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Senior offensive lineman Nick Cody and junior defensive lineman Axel McQuaw will not join the Oregon football team in Glendale, Ariz., for the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 3 after failing to meet NCAA academic standards, coach Chip Kelly announced Friday.

A man who is behind bars for allegedly killing another person is now suspected of asking someone else to slay the Lane County prosecutor who is handling his case, Lane County sheriff’s officials said Friday.

Sandi Eisle knows the drill. If the administrative secretary at Two River/Dos Rios Elementary School in Springfield sees someone or something threatening near the school, or if she gets a warning call from the school district or principal, she hits a big red button in her office.

Oregon has hired Katherine “Kat” Mertz as its new head women’s soccer coach, it was announced Thursday. The 37-year-old Mertz spent the past season as head coach at St. Louis University where she led the Billikens to a 5-9-4 record.

WALTON — State highway officials say it will be at least some time tonight before Highway 126 can reopen to traffic between the coast and Willamette Valley.

WALTON — State highway officials say it will be at least some time tonight before Highway 126 can reopen to traffic between the coast and Willamette Valley.

A group of political activists and homeless people returned today to the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza outside the Lane County Courthouse to assert that they have the right to both protest and camp there because it is public property.

Lane County’s parole and probation officers have approved a new union contract that will give them modest wage increases over the next three years. The pact with the Federation of Parole and Probation Officers was approved by the Board of County Commissioner in a special meeting Friday.

Contractors hired by the Oregon Department of Transportation have begun cleaning up the tons of trees, mud and rocks that washed onto Highway 126 between Walton and Mapleton on Thursday. ODOT is hoping it can reopen the highway later today.

Local police have stepped up patrols around school buildings today as part of a response to a swirl of rumors about possible violence that officials say are false.