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Portland revisits issue of public fluoridation

While soaking up the rays in what's been an unusually sunny season, Portlanders have broken away from their polite chatter about food, wine and outdoor adventure to fight about whether to fluoridate the water supply. Supporters and opponents of public fluoridation have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of ...

One Jackpot Winner

One of the tickets sold in Florida for the Powerball game Saturday evening matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 10-13-14-22-52 Powerball: 11 (ten, thirteen, fourteen, twenty-two, fifty-two; Powerball: eleven) The player matching all five numbers and the Powerball won the $600 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated ...

During the execution of a search warrant, members of the Joint Federal Haz-Mat Team, FBI, and local law enforcement gather in front of the Osmun Apartments near the intersection of First Avenue and Oak Street in Browne's Addition on Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Spokane, Wash. The search warrant is in connection with ricin-laced letters intercepted at a Post Office facility in Spokane earlier in the week. (AP Photo/TheSpokesman-Review, Colin Mulvany) COEUR D'ALENE PRESS OUT

FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case

Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the ...

In this April 24, 2013 photo, retired logger Jim Ford stands in his shop in Grants Pass, Ore. While Ford thinks logging can still be a major part of the economy in the rural West, jobs are half what they were 20 years ago, and mills continue to close. The region continues to look for new sources of jobs and government revenues. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs

Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out. In those days the ...

Winning numbers drawn in 'Mega Millions' game

The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were: 11-15-35-43-49, Mega Ball: 41 (eleven, fifteen, thirty-five, forty-three, forty-nine; Mega Ball: forty-one) Estimated jackpot: $190 million

Winning numbers drawn in 'Megaplier' game

The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Megaplier" game were: 4 (four)

In this Dec. 24, 2012 photo, Tiffany Burril, 22, of Vancouver, Wash., visits with their newborn baby girl Harley Gulliksen, whose birth weight was 15 ounces at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in Vancouver. Burril's daughter was born at 27 1/2 weeks. A full-term pregnancy is 38 to 40 weeks. (AP Photo/The Columbian, Zachary Kaufman)

Tiny baby finally leaves Wash. hospital

Little Harley Gulliksen has gone home after five months in the neonatal intensive care unit at a Vancouver hospital. She weighed just 15 ounces and measured 10 inches when she was born prematurely on Dec. 20. Her arm was smaller than an adult's pinky finger, The Columbian reported (http://is.gd/0BXYe9). The ...

FILE- In this Oct. 18, 2012, file photo, Seattle Seahawks defensive end Bruce Irvin watches from the sideline during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers in San Francisco. Irvin has been suspended for the first four games of the 2013 season after the league announced he violated the NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances, the NFL announced Friday,May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Seahawks DE Bruce Irvin suspended 4 games

Seattle Seahawks defensive end Bruce Irvin was suspended for the first four games of the 2013 season on Friday after the league announced he violated the NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances. Irvin will be eligible to participate in all offseason activities and preseason practices and games, but will be suspended ...

Washington's Wilcox undergoes foot surgery

Washington guard C.J. Wilcox has undergone surgery on his left foot to stabilize a stress fracture that bothered him for much of his junior season. The school says Wilcox had the surgery on Friday. Wilcox's surgery stabilized the fifth metatarsal in his left foot. He is expected to make a ...

Mayor: Deal to sell Kings has been signed

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson announced to screaming throngs of Kings fans Friday that the deal to sell the NBA franchise to a group led by software tycoon Vivek Ranadive has been signed. The announcement at a City Hall rally brings to an end nearly five months of maneuvering by Johnson ...

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