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Crews Continue To Restore Power To Remaining Utility Customers Hit By Storms

Across southern Oregon, more and more utility customers are getting hooked up with power after heavy snowstorms last month caused massive outages. KLCC’s Brian Bull has this update.

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Oregon Lawmakers Consider Expansion Of “Death With Dignity” Law

More people used Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act to end their life in 2018 than in any other year since the law took effect in 1997. Now, state lawmakers are considering proposals that would expand the law to make it easier for someone to seek medical aid in dying.

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An Algerian government plane believed to be returning the nation's president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, home from Switzerland has landed at Boufarik military airport, southwest of the capital Algiers, as demonstrators have turned out to protest his quest for a fifth term in office.

Bouteflika has been receiving medical treatment in Switzerland since February 24. Protests began two days earlier, demanding that the 82-year-old leader not seek re-election next month.

The State of Washington has completed its first statewide inventory of buildings prone to crumble or collapse in an earthquake. The bottom line: There are an awful lot of unreinforced, old brick or stone buildings that could be dangerous  — a similar number to estimates in Oregon.

A section of Highway 101 near Brookings, Oregon, will partially re-open to a single gravel lane, with flaggers on either side, Saturday at noon after a massive landslide last month. 

Both U.S. Congress and the Oregon Legislature are making moves to lessen the severity of cannabis crimes, proactively and retroactively. 

Oregon U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, state Sen. Lew Frederick and California U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee spoke Saturday at the Urban League of Portland on Senate and House bills focused on lessening the effects of small-scale cannabis convictions. 

In Oregon, people can get old cannabis-related crimes expunged, but it's a long and expensive process, said Sen. Frederick. He's sponsoring Senate Bill 420 in the Oregon Legislature. 

A report released Friday on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website outlined a 2017 case of tetanus in an unvaccinated child in Oregon.  

It was the first pediatric case of tetanus in the state in more than 30 years.  

The report, authored by doctors at Oregon Health and Science University and the Oregon Health Authority, states the child, a 6-year-old boy, was playing outdoors at a farm when he sustained a forehead laceration.

In the midst of a presidential budget proposal destined to generate controversy for its expected drastic spending cuts, White House senior adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump wants to have a conversation about increasing the availability and affordability of child care.

NPR has learned that the 2020 White House budget set to be released Monday will call for increased spending on child care and propose an initiative to address shortages.

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For the second straight year Oregon edged UCLA in the semifinals to advance to the championship game in the Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Tournament.

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It Takes A Village To Save A British Pub

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The Packhorse pub sits in the tiny village of South Stoke in the west of England amid rolling hills dotted with sheep. For more than a century and a half, it played a crucial role in the village and marked milestones in the lives of local families.

Gerard Coles, who was born half a mile from the pub and now brews cider nearby, started coming to the Packhorse when he was 15 and underage, sometimes with his school teacher for lunch.

When Erin Gilmer filled her insulin prescription at a Denver-area Walgreens in January, she paid $8.50. U.S. taxpayers paid another $280.51.

She thinks the price of insulin is too high. "It eats at me to know that taxpayer money is being wasted," says Gilmer, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes while a sophomore at the University of Colorado in 2002.

The diagnosis meant that for the rest of her life she'd require daily insulin shots to stay alive. But the price of that insulin is skyrocketing.

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