As part of Southern Oregon University's annual International Week, sushi enthusiasts got a taste of Japan Thursday, as the International Student Activities (ISA) club held its first sushi workshop in the Stevenson Union.
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The Ashland Service Clubs for Healthy Choices is working with city officials to consider forming a youth commission that would have the same standing as other city commissions or reestablishing a teen center. The police department also wants to reinstate the school resource officer, although funding for the position would disappear with any budget cuts.
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The city of Ashland has a new assistant city attorney.
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The three leading Democrats vying to be Oregon's next secretary of state clashed over campaign finance reform during a debate at the City Club of Portland on Friday.
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Twenty-four Jackson County residents will complete disaster response training today with Ashland's Community Emergency Response Team.
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Organizers of the 14th Annual Wesak Celebration in Mount Shasta have announced that an error was made when publicizing the cost of ticket prices in the Ashland area.
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Local organization Golden Flower Productions will hold a film event Sunday evening as a fundraiser for an independent documentary project.
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Southern Oregon University will showcase the old and the new on Saturday in the eighth annual Red & Black spring football scrimmage at Raider Stadium. The event is scheduled to begin at noon and is free of charge.
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Ashland High singles players Sean Cleveland and Nick Cross both advanced to the semifinals to clinch state berths at the District 4 boys tennis tournament Thursday at Thurston High School in Eugene.
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The Atlanta Hawks just won't let go of their first trip to the postseason in nine years.
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Amid all the light and sound that is a major league baseball game, with thousands of fans buzzing behind him, Kerwin Danley distinctly heard two words.
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Indianapolis Colts star receiver Marvin Harrison was interviewed by police about a shooting near his North Philadelphia car wash this week.
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Allegations of misleading the public fuel investigation
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'Evangelical Manifesto' claims Christians are 'useful idiots' for political parties
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After U.S. gasoline prices surged to a record high this week, President Bush strode into the Rose Garden to unveil his plans for coping with skyrocketing energy costs: drill for oil in Alaska, add U.S. refineries and build more nuclear plants.
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Whatever impressions Pope Benedict XVI took away from his long weekend in New York may influence a big, upcoming decision, picking a successor to Cardinal Edward Egan as archbishop.
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Bishop J. Douglas Wiley has just a tent for a church and a fraction of his congregants, more than 2½ years after Hurricane Katrina.
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In brief
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Zimbabwe's opposition on Friday accused President Robert Mugabe of 'grand theft' after long-delayed official results of the nation's presidential election showed no candidate won outright and there must be a runoff.
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Casual acquaintances knew Josef Fritzl as a jovial fellow who liked to drink beer and enjoyed a bawdy joke.
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Josefa Gonzalez Loya has sneaked across the Mexican border at least 128 times in the past eight years. And each time, the Border Patrol has been nice enough to give her a lift home.
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Violent storms rolling across the nation's midsection unleashed tornadoes, high winds and hail in four states and killed seven people in Arkansas on Friday, including a teenager who died when a tree fell into her bedroom as she slept.
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The economy showed off unexpected signs of resilience Friday as job losses slowed, the dollar gained a bit of muscle for a change and there were even indications that food prices may be easing. The unemployment rate dipped, though that may not last.
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Tidings editorial
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By Ashland City Councilor Alice Hardesty
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Talk Newspaper: By Jeff Golden
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Campus Notes: By Ashley Olive
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Ashland artist Nelson Davis will be featured on the television program Oregon Art Beat next week.
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Tom Cruise says his couch-jumping on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' seemed to set off a 'confluence' of bad publicity for him, but he's not sure he would take it back.
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Sam White, 53, was one of thousands of hobbyists who comb former battlegrounds for artifacts using metal detectors, pickaxes, shovels and trowels.
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Dear Abby
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