Washington picked to finish fourth behind Oregon, Oregon State and USC.

By: Oregon Daily Emerald, New Mexico Daily Lobo sports editors exchange thoughts about Saturday's game Lucas Clark: For the No. 11 Oregon Ducks, Saturday's home opener against New Mexico ought to be a telling sign of things to come for the 2010-2011 season. Following an offseason of pure turmoil, the Ducks find themselves with a first-time starting quar...

Portland’s Gang Enforcement Team has arrested five men and is looking for a sixth in connection with a mid-August attack of two people in Flavel Park. Police said three of the men were being held at the Multnomah County Jail on a variety of charges, including attempted murder, first-degree ...

FAIRBORN — Freshman Lauren Ledzianowski picked Wright State University because it was the most accessible school she found for people with disabilities.“It is very pronounced here. I checked out everywhere and it is different here,” said Ledzianowski, who is in a wheelchair. “I wanted to blend in. I hate sticking out like a sore thumb.”

Stephone Anthony might be the leading tourist attraction in rural Anson County. According to his high school coach, a long list of schools have sent recruiters to Wadesboro to evaluate his star linebacker: Southern California, Oregon, Florida, Florida State, Miami and California are among those that have shown interest, he said.

As automated spelling checkers become the norm in schools, universities, work places and life, the state says student test-takers should be able to use them, too.

A Beaverton man called 911 to tell police he needed a towel and a hug Saturday morning, but instead he found himself arrested on criminal trespassing charges. Police officers said they found Mark Eskelsen in a private hot tub at the Four Seasons Rec Center at about 7 a.m. Neighbors had complained ...

Eligible Beaverton-area residents who haven’t yet acted on an invitation to voluntarily annex to the Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District have until the district’s Monday deadline. In July, the park district offered voluntary annexation to about 5,000 residents who are outside ...

Tigard police are no closer to identifying the body of a woman found Aug. 23 in Fanno Creek, about one-quarter of a mile west of Hall Boulevard. According to police, the woman – described as an African-American adult female, about 5 feet 7 inches tall, 20 to 30 years old, weighing about 243 ...

The Tigard-Tualatin School Board has denied the application for a new charter school to join the district, for the second time in three months. The Proficiency Academy of Tigard-Tualatin (or PATT) would have become district’s second charter school, and the first charter high school, but the ...

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, what happens when you chisel that image into cement? For four Tigard students, winners of the city’s Sidewalk Art Contest, their images are forever stamped into the sidewalk running along Southwest Burnham Street – a road under heavy reconstruction, ...

Jan Giunta says it’s about time Tualatin was organized into neighborhood associations. “Beaverton has them, Lake Oswego, Oregon City, Portland, Milwaukie…” Giunta recites a list from memory. “Actually, it’s easier to tell you the cities that don’t have ...

The so-called "Smarter, Balanced" group of states plans to come up with online tests that customize themselves to each learner, plus classroom tests that teachers can give during the year to check whether students are on track

Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, and Wisconsin are among the states that will receive funding to support education jobs.

CORVALLIS _ Ryan Katz has been here before. It was his sophomore year at Santa Monica High School, and his first starting assignment was going to be in the season’s opening game. “Little butterflies,” Katz recalled. Understandable, not that it showed. His first pass went for a touchdown, and that …

Oregon State coach Mike Riley and the 24th-ranked Beavers open the season Saturday night in Arlington, Texas, against No. 6 TCU.

Standing on the WES platform at Tigard Transit Center never gave you much to look at across the tracks — until now. A mountain landscape — and a few other items — that now adorn the northern wall of Tigardville Station pub and grill have been drawing attention for about two ...

How old were you when you first learned to swim? For students at Children of the Sea swim school, off Scholls Ferry Road, many of them learned to swim before they could walk. “We find that’s common with a lot of our parents,” said Lynne Zavrski, who founded Children of the Sea ...

In today’s business world, green is red hot. Companies and corporations big and small are quick to pledge their commitment to sustainability. And, while for some these promises may be attempts to improve their public image, for others they represent an environmental consciousness that goes ...

A true milestone for the Lake Oswego Interceptor Sewer Project begins Sunday when work starts on lowering Oswego Lake. The lake must go down 24 feet for the city’s old sewer system to be taken out and a new one put in for this all-important project, and the LOIS staff has been on a rapid ...