07/20/11 Nicky Hayden wants to try the Ducati GP11.1 at Laguna Seca, even if Valentino Rossi returns to the GP11.
07/20/11 Young talents have won the chance to appear on stage in Peter Pan at the Hawth in Crawley this Christmas, alongside Nigel Havers (Dec 9-31).
07/20/11 FOR NEARLY three weeks, inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison, in California, have been on a hunger strike. They plan to continue until officials agree to improve the conditions and prison policies.
07/13/11 Pete Sampras, winner of 14 Grand Slam singles titles, including seven at Wimbledon, competed as the Newport Beach Breakers marquee player Saturday night.
07/13/11 Part three of our interview with World War II hero Louis Zamperini.
07/13/11 Main Lodge Flagpole at Camp Lowden in Oregon is dedicated to Rockford native Cpl. Robert Dwight Davison.
07/12/11 Just like this isn't a banner year for defensive tackles in the Pac-12, it's also not much of a year for defensive ends. No first- or second-team All-Pac-10 players is back. The leading sack man in this group, Arizona State sophomore Junior Onyeali, only got the opposing quarterback 6.5 times. There are some good players -- NFL talents, in fact -- but guys such as USC's Nick Perry and UCLA's ...
07/12/11 Cross-country bicyclists Mari Anzicek and Mario Ragghianti are raising money, fighting poverty and encouraging volunteerism one mile at a time -- for 3,600 miles.
07/08/11 ATLANTA --With a solid six-inning effort at Turner Field on Wednesday night, Jair Jurrjens concluded the first-half portion of his schedule and preserved the generous early lead the Braves provided on the way to a 9-1 win over the Rockies.
07/08/11 Four times a week at the Philadelphia Sports Club in Society Hill, a band of masochistic loyalists gathers to do Scott Dougherty's bidding.
07/08/11 Retired Air Force officer and former Big Brother volunteer Jon David Woody was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for molesting four girls at his Prunedale home between 1992 and 2008. The girls were between 4 and 8 years old when the molestations took place.
07/08/11 A senior executive at Chateau Cheval Blanc has vigorously defended the company's policy on pricing the 2010 vintage.
07/08/11 How appropriate that psych-blues-rock duo The Black Keys would wrap up their sold-out show at the Molson Canadian Amphtitheatre on Thursday night with the song, I Got Mine, right before the encore.
07/01/11 Lukas Verzbicas sat in silence, trying to absorb the news that Kevin McDowell, his friend and longtime triathlon teammate, had been diagnosed with cancer. Finally, Verzbicas' stepfather spoke. Lukas had a choice to make. He could continue to focus on the running career that has shown such promise he was being hailed as the next great American distance runner even before he broke the 4-minute...
06/30/11 The Portland Timbers continue to impress with their community efforts. This week alone, the team donated funds to Concordia University for an athletic complex, announced grants to 10 charitable groups assisting youth, and unveiled the six youth clubs for which Timbers players will become coaches and mentors for their players. Some organizations get it, and the Timbers definitely get it
06/30/11 A total of 22 out of 29 businesses visited in Deschutes and Crook counties last week passed a check for alcohol sales to minors by refusing to sell alcohol to a minor volunteer, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission reported Thursday.
06/29/11 MySpace has been run by CEO Mike Jones, a University of Oregon alum.
06/29/11 NORTH PLATTE - When Connecticut author Rinker Buck decided to write a book about the Oregon Trail, he didn't go to the library to look up information. He bought some mules and a wagon and headed off on the trail with his brother, Nick, and dog Olive Oil.
06/26/11 Myriah Blair runs the Mountain to Valley Race in Glenwood Springs earlier this month. Blair will vie for a spot on the U.S. Mountain Running Team at Sunday's Cranmore Hill Climb in New Hampshire.
06/22/11 Here's how wacky the debate has become about House Bill 3465, which would create a mega-dude ranch in Grant County: the free-market, small government group Americans for Prosperity Oregon opposes the bill, while 1000 Friends of Oregon , long one of the state's most zealous protectors of open lands, does not. At issue is a bill that would allow Scott Campbell , the founder of the Banfield Pet ... | 
