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Portland fire bureau apologizes for wrongly accusing men of scam
PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland Fire and Rescue spokesman offered an apology on Wednesday after he and a detective wrongly identified two men as potential scam artists. On Tuesday, KATU ran a story about two men who walked into a Southeast Portland business claiming to be fire extinguisher inspectors and asking the business to pay for the inspection. But it turns out the men ...
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Artist fixes mans backwards tattoo honoring grandmother
I'm so glad this kid got his tattoo redone....and it will be beautiful and a wonderful tribute to his Grandmother. Good story!?(All the critical nay sayers on here can STFU. Thank ...
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‘You may want to consider relocating’ - Oregon police too broke to fight crime
USA There are only six deputies in the Josephine County, Oregon Sherriff's Office, and resources are so sparse that a woman was raped last year after an emergency dispatcher told her four times over the phone there was no one to help her. It was last August, and a woman was brutally raped and sodomized by her abusive ex-boyfriend after unsuccessfully pleading with a 911 dispatcher for ...
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Ore. man gets 4 years for gasoline dousing
CORNELIUS, Ore. (AP) -- A Washington County man accused of dousing his girlfriend and her house with gasoline has been sentenced to four years in ...
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Oregons Cash-Strapped Counties Reject Public Safety Levies
A yard sign opposes a local tax increase to fund public safety in Josephine County, Oregon. The ballot measure reportedly failed by a thin ...
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Veterinarian More marijuana means more poisoned dogs
SEATTLE -- Last month, Seattle resident Katherine Evans took her dog Abby on a long walk through the Arboretum and Montlake Playground. Three hours after the walk, Abby was vomiting, stumbling and twitching. "I was pretty scared," Evans said. A veterinarian at Animal Critical Care and Emergency Services, or ACCES, in Lake City told Evans Abby was likely having a serious toxic ...
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REFILE-Panasonic to stop making silicon wafers at Oregon factory-Nikkei
Wed May 22, 2013 2:50pm EDT May 23 (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp will stop making silicon wafers, used in solar cells, at a factory in Oregon next month as it centralizes production at a plant in Malaysia, the Nikkei reported. Having shut down a plant in California last year, the company will have no processing facilities in the United States, the newspaper said. Panasonic makes silicon ingots at ...
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12-year-old Mass. boy wins National Geographic Bee
David Lyle, CEO of the National Geographic Channel, has seen enough of the letters to know how they go. The writer is typically a longtime reader of the magazine, who perhaps recalls the times he leafed through its glossy pages while perched on grandpa’s ...
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Fake fire inspectors try to scam SE Portland business police say
PORTLAND, Ore. – Police are looking for scammers posing as fire inspectors and trying to trick businesses into paying for bogus inspections. Two men recently walked ...
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Handcuffed man shows up at police station gets arrested
CENTRALIA, Wash. (AP) - A man was arrested at the Centralia Police Station after showing up in handcuffs. The 21-year-old walked to the station Saturday and asked for help taking them off. He said a friend bought them at a second-hand store, put the cuffs on him as a joke and threw the key on the lawn. The ...
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Oregons earliest pinot noir grapes get a plaque
Oregon Travel Experience will honor the spot where the state's first pinot noir was planted in 1961. A marker at HillCrest Winery and Distillery in Roseburg will honor an important moment in Oregon history. Oregon Travel Experience will install a plaque in early 2014 at HillCrest, which planted the states first pinot noir grapes in 1961. HillCrest released its first wine in 1967, signalling ...
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Oregon pinot noir Put a plaque on it
Oregon Travel Experience will honor the spot where the state's first pinot noir was planted in 1961. A marker at HillCrest Winery and Distillery in Roseburg will honor an important moment in Oregon history. Oregon Travel Experience will install a plaque in early 2014 at HillCrest, which planted the states first pinot noir grapes in 1961. HillCrest released its first wine in 1967, signalling ...
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Ted Wheeler lends star power to TiE Pearls big opening
TiE Oregon President Nitin Rai. TiE Oregon debuts its new Pearl district incubator on May 29. Portlands newest tech incubator debuts with an open house and visit by one of the states highest officials next week. State Treasurer Ted Wheeler is the guest of honor as Tie Oregon launches its newest incubator, TiE Pearl at ISITE, just north of the Pearl District. The open house is from 6 to 9 p.m., ...
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Ore. man wounded in break-in at girlfriends home
TERREBONNE, Ore. (AP) -- Deschutes County authorities say a man who suspected his girlfriend was seeing someone else has been wounded trying to break into her ...
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Four-car crash impacts traffic at SE Cesar Chavez and Stark
PORTLAND, Ore. - A four-car crash shut down traffic at a southeast Portland intersection Wednesday morning. The crash happened just after 7 a.m. ...
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Man buys himself a Corvette crashes it into a power pole
BORING, Ore. - A man who just bought a 1989 Chevrolet Corvette ended up crashing it into a power pole and knocking out electricity to folks in Boring. The crash happened just after 9 p.m. Tuesday ...
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Power knocked out in SE Portland following crash
PORTLAND, Ore. - A car crashed into a power pole overnight, cutting off electricity to thousands of people in southeast Portland. The crash happened just before 3 a.m. ...
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Rogue River house burglars get away with $171000
The Jackson County sheriff's office says they broke in sometime between mid-April and early May while the homeowners were out of town. Burglars cut through a gun safe and made off with 14 guns, two Rolex watches, gold, platinum and silver coins and ingots, plus some ...
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Sex trade soap handed out at Portland motels
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Volunteers have been passing out bars of soap at motels along a Portland street known for its "lingerie shows" and prostitution ...
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Oregon DAs wants to reduce prison time for drugs
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- The Oregon District Attorneys Association wants to cut prison costs by reducing sentences for some drug crimes such as marijuana ...
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Money raised to keep Portland police on horses
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Portland mayor's office says the police Mounted Patrol Unit would survive this year if a private fundraising effort comes up with $200,000 in ...
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Hillsboro airport sees risk from coyotes
HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) -- The Port of Portland wants authority to kill deer, coyotes or other animals seen as a risk to pilots at the Hillsboro ...
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Want a career in wine Heres the Oregon college for you
David and Diana Lett were pioneers in Oregon's wine industry. This photo is part of the Oregon Wine History Archive at Linfield College, which just launched a new program to help prepare students for careers in wine. Been dreaming about leaving your office job to manage a vineyard or perhaps to put your love of wine to work as a sommelier? A new program at Linfield College could offer the ...
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Portland Ore. rejects adding fluoride to water supply
The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city's drinking water. With more than 80 percent of the expected ballots counted late Tuesday night, the Multnomah County election website showed the fluoride proposal failing, 60 percent to 40 percent. Mayor Charlie Hales supported fluoridation and said "the measure lost despite my own `yes' ...
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Officials expect snow on Bear Camp Road
Bear Camp Road, which traverses the Siskiyou Mountains between the remote Rogue River outposts of Galice and Agness, was expected to be blanketed this morning with up to 6 inches of snow, leading federal land managers to recommend motorists steer clear of the road for ...
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Portland animal shelters need every bit of help available
Animal abandonment remains a problem across the United States and Portland is no different, the Oregon Humane Society in Portland and Multnomah County Animal Services, routinely receive hundreds of animals each year, many of which are brought to them by the public or authorities who have found the animals wandering the streets.
In 2008, Portland became the buzz of the web when Portland news media reported that a pit-bull had boarded a city bus without anyone accompanying him and went for a ride. On the web, Portland became known as a pet-friendly city because the bus driven had allowed the dog to ride the bus. Read more
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