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They say that words can lift you and words can bring you down, and in downtown Eugene that’s the literal truth. Or maybe the literary truth. Just go to the Overpark, a city-owned parking garage at 10th Avenue and Oak Street, to see.

SPRINGFIELD — Two 17-year-old Springfield males were arrested today after Springfield police received numerous calls from east Springfield residents reporting that their vehicles had been broken into last night. Numerous items were reported stolen, including at least one firearm.

Eugene police arrested a suspected bank robber shortly after the late-morning heist. The suspect was turned over to FBI officials to face potential federal charges. His name was not immediately released. The robbery was reported at 11:55 a.m. at a Pacific Continental Bank branch at 1450 High St., police said.

A woman died this morning at a local hospital, not long after she was struck by a van in the intersection of West 18th Avenue and Chambers Street. Police have not identified the woman or the driver of the 1979 Chevy van that hit her.

Thousands of dollars worth of winter clothing, sleeping bags and other essential items will be distributed to local homeless people in the coming days, compliments of an annual community fundraising drive led by Eugene police officer Randy Ellis.

One of the three remaining fugitives in a string of fires set by environmental radicals in Oregon, Colorado and California surrendered to authorities Thursday after spending years hiding out in Canada. The U.S.

PORTLAND — A grand jury has indicted a former Clackamas County election worker accused of tampering with ballots before the November election.

PORTLAND — A storm Thursday was expected to bring heavy rain to the southern coast of Oregon. Forecasters said higher elevations in Curry County could see 8 inches of rain, and Brookings along the coast could get 3 inches — raising the possibility of mudslides and debris flows.

PORTLAND — Any day now. The Oregon Zoo’s pregnant elephant Rose-Tu is showing some signs her labor is nearing. The zoo’s Mike Keele told The Oregonian ( http://is.gd/jFZY6G ) Rose seems to know what’s happening.

PORTLAND — Any day now. The Oregon Zoo’s pregnant elephant Rose-Tu is showing some signs her labor is nearing. The zoo’s Mike Keele told The Oregonian ( http://is.gd/jFZY6G ) Rose seems to know what’s happening.