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MIAMI — Diana Nyad’s 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida has generated positive publicity and adoration for the 64-year-old endurance athlete — along with skepticism from some members of the small community of marathon swimmers who are questioning whether she accomplished the feat honestly.

CHARLESTON, Ill. — The last Illinois survivor of a mostly forgotten World War II prisoner-of-war saga lives in a white farmhouse 7 miles north of town.Retired from grain farming since 1988, Alva Moss, 89, walks a narrow road, mows his lawn and plays tennis for exercise.

A good, big net is key to catching plastic ducks as they float down the Deschutes River, even after the Great Drake Park Duck Race is done.That's the advice from some of the Boy Scouts and their leaders in Troop No.

The pilot of the crashed aircraft Sunday near Prineville airport was identified by Prineville Police Department as Murray Allen Crowe, 47, of Terrebonne.Crowe was pronounced dead at the scene after crashing an experimental Challenger II aircraft around 11:30 a. m., according to reports in The Bulletin.

Deschutes County• Jennifer E. Troth and Kenneth Goode to Steven C. Sahm, trustee for the Steven Cary Sahm Revocable Living Trust, Kenwood Addition, Lots 1 and 2, Block 14, $286,000• Patrick M. and Francine D. Robinson, trustees for the Robinson Family Trust, to Lyle D. and Sandra K.

The suspect in a late-night downtown Bend knifing was arrested Friday by Bend Police.Diondre A. Dolbin, 22, of Bend, faces charges of second-degree assault, first-degree attempted assault, unlawful use of a weapon, fourth-degree assault and menacing.Just before 2:30 a. m. Friday, police were called to the area of Northwest Oregon Avenue and Northwest Brooks Street.

Delivered at St. Charles BendZachariah and Chantel Jenkins, a girl, Kenadi Ann Marie Jenkins, 7 pounds, 5 ounces, Aug. 23.Jefferey and Jessica Burdine, a girl, Sadie Lynn Burdine, 6 pounds, 7 ounces, Aug. 24.Scott and Christina Mumby, a boy, Noah Elijah Mumby, 8 pounds, 4 ounces, Aug.

100 YEARS AGOFor the week endingSept. 7, 1913Public Park on Metolius (Editorial)Over on the Metolius River government employees have been busy this summer, and still are, making a land classification — in other words, they are making a thorough study of the soil of land that is now within the Deschutes National Forest to determine its value for agricultural purposes. This land is now covered with a fine growth of yellow pine timber, but people of that section have examined the soil and, believing it capable of producing good crops, have made applications for homesteads.

Jim and Kitty (Watson) Jensen, of Bend, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by traveling to Manzanillo, Mexico with their children and grandchildren last June.The couple were married June 22, 1963, at John Wesley Methodist Church in Jacksonville, Fla.

Summer Herringer and Cory Ryan, both of Bend, plan to marry Sept. 14 at Faith, Hope and Charity Vineyard in Terrebonne.The future bride is the daughter of Shawn Herringer and Kathy Glidewell, of Redmond. She is a 2005 graduate of Redmond High School and a 2008 graduate of Central Oregon Community College, where she studied massage therapy.