Officer awaiting backup is assaulted
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Police - The Northeast Precinct will look at the time it took to respond to the call for backup A Portland police officer was assaulted and knocked to the ground Sunday when she walked up to a man who was standing in the middle of a busy North Portland ...

Portland-area tae kwon do grandmaster pioneered sport in US Tae Hong Choi ...
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For years, Gordon Graaff had been sparring with -- and losing to -- his internationally heralded tae kwon do instructor, Tae Hong Choi. Finally, Graaff thought he was about to topple the master, he recalled, thinking back to the episode some 20 years ago.

Sunwest Management investors want judge disqualified in securities fraud case
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The legal brawl over Sunwest Management took a surprising turn Monday when lawyers for Sunwest's lenders challenged the objectivity of U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan and demanded that he disqualify himself. Hogan is hearing the U.S. Securities and ...

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Portland architect Jeff Kovel plans project despite economy
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Jeff Kovel has seen the headlines about our tumbling economy. He's noticed the number of construction cranes dotting central Portland have dwindled to scarcely any. But Kovel, who heads Portland's Skylab Architecture, plans to go forward with a new ...

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Investment clubs dwindle as members ask to cash out
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With jagged-line charts splayed on a screen up front, the six men sat down to study U.S. stocks. But the first order of business was to cash yet another member, Charles Toney, out of the club. "I make the motion to pay Toney off in cash," said one ...

Community-based VA clinic now in Hillsboro
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
The Veterans Administration opened a new outpatient clinic in Hillsboro on Dec. 1, 2008, at 1925 NW Amber Glen Parkway. A $2 million renovation took former cubicles from a dot-com company and did an "Extreme Makeover" for military veteran care. Nearly ...

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Qualcomm to close office near
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Cell phone networking company Qualcomm Inc. plans to close its office near Tigard this year, company officials told employees Tuesday. San Diego-based Qualcomm employs about 70 in the office, according to an employee notified of the closure who asked ...

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Veteran team investigating Sam Adams sex scandal
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Oregon Attorney General John Kroger, confronted by his first major investigation of a public official since taking office, has quietly assembled a veteran team to determine whether Portland Mayor Sam Adams committed any crimes by romancing a teenager.

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Honey Bees On Cocaine Dance More, Changing Ideas About The Insect Brain  Science Daily (press release)

Bend's Summit 1031 Exchange goes bust
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A Bend firm specializing in tax-sheltered land deals has filed for bankruptcy after using millions of its customers' money to fund its owners' ventures, allegedly without permission. The owners of Summit 1031 Exchange acknowledged publicly this week ...

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Local author Art Honeyman, 68, dies while visiting Seattle
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Art Honeyman, 68, author, poet and most recently movie-star subject, died Monday in Seattle. He had been visiting friends. He was portrayed by British actor Michael Sheen in the movie "Music Within." Honeyman, who was born with cerebral palsy, battled ...

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Keith Brown Building Materials closes
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Keith Brown Building Materials, a Willamette Valley fixture for generations of homebuilders and do-it-yourselfers, closed its doors for the final time Tuesday. Company Chairman Brad Pence said the 80-year-old hardware store and lumber supplier couldn't ...

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FREE THANKSGIVING MEALS
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Oregon cranberries: A 360-degree look at the industry (interactive graphics, photos & video) 9:17 AM; • OPEC keeps oil production unchanged; prices likely to continue to fall 10:21 AM; • Black Friday 2014 survival guide 9:50 AM. OREGON BUSINESS ».

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Hospitals look into ways to prevent newborn falls
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While nursing her baby in bed, the mother had fallen asleep and the newborn slipped out of her arms and fell to the floor. A CT scan and physical exam showed the baby was fine, but the unsettling accident prompted nurses and doctors at Providence ...

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Douglas C. Strain, co-founder of Electro Scientific Industries, dies A ...
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Douglas C. Strain, a founding father of Oregon's high-tech industry and prolific philanthropist, died Saturday. He was 89. Strain co-founded Electro Scientific Industries Inc., one of the region's first technology companies, then spent much of his ...

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oregon cranberries and punchy cranberry sauce – Culinaria Eugenius  WordPress.com

VETERANS DAY
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Oregon cranberries: A 360-degree look at the industry (interactive graphics, photos & video) 9:17 AM; • Tom Moyer, developer who helped shape Portland's skyline, dies at 95 12:11 PM; • Black Friday 2014: Live shopping and traffic updates from the ...

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Salem girl accused of murder in man's death
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Crime - The teen, 15, is charged as an adult in the shooting of a man left in the woods A 15-year-old Salem runaway was charged with murder Thursday in the death of a man whose body was recovered from a wooded area outside city limits. Joyce Yvonne ...

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In Baker County, around 1900-05, another massacre of Chinese immigrants?
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SUMPTER -- Oregon may have had a second Chinese massacre more than a decade after the notorious 1887 mass murder of as many as 31 Chinese gold miners in Hells Canyon of the Snake River. An old story has it that as many as 18 Chinese immigrants ...

Rock Creek shooter gets assault conviction
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
A Washington County jury found a Troutdale man guilty of first-degree assault Wednesday, saying he shot his friend in the leg after taking offense to a hard foul during a one-on-one basketball game in a Rock Creek park. Joseph Tedrick, 22, stood trial ...