• Cement plant cuts deal on mercury
Ash Grove Cement near Baker City, by far the largest mercury polluter in Oregon and the state's only cement kiln, has reached a voluntary deal with regulators to cut its mercury emissions by 75 percent within 31/2 years.

• Crash at lock blocks Columbia
River traffic on the Columbia River between Portland and the Tri-Cities area of Washington state came to a halt Friday after two empty grain barges rammed the gate of a navigation lock at John Day Dam, east of The Dalles.

• Wilsonville neighborhood rolls out
WILSONVILLE -- A flier still extols the "Peaceful, active living in a natural setting" at Thunderbird Mobile Club, and smiley-face signs urge residents to "Have a great day."

• Laughter, tears for three men fill church
NEWBERG -- An overflow crowd of family and friends gathered for a memorial service Friday night at St. Peter Catholic Church honoring three Newberg men known for their work in the community.

• Fugitive Tre Arrow back in Portland
U.S. marshals brought accused eco-saboteur Tre Arrow back to Oregon on Friday from a British Columbia jail after the iconoclastic environmentalist ended a four-year fight to avoid arson charges that could send him to prison for life.

• TriMet to cyclists: Don't forget two-wheeled friend
The problem: Who knew? Last year, more than a thousand cyclists who boarded TriMet buses and MAX trains loaded up their two-wheelers on bike racks, only to leave them behind. As Eric Hesse explains it, only about half those bikes are reclaimed by riders. Hesse, the agency's strategic planner, says the other half sit in TriMet lost-and-found areas throughout the region for about two weeks before being donated to charities.

• Bunyan fan insists he'd keep Paul in Portland
Any chance of Portland's Paul Bunyan statue moving even an inch all but vanished Friday despite a pledge from the prospective buyer to keep it in Oregon.