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PORTLAND – Skyline Elementary School in Portland started the new school year Tuesday with extra security and many changes, following the disappearance of Kyron Horman at the end of the last school year.

Teachers and staff will now take a head-count of students several times a day and parents will be notified through an automated system if their child isn’t in class.

In addition, visitors will be required to wear color-coded badges inside the school, as well as volunteers.

The other big change – security cameras will keep an eye on virtually the entire school grounds. The security system was donated by a local business.

Kyron disappeared on June 4, after attending a science fair at the school with his step-mom, Terri Moulton Horman.

Complete coverage: Kyron Horman disappearance

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) — Oregon liquor dealers and lobbyists are looking northward this fall to Washington state, where two competing initiatives would privatize liquor sales.

If either passes, Oregon would be the last "control" state on the West Coast. "Control state" means the government has a monopoly on hard liquor, which is sold at retail through 243 stores run by liquor agents.

The group's lobbyist tells the Eugene Register-Guard that passage might give Oregon reason to re-examine its system. Agents have bridled against the state's regulations. They can sell limes but not peanuts, for example, and prices are fixed.

Although Republican governor candidate Chris Dudley is calling for privatization, the liquor agents aren't necessarily going so far as to call for unlimited competition, however.

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Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com

PORTLAND -- They've woven their way across America from the Iowa corn fields to the Wisconsin dairies. They pedal in pursuit of a mission to bring bikes to the children of America's military families.

"They're going through such a really tough time right now. Families are being split apart. Children aren't growing up next to their mothers or fathers, you know," explained Paul LeBelle.

LeBelle and riding partner Adam Burkowske ride 60 to 70 miles each day using the children and the kindness of each community along the way to encourage them along the road.

"It's love that's kind of helped get us through the kindness of folks all over the country. From the moment we left, the first 50 miles until we wound up here," said Burkowske.

Here, the love disappeared. Monday, someone stole Paul's Cannondale touring bike right off the porch of the Northeast Portland home where they were staying.

"We had people coming in and out and we've got a dog that barks at everyone just walking by," explained Burkowske.

They never figured in a bike friendly city like Portland there was any risk. Yet now they're stranded with their ride to San Diego and their efforts for the children on hold.

"It just means less time to fundraise in all the other towns were going to pass along the way. It means more work that we have to put towards something that isn't what we've been doing," said Burkowske.

"We have to find a way to get a bike instead of raising funds to get bikes for kids," said LeBelle.

Paul and Adam don't harbor any ill will toward Portland, but they do ask the Rose City to be on the lookout. Paul's bike is a forest green Cannondale with blue handlebar grip tape, silver clipless pedals, three black water bottle holders, and a rear rack.

"No harm no foul. Just bring it back. It's my horse," explained LeBelle.

If you have any information in the case, you're asked to call the Portland Police Bureau or email Paul directly at BikeFree.Org.

VANCOUVER – Police shot and killed a man in Vancouver early Tuesday morning, authorities said.

Police said the man was armed and threatened officers. They said the confrontation occurred near the intersection of 4th Plain Blvd. and Fruit Valley Road, just west of downtown Vancouver.

No officers were injured. Police said more details would be released later Tuesday.

Police said three blocks of Fruit Valley Road would remain blocked off during the investigation.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Lake Oswego High School will reopen Tuesday after a $2.5 million-fix to a contractors mistake.

"It's a great building, great building for school but it had some significant flaws," said Lake Oswego School Superintendent Bill Korach.

After only five years the school leaked from the roof and the windows. Every window had to be taken out and then re-installed correctly so they wouldn't leak.

"The roof also leaked but that's all now been fixed and school is safe for students," said Korach, "If you've got water in those walls and that water is sitting there and you don't have the proper ventilation in there you're gonna get mold, and we did."

School administrators insisted that all the proper environmental testing to make sure all mold issues have been fixed. Inside the school it appeared that classrooms and teachers are ready for students on Tuesday.

"We checked and re-checked and we have to guarantee to our community that their kids are safe and they are safe," said Korach.

While school will open on Tuesday students will have to use side doors because scaffolding covers the front door.

Some will also have to park at the nearby church parking lot because contractors will be taking up some parking spaces at the rear of the school.

The first phase of fixing the leaking building is expected to be finished by late October.

The next phase begins next summer. Administrators say they hope to recoup the $2.5 million cost to fix the leaks through litigation.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A draft report from consultants says there is confusion, disorganization and frustration at the Oregon State Hospital.

The Salem Statesman Journal reports the Pennsylvania consultants were hired at a cost of $175,000 to study the hospital, which is undergoing major changes and is awaiting a new superintendent later this month.

Liberty Healthcare's report says the volume of change under way could overwhelm any organization. But it says the changes at the hospital have been inadequately planned and managed.

It says 28 committees are attacking problems without coordination, and there are universal complaints that meetings are chewing up time for patient care.

And it says managers have given up trying to deal with workers performing poorly because they believe nothing can be done.

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Information from: Statesman Journal, http://www.statesmanjournal.com

CLACKAMAS, Ore. -- Rescuers pulled a man to safety Monday after he fell down a steep embankment on the Clackamas River.

Clackamas County deputies said the 46-year-old man was "extremely intoxicated" as he was walking near Highway 224.

Crews said he fell about 30 feet down and was unresponsive and tangled in blackberry bushes.

A Clackamas Fire rope rescue team was able to pull the man up using a low angle rope system. The man suffered minor injuries in the fall.

PHILOMATH, Ore. (AP) — A Benton County man says a neighbor has shot and killed a young cougar prowling around poultry pens.

Reed Glasmann told the Corvallis Gazette-Times Friday the animal was on his property the evening before when Shane Mooney shot it.

Glasmann said Mooney was going to feed his ducks, geese and swans when he startled the animal. He says Mooney took his young son to the house, got a rifle and killed the cougar.

Last fall, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife estimated, 5,700 cougars roamed the state, and sightings are on the rise in the mid-Willamette Valley.

Five sheep have been lost to predation at a Linn County farm where six cougars have been shot or trapped.

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Information from: Gazette-Times, http://www.gtconnect.com

EUGENE, Ore. -- A Eugene man was found dead Monnday along Interstate 5 near Yoncalla.

Oregon State Police said a commercial trucker saw 26-year-old Jesse Golden lying in the shoulder of the northbound lanes near a green Honda Accord just after 3 a.m.

It was near the Cox road overpass. Investigators don't think he was hit, but may have fallen or jumped from the overpass.

Anyone who may have been traveling northbound on I-5 at the time was asked to call OSP at (541) 776-6111.

HILLSBORO, Ore. -- A man is dead after a car hit him along Highway 8 in Hillsboro SUnday.

Deputies believe the victim may have been intoxicated when the accident happened at about 1 a.m. near 331st Avenue.

Deputies said 20-year-old Guadalupe Grajeda got out of a vehicle driven by his father and started walking along the road.

Police said Grajeda stepped in front of another driver and died at the scene.

No charges were expected for the driver.