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Mapping error What happens when Google Maps leads people astray

This screen shot shows how Google Maps gave the wrong location for Capitol Toyota in Salem. Google showed the dealership as being down a rural, dead-end ...
Did state employees help pro-fluoride advocates on state time

Anti-fluoride group Clean Water Portland filed a public records request and received copies of hundreds of emails from the Oregon Health Authority related to fluoridation. There are accusations the email exchanges indicate state employees helped pro-fluoride advocates on state ...
Engine room fire in large fish boat off Wash.

SEATTLE (AP) -- The Coast Guard says an engine room fire has been reported aboard a 314-foot fishing vessel off the Washington coast but the crew has apparently been able to control that blaze. The Arctic Storm reportedly carries 120 ...
Hidden camera found in Starbucks bathroom person of interest sought

SHERWOOD, Ore. – Police are looking for a person of interest after someone found a hidden camera in a public bathroom at a Sherwood Starbucks earlier this month. The camera was found on May 1. Police have been working with Starbucks employees to find the person who put it there. Sherwood police released surveillance photos of a man wanted for questioning about the camera. He is a white ...
Man killed in SW Wash. logging accident

COUGAR, Wash. — The Cowlitz County sheriff's office says a Rochester man has been killed in a southwest Washington logging accident. Spokesman Charlie Rosenzweig said 28-year-old Kyle Schlesser was killed instantly Monday when he was struck by a tree felled by his logging partner, Owen Fickett. The sheriff's office says that a tree cut down by Fickett hit a second tree that in ...

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Stray Dog (Nora inu) [DVD]

Stray Dog (Nora inu) was Akira Kurosawas ninth film as a director, and it marked the first time in which he truly branched out beyond simple genre material. In a sense, Stray Dog is very much a genre filma straightforward police procedural with hints of American-influenced ... ...

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Men report attack after snapping photo of Lillard

Two brothers allege that people standing near Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard assaulted them after one of the victims took a photo of the NBA Rookie of the ...
Man 69 accused of trying to lure 15-year-old girl for sex

GRESHAM, Ore. -- A 69-year-old Gresham man was arrested on suspicion of trying to lure a 15-year-old girl into his car to perform sex acts for money, police said. Jerry D. Guess was booked in the Multnomah County Detention Center on one count of luring a minor. Gresham police said the case surfaced May 10 when the girl said she was walking on Southeast 202nd Avenue near Southeast Stark Street ...
Preview Google Maps glitch leading people down wrong street

SALEM, Ore. – A Google Maps glitch has a Salem woman at wits end and is potentially costing a car dealership some big cash. The search giant is directing people to Allison Houck’s house when they search for Capitol Toyota in Salem. That error is misleading as many as a dozen would-be car buyers a day. Instead of being taken to the dealership, they end up following ...
Why the Tumblr-Yahoo deal has one Portland startup excited

Dan Coe's BlkDot helps brands sell their wares on Tumblr. Portland entrepreneur Dan Coe has had a long, healthy relationship with Tumblr. He expects that to only deepen with Yahoo's planned $1.1 billion acquisition of the microblogging site. Coe's previous startup, Coexist Digital, developed a commerce platform that essentially allowed brands to sell their wares on Tumblr without ...
Police close active investigation of Susan Powells disappearance

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah - The police agency that has been leading the 3-year search for missing mom Susan Powell announced Monday it is closing the investigation, citing a lack of leads."Today Susan is still missing. We do not know where she is or what happened to her," said West Valley City Police Department Deputy Chief Mike Powell. "Searches have been exhausted and no additional ...

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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. ...