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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

• Snow may not be a blip but a blitz
If you live in Cascade Locks, you woke up Monday to 18 inches of new snow in your front yard -- more fresh powder, in fact, than Timberline Lodge received 6,000 feet up the flanks of Mount Hood.

• Lawmakers say session too short to fix tort cap
In greenlighting a $17 million medical malpractice lawsuit against the state, the Oregon Supreme Court sent a clear message to lawmakers: The cap on damages from injuries caused by government negligence is too low, and they need to fix it.

• Move it, you just might get younger
People who exercise regularly not only lower their risk of heart disease and other middle-age maladies, but also might be biologically younger than "couch potatoes" of the same age, a new study suggests.

• Thieves on prowl for car metal
When David James of Sublimity recently returned from a two-week vacation in Kona, Hawaii, he started his Toyota pickup parked at a hotel near Portland International Airport. The engine roared: Someone had stolen the catalytic converter from the exhaust system.

• Alternative includes dreams
GRESHAM -- Angela Nusom packs 11 teenagers into a bus and heads to Western Oregon University in Monmouth, 90 minutes to the south.

• Community stunned by death
The sudden death of 40-year-old Mark Zylawy, a Portland police officer killed on Interstate 5 early Sunday on his way to work, left fellow officers shaken, a community grieving and his family clinging to happy memories of a dedicated father and husband who loved his farm, football and family.

• Albany soldier, 22, dies of Iraq injuries
A 22-year-old U.S. Army soldier from Albany died Sunday, more than seven months after he suffered a traumatic brain injury in an attack in Baghdad.

• UO gets legal Ducks in a row in Portland
Twelve law students from the University of Oregon moved north from Eugene to Portland this semester to launch a new urban outpost of the state's only public law school.

Metro News

• Snow may not be a blip but a blitz

• Lawmakers say session too short to fix tort cap

• Move it, you just might get younger

• Thieves on prowl for car metal

• Alternative includes dreams

• Community stunned by death

• Albany soldier, 22, dies of Iraq injuries

• Corrections

• Eugene's commuters slowed by Sunday snow

• Graffiti on Bend ski trails try to deface columnist, ex-mayor

• Judge denies attempt to halt special session