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Jon Harder hit the jackpot in January when then-President Donald Trump commuted his sentence as Harder was six years into a 15-year prison term. But the Salem entrepreneur, who was convicted of defrauding 1,200 investors out of about $120 million, ran out of luck Tuesday in federal court. A judge ruled that Harder must repay more than $79 million in restitution to his investors. The sudden ...

Letter from the Editor: The Nora story evolves into book project Updated Mar 07, 2021; Facebook Share From time to time, a newspaper story is so compelling it becomes a book. But not without a lot of work. And, now, this month, it will hit the shelves. The book project arose from his coverage of Nora, the polar bear cub that lived at the Oregon Zoo for a time and, now grown, is due back there soon. Williams’ five-part series for The Oregonian/OregonLive, featuring photography by Dave Killen, won numerous journalism prizes but a full-length book treatment wasn’t really on his mind.