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Air Force team makes it to top of Mount Everest

Capt. Andrew "Drew" Ackles, 30, a 2001 graduate of Ashland High School, was one of the USAF 7 Summits team members who reached the top of 29,035-foot Mount Everest, according to Capt. Bryan Bouchard, a national Air Force spokesman based in New York ...
Emergency food bank producing results

Barbara Rapp uncovers a planter bed Wednesday behind the Ashland Emergency Food Bank. The food bank hopes to raise $475,000 to purchase its current home by the end of August, ensuring a stable place to grow more produce for hungry families. Julia Moore / Daily ...
City Council approves rate increases

Ashland faces years of water and sewer rate increases to meet regulatory requirements, maintain and upgrade its infrastructure and deal with inflation and rising ...
Water fluoridation DEFEATED in Portland citizens overwhelmingly reject dumping toxic fluoride chemicals into the water supply

(NaturalNews) Voters in Portland, Oregon solidly defeated a city-wide water fluoridation measure yesterday, with 60% of the voters saying "NO!" to the practice of adding toxic fluoride chemicals to the water.The result is a huge victory ...
Ashland raises water sewer fees

ASHLAND — Water and sewer rates will both go up by 10 percent, and storm drain and transportation utility fees will each rise by 3 percent beginning July ...

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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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Empty Bowls Full Hearts

Cierra Vargas, senior, and Tim Grogan, senior, work on bowls for the Empty Bowls Supper during Spanish class at Eagle Point High School Tuesday. Mail Tribune / Jamie ...
Transition crews are eligible for private sector jobs

The Board of Commissioners passed the resolution at its weekly public meeting Wednesday. It's a decision that reverses a historic trend where crews made up of Community Justice offenders making the transition back into mainstream society could do work only for public entities and ...
Rogue River Ranch barn fire smolders

CENTRAL POINT — A fire that roared through a hay barn and caused at least $500,000 in damage a day after the Cow Creek Indians took possession of the Rogue River Ranch is both bad luck and good fortune, a tribal spokeswoman ...
Medford voters return 2 incumbents to School Board

Medford School Board incumbents Tricia Prendergast and Jeff Thomas are retaining their spots on the board, according to the most recent unofficial results available, released at midnight ...
County considers housing surcharge to help jail

Jackson County's Board of Commissioners will measure the popularity of a proposed monthly housing surcharge intended to generate $6.8 million in general-fund dollars for the 2013-14 budget and increase financial stability in coming ...

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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. ...