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ROSE FESTIVAL ROYALTY The issue: Who gets the prize for the street that's produced the most Rose Festival royals? The winner: In a June 29 story, we crowned a cluster of streets in Eastmoreland the victor, with four queens...

A 9-year-old boy playing in the Columbia River stopped breathing briefly Sunday afternoon, apparently after being overcome by carbon monoxide while swimming near the exhaust outlet of the family's boat....

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He immersed himself in books about space travel, NASA, and the science and engineering it took to send men to the moon and back. The more he read, the more he saw a guide for his own life.

A shroud of secrecy will cloak the document until 4 p.m. Monday. At that time, the report will be made public for the first time, city officials say, even to members of the City Council.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Ever the gentleman, Hershel McGriff was good-natured about finishing 13th in a NASCAR-sanctioned race at age 81. "My competition was faster," he deadpanned.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has identified the American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured.

TWISP, Wash. -- A noted sound engineer and concert audio mixer has been shot to death outside a motel room in Twisp, Wash. Police Chief Rick Balam tells KING Television in Seattle that 49-year-old Tom Pfaeffle apparently put his room key into the wrong door Friday night at the Blue Spruce Motel.

MERIDIAN, Idaho (AP) -- High school male wrestlers wearing bras from bikini bathing suits, to drum up car-wash business for a fundraiser in the Boise area, have been told to clean up their act.

BILLINGS, Mont. -- The fate of the Yellowstone region's grizzly bears will be decided in federal court following the collapse of negotiations over whether the animal should be listed as endangered.

TUALATIN — The 59th Annual Tualatin Crawfish Festival has announced that the Friday night headliner will be The Jacob Merlin Band and that Saturday night’s headliner will be 5 Guys Named Moe. The Jacob Merlin Band will kick off the festival with a mix of dance covers and original tunes ...

A 21-year-old Estacada man was arrested Sunday morning and charged with driving while intoxicated after a Saturday evening accident killed a 34-year-old White Salmon, Wash., motorcyclist. Oregon State Police said Christopher Mixon was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants and ...

A 30-year-old Forest Grove man died Saturday evening in a head-on collision on Northwest Cornelius-Schefflin Road. Washington County sheriff’s deputies said Jeremy Bryant was killed at about 6:19 p.m. when the silver 2003 Pontiac Grand Prix he was driving collided head-on with a tractor ...

A 39-year-old man was arrested Saturday for driving while intoxicated and manslaughter after an early morning accident in which a pedestrian was killed in the 3600 block of Southeast Powell Boulevard. Portland police said Douglas Green was taken into custody during an investigation of the accident ...

A cat that apparently had been stranded for about five days on the Carver Bridge in Clackamas County was rescued Saturday morning by a special team from the Oregon Humane Society. A member of the group’s Technical Animal Rescue Team rappelled over the bridge’s railing and spent about ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal investigator says the operator of a light-rail train that crashed in San Francisco, injuring dozens of passengers, switched his controls from automatic to manual before he should have.

NEW YORK (AP) — Irish author Frank McCourt has died in New York City at age 78. Brother Malachy McCourt says Frank McCourt died Sunday afternoon at a Manhattan hospice.

GARY, Ind. (AP) — Michael Jackson fans and curious sightseers still are beating a path to his boyhood home more than three weeks after his death on June 25th.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mass-kissing protest near the Mormon church temple drew a shouting match between gay activists and a group of faithful Mormons.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has identified the American soldier who went missing June 30th from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured.

A child playing in the water near a boats exhaust port loses consciousness and stops breathing.

Officers arrested a man in connection with two robberies in the same hour after witnesses took the mans gun, police say.

A man suffered minor injuries when he was shot in the leg late Saturday night in northeast Portland.

A fire burned three acres of brush and trees in southwest Washington on Saturday.

State police arrested an Estacada man Saturday night after a crash killed a motorcyclist on Highway 224, troopers say.

The King County Fair is the oldest continuously-running fair west of the Mississippi. This year, it was nearly cancelled.

Wild horses in 10 states, including Oregon and Idaho, would get more room to roam and perhaps avoid the slaughterhouse under a bill approved Friday by the U.S. House.

Last August, Washington Governor Chris Gregoire declared a temporary ban on non-emergency state travel. It was later written into state law.

Photographs and videos helped investigators in Deschutes County track down five men accused of illegally taking wildlife. Additional charges are pending in Idaho.

On the banks of the Columbia River, one of the Northwest's smallest counties is battling for survival. In the words of one commissioner, Wahkiakum County - in rural Southwest Washington - is being battered by a "perfect storm."

An elderly man was robbed in the restroom of a Gresham flea market Saturday, but when the robber tried to flee, he was confronted by patrons, and a struggle began. They were able to hold him until police arrived. A look at his mugshot shows how violent this incident became.

Oregon is on the verge of becoming the first Western state to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp. A spokesman for Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he plans to sign Oregon's new hemp bill into law. Oregon will then become the seventh state to allow farmers to grow hemp.

A young boy was recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday after he stopped breathing while swimming near the back of his family's idling boat, authorities said. It happened shortly before 4 p.m. at Chinook Landing Marine Park on the Columbia River near Fairview.

A man accidentally shot himself in the leg Sunday while riding in a car on Interstate 5, the Washington State Patrol reports. The accident happened just after 11 a.m. as the car was heading south near Federal Way.

A Vancouver, Wash., father wanted after fleeing with his 2-month-old son this month turned himself in to police Saturday evening after telling KATU he and his wife just did not want their baby to end up in foster care.

Ray Shaw, chairman of American City Business Journals -- parent company of the Portland Business Journal -- died early Sunday morning from complications following a bee sting. He was 75.

Portland is No. 5 on the country’s “Happiest City for Families” list released by McDonald’s Corp. (MCD)

Slightly less than half of the responders to last week’s Business Pulse Survey say they will sign the petition to recall Portland Mayor Sam Adams and will also vote to recall him.

Bankrupt outdoor apparel company Eddie Bauer Holdings announced Friday that it had been bought by Golden Gate Capital.

Despite growing loan losses and deteriorating credit quality, Bank of America Corp. managed a $2.42 billion second-quarter profit, the bank reported Friday. (BAC)

A woman is suing Oaks Park, alleging she suffered several injuries in September 2007 when she was hit by the miniature train that circles the park . Shelly Fairfield claims in her lawsuit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court that she was standing “on the premises controlled and operated by defendant Oaks Park, when suddenly and [...] Related posts: JUICY SUITS: Whacked by a Fred Meyer Frozen ...

A Southwest Portland man is seeking revenge in court on telemarketing companies for robocalls he allegedly received on his cell phone. He wants the companies to pay him $1,500 per call. Chris Hughson, a 30-year-old financial analyst, fired off two lawsuits in Multnomah County Circuit Court on Thursday over seven unwanted automated phone calls he says he [...] Related posts: JUICY SUITS: Of Booze ...

In a shocking breach of diligence, we have neglected to report that the long-proposed (20 years and counting) “headquarters hotel” that Mayor Sam Adams and others want to build adjacent to the Oregon Convention Center has been delayed (PDF) yet again. Proponents have struggled to find financing for the project and to convince skeptics that it [...] Related posts: Lodging Group Pans Mayor’s HQ ...

The Huffington Post is reporting that U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and five other senators have sent a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders urging them to slow down Congress’s efforts to bring universal health care. Wyden and Co. are already taking a beating on liberal blogs, with the Huffington Post story dubbing them a “gang [...] Related posts: Protesters Demand Wyden Include A Public ...

The Portland branch of Stop Genocide Now doesn’t want you (or President Obama) to forget the ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of Western Sudan. You can bust out your pencil and paper and write to your U.S. senator or representative during a letter-writing campaign with volunteers for the global human rights network this Sunday, July [...] Related posts: Sunday School [NEWS STOR UPDATED WITH ...

Nick Hutmacher enjoyed a little banter with the riders he shuttled to and from the Salem Art Fair & Festival on Saturday afternoon.

Visitors to White Wind Farm in Silverton didn't need a time machine to travel back in time on Saturday — just an active imagination.

INDEPENDENCE — Chris Harrison endured a few extremes before landing his 1978 Great Lakes biplane at the Independence Airpark on Saturday.

Two post office locations in the Salem area might be closed as part of a nationwide cost-cutting move by the U.S. Postal Service.

A recent Environmental Protection Agency report shows that Oregon's air-toxin problems are mostly related to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from wood stoves and fireplaces, benzene from tailpipes and carbon tetrachloride, a widely used solvent until its ban in the United States in 1970.