BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard New scanners catch 31 trying to use fake tickets Thirty-one people using counterfeit To falsify, deceive, or defraud. A copy or imitation of something that is intended to be taken as authentic and genuine in order to deceive another. A counterfeit coin is one that may pass for a genuine coin and may include a lower denomination coin altered so that it may tickets were rejected from the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. football game on Saturday, the first home game to use a new digital system for checking tickets. Eugene police will conduct an investigation, police Sgt. Rich Stronach said. All season tickets, individual-game tickets and student tickets have been printed with a bar code this season, and more than 85 scanners have been installed at Autzen Stadium The stadium is tucked between the Willamette River and Coburg Hills. The uniquely shaped bowl blends in with the wooded Eugene landscape. The shape also allows for unique acoustics, making it one of the loudest stadiums in NCAA Football for its capacity. . The 31 with fake tickets were among 146 total fans ejected from the game against California, Stronach said. Most were thrown out for alcohol and behavior issues. The police party patrol also issued 131 citations on Friday and Saturday nights in the west university area, Stronach said. Most were cited for being minors in possession of alcohol, although two people were cited for urinating in public and another faced a felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. charge for possession of cocaine. Sunday rainfall sets record for the date More than an inch of rain fell in Eugene on Sunday, setting a record for the date, the National Weather Service in Portland said. A total of 1.17 inches had fallen as of 10 p.m., easily surpassing the date's record of 0.78 inch set in 2005. No such records are likely to be broken the rest of this week, however. The forecast for today and early Tuesday is mostly cloudy cloudy (clou´de) 1. murky; turbid; not transparent. 2. marked by indistinct streaks. with a chance of showers. However, a new weather system due Tuesday night is likely to bring at least some light rain, meteorologist Dave Elson said. Sunnier weather could arrive by the weekend, but with high temperatures reaching only the mid-60s, Elson said. Sunday's daylong day·long adj. Lasting through the whole day. adv. Through the day; all day. Adj. 1. daylong - lasting through an entire day rain pushed Eugene's total rainfall for the year to date to 17.67 inches, still far below the normal rainfall of 30.82 inches in the first nine months of the year. Traffic on Sunday was normal despite the heavy rainfall, Eugene police Lt. Jennifer Bills said. Fender-benders during the day included at least three on Belt Line Road. She warned commuters to add a few extra minutes to their travel time and drive cautiously today, because oil still on the roads from summer coupled with additional heavy rain makes roads extra slick See SLC. . -From Register-Guard and news service reports |
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