Nicole Gilmore, left, gives her 3-year-old Shetland pony, Tasmanian Charm, a trim Monday with the help of her sister Danielle Ottinger at the Benton County Fairgrounds.
Benton County Fair opens today CORVALLIS - Several building improvements were completed in time for the opening of this year's Benton County Fair.
Health groups urge Kitzhaber to veto smoking ordinance ban SALEM - Using e-mail and newspaper advertising, anti-smoking groups are trying to persuade Gov. John Kitzhaber to veto a bill aimed at preventing more local governments from banning smoking in bars.
Salem newspaperman dies SALEM - Van Eisenhut, a former senior editor of the Statesman Journal, died Saturday. He was 79.
Kitzhaber asks for monument consensus SALEM (AP) - Governor John Kitzhaber said Monday that the parties who disagree over the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument should slow down and try to reach a consensus.
OHSU apologizes for losing organs after autopsy PORTLAND (AP) - Oregon Health & Science University has apologized to the parents of a Salem teen-ager after hospital employees apparently lost a heart and lungs removed during an autopsy.
Dead fish a concern in Rogue MEDFORD (AP) - Biologists have asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to release more water in the lower Rogue River canyon after several hundred dead fish floated to the surface.
Search intensifies for woman seen with `Cowboy' KELSO, Wash. (AP) - Searchers have begun combing an area north of Castle Rock where a man found a credit card belonging to a woman last seen with "Cowboy" Michael Braae.
Nicole Gilmore, left, gives her 3-year-old Shetland pony, Tasmanian Charm, a trim Monday with the help of her sister Danielle Ottinger at the Benton County Fairgrounds. 
