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The U.S. Coast Guard launched three boats and a helicopter to search off the Oregon coast for a boat that had sent a mayday call. The Coast Guard station in North Bend had received the call for help around 9:15...

A Salem woman was arrested Saturday on accusations of animal neglect as authorities seized 40 horses and nearly two dozen other animals from her home and other locations. Kristina N. Early, 26, is being held in Marion County Correctional Facility,...

Ted S. Warren/Associated PressJustin Hall throws a salmon to a co-worker behind the counter at Pike Place Fish, at Seattle's Pike Place Market, last week. Members of PETA protested a veterinary convention Saturday in Seattle after it refused to cancel...

Paul Cameron KlickA Damascus man arrested Thursday in a Peeping Tom case was arrested again late Friday on additional accusations including encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree. Paul Cameron Klick, 43, is being held in Clackamas County...

Police chief says the training is "a departure" but thinks it will be an improvement, overall

Oregon's college students will pay higher tuition next year, but not as much as they would have without Gov. Ted Kulongoski's last-minute intervention.

The sun is shining and temperatures are rising above 80 regularly.

Golf buddies Mike Truax and Bill McClain were on an epic round Friday.

A Salem man who held his ex-wife hostage for more than seven hours was arraigned in Marion County Circuit Court on Thursday.

A man suspected of robbing a Woodburn bank after 10 years on the lam has been arrested.

Mac Barrett / The ArgusMetro approved high capacity transit corridors on Thursday. Metro says 99W, Powell, WES first up for more transit, but density in Hillsboro could be rewarded with second MAX line PORTLAND -- For the past 20 years,...

Forest Grove Mayor Richard Kidd was disheartened this week with the release of Metro staff's prioritization of future high capacity transit corridors. For more than a decade, Kidd has been pushing for an extension of the MAX Blue Line to...

A Washington County district attorney says a get-together of former Liberty High School students in the Helvetia area became the scene of a sexual attack on a Montana woman Dec. 21, 2008. A defense attorney for 21-year-old William Perez says...

Michal Thompson / The ArgusAlex Ferrell, 14, enjoys a conciliatory ice cream cone after a somewhat rough ride Wednesday aboard Keso at the annual Washington County Horse Fair. In front of small but enthusiastic crowds, 4-H horse club members from...

Michal Thompson / The ArgusThe auditorium wing of J.B. Thomas Middle School resembles a medieval ruin after workers punched out this archway. The opening, visible from Northeast Jackson Street, lets heavy machinery into the interior. Pedestrians strolling Lincoln Street stopped...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- More people are shopping for food in their own backyard. Not only with a garden -- but with livestock. Now there is a Southeast Portland store helping keep them down on the “urban farm.”

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Portland Trail Blazers signed restricted free agent forward Paul Millsap to an offer sheet Friday. The Utah Jazz have seven days to match the offer. The terms were not disclosed by the Blazers because of team policy.

VANCOUVER -- A West Linn man is dead after a high speed chase in Clark County. The Washington State Patrol says the driver was speeding in the southbound lanes of I-5 just before 2 a.m.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Thousands of Portlanders are expected to pack the streets of Mississippi Avenue Saturday for the annual Mississippi Street Fair. It’s the eighth year of the fair that’s been growing since its inception in the up and coming North Portland neighborhood.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Robbery assault victim Nicole Loundree was recovering at the hospital as police continued to investigate the case Friday. Now the 37-year-old's crowning achievement may be survival. A district manager for Ace Checks Cashed, Police said Loundree was working when she was attacked.

CINCINNATI (AP) - A Bible taken from an Ohio victim who was shot and robbed during a multistate killing spree helped tie an Oregon trucker to the crime.

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) - Phone users in much of Oregon are being urged to start using 10 digits as of Sunday.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Government sources say Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program eight years ago that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June.

WASHINGTON (AP) - One of the people taking part in an Iran protest in Washington Saturday says they want to make sure U.S. policy makers don't forget about the crackdown that followed last month's disputed presidential election in Iran.

MIAMI (AP) - The National Hurricane Center says Carlos has become a hurricane swirling far off Mexico's eastern Pacific coast. The storm's maximum sustained winds have increased to near 80 mph and the center in Miami says the storm could further strengthen in the next 24 hours.

