Random bits on politics, journalists and birthday girl. -- One reason to be concerned with President Obama's welfare is that Vice President Joe Biden is just a heartbeat away from the top job. What a scary thought. Biden was recently in San Francisco the week the 49ers met the New

Apple billed this summer's release of Mac OS X Lion as having more than 200 new features, but most coverage of Lion in the intervening months has focused on only a handful of them. While iOS-like navigation and app-launching interfaces, autosave/restore capabilities, AirDrop file sharing and an emergency restore partition are by all means important, there are a lot of helpful tweaks and ...

Eugene police captured an alleged bank robber this morning just 21 minutes after the crime was reported. The suspect is identified as Daniel Eli LaFuente, 29. Officers took him into custody at 20th Avenue and Lawrence Street at 11:35 a.m. At 11:14 a.m., a robbery was reported at a Key …

CEDAR RAPIDS –A judge this week assessed a $60,000 civil penalty against Affordable Housing Network, Inc. for a number of asbestos-related violations that occurred during a 2009-2010 renovation of the Hawthorne Hills apartment complex. In a petition filed Wednesday in Linn County District Court, Attorney General Thomas Miller claimed the Affordable Housing Network, a non-profit [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration, in an election-year bid to help distressed homeowners, on Friday expanded its main foreclosure prevention program, and pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive mortgage debt.