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Kyle Sonnen and girlfriend Laura Deatherage before he was killed in a car crash last month.Just before 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 13 Laura Deatherage logged on to Facebook and posted a short message on the wall of her boyfriend, Kyle Sonnen.
"i love you more than the world and wish i was in your arms up in heaven, i can't live without you."Laura said she can't help but believe Kyle heard her message.
"It was just kind of a way to talk to him - that there's this chance that he sees it," she said quietly, maybe still not sure herself what prompted her to leave him a message on the Internet.
At the very least, it was her way to say another goodbye.
Sonnen, 20, and Deatherage, 18, were traveling on the Mt. Baker Highway outside Bellingham, WA., on Feb. 7 when Sonnen attempted to pass another vehicle in a no-passing zone, according to police. Sonnen's 2000 Subaru hatchback slid off the road and hit a tree, killing him almost immediately. Laura suffered several injuries including a broken femur, a broken wrist and a gash on her head that required 22 staples.

A couple of weeks ago on a rainy Tuesday morning, Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury shuffled papers on his desk when his assistant informed him of a discreet caller on the line. It was President Clinton, and this time the phone call wasn’t to discuss personal pleasantries. Bradbury worked on Clinton’s presidential campaigns in 1991 and 1995, and both of their daughters, Chelsea Clinton and Zoe Bradbury, attended Stanford University together in the late 1990s
The former president was calling Bradbury, one of Oregon’s 12 so-called Super Delegates — there are 796 nationwide — to persuade him to cast his vote for Hillary rather than Barack Obama

With the election season coming up and candidates beginning to work
their ways out of the woodwork, it's hard to say if there's going to be
any barn-burning races quite yet. But in the realm of the Bend City
Council, there's been some rumblings as past planning commission and
budget committee member Don Leonard threw his hat into the ring for the
council's Position 4, currently held by Jim Clinton. We chatted it up
with Leonard, and here's what he had to say about leadership,
affordable housing, and what the public wants from their city
councilors.