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Oregon track and field coach Robert Johnson, two members of his coaching staff, and three newcomers to Oregon Track Club Elite are among the special guests Tuesday at the first of seven TrackTown Tuesday events. The public is invited to attend the one-hour meeting which begins at 7 p.m.

Lane County officials have confirmed that a body found last Wednesday on the north side of Dorena Lake was that of Brian Trumbo, a 27-year-old man who went missing in Douglas County last month. Dr.

Several underground explosions were reported just before 10 a.m. this morning near the student health center on the University of Oregon campus.

The Oregon Department of Transportation today began installing traffic lights to regulate the rate at which vehicles can get onto Randy Papé Beltline at four interchanges.

SPRINGFIELD — Get ready for delays this week if you are driving on Franklin Boulevard under Interstate 5 in Glenwood. Oregon Department of Transportation contractors will close the westbound lane of traffic today through Wednesday during daylight hours for work on the Whilamut Passage Bridge.

A homeless woman who allegedly stabbed a boyfriend last Thursday in a transient camp near Cottage Grove was released Sunday from the Lane County Jail for “capacity based” reasons, jail records show. Colleen Aanell Barry, 41, was initially jailed on a first-degree assault charge in connection with the incident.

Eugene police will allow recent crime victims to peruse a huge haul of stolen items during a property viewing scheduled for Thursday at the department’s Property Control Unit, at 125 N. Garfield St.

The Eugene City Council today is scheduled to appoint either Greg Evans or Tony Brandt as an interim councilor to represent west Eugene. Councilors will meet at noon in the Bascom Room of the Public Library, 100 W. 10th Ave., to make the selection.

WALDPORT — State police have identified the victims of a fatal traffic crash on Sunday morning as a mother and daughter from Yachats. Suzanne Carol Aiken, 69, and her mother and only passenger, Louise A.

NORTH BEND, Wash. — The search for a missing Florida skydiver in a wing suit in the Washington Cascade foothills will continue by helicopter as the weather allows.