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Testimony got underway today in Day 2 of the trial of Scott Stolarczyk, the driver charged in the car crash that killed Sharon Schuman on the Amazon jogging trail in April 2025. Jaime Adame has the story.

If I recall, the other day I was bemoaning the presence of football news in March, but here’s something that suggests why there is football news in March: UO’s football team brings in about 64% of all the revenue flowing into the university’s athletic department. It was the only sport on campus that operated in the black last fiscal year. Maybe that’s why they wear those black uniforms sometimes? Tyson Alger dives into UO’s first Big Ten athletic conference financial report.

The U.S. Forest Service says it plans to shut down the century-old Pacific Northwest Research Station in Portland, as well as its regional headquarters there, and open a new office in Salem. The changes come amid a restructuring of the agency that will include a move of the main Forest Service office from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City. Our partners at Oregon Capital Chronicle have the story.

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Bob Passaro has been a reporter and editor since the 1990s. He has worked at The Associated Press, The Post Register in Idaho Falls, Idaho; The Salt Lake Tribune in Utah; and for 14 years at The Register-Guard in Eugene. He also spent about 10 years as co-owner of a design and web development agency in Eugene. And he is co-founder of the obituary platform Elegy.us