DEAR ABBY: I need a second opinion. My grandfather sold me an old farmstead that has been in the family for 200 years. Last week, he showed me a wooded area behind the barn with a human skull. He told me that when his father died more than 50 years ago, he was curious about how long it would take a body to decompose, so he left his body in the woods to keep track of its progress. He has 50 years’ worth of pictures and notes.

The Portland Winterhawks get challenged by a spirited Victoria Royals team; they fall behind twice, get outshot, and then get tied again near the start of the 3rd period. But a top performance by Portland’s best players, led by James Stefan’s hat trick, gives Portland a 6-5 win and a virtually unassailable 3-0 lead in the series.

Gavin Turley and Jacob Krieg each hit home runs and drove in three runs apiece, and the No. 5 Oregon State Beavers cruised to a 13-5 victory against Gonzaga on Tuesday night in Corvallis.

Anson Aroz drove in a pair and Michael Freund struck out seven over 6.0 innings in a 7-4 Ducks win over the Pilots Tuesday night at Joe Etzel Field.

Expect marble-sized hail (0.5 inches) and wind gusts of up to 40 mph.

Here are the winning numbers in Tuesday’s drawing:

Some of Israel’s closest allies, including the United States, on Tuesday condemned the deaths of seven aid workers who were killed by airstrikes in Gaza — a loss that prompted multiple charities to suspend food deliveries to Palestinians on the brink of starvation.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter century rocked the island during the morning rush hour Wednesday, damaging buildings and highways and causing the deaths of four people.

Pope, Oregon State’s leading scorer this past season, is not yet in the portal, a source told The Oregonian/OregonLive. But it’s expected to become official sometime this week.

The chief executive of the Tillamook County Creamery Association, which produces Tillamook brand cheese and dairy products, will step down this year.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday asked how best to hold the Oregon State Bar accountable if the court found that the bar had overstepped its authority by publishing political statements, including one criticizing former President Donald Trump.

Oregon State barely returned from its women’s NCAA Tournament Elite Eight run when the transfer portal began to take a bite out of the Beavers program.

The “Caitlin Clark Effect” was in full effect Monday night.

Dear Annie: I enjoy your column and read it every day.

Oregon’s ongoing public-defense crisis has ended the embezzlement case against a Portland advertising executive.

Clark County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man Tuesday for allegedly killing a man with a bow and arrow, officials said.

Intel said Tuesday that its manufacturing business lost nearly $7 billion last year, the first time the company has detailed the financial performance of its factory operations as their own business unit.

EUGENE — Two of Oregon’s most prominent offseason additions, receiver Evan Stewart and cornerback Jabbar Muhammad, arrived during spring break.

The Portland Trail Blazers have had their grips firmly around the designation of owning the fifth-worst record in the NBA for some time now.

A Portland woman pulled up in a Tesla with her two young children strapped into car seats to deliver marijuana to an undercover Lake Oswego officer who had negotiated to buy the drug from her on Snapchat.