A Salem woman was arrested on 70 counts of animal neglect after dozens of horses were seized from her property, sheriff's deputies say.

A Bible taken from an Ohio victim who was shot and robbed during a multistate killing spree helped tie an Oregon trucker to the crime and send him back to a death penalty state.

During his 35 years as a commercial fisherman, Jeff Feldner lost his share of crab pots when storms blew them out of position, a passing boat propeller sheared off the buoy, or a bank of kelp overwhelmed everything and dragged it away.

Two men were tied up with duct tape when three robbers invaded their Beaverton apartment Friday night, police said.

The Portland Trail Blazers signed restricted free agent forward Paul Millsap to an offer sheet Friday.

The federal government has agreed to spend $12 million to help the Oregon Military Department rehab an armory just outside of Dallas.

 Washington's Attorney General plans to ask the state Supreme Court to lift a stay of execution for death row inmate Cal Coburn Brown. That's after a lower court ruled  Friday that Washington's lethal injection protocols are constitutional.

The father of 15-month-old Ava Worthington told a court Friday that there was no need for medical intervention because anointing her with oil, praying and fasting appeared to be working.

A group of Model T cars is on the last leg of a tour from New York to Seattle this week.

Friday, efforts continue to free a barge that's stuck on the Columbia River near the mouth of Hood River.

Kathleen Peters, 39, waxes nostalgic as her father, Mike A. Porter, 64, backs his car out of his Gresham garage. In the 1970s when the law didn’t care so much, she was able to ride with him during weekly area drag races. How fast would Daddy go? “I just remember the glove compartment ...

The city of Beaverton settled a long, simmering lawsuit late last week with The Round Owners Association over outstanding heating and cooling payments. The city announced Wednesday that it collected a settlement July 2 totaling $1,466,364. The lawsuit was filed in July 2008 after The Round, a ...

Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services is monitoring a sewage spill that has fouled Cedar Creek in the Forest Heights neighborhood since Tuesday, July 7. Bureau officials said Friday that crews responded to reports of sewage leaking from a manhole into Cedar Creek. Cedar Creek flows ...

Oregon has the highest proportion of homeless people in the nation, according to a new report on homelessness issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In Oregon, 0.54 percent of all residents were homeless in 2008, a higher share than any other state, according to ...

Raylene Worthington told jurors Friday afternoon that she felt prayer and fasting had improved her 15-month-old daughter’s health, even though less than an hour later tiny Ava died next to her. Raylene, 26, spent part of the afternoon on the witness stand, testifying in her defense during ...

A driver who led state troopers on a high-speed chase down Interstate 5 early Saturday died when his car slammed into the back of a truck, according to the Washington State Patrol.

'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The two adult children of former Vancouver police officer Clyde Ray Spencer, who spent nearly 20 years in prison after being convicted of molesting them, testified in court Friday the abuse never...

Change is everywhere, including the dangerous world of illegal drugs. With methamphetamine now selling for more than its weight in gold — and heroin increasingly common in Clark...

A 34-year-old man was being held on $250,000 bail Friday, a day after he allegedly attacked his parents in Camas and led police on a high-speed, 18-minute pursuit through Cascade Park that ended with...

A group of half-naked animal-rights activists dressed like fish say a veterinary convention is no place for fish-throwing. The PETA protesters donned fish tails and laid down on a Seattle sidewalk to call attention to what they call animal abuse.

Also, on Monday, the hourly rate for on-street parking in Portland goes up to $1.60 in the central business district while it will cost you $1.35 per hour to park in the Marquam Hill District and $1 per hour in the Lloyd District.

Former Vancouver police officer Clyde Ray Spencer spent nearly 20 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually molesting his son and daughter. Now, the children say it never happened, and they took the stand Friday to clear their father's name.

Police are searching for three men in connection with a home invasion robbery Friday night in Beaverton in which the residents had their legs, hands and faces wrapped in duct tape. The roommates were not hurt, police said.

The Washington State Patrol said Russell Buckman reached speeds of 100 mph while trying to flee from two troopers in the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 in southwest Washington early Saturday.