• Oregon turnout expected to top 1 million
An election-day voter stampede is expected to propel Oregon's highest primary turnout in 20 years, state officials projected Monday.

• Boeing may be the ticket for relief supplies
Oregon aid agencies aim to piggyback on Boeing's booming sales to China, loading earthquake-relief supplies in new jets being delivered to Chinese airlines.

• Metro area in heart attack test
Despite intensifying research and broad use of heart defibrillators, about 95 percent of people who suffer cardiac arrest in the United States don't survive.

• Cold, scared sisters rescued from Clark County wilderness
After hours of trudging through heavy brush and knee-high snow in the Cascades, shouting the girls' names, Mike McClain wasn't sure whether he was even saying them right.

• Mayor Tom Potter's successor will inherit homeless issue
Anybody who thinks being mayor is an easy job should have dropped by City Hall last week.

• Shovels ready to resume straightening U.S. 20
NEWPORT -- A stalled construction project to straighten U.S. 20 between Newport and Corvallis is moving again.

• Portland businessman puts out solar-powered trash cans downtown
Portland parking mogul Greg Goodman was walking in Boston last year when he saw something that looked like a mailbox with a solar panel.