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After mass shootings, strict gun-control measure gets enough signatures to make Oregon’s fall ballot

You’d have to qualify for a permit to buy a gun. Oregon appears to be the only state with a gun safety initiative on the ballot this year. Volunteers stepped up after mass shootings in Highland Park, Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 21, 2022

Jake Wightman's stunning 1,500-meter win makes for surreal family moment

EUGENE, Ore. — In the uppermost row of Hayward Field's section 222, Geoff Wightman looked away from the men's 1,500-meter medal ceremony taking place on the track two decks of grandstands beneath him and allowed his gaze to drift into the Coburg Hills. He blinked twice, breathed deeply once and,…

Los Angeles Times · Jul 20, 2022

Mark Zeigler: Ban Russian athletes if want, but not because of Ukraine invasion

EUGENE, Ore. — In an interview four years ago, 16-year-old Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh was asked to name her sporting hero.

Tribune News Service · Jul 19, 2022

Starbucks says these LA stores are too unsafe to operate. Not everyone buys that

LOS ANGELES — Anna Gonzalez grabs a coffee at the Starbucks on 2nd Street in downtown Los Angeles across from her office most workdays, a favorite part of her morning routine.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 15, 2022

Manchin upends effort for a downsized 'Build Back Better’

WASHINGTON — West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin III is yet again upending his party’s priority economic package, jettisoning climate measures and tax increases he previously favored and leaving only provisions focused on lowering health care costs.

Tribune News Service · Jul 15, 2022

Mark Zeigler: Are the World Championships in Eugene a launching pad for U.S. track, or a burial?

EUGENE, Ore. — Newly renovated Hayward Field sits in the middle of the University of Oregon campus, its futuristic exoskeleton rising above the aging brick buildings like a spaceship. It cost Phil Knight and friends $300 million, and it includes a 5,000-square-foot video board, a 10-story tower with a hall…

Tribune News Service · Jul 15, 2022

Spencer Webb, Oregon tight end and social media star, dies at age 22

Webb, who was expected to play his fifth football season for the Ducks this fall, was found about 100 yards down a steep trail Wednesday afternoon.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 14, 2022

Mark Zeigler: Ukraine track team escapes horrors of war at Chula Vista training center

SAN DIEGO — Viktor Bryzhin and Olga Vladykina won Olympic track gold medals for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea. Bryzhin was on the 4x100-meter relay team. Vladykina won the individual 400 meters and got the baton in the anchor leg of the 4x400…

Tribune News Service · Jul 14, 2022

Dennis Anderson: Minnesotans have fishing rods, will travel far — and farther

Challenging as it is to prove, it's likely that Minnesotans travel farther and more frequently to fish than do anglers from any other state.

Tribune News Service · Jul 13, 2022

A new dominant omicron strain in the U.S. is driving up cases — and reinfections

BA.5 is now the dominant omicron strain in the U.S. It's good at evading the immune system, though doesn't appear to cause more serious illness.

WEKU · Jul 11, 2022