Ted Sickinger

| If you've been enjoying this stretch of fine fall weather, get out and enjoy it now. It looks like we'll have another day of it before rain returns.

| Planning a Columbus Day outing to the beach? Keep this in mind:

| Morning sunshine will give way to clouds and then rain this afternoon as a front along the coast slides inland, according to the National Weather Service.

| A man was fatally shot by police officers Saturday afternoon at the Motel 6 in Lincoln City when he reportedly reached for a firearm tucked in his waistband when confronted by police.

| Four workers at an egg farm in Southeast Washington's Franklin County tested presumptively positive for avian influenza after working with infected poultry, according to state health officials.

An Alaska Airlines flight leaving Portland Sunday morning en route to Orlando was forced to make an emergency landing after striking a bird.

Wet weather will stick around for much of the week.

No arrests were made.

Police found the gun under the car's passenger seat

| As anti-immigrant rhetoric reaches a new crescendo nationwide, stoked by election-year politics and candidates' grossly distorted and