'Call of Duty' has record debut
MSN Money
California, which has been teetering on insolvency for months, is joined by Arizona, Rhode Island, Michigan, Oregon, Nevada, Florida, New Jersey, Illinois and Wisconsin as states suffering from serious economic troubles. Wal-Mart Stores ( W...
Links -- Bonds. All bonds.
Oregonian
You can incur larger costs buying bonds from broker-dealers and not even know it, notes Larry Swedroe at Wise Investing . Witness Morgan Stanley's penalties for abusive trading practices trading muni bonds. Michael Hamilton, manager of the ...
The nation's weather
Philadelphia Inquirer
Oregon and Washington were forecast to start to dry out and remain cool with highs in the 40s. A light mix of snow and rain was expected and could bring less than a half of an inch of accumulation. Light rain was forecast to spread into nor...
ScaleMP to Showcase Latest Innovations at SC09
Forbes
... announced its participation in the 2009 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC09) taking place November 14-20, 2009, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Shai Fultheim, Scal...
Michigan will be among the poorest states for years, study says
Detroit Free Press
... California and its epic problems -- share shortcomings: • Reliance on one or two industries, such as the auto industry (Michigan), gambling (Nevada) or lumber and computer chips (Oregon). • Persistent gaps between state spending and tax...
Medina man started reward fund in sniper attacks
Seattle Times
Eventually, said Blixseth, an Oregon native, he contributed about $250,000 to the fund. Muhammad was executed in Virginia Tuesday for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during the three-week spree in 2002 across Maryland, Vi...
Caffeine addict makes coffee art
The Sun
Since then she has used the strong dark coffee to recreate countless classics — always trying to slip an ... The coffee images can take a week to paint on watercolour paper and sell for prices up to £12,000. The 36-year-old from Oregon, in ...
Enrollment reaches record high at Oregon colleges
BusinessWeek
Enrollment at Oregon's seven public universities has reached a record high growing nearly 6 percent from last year. There are 91,582 students enrolled at the state's colleges, the Oregon University System reported Tuesday. That's up 5.8 per...
Focus key to No. 7 Oregon's success
USA Today
EUGENE, Ore. — It was the only way that No. 7 Oregon could rebuild its season following the drama of its opener: Forget, focus and forge ahead. The Ducks, ranked No. 16 going into the season with what was believed to be one of the nation's ...