Before recalling an all-metal artificial hip, Johnson & Johnson insisted it was safe and maintained that company-sponsored studies refuted complaints that the device was flawed.

The $172 billion bailout of Greece may set off the credit-default swaps on that country's debt, even though Europe is trying to avoid activating them.

Already reeling from economic crises, environmental measures in the Union are prompting disputes over fuel sources, airliners' emissions and solar subsidies.

Arraignment for a man accused of leading Astoria, Ore., police on a high-speed chase after he was shot and wounded by officers has been delayed a day after the man requested a Russian interpreter.

When you’re prepared for the worst, slightly bad news seems pretty good.

A public hearing Tuesday on granting a certificate of need for what would be Clark County’s second inpatient hospice center drew a crowd of nearly 100, mostly employees of two hospice providers at odds over the need for the proposed facility.

Who’s the Main crane brain? And why? Katelyn Carbajal said she and her supervisor at Beigeblond Hair Salon, 909 Main St. in Vancouver, noticed the evening of Feb. 15 a few paper cranes, folded in the Japanese origami style, tucked here and there around the storefront.

Columbia Way -- A sweet delivery from Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt was awarded to the highest bidder during Loaves & Fishes’ annual Valentine-a-Gram auction. The highest local bidder was Bill Byler, sales and marketing manager at Pedigo Products Inc., a health care equipment manufacturer at 4000 S.E. Columbia Way in Vancouver.

My mother, Jean, completed a degree in retailing at New York University, and by the late 1930s was employed as a buyer for Macy’s on 5th Avenue. Tom, whom she’d known in high school in Albany, Ore., where their families still lived, was now writing for the Seattle Times. They had remained friends as each had gone on to college at a different university.

The small Venersborg Cemetery isn’t full, but the plots have long been sold and the idea of expanding the cemetery has been around for years.