would further erode state revenue collections. The Governor has already ordered state agencies to plan for a possible billion dollar shortfall within the current biennium. Duy says the only good news for Oregon is that the economy here has crashed so hard, and rebounded so weakly that it can’t tank as fast and as hard as it did in 2008-2009.
-
Protesters warned before arrest in NYC
October 3, 2011 -
OREGON GOVERNOR: PRISON SENTENCES TOO LONG
October 3, 2011Oregon Governor Kitzhaber says prison sentences are too expensive, and he blames conservative tough-on-crime initiatives. Kitzhaber says Oregon officials and legislators have to have the ‘wisdom and courage’ to ignore the intent of the voter-passed measures, and reduce sentences for criminals. Kitzhaber says some criminals would be better ‘punished’ by being set free and monitored by electronic bracelets, like Lindsey Lohan—others, he said, should be ‘punished’ by getting free taxpayer-paid drug and alcohol treatment, even though studies have shown a huge relapse rate among mandatory drug or alcohol treatment graduates. Kitzhaber says such decades-old liberal ideas would be less costly, and keep Oregon safer than longer prison sentences. He made the remarks at the first meeting of his hand-picked “Sentencing Reform Committee”.
-
A NEW LISTERIA SCARE
September 30, 2011Oregon grocers say not to worry about the deadliest food-borne outbreak in decades in the U.S.—that the cantaloupes from the Jensen farm in Colorado tainted with listeria bacteria are not in the fruit bins at your store in Oregon. But, before you get too comfortable, consider this: a California company has recalled bags of chopped romaine lettuce because it, too, may be contaminated with deadly listeria. The brand name is “True Leaf Farms”. The farm in Salinas, California shipped at least 90 cartons of bagged romaine lettuce to an Oregon distributor. It has a sell-by date of September 29th. If you have any, throw it away.
-
Glenn Beck reviews debate answers on Immigration
September 28, 2011 -
Herman Cain after winning the Florida debate
September 27, 2011 -
EX-MEXICAN PRES. VICENTE FOX TO SPEAK AT WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY
September 27, 2011You can get a ticket to Fox’s October 20th keynote address at WOU, Monmouth, for $20 from http://wou.ticketleap.com/fox/. They are $25 at the door. Fox is appearing on behalf of a new Latino Education and Access Program (LEAP), which will give money to Latinos at WOU who encounter financial need. As President of Mexico, Fox marshaled troops to keep illegals from Central America out of Mexico, yet demanded that Mexican illegals be given full access to the U.S. Fox said Arizona’s immigration law unfairly attacks illegals and called it ‘xenophobic’. He called illegal aliens in the U.S. ‘heroes’ for working illegally in the U.S. and sending tens of millions of dollars back to the struggling Mexican economy. He has been accused of racist tendencies for telling a Texas interviewer that illegal aliens in the U.S. do work “that even blacks don’t want to do’. After he left office, he called for the legalization of methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, and heroin as a way to stop the war on drugs.
-
OBAMA IN NORTHWEST: GOP WOULD CRIPPLE AMERICA
September 26, 2011President Obama told an audience of rich supporters in Seattle over the weekend that the Republican vision for America–not raising taxes in a recession, reducing government bureaucracy and regulation on job-creation, reducing the deficit, drilling for American oil and natural gas, protecting the border, resisting another multi-billion dollar thinly disguised pay-off to Democratic Party constituencies, whether it is called Stimulus-two or the Obama ‘jobs’ bill, repealing or un-funding the unpopular, cost-ballooning, service slashing Obamacare bill, controlling the presently out-of-control cost of public employee pensions and benefits, and generally getting big-government czars off the backs of Americans striving for excellence—that vision would “fundamentally cripple” the country. Obama’s audience paid $36,000 a couple–so, for the moment, he stopped demonizing the rich. He said he has tried nothing but sensible reforms since he took office to improve the economy and give people more opportunity. His weekend campaign tour skipped Oregon.
-
Best Line from Fox/Google GOP Debate
September 23, 2011
@kfir720am