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‘Ben Hurt’: Portland bike warriors smash and crash
Looking like punk gladiators, teams of young adults on junk bikes pulling chariots made of junk parts frenetically chased each other around a makeshift arena, slamming each other and swinging away with...
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Hip, cage-free TV: ‘Portlandia’ is renewed
In the last season of "Portlandia," the mayor of this sustainability-obsessed city vanished in shame after he was singled out as Portland's "No. 1 electricity hog," Portland went into a blackout, cats...
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‘Wildwood Chronicles’ conjures a Portland fantasy
Unseen in the tree-shrouded hills overlooking downtown Portland are rifle-toting coyotes wearing Napoleonic uniforms, birds ferrying human children on their backs and an army of mole knights living...
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Fierce feline who terrorized family stumps TV host
In what truly epitomized the title of his TV show, "My Cat From Hell," feline behaviorist Jackson Galaxy is calling his attempt to tame the Portland cat notorious for attacking a baby and boxing his...
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‘Death with dignity’ advocate Brittany Maynard dies in Oregon
PORTLAND — A terminally ill woman who renewed a nationwide debate about physician-assisted suicide has ended her young life with the lethal drugs available under Oregon’s Death With Dignity Law....
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Feline fame in cyberspace gives species a boost
Cats these days aren't associated with deities the way they were in ancient Egypt, but the Internet has gotten them a little closer.
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Fake orca nearly drowns before it can scare Oregon sea lions
An effort to use a fake, life-sized orca to scare off hundreds of sea lions off the Oregon coast ended, at least temporarily, with the fiberglass orca belly-up.
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Recreational pot users score bags of bud at Oregon shops
Pot stores in Oregon say they are hopeful they can avoid the shortages and price spikes that followed the start of legal sales last year in Washington and Colorado, the only other states where the drug...
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Victim of blast in vintage tank appeared in TV shows, ads
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two men killed by an explosion inside a World War II-era tank at an Oregon firing range were participating in a video shoot in a military vehicle owned by one of the victims, a...
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Occupy: Police clear OR park, CA action possible
Police drove hundreds of anti-Wall Street demonstrators from weeks-old encampments in Portland and arrested more than 50 of them, as authorities in Oakland, Calif., warned Occupy campers that a similar...
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Man behind armed Oregon band says he’s on mission from God
Ammon Bundy, like his father in previous confrontations, says he is following directions from God and invokes his family's faith when explaining the anti-government movement he is attempting to lead.
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Oregon tribe: Armed group ‘desecrating’ their land
BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The leader of an American Indian tribe that regards an Oregon nature preserve as sacred issued a rebuke Wednesday to the armed men who are occupying the property, saying they are not...
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Conservation groups demand end to refuge occupation
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — With the armed takeover of a national wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon in its third week, Ammon Bundy and his group are still trying to muster up broad community support —...
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Oregon governor calls on feds to act against armed group
Gov. Kate Brown says she's frustrated with the way federal authorities are handling an armed group's occupation of a national wildlife refuge and it's time to end it. The occupation began Jan. 2.
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Emergency planners plan for deadly ‘Big One’ earthquake
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — As military helicopters ferry search and rescue teams over the Pacific Northwest, below them are scenes of devastation from a giant earthquake that could strike the region at any...
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Ammon Bundy urges last refuge occupiers to go home
The Eastern Oregon nature preserve being