No. 1 Jefferson 83, No. 4 Silverton 57: Terrence Jones scored 23 points and Antoine Hosley added 21 as the Democrats of North Portland rolled past the Foxes. Jefferson will go for its third consecutive championship tonight. Hosley made...

Jesuit's star center talks about defending the state title.Class 6A boys: Kyle Wiltjer talks about advancing to the title game...

A Cedar Hills man last seen Sunday at a Dim Sum restaurant in Southeast Portland has returned home and appears fine, according to a family member. Michael Russell, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/mrussell/index.html

Ok, folks ... next game on the docket with be the 1st of two Class 6A boys semifinal games today with the Jesuit Crusaders taking on the Lincoln Cardinals. If you want live audio and a way to follow...

On the heels of President Obama's controversial meeting with the Dalai Lama last month and ahead of an upcoming visit by local emissaries to Portland's sister city of Suzhou in eastern China, the proclamation has local business leaders fretting over fallout. Janie Har, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/jhar/index.html

Project Sponsors Council, with Adams and Bragdon of Oregon and Stuart and Leavitt of Washington, agrees to meet again to hash out differences over the project's direction Allan Brettman, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/aebrettman/index.html

The shooting occurred outside a club and left a 19-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the hip. Helen Jung, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/hjung/index.html

St. Agatha School in Sellwood plans a kid-friendly St. Patrick's Day celebration beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday and Linnton Community Center's annual St. Paddy's Day Dinner fundraiser is at 6 p.m. Sunday. Susan Green, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/sgreen/index.html

Three high school juniors and two seniors representing Glencoe, Aloha, Sherwood, Tigard and Sunset high schools will assemble onstage at the Hollywood Theatre at 3:30 p.m. Monday to hear which one of them will represent the suburbs as the 2010 metro-area princess. Susan Green, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/sgreen/index.html

An invasive species of Asian fruit fly, first spotted in the Willamette Valley last fall, has survived the winter and remains a threat to Oregon’s fruit crop.

Researchers with Oregon State University say it was only a couple of weeks ago that they found evidence of the spotted wing drosophila in some of their monitoring traps.

In just a few months, the flies were able to do some serious damage. According to OSU, Willamette Valley growers lost 20% of their blueberries and raspberries, as well as 80% of their late season peaches.

Unlike other fruit flies that prefer rotting fruit, this variety likes fruit the best just before it’s ready to be picked. OSU says it will also feed on a wide variety of grapes, cherries, pears and plums.

Getting rid of the pest won’t be easy. Simply applying pesticides will kill off other insects that are beneficial to fruit crops. And because the fly reproduces rapidly, it can also evolve and develop a resistance to pesticides during a single growing season.

The spotted wing drosophila is relatively new to the United States, so there’s a lot researchers have to learn. OSU is teaming up with staffers from the Oregon Department of Agriculture and the USDA. The group is testing more effective traps so they can better monitor what’s happening. They’re also trying an organic spray to kill the flies that survived the winter, before they lay eggs this spring.

A public session will be held on March 30, from 1 to 5 p.m., at the Airport Sheraton Hotel in Portland. Presentations and hands-on activities focus on the fly’s life cycle, field identification and monitoring, and evolving options for control. Pre-registration is not required.

More information on other workshops visit:

http://swd.hort.oregonstate.edu/

City officials working on the Portland Plan, a strategic plan that will shape how the city looks and grows during the next 25 years, will hold a workshop from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Monday at the New Columbia Community Education Center, 4625 N. Trenton St. Susan Green, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/sgreen/index.html

The search engine company's plan would open a whole new world of rapid downloads and new features for a winning community Allan Brettman, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/aebrettman/index.html

The Wasco County Sheriff's Office has concluded the death of Kathryn Robertson, daughter of the Oregon Health & Science University president, was an accident. She was struck by a train near The Dalles on the afternoon of Feb. 7. Bill Graves, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/bgraves/index.html

The Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton metro area ranked No. 1 among 43 U.S. metro areas in a report on America’s “green cities.”

J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Friday that a special bankruptcy process is needed to handle failures of the nation's global financial institutions. (JPM)

Condominiums at The Farm at Cal Young Road in Eugene are being sold through a sealed bid auction.

Washington Mutual’s bankrupt holding company has reached a ground-breaking settlement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and JPMorgan Chase, recovering more than $6 billion in a move that is likely to help bondholders and shareholders of the failed bank recover some of their lost value, according to a source familiar with the deal’s terms. (JPM)

The Portland Business Journal will honor two dozen outstanding business women during a luncheon April 8 at the Hilton Hotel in Portland. Vickie Kavanagh, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/vkavanag/index.html