JEFF BARNARD

Associated Press
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Project to pour water into volcano to make power

Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to live up to its promise.

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Ore. man pleads not guilty in deaths of wife, kids

A judge has entered not guilty pleas for a Southern Oregon man charged with murdering his wife and four young children last summer and setting fire to their house.

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Federal judge: Montana blogger is not journalist

A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a Montana woman sued for defamation was not a journalist when she posted online that an Oregon lawyer acted criminally during a bankruptcy case, a decision with implications for bloggers around the country.

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Wandering wolf inspires hope and dread

A young wolf from Oregon has become a media celebrity while looking for love, tracing a zigzag path that has carried him hundreds of miles nearly to California, while his alpha male sire and a sibling that stayed home near the Idaho border are under a death warrant for killing cattle.

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Real life slaying horrifies Shakespeare town

In this storybook Southern Oregon town, murder is commonplace on the stages of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where sword fights are carefully choreographed entertainment, and the blood that spurts is fake.

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Oregon lawn-chair balloonist plans Baghdad flight

Lawn-chair balloonist Kent Couch boarded a plane Thursday for the start of a journey that he hopes will end in Iraq with a safe launch and landing beneath a huge cluster of party balloons.

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Ore. man with sniper book held without bail

An Oregon man who authorities fear may have been plotting a sniper attack on a high school football game was ordered held without bail Monday until he goes on trial on federal firearms charges.

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Forest Service wants to keep using fire retardant

The U.S. Forest Service has backed off claims about the effectiveness of the huge red plumes of fire retardant that big airplanes drop on wildfires, but the agency does not expect to cut back on using it.

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Police: Gun, sniper book found in Ore. man's car

A Southern Oregon man who was stopped leaving a high school football game earlier this month is back in custody after authorities say searches of his house and car turned up military rifles, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and a novel about a sniper killing people at a football game.

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Surfer tells of standing on shark off Ore. coast

Doug Niblack was trying to catch another wave before going to work, when his longboard hit something hard as rock off the Oregon Coast and he suddenly found himself standing on the back of a thrashing great white shark.

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Ore. airport wants to sell ad space on tower

Stadiums do it. Bridges do it. Even a small airport in Southern Oregon wants to do it.

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Islamic charity leader sentenced to nearly 3 years

The leader of the U.S. branch of a defunct Islamic charity was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison after being convicted of helping smuggle $150,000 to Saudi Arabia.

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Police: Ore. inmate plotted death of abuse victim

An Oregon man hoped to get out of jail by having a 10-year-old girl killed before she could testify in court that he sexually assaulted her, authorities said.

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Charging stations move electric cars out of city

Charging stations that can fill the batteries of an electric car in 30 minutes or less are moving from the city to the country.

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Judge denies new trial for Islamic charity leader

A federal judge in Oregon denied a new trial for the leader of the U.S. branch of a now-defunct Islamic charity who was convicted of smuggling $150,000 that prosecutors said was intended for Muslim fighters in Chechnya.

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Man indicted in Ore. slayings of wife and 4 kids

A grand jury has indicted a southern Oregon man on aggravated murder and other charges in last month's slaying of his wife and four kids, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

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More evidence seen that deer spread Oregon E. coli

Health officials think they'll be able to prove deer droppings in a strawberry field caused an E. coli outbreak that killed one person and sickened 14 others.

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Man indicted in Ore. slayings of wife and 4 kids

A grand jury has indicted an Oregon man on aggravated murder and other charges in last month's slaying of his wife and four kids.

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AP Enterprise: Tiny town tops in medical marijuana

Medical marijuana has taken root in this idyllic town like nowhere else in Oregon.

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NW tribes drive effort to save primitive fish

As long as American Indians have lived in the Pacific Northwest, they have looked to a jawless, eel-like fish for food.

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Autopsies confirm mother and 2 sons stabbed

An Oregon mother and two of her four children were stabbed in the neck before firefighters found them in their burning house, autopsy reports show.

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Police believe Oregon father killed wife, 4 kids

Police believe a 51-year-old Oregon man stabbed his wife and their four young children and set fire to their house on Monday, killing all five victims. The man was hospitalized as authorities tried to piece together the frantic scene.

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Wind industry demands NW grid overload solution

The wind energy industry demanded Monday that the Bonneville Power Administration fix problems that have forced the shut-off of Northwest wind generators while hydroelectric dams fill the grid with power produced from a heavy spring runoff.

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Ore. court rules medical pot users can have guns

The Oregon Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that a retired school bus driver can have her medical marijuana and a concealed handgun, too.

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Critics say Obama abandons science in forest rules

The Obama administration's proposed new rules for protecting clean water and wildlife on the United States' nearly 200 million acres of national forests goes against the president's pledge to let science be the guide, conservation groups and two former Clinton administration officials said Monday.

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