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COTTAGE GROVE — Galvanized by the potential of a new call center that would bring up to 250 jobs to the city, the City Council is looking at expanding underground fiber optic cable to the Village Center shopping strip on Highway 99 — where the call center wants to open …

The work that Lane County nonprofit Jasper Mountain does to help severely abused and disturbed children has so impressed an Australian film maker that he’s spent parts of three years and about $100,000 of his own money making a documentary on the organization.

The official Santa Tracking station run by the North American Aerospace Defense Command is operational, posting web updates of his progress at www.noradsanta.org. The web site includes “last spotted” and “headed for” information, along with a running total of gifts delivered so far.

A federal judge has denied Occupy Eugene’s request to immediately block the U.S. General Services Administration from following through with a threat to have protesters evicted from a public plaza outside the Federal Building in downtown Eugene. Chief U.S.

If it’s Christmas week on the Oregon Coast, then it’s time for many of the natives to start speaking in a different tongue.

Lane County’s unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent in November, below the statewide rate of 8.4 percent but above the national rate of 7.7 percent.

KLAMATH FALLS — Oregon State Police and Klamath County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue personnel earlier today found the vehicle believed to belong to 39-year-old Robert Lear of Klamath Falls, who was reported missing by family members on Thursday.

BEND — For any holiday travelers heading east over the mountains, take note: It’s a snowy and icy mess over there.

MOUNT HOOD — An adult male is dead following a two-vehicle crash that occurred this afternoon on Highway 35, about two miles north of Highway 26 along the southeastern flank of Mount Hood, Oregon State Police said.

A group of women gathered around a special Christmas tree today to send out prayers and positive healing energy to all the people represented by a pink ribbon on the tree.