• Desperate lovers flood florists for the heart stuff
Just off Angel Avenue, between the funeral home and The Wedding Cottage, you can buy a Bag of Love.

• Remembering Austin Miller
Last year, Michael Miller had a dream about his son Austin's bike route home from school along Beaverton's busy streets. In the dream, Austin was struck by a car and died.

• Weekend promises early peek at spring
Remember last week, with towering snowdrifts, major highway closures and small towns asking for help from the National Guard?

• Berkman investors get day in court
Investors engaged in a long legal fight against Portland financier Craig Berkman scored a major victory this week when a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge denied motions from two accounting firms that they be dismissed as defendants in the case.

• Identity rules gain force of law
SALEM -- Oregon lawmakers Wednesday blocked illegal immigrants from getting driver's licenses, transforming some of the nation's most lenient licensing rules into the state's harshest sanctions against undocumented workers in years.

• House debates nature of rights
Do Oregonians have a fundamental right to effective, affordable health care?

• Record students pass AP tests
Oregon high schools propelled a record 3,845 students in the class of 2007 to take rigorous Advanced Placement courses and pass AP exams, The College Board reported Wednesday.