For the second consecutive fiscal year, the Oregon Lottery recorded over $1 billion in sales. With the close of fiscal year 2007 on June 30, unaudited results indicate the Lottery saw all-time record sales of $1.21 billion. As a result of these sales, an all-time high of $604 million of Lottery profits were transferred to the State for public education, economic development, state parks, and natural resources this fiscal year. Looking ahead, in the present ... [full story]

A 45-year old Bend man -- with a blood alcohol content allegedly more than three times the legal limit -- sped off during a traffic stop by a Marion County Sheriff’s deputy in a 21-foot motorhome and led police on an 11-mile pursuit before stopping when half the RV’s tires were punctured with spike strips. Deputies were forced to tazer the driver in order to take him into custody.   Irvin Wetzell - MCj photo Irvin Wetzell, ... [full story]

Albany Police arrested on Tuesday a 70-year old registered sex offender in connection with the sexual abuse of a family friend that allegedly took place five years ago when the victim was 13.   Leo James Christian - APD photo Leo James Christian, 70, was lodged in the Linn County Jail and is charged with five counts of first-degree sex abuse and a single count of first-degree unlawful sexual penetration, a news release stated. Police said the ... [full story]

Hillsboro Police are asking the public’s assistance in locating a man missing since July 31, possibly heading on foot to the Aloha area.  David Peak, 44, has been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder and depression, and is off his medications, authorities reported.   If you have seen David Peak, call Hillsboro Police detectives at 503-681.6175 - DMV photoPeak was last seen leaving his residence on Jackson Street, and is described as a white male, 5-foot 8-inches tall, with ... [full story]

A 19-year-old Gresham woman was flown to the hospital by helicopter after her vehicle was found by searching family members more than 50-feet down a steep embankment along the Historic Columbia River Highway.   Pope's SUV was lifted up over the 30-foot embankment where she spent over 19 hours trapped - MCSO photo Roxann Marie Pope was trapped in her 1991 Chevrolet Blazer overnight until she was found about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.  According to a news release ... [full story]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ruled out Thursday imposing a state of emergency on the country. A senior government official said Thursday the president rejected the option, which would have allowed the government to expand military powers and suspend democratic freedoms amid rising violence on the along the Pakistani-Afghan border, CNN reported Thursday. Speculation about emergency rule began after Musharraf canceled a visit to Kabul to attend Thursday’s joint Pakistan-Afghanistan tribal jirga, ... [full story]

WARSAW, Poland -- Polish border guards detained 30 illegal migrants after the guards stopped a Lithuanian truck at the border with Germany, Polish Radio said Thursday. Lt. Col. Andrzej Kaminski of the border guard in Lunuskie said the group, whose nationality he did not disclose, included men and women, and five children ages 2 to 5. All the migrants were extremely exhausted due to heat in the truck, and further traveling under such conditions could ... [full story]

MUMBAI -- Dina Wadia, daughter of the founder of Pakistan Mohammed Jinnah, wants to reclaim the house in Mumbai her father built before India’s partition in 1947. Wadia, who now lives in New York, said she grew up in the mansion overlooking the Arabian Sea in the posh Malabar Hill area of Mumbai, formerly Bombay. The aristocratic Jinnah, a British-educated lawyer who led the campaign for a separate state for the Muslims of India before ... [full story]

BERLIN -- Commuter train engineers in Berlin and Hamburg staged a two-hour strike Thursday morning, delaying and frustrating millions of commuters. The action came after 8,000 members of Germany's GDL train drivers union voted Monday overwhelmingly to strike for a 31 percent pay raise, Deutsche Welle reported. On Wednesday, a German court ruled engineers carrying freight could not strike because of the economic impact, the report said. Lawyers for the government successfully argued a complete ... [full story]

JAKARTA -- A civil trial to recover $1.5 billion from former Indonesian President Suharto began in Jakarta on Thursday and adjourned for a month. Suharto, 86, was not present when 20 minutes into the hearing, the judge ordered both sides to seek a deal and report back in a month, a BBC correspondent reported. If a deal hasn't been reached by then, the trial will resume, the judge said. As with many Indonesians, Suharto uses ... [full story]