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Pilots Who Overshot Airport To Give Up Licenses
Under a deal with the Federal Aviation Administration, Timothy Cheney and Richard Cole agreed not to fight the revocations of their licenses and can apply for new licenses in August. The two lost track of time last October and flew an Airbus with 144 passengers about 100 miles past Minneapolis before discovering their mistake over Wisconsin.
UConn Earns Top Seed In Women's NCAA Tournament
The undefeated Huskies will open the basketball tournament against Southern at Norfolk, Va. Tennessee, Stanford and Nebraska earned the other No. 1 seeds.
Man Sentenced For Nude Videos Of ESPN Reporter
Michael David Barrett pleaded guilty in December to interstate stalking after prosecutors accused him of following Erin Andrews to at least three cities and shooting the videos through hotel peepholes. He was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison before giving a tearful apology that was rebuked by Andrews.
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Arts & Culture
Nigella's St. Patrick's Baking Tip: Just Add Guinness
There's so much more to St. Patrick's Day food than Irish soda bread and corned beef and cabbage. Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson shares some delectable recipes for a holiday feast you'll want to raise a glass to.
The Outsiders Who Foresaw The Subprime Crisis
Michael Lewis, who wrote the best-seller Liar's Poker, is back with a new book examining those who profited from shorting subprime mortgages. In The Big Short, Lewis profiles extreme characters — outsiders — who are the sane people in an insane world.
'Top Secret': The Power And Struggle Of The Press
The New York Theatre Workshop's production of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers examines the gray area between the rights of the press to publish and those of the government to protect its secrets.
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Wildlife Rehabers Reverse Damage Caused on Highway
In the rural West, summer is roadkill season. But what happens to animals who live through their encounter with our cars, injured, but not dead? Fish and Wildlife agencies, the police, and most vets don’t take them in. That’s where wildlife rehabilitators come in -- the people who act as the emergency room doctors for injured critters. Jessica Robinson has this story.
Savage Rapids Lesson: Removing Dams No Easy Task
After two decades of conflict, crews are finally jackhammering the Savage Rapids Dam into oblivion. The southern Oregon dam on the Rogue River doesn't even produce electricity. Yet, removing it proved complicated and controversial. Efforts to return other rivers to free-flowing channels are getting more attention across the Northwest and in Congress. But what happened with the Savage Rapids Dam gives some indication of how difficult it can be to rip out these engineering feats of the last century. JPR’s Jessica Robinson has this story.
Oregon's Poetry Out Loud Finalist Signs Her Words
Today, a high school student from Oregon will appear in a competition in Washington D.C. called Poetry Out Loud. She’s eighteen-year-old Tiffany Hill of Eugene. Poetry Out Loud is a national recitation contest in which teens memorize and deliver classic poems. Only, Hill won’t be saying anything ... at least not out loud. Hill is the first deaf student to compete in the national competition -- she’ll deliver her poems in American Sign Language. JPR’s Jessica Robinson has this profile.To watch Hill signing "Inside Out" by Diane Wakoski in the state finals, click here.
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Jefferson Monthly
9th Annual Ashland Independent Film Festival
Seven Oscar Nominated films, William Hurt in The River Why, an Akira Kurosawa classic, the art and l
The acclaimed Ashland Independent Film Festival returns to the art-deco Varsity Theatre, the Historic Ashland Armory, and the Ashland Springs Hotel in the heart of the historic downtown, April 8–12 for its ninth annual, five-day showcase of independent film.
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General Sarnoff is Spinning in his Grave
David Sarnoff, or General Sarnoff as he preferred to be addressed following his service in World War II, was the principal force behind the founding and flowering of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its subdivision, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
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Reflections from Land’s End
Since moving to Oregon almost a decade ago and spending my thirties here—easy come, easy go—I’ve adjusted to the differences ranging from language to landscape, plant-life to home-life, names, faces, and places.
Watching the sun go down over the Pacific ocean, tolerating inland fog (even the freezing kind) and trying to sort out berry-talk: salmon, huckle, thimble, goose—even cranberries float around parts of Oregon, and of course let us not forget one of Oregon’s newer immigrant berries, grapes.
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