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Study —what happens to women whenthey are denied abortions?F1
Erik Larson —Thebestselling author of "The Devil in the White City" is coming to speak at Bend High School.C1
ill Werld lleWS —Iranians go to the polls and choosea new president: Moderate reformer HassanRowhani. A2
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more than they bargained for when writing about school security: a trip to jail.
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NSA leaker recalled as quiet and withdrawn By Carol D. Leonnig, Jenna Johnson and Marc Fisher The Washington Post
He dropped out of high school in the middle of 10th
grade, yet won well-paying positions that came with overseas travel and access to some of the world's most closely held secrets. He had a vivacious, Snowden out g o ing girlfriend and boasted online about his interest in nubile, beautiful women, even as he secluded himself in a nightscape of computer games, anime and close study of the Internet's architecture. Edward Snowden, the skinny kid from suburban Maryland who took it upon himself to expose — and, officials say, severely compromise — classified U.S. government surveillance programs, loved role-playing games, leaned libertarian, worked out hard and dabbled in modeling. He relished the perks of his jobs with the CIA and some of the world's most prestigious employers. Yet his girlfriend considered it a major accomplishment when she got him to leave the house for a hike with friends. Snowden, 29, emerged a week ago from his status as an anonymous source for stories on NSA surveillance. SeeSnowden/A4
Geoff Wagner, 30, clockwise from top left, his wife Cassaundra, 28, and their kids Brooklyn, 4, and, Houstyn, 3, get pumped up about the Beavers' participation in the College World Series at their home in Redmond Friday afternoon.
• Former Beavs slugger Geoff Wagner saystoday'ssquad hasthesamemojo By Mark Morical The Bulletin
Through all the games, from Little League to college ball, Steve Wagner wanted his twin sons, Geoffrey and Mychal, to do just one thing. "Well, he always wanted us to compete, and he had us doing that from an early age," says Redmond's Geoff Wagner, who lost his father last month to complications from a brain tumor. "We always tried to do that to the best. I felt like he really liked that. We were probably too excessive at some times, but that's the biggest thing we wanted to do and the best thing to please dad — 'Let's compete, let's try to win' — and he loved it, and it was fun." Growing up in Central Oregon with his dad coaching his youth travel teams, Geoff, now 30, matured as a left-handed power hitter and went on to star at Redmond
and Bend high schools. He earned a spot on the Oregon State University baseball team in 2005 and 2006, winning a national championship with the Beavers inhis senior year.Wagner traveledto Omaha, Neb., to the College World Series in both of his years at Oregon State, and he sees some striking similarities between those teams and the 2013 OSU squad, which opened play in the eight-team CWS on Saturday. "We didn't have any negative energy, and these guys don't have it," Wagner says. "They've followed the same formula that we used. Everything has to click, and everybody has to buy in, and they have that this year." A 2001 graduate of Bend High School, Wagner played small-college baseball before joining the Beavers in 2005 asa reserve outfielder. SeeSeries/A4
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Geoff Wagner plays for the Beavers baseball team in June 2006. He went to the College World Series then and in 2005.
50M diamond heist soonturned comic By Doreen Carvajal New York Times News Service
GENEVA — When squads of fakepolice officersarrived in a whirl of blue lights, they struck with clockwork precision, plundering closely guarded packets of diamonds from the cargo hold of a parked plane and fleeing with-
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out troubling the passengers. Since the theft on the windblown tarmac of the Brussels airport in February, though, the episode has veered from thriller to comedy, featuring a roundup of unusual suspects who, naturally, came together in Casablanca, Morocco. The robbery was marked
gal experts are still trying to figureout how foreclosures will be processed in Oregon, after a pair of June 6 rulings by the Oregon Supreme Court gave lenders the go-ahead to transfer mortgages through an electronic database rather than in county clerks offices. Housing and mortgage officials have been watching to see if lenders will start filing foreclosures out of court following the rulings. The state Supreme Court justices said Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, or MERS, can't initiate foreclosures in its name, but can, in some cases, represent lenders that aim to foreclose as an "agent" on their behalf. Out-of-court, or nonjudicial foreclosures, have been the preferredmethod to foreclose in Oregon since 1959. But one of the cases to make it to the state Supreme Court, a foreclosure filed against Rhododendron resident Rebecca Niday in 2009, brought the out-of-court process to a halt. In July, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled the foreclosure against Niday was invalid because MERS initiated it. See MERS/A5
by meticulous planning, inside information and swift execution — eight armed men in 11 minutes — that left investigators marveling. As the investigation has deepened in Morocco, Belgian officials conceded last week that the value of the cargo stolen might be far higher than the $50 mil-
lion first estimated. But the frantic effort to sell the diamonds afterward was so ham-handed that some who watch the industry have begun to doubt that the robbers were after diamonds at all, but were instead seeking hard cash. SeeHeist/A4
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For Jose Santos Benavides, the ordeal of losing his home was over. The Salvadoran immigrant had worked for years as a self-employedlandscaper to make a $15,000 down payment on a four-bedroom house in Rockville, Md.. He had achieved a portion of the American dream, earning nearly six figures. Then the economy soured, and lean paychecks turned into late mortgage payments. On Aug. 20, 2008, one year after he bought his dream home for $469,000, the bank's threat to takehishouse became real via a letter in the mail. Just four days before the bank seizedthe property, he moved out, along with his family. That wasn't the worst of lt. In November, more than threeyears after the foreclosure, he was stunned to learn he still owed $115,000 — with the interest alone growing at a rate high enough to lease a luxury car. SeeDebt/A5
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