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Legislature OKs instant racing at Portland Meadows

Portland Meadows opened in 1946. It has not announced a 2013 schedule following a season in which it saw a steep drop in the amount of money wagered on live ...
Study Amphibians disappearing at alarming rate

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United ...
The List Top residential remodelers

Top residential remodelers Remodeling work was big business for some of Portlands largest commercial contractors in 2012. We know because we asked the contractors surveyed for our list of top contractors, which you can see here. Top residential remodelers >> Ten contractors shared information about their Portland metro residential remodeling work. Collectively, they reported $42.7 million in ...
Firefighters rescue missing cat from 25-foot hole Its a miracle

YAKIMA, Wash. -- It was a cry for help one woman couldn't quite pinpoint and a rescue call firefighters hadn't seen before."I had been planting these planters the day before and heard the cat," said Virginia Hislop. "I called out kitty, kitty, kitty and nothing happened."Hislop heard meowing coming from a bush, but couldn't find a cat."So I shrugged," ...
Quagga mussels try to slip into Oregon get stopped at checkpoint

In this July 6, 2009 file photo, invasive quagga mussels cover this formerly sunken boat at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nev. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca, ...

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All That Heaven Allows [DVD]

There are few films that better illustrate the elasticity of film reception than the works of Douglas Sirk, a German émigré who made a series of Technicolor Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s that only years later were recognized as subversive masterpieces of social and ideological critique. ...

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Its Rose Festival time The fun begins Friday night

CityFair opens at 5 p.m. Friday at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. It'll be followed by a fireworks show at 10 p.m. As always, there will be plenty of elephant ears, fun rides, musical acts and lots more to keep you ...
Woman pleads guilty in Ore. robbery-killing case

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- A woman accused in the kidnapping and killing of a man whose car was stolen for use in a Lane County bank robbery has pleaded guilty to murder and other ...
Clever and very very funny

The result, however, is purposely outrageous, clever and very, very funny. Skillfully directed by SOU faculty member Chris Sackett and improbably choreographed by faculty member Jim Giancarlo, it also is impeccably performed and produced by SOU's Theatre Arts ...
Quagga mussels found on boat entering E. Oregon

ONTARIO, Ore. (AP) -- An Eastern Oregon checkpoint aimed at keeping invasive species from hitchhiking into Oregon on boats has opened for the spring, and it found an infested boat the next ...
Woman stabbed while trying to help her roommate

PORTLAND, Ore. - Police say a man accused of stabbing a woman at a northeast Portland apartment is the estranged husband of the woman's roommate. The crime happened around 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Parkway Gardens Apartments at 14202 N.E. Sandy Boulevard. Police say the man went to the apartment and assaulted his wife and then stabbed the roommate when she intervened. The victim was ...

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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. ...