OBITUARIES.
Byline: The Register-Guard News obituaries are a free service of The Register-Guard and are printed as space allows. The News Department will accept information on its standard obituary form, as well as a photograph, submitted through funeral homes or by the deceased's immediate family. Obituary information is...

ASU offers Beavers a chance to forget.
Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard CORVALLIS - A week ago, at now ninth-ranked Louisville, the Beavers had the football for nearly 40 minutes, had nearly twice as many offensive plays as the Cardinals and had a game-high 26 first downs. Oregon State, however, was beaten...

Coliseum.
THE LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY punk scene has recently captured quite the amount of attention as a slew of home-grown bands--Black Cross, Breather Resist, and Lords, to name a few--have shredded eardrums and blown minds with their unique brand of tumultuous hardcore punk. Not to be outdone, Coliseum--a thundering, fist-pump inducing...

Refined Roux-en-Y may help super obese patients: the extended Roux limb allows for longer transit and better absorption of water, minerals, and vitamins.
LOUISVILLE, KY. -- Extension of the Roux limb in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedures for "super obese" patients may provide good long-term weight loss and resolution of comorbidities with an acceptable rate of complications, Mr. Wayne K. Nelson reported at the annual meeting of the Central Surgical Association. ...

Cartoons not just a matter of opinion.
Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard For many Westerners, the notion that a handful of editorial cartoons could produce rioting and death over much of the world is unfathomable. But Abdullah Al Hemyare of Eugene thinks he understands many Muslims' reactions to the caricatures of the...

Postop PTH test unnecessary when calcium is normal.
Louisville, Ky. -- Patients who have undergone surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism do not benefit from routine measures of parathyroid hormone unless they have elevated calcium levels, according to a review presented by Dr. Tina Wei-Fang Yen at the annual meeting of the Central Surgical Association. "We propose...

Ladybug allergies becoming common among rural residents.
Miami Beach -- When allergies crop up in cooler weather, ladybugs may be the culprit. The Asian lady bird beetle (Harmonia axyridis) appears to be an increasing source of indoor allergens during times of infestation--usually the fall, winter, and spring, when thousands of the beetles can invade...

Judicial posts: for justice or 'just us'?
WHEN SOME leading Christian conservatives threw their weight behind Republican efforts recently to speed Senate approval of judicial nominees of President Bush, they subtitled their widely viewed "Justice Sunday" rally at a Kentucky church "Stopping the Filibuster Against People of Faith." The rally, at a 6,000-member church...

Seminary enrollment trends upward.
Enrollment in theological schools in North America has continued on a gradual (2 to 3 percent) annual increase over the past five years, according to new data released this spring. But the largest U.S. seminary, California-based Fuller Theological Seminary, reported a head count of 4,128 students for two years...

Asteroid named after RP astronomer.
Byline: EDWIN L. AGUIRRE & IMELDA B. JOSON MASSACHUSETTS, USA An asteroid measuring 13 to 30 kilometers across has recently been named after a 75-year-old Filipino Jesuit astronomer by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Minor planet No. 4866 is now officially known as "Badillo," in honor of...