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Eugene Airport had a record year in 2012, its second record year in a row. A total of 809,457 paying passengers traveled through the airport last year, an increase of 3.74 percent over 2011.

ALBANY — An 8-year-old boy was killed in a rollover crash on Interstate 5 at Albany. Oregon State Police say an SUV with six people went off the road into the median Sunday night and rolled multiple times. The 8-year-old, Yonic Guzman-Arango, was ejected and died at the scene.

BAKER CITY — The Oregon Department of Transportation is installing a new reader board and snow zone signs on Interstate 84 in the Blue Mountains, the same general stretch of freeway where a bus plunged down a ravine last month, killing nine passengers.

PORTLAND — The Trail Blazers are making another attempt to sell naming rights to the Rose Garden. The Oregonian reports ( http://bit.ly/V6TWGF ) the team has hired a Los Angeles firm, Premier Partneships, that specializes in such deals.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Management has proposed more time off between shifts for bus and train operators at the Portland region’s transit agency. The union rejected the proposal.

Gov. John Kitzhaber and top state lawmakers will hold a series of press meetings today in Salem to discuss the 2013 legislative session.

Waiting to get inside the Egan Warming Center at First Christian Church Monday night, one homeless woman was wearing two coats, two hoodies, a wool cap — and a smile. The temperature was dipping toward freezing just after 7 p.m., but Susan Hughes was upbeat.

It may take a couple of weeks for the University of Oregon to sort out ticket prices and availability and other basics for the planned visit of the Dalai Lama to the UO on May 10, a UO spokesman said today.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife today said they are reopening the area stretching from the south jetty of the Columbia River to Cape Arago in Coos County to recreational and commercial mussel harvesting.

The weekend sweep of Arizona and Arizona State by the University of Oregon men’s basketball team moved the Ducks to No. 21 in The Associated Press poll of the media released Monday. It’s the first national ranking for the Ducks since the poll of Dec. 17, 2007.