She's Topps on Oregon's hit lists.
Byline: Shawn Miller The Register-Guard Don't let the ear-to-ear grin fool you. Ann Marie Topps, a designated player for the Oregon softball team, has as genuine a swing as she does a smile. After minimal at-bats in her previous three seasons, the senior...

Schools award honorary degrees at spring convocation ceremonies.
Vancouver School of Theology celebrated the 20th anniversary of its native ministries program by awarding honorary doctorate degrees at its May 9 convocation to the program's founders, Archdeacon Ian MacKenzie and Rev. Cecil Corbett. Mr. MacKenzie, a retired priest in the diocese of Caledonia, is an adopted member of...

Forget football, new wall is open.
Byline: Jim Feehan The Register-Guard CORVALLIS - Nate Richardson had better things to do Sunday than watch the Super Bowl. The 22-year-old Oregon State University wildlife science student spent the better part of the afternoon climbing and rappelling off what's billed as the largest university...

McNeill takes bigger role with UO.
Byline: The Register-Guard Oregon women's basketball assistant coach Allison McNeill has been promoted to associate head coach, it was announced Friday. `As associate head coach, she's just playing up to her role and her experience in assuming more responsibility with the coaching staff,' second-year UO...

Insurance 'Bad Faith' Subject of Recent State Supreme Court Cases & New York Conference.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- If recent activity at the supreme courts of Florida, Idaho and Ohio is any indication, disputes over the so-called "bad faith" conduct of insurance companies continue to be hotly contested. Updates on recent cases is just one of the sessions for litigators,...

MPC Corporation Announces Chapter 11 Filing.
NAMPA, Idaho, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- MPC Corporation, and all of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, today announced that they filed voluntary petitions for relief and reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. The filings were in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of...

Girl Scouts Announce New National Board of Directors.
NEW YORK, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Girl Scouts of the USA elected a new National Board of Directors during the 2008 Girl Scout National Council Session/51st Convention in Indianapolis, Oct. 30 - Nov. 2. The new National Board members will serve the organization over the next three...

Silver Reserve Corp. - New acquisition.
OTCBB Symbol: SLVV RENO, NV, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silver Reserve Corp. is pleased to announce that it has completed an agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Infrastructure Materials Corp. US that holds limestone assets in the US. CEO Todd...

Oregon women look to remain unbeaten against Idaho State.
Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard Idaho State women's basketball coach Jon Newlee watched his team lose to a so-so Boise State outfit earlier this week. The defeat transpired in a less-than-acceptable environment, he said. "Disney on Ice was going on in the main...

Four decades of defending self-defense.
reason has been on the gun beat since the very first issue of the magazine appeared 40 years ago. In "Violence in the U.S.--the Reversal of Cause and Effect," founding editor Lanny Friedlander described the political reaction to the assassination of Bobby Kennedy: "Gun laws, we find them screeching,...