A legally blind mountaineer summitted Mount Hood Sunday. picked by muppet 3 months ago

Thought about putting this in 'braindead'!! picked by topofall 2 months ago

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ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) - Remember that old safe that was found not so long ago, deep in the bowels of a fish cannery in Astoria? Plenty of people speculated about what might be inside, even as a locksmith had to be called in to crack the code.

Was it gold, emeralds, diamonds, rubies or just stacks of cash? picked by bevissimo 2 months ago

Could be permanently marked as sex offenders. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

Because they're engaged in a First Amendment-protected protest, the homeless people are exempt from Portland, Oregon's new sit-lie law, and the police are therefore powerless to move them on during the day.

Favorite quote from the article:

"This isn't camping, this is a protest." picked by Daftgretel 4 months ago

That's some nightmare he must have had. picked by muppet 4 months ago

A 66-year-old woman wrestled a robber to the ground Wednesday, giving police time to arrive on scene and take him into custody, police said picked by mutil8or 5 months ago

Woman leaves baby in field, says she wasn't sure she was pregnant until the day she gave birth. She said doctors had told her, but she thought they were wrong. She said the pregnancy was "a mystery."

i hope they don't give it back. what a freakin lunatic. picked by muppet 1 week ago

A Marion County judge sentenced a man to at least 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman whose body was found burning under a Salem bridge in 2006. picked by muppet 9 months ago

A man who claims he was pelted in the head by a snowball during January's snowstorm wants the guy who allegedly threw it to pay -- $4,350 plus attorney's fees. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

This is some seriously f'd up crap. The laws that we live under should be freely and easily available. The laws that we pay to have drafted and enforced should be public domain by their very nature. Copyrighting things like the numbering system is an obscene work-around. picked by 2manyusernames 4 months ago

Socratic Club Debate featuring Michael Shermer and Dinesh D'Souza. Monday, October 15, 7 PM, Austin Auditorium - LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago

She wanted to leave time for storytelling, polka dancing and private goodbyes. And at 4 p.m., she intended to drink a fatal dose of medication, allowed by Oregon law, that would end her life. picked by misswinkle 11 months ago

Researchers from Oregon announced that they managed to clone monkey embryos and extract stem cells that can make a breakthrough in human cloning. picked by maxriter 9 months ago

SALEM Ore. - Police Wednesday arrested a man they think was responsible for a Craigslist post that advertised a baby for sale and listed the names of a Lebanon husband and wife said to be the infant’s drug-addicted parents. picked by bevissimo 5 months ago

New evidence, based on mineral dating, suggests that rocks of the Blue Mountains, the oldest geological formation in Oregon, may have been derived from the Klamath and Sierra Nevada mountain chains, University of Oregon researchers report. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

A surgeon from Portland, Oregon, removed a gall bladder through a patient's mouth. This was an example of the first surgery that was performed in US, intended with less cuts, and thus being less intrusive. picked by maxriter 1 year ago

Oregon teacher wants to take gun to school. picked by tikirob 11 months ago

A father in Oregon is accused of raping girls as young as 14, with the help of his son.

Authorities say the two men are facing sex charges involving at least a half-dozen underage girls. picked by mutil8or 4 months ago

"This creature lived in Jurassic times, so it's 150 to 180 million years old. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago