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WALDPORT — Two women were killed in a collision Sunday on Highway 101 north of Waldport. Oregon State Police say their van collided with a trailer that fishtailed and broke loose from an oncoming pickup truck.

BEND — Daniel Keeton works at Bend’s Boneyard Brewery tasting room and is a beer lover. He also loves his dog, Lola Jane. So Keeton decided to make some hooch for the pooch. He calls it Dawg Grog. KTVZ reports ( http://bit.ly/UB3pFZ ) there’s no alcohol in the doggie brew.

PENDLETON — Oregon State Police say a woman was killed in a collision Sunday on Highway 207 just south of Interstate 84 in Umatilla County. The woman was attempting to pass a flatbed truck when it made a left turn. She died at the scene.

CORVALLIS _ Oregon opened the Pac-12 conference season with a 79-66 victory over Oregon State on Sunday night in Gill Coliseum.

Oh, if the things Johanna Mitchell sees in her star charts were to come true, 2013 could bring to an end a few of Eugene’s most intractable problems, such as a solution to west Eugene traffic jams and an answer to the shortage of Lane County jail beds.

WALDPORT — Two women died this morning when the van they were traveling in was struck by a fishtailing flatbed trailer along Highway 101 about two miles north of Waldport, Oregon State Police said. The victims’ names were to be released Monday pending notification of kin.

An attempt by the city of Eugene to sell a publicly owned building in the heart of downtown has failed to find a suitable buyer. City Manager Jon Ruiz last month rejected an offer to buy the single-story building on Olive Street that is rented by Bradford’s Home Entertainment.

SPRINGFIELD — Sitting in a playroom at an orphanage in Bulgaria last August, Lauren and Don Horton were eager to meet the little girl they hoped to one day adopt — a then-3-year-old with Down syndrome named Melina.

Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy will begin her third term in office on Wednesday,, delivering the State of the City address in the Hult Center for the Performing Arts.

An attorney for a 12-year-old Eugene boy is seeking more than $500,000 from the state in a lawsuit that alleges the boy was sexually abused while in foster care. The boy’s name is not disclosed in the suit, which was filed in Lane County Circuit Court.