Saturday's vote will be Iraq's first since 2005 and will determine leaders of 14 of 18 provinces.
In his state of the state address, Gov. Kulongoski told lawmakers the struggling economy is no excuse to shrink from the responsibility to provide health coverage to thousands of uninsured children, promote Oregon's "green" economy and provide adequate funding to schools.
Nearly half the Oregon Army National Guard will leave for war in 2009, the most since World War II, with more than 3,000 departing by summer.
A 50-year-old man who told authorities he was fed up with teens toilet-papering his house decided to defend his property - with a squirt gun filled with fox urine.
A Corvallis peace activist agreed to end her 40-day fast on the state Capitol steps after Gov. Ted Kulongoski met with her and others who oppose the planned deployment of Oregon National Guard troops to Iraq.
Portland peace activists want a policy in place that would make Portland a sanctuary for soldiers absent without leave.
Starting next month, an actor dressed as a knight will go on television to urge Oregonians to try their hands at video gambling.
A U.S Army recruiting station in Bend says it is seeing more traffic these days than when the economy was humming and violence in Iraq was peaking.
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The Tualatin-Sherwood Highway was paved with $100 bills Tuesday night.
Gov. Kulongoski says he will recommend $5 million in state spending toward the goals set Tuesday in a report from a task force that describes the health care system in Oregon as broken.
Unemployment in Oregon has gotten so bad that the state Employment Department has put more people on the job handling claims.
Oregon State Police are bracing for a rowdy Saturday with a warning for Ducks and Beavers fans: Keep it civil.
The Oregon Health Fund Board recommends quickly providing health coverage to about a third of the Oregonians who don't have it now.
Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates.
Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy says.
Some American conservative commentators are seizing on President Barack Obama's deep bow to Japan's emperor during the weekend, accusing him of groveling to a foreign leader.
The former vice presidential candidate tells TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey that she doesn't have her sights set on the 2012 presidency and cracks on Levi Johnston's "porn" career.
The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official says.
Several victims of the Fort Hood shooting rampage were set to be mourned at funerals across the country on Saturday.
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Hats off to you joe,
These so called muslims are trying to rule the world.If not for Bush and Israel we all will be ---------.We In India recently had to face the horror of muslim terror.Pakistan bread terrorrrists and export them to all other countries.I praise Izrael for their courage.Pitty rest of the countries never understand the poor Izraels have to face these lunatics everyday.They hide in schhools meant for chidren and fire at Izraels and in self diffence when they fire back kids get hurt.Very clever you islamic fanatics.
antar
India
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When the uninsured go to the hospital to access health care, you and I all pay for it and we are paying about 10 times more than we would need to if they could just go see a doctor in a clinic. I work at a hospital and the healthcare costs that are so out of hand lie very much on the doorstep of little or no healthcare for people. Its time to stop acting like such idiots about this, we can't afford not to act.
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