MORNING BRIEFING.
Byline: The Register-Guard FROM THE REGION OSU, Louisville set return date in Corvallis CORVALLIS - The second football game of the two-game contract between Oregon State and Louisville has been scheduled for Sept. 18, 2010, at Reser Stadium in Corvallis. The...

Presbyterian and Jewish leaders have promised to work toward a "renewed engagement" after the PCUSA last summer revised its policy on divesting from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.
Presbyterian and Jewish leaders have promised to work toward a "renewed engagement" after the PCUSA last summer revised its policy on divesting from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, November 29, the faith leaders said they "discussed frankly and openly our different...

131st Kentucky Derby.
Byline: joe drappe New York Times News Service Unknown Giacomo storms to victory LOUISVILLE, Ky. George Steinbrenner had Bellamy Road, the Kentucky Derby favorite. Nick Zito had five horses, good ones, who accounted for a full quarter of the 20-horse field. But for 130 years,...

Tools predict community pneumonia's course.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Two new and simple tools may help predict which patients with community-acquired pneumonia are likely to die or to need ICU care, investigators reported in separate presentations at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. The tools could help clinicians flag some...

Stanford earns spot in NIT field.
Byline: From Register-Guard and news service reports Stanford was the lone Pac-10 team selected for the National Invitation Tournament on Sunday. NIT The Cardinal (15-13) will play host to Virginia (15-14) in a first-round game on Tuesday night. Stanford finished tied for fourth...

A missing argument ...
YOUR EDITORIAL "Looking for an argument" (December 13) urges open-minded tolerance so that denominations can have the "moral achievement" of a "genuine argument" over homosexuality. I agree, but lament that the CHRISTIAN CENTURY cannot seem to practice anything remotely similar to what it preaches when it comes to American...

Cardinals fly into national spotlight.
Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard Seems these days the folks living in the Bluegrass State of Kentucky are seeing red. Cardinal red. They just can't get enough of Louisville football. But it was not all that long ago you couldn't give away tickets to University...

Photograffiti.
Bros, broads, and a frontside grab mean swell times for some dude in Sprackamento, CA. Photo: Sims [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The film speed was fast but Carter was faster. A St. Louis motion-blur schralp. Photo: Koehler [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Drew Holnagel knows lipslides...

OBITUARIES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Esther Nyburg SPRINGFIELD - A celebration of life will be held March 15 for Esther Ellen Nyburg of Springfield, who died March 10 of age-related causes. She was 83. She was born Oct. 1, 1922, in McGrath, Minn., to Charles...

Home sample collection for HPV found feasible, specific.
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. -- Women who do not participate in routine screening programs may prefer self-testing for human papillomavirus with a tampon or cotton swab over testing administered by a physician, Dr. Robert P. Edwards reported in a poster session at the annual meeting of the Society of Gynecologic...