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Officer late to work spots escaped inmate

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Sometimes tardy is timely. Wash. Corrections Officer Brandy Boyer says if she hadn't been 10 minutes late leaving for work Saturday morning she wouldn't have spotted a prison escapee. Boyer told The Columbian ( http://is.gd/Yv8Vzk) she was driving to Larch Corrections Center in southwest Washington for her shift when she spotted a man wearing a prison-issued ...
P-Town Eats The wood coasters coffee bean connection

What do wood coasters and coffee beans have in common? Chris Howells of Happy Valley makes both and found a more interesting connection. KATU's Valerie Hurst shows us how he's wasting less and cashing in. Click on the "Play Video" button to watch this ...
Photos Portland knocks off London at Mem Cup

Derrick Pouliot and Chase De Leo scored 23 seconds apart in the third period Monday as the Portland Winterhawks defeated the London Knights 6-3 at the MasterCard Memorial ...
Preview More men turning to steroids for the boardroom

PORTLAND, Ore. – Steroid use among men is on the rise, but it’s not just athletes who are turning to substances to get a leg up. Dr. Jason Hedges, a urologist with OHSU, said over the past two years he’s seen a 30-40 percent increase in men coming to him looking for testosterone supplements. Local naturopathic physician Kathryn Retzler said testosterone treatments can be ...
Wash. gov. signs derelict vessels bill

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill that would provide more environmental protections against derelict vessels in Washington's ...

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Reefer Madness (aka Tell Your Children) [DVD]

When it was first released in 1936, Reefer Madness, originally known as Tell Your Children and The Burning Question, was intended to serve as a warning against the mortal dangers of using of marijuana, which in the 1930s was the most feared drug in the country. The ... ...

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Wash. man convicted in Ore. motel shooting case

Jurors in Astoria, Ore., have convicted a Washington state man of attempted aggravated murder and related counts in a February 2012 encounter with police at a local ...
Horizon Air flight with blown tire lands safely

SPOKANE, Wash. — A Spokane International Airport spokesman confirms that a Horizon Air flight landed safely in Spokane despite a blown tire on its landing gear. KXLY-TV reports ( http://is.gd/g5plTi) that Horizon Flight 2358 was en route from Portland, Ore., to Spokane on Monday afternoon. Its scheduled 4:30 p.m. arrival time was pushed back briefly after it declared the problem. Airport ...
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 ...

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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. ...