McMinnville boys sue over strip-searches
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Two McMinnville boys who were prosecuted last year on felony sex abuse charges for swatting the behinds of girls at their middle school are now suing Yamhill County over juvenile strip-search practices. Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison are two of six ...

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Icahn drops bid to merge American Railcar, Greenbrier
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Maybe Carl Icahn's mind is elsewhere. But the zillionaire will not be merging The Greenbrier Cos. of Lake Oswego with his own railcar company. This development sits just fine at Greenbrier. "We still have a healthy respect for his company and a healthy ...

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Reluctant pastor says 'sorry' to his victims
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Four Portland-area Chili's Grill & Bar restaurants close
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Locked doors and news reports were the only notices that many employees of four Portland-area Chili's Grill & Bar restaurants received Monday and Tuesday informing them they were out of work. Several said while jobs of the roughly 200 employees at ...

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Craft soda options overflow for consumers
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A stroll down the soda aisle of any high-end Portland-area grocer proves Hotlips isn't exactly pioneering the craft soda business. Better yet, check out Moxie's, a Vancouver soft-drink emporium that sells about 300 varieties of soda from around the ...

Random shot turns life upside down
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In the moments after a sniper shot Bonnie Bain in the collarbone while she was riding in a car along Interstate 205, she told her husband sitting next to her that the last 111/2 years of knowing him were the best in her life. She asked him to tell ...

Big ball of Columbia River sturgeon baffles experts
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When sonar surveys spotted a vast pile of rubble in the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam late last winter, officials suddenly worried that part of the dam structure was eroding into the river. "Everybody said, 'Oh my gosh, we need to get divers out ...

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Intel starts to think outside the cubicle
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Pope & Talbot almost history
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Pope & Talbot Inc., the Portland-based wood products company whose history is longer than the state of Oregon's, is taking its last gasps this week as its protracted bankruptcy comes to a frustrating end. On Thursday, the company faced the expiration ...

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Survivor discovers his river journeys in sync with nursing
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A near-fatal wreck sent him to the river, and the river carried him to nursing. That's how Nick Goymerac, 31, describes his journey that culminates Sunday, when he receives a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Portland. The private ...

Portland born Developer Joe Weston named First Citizen of the Year by Realtors ...
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Joe Weston hopped out of his banana yellow VW bug and strode into the Subway sandwich shop, dark jacket zippered over a starched white shirt with monogrammed cuffs. Weston, 70, owns more than $500 million in real estate. His private foundation ...

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Greenland's tropic phase hard to pin down
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For years, climate researchers puzzled over a long hot spell about 90 million years ago, when tropical breadfruit trees flourished in Greenland, crocodiles slithered above the Arctic Circle and at least a few dinosaurs roamed Antarctica. It's a serious ...

Former basketball star Charlie Sitton and father-in-law take over Hayden's ...
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Former Oregon State University basketball star Charlie Sitton and his father-in-law, Don Roberts, were among the first to invest in downtown Tualatin 15 years ago, when the city swept away an aging dog food factory and replaced it with the 19-acre ...

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Will Portland's Wi-Fi disconnect?
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Retired cops put the heat on cold case homicides
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When he's not playing banjo in a bluegrass band or teaching music at Portland Community College, retired Portland detective Mike Stahlman volunteers one day a week to examine the city's cold case homicides. He recently sifted through a 25-year-old case ...

Police fear violence as outlaw bikers move to Oregon
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On a rainless Saturday in February, hundreds of outlaw bikers and their associates roared into the west end of Eugene, bottlenecking on a back street between warehouses and train tracks. The brothers killed their engines and poured into the clubhouse ...

Cranberry fields forever / Bandon is Oregon's saucy little getaway  San Francisco Chronicle

Cranberry fields forever / Bandon is Oregon's saucy little getaway  San Francisco Chronicle