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--> --> Posted Thursday, February 7, 2002 News update: One child dead in fire A 3-year-old girl has died from injuries suffered in an early morning apartment fire in Ashland, authorities said late this afternoon. Smoke detectors in the room where the child died and in adjacent living areas were not working because there were no batteries, said Ashland Fire Chief Keith Woodley. Students fight for grant funds as state special session nears Rows of empty chairs marked with `10 students' signs are displayed in the Stevenson Union courtyard Wednesday representing the cost of students lost from Southern Oregon University under proposed budget cuts, as ASSOU co-president Tamara Henderson speaks in background. Ashland Daily Tidings/DENISE BARATTA The state budget is an ugly thing, and its theme - cuts, cuts, cuts - echoes through the campuses of Ashland schools scaring students, teachers, faculty and parents alike. Advocates off to Salem to fight for school funds Kitzhaber makes another veto threat to legislators SALEM (AP) - Gov. John Kitzhaber made another veto threat, and Libertarians threatened to run "spoiler" candidates against any lawmakers who vote to raise taxes as a budget stalemate remained unresolved. Enron brass take Fifth in Senate probe WASHINGTON - Two former Enron executives at the heart of a web of partnerships that kept company debt off the books invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify to Congress today. Email your... Technical questions & comments to: WebMaster Daily Tidings editorial comments & questions to: Editor Visit our other Oregon Newspapers... | Albany Democrat-Herald | Ashland Daily Tidings | Corvallis Gazette-Times | | Lebanon Express | Newport News-Times | Springfield News | Cottage Grove Sentinel | Ashland Daily Tidings 1661 Siskiyou Blvd. Ashland, OR 97520 Telephone 541-482-3456 © Copyright 2001 Lee Northwest Publishing