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Family battling cancer now faces eviction

PORTLAND, Ore. – A family already facing cancer now faces eviction from their apartment. It's been bad since one of the family's little girls started fighting cancer. Now someone else in the family is fighting cancer while they all fight being kicked out of their home. Melissa Weiser-Lilly's almost 12-year-old daughter, Aly, has been fighting a touch-and-go battle with ...
Therapy llamas making a difference in Portland

Soon to come to Portland will be the therapy animal that's an elephant, an elephant with a temper, diarrhea and STD.Tri-Met will have to have accommodating seating and all doors will have to accommodate the size with ramps. Should make the City Hall meetings interesting finally. ? Although City Hall won't have to make any additional changes after having Vera Katz as ...
Federal Funding Slashed And A Woman In Oregon Is Raped As A Result

@OPB.org The one thing everyone thinks they can count on is assistance when you call 911, right? You have a problem, your life is in danger, and you call 911 for help. We are taught to do this from childhood; you expect that your calls for help will always be answered, but what happens if you call for help and police are not able to come to your rescue? The very concept seems foreign but, ...
After loss to Portland Blades face long road to Memorial Cup final

The Portland Winterhawks scored three times in the third period Wednesday to defeat the Saskatoon Blades 4-2 in the final round-robin game at the MasterCard Memorial ...
Steven Powell wont leave prison Thursday

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The father-in-law of missing Utah mother Susan Powell won't be released from prison Thursday, the Washington state Corrections Department said. Steven Powell has been serving time on voyeurism charges for secretly recording images of young neighbor girls. He was sentenced in June 2012 to 2 1/2 years in prison. May 23 was the earliest possible date Steve Powell could be ...

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American Pie [DVD]

With the resurgence in teen comedies in the late 1990s (Can't Hardly Wait, She's All That, Never Been Kissed), it was only a matter of time before someone broke from the pseudo-John Hughes mold and took the Porky's route by making an unabashedly R-rated, sex-obsessed teen comedy. Well, if anyone had been waiting, the wait ended with the arrival of American Pie, ... ...

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Illuminating history of slavery in Oregon a teachable moment

"Breaking Chains" explores the Northwest’s relationship to slavery and its impact on everything from politics to the course of individual ...
Oregon Fluoride Measure in Portland Is Defeated

Despite the recommendation of public health experts, voters in Portland, Ore., defeated a measure on Tuesday to add fluoride to the water supply by a 60-to-40 percent margin. The result marks the fourth time since 1956 that Portland has rejected fluoridation efforts, and means the city will continue to be the largest metropolitan area in the country without fluoridated water or plans to add ...
Beaverton cop arrested in Vancouver accused of raping 5-year-old

Christopher R. Warren is currently on paid administrative leave from the Beaverton Police Department while he is being investigated for food stamp fraud. This is a mug shot from when he was arrested on the fraud ...
After tornado local woman still hasnt heard from Oklahoma sister

LEBANON, Ore. -- Two days have passed and Eva Mosley-Schneider still has not heard from her sister, whose home was in the direct path of ...
Day after fluoride defeat future of battle unclear

PORTLAND, Ore. – There are signs the group that successfully fought adding fluoride to the city's water could take its cause on the road. "We know there's a number of communities that have expressed an interest in getting (fluoride) out of their water," Kim Kaminski of Clean Water Portland told KATU News on Wednesday. At the same time fluoride supporters say ...

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New Malaria Drug Shows Promise in Animal Tests

ST. LOUIS, MO U.S. researchers have developed a new fast-acting drug against malaria that appears to avoid the problem with current medicines, which often lose their effectiveness against increasingly drug-resistant strains of malaria parasites, called Plasmodium.

Scientists say the new malaria medicine may have a decisive edge against this persistent tropical-world killer.

Michael Riscoe of Oregon Health and Science University, in the U.S. Northwest, says the new drug, known as ELQ-300, targets the mitochondria -- energy-producing structures in the parasite's cells -- and the DNA building blocks they produce.

A chemical model of ELQ-300. (Image courtesy of Michael Riscoe) x A chemical model of ELQ-300. (Image courtesy of Michael Riscoe) "So the Plasmodium mitochondrion serves as a factory to make these DNA building blocks, but this is completely blocked by ELQ-300," explains Riscoe. "Studies show that the drug acts very quickly to shut down this process. In fact, (in) only about 10 minutes.rdquo;

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in the fight against malaria, Riscoe adds, is the Plasmodium parasite's ability to mutate and develop resistance to each new drug used against the disease. ...