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• Freeze Warning: Protect Your Plants

  A hot-and-cold summer for Central Oregon is ending on the frigid side of things, with Redmond breaking a record low Sunday and the National Weather Service issuing a freeze warning for the High Desert; nurseries offer advice to protect plants.

• Bend Bicyclist Injured in Parkway Crash

  A bicyclist crossing the Bend Parkway at Pinebrook Boulevard early Saturday was struck by a vehicle and hospitalized, officials said.

• Bend Man Dies in Apartment Balcony Fall

  A 44-year-old Bend man apparently lost his balance and fell over a second-story apartment balcony to his death Thursday night, police said.

• Endangered Or Not, Wolf Killings Set To Expand

  Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota.

• New Zealand Quake Tore New Fault Line

  The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new fault line in the Earth's surface, a geologist said Sunday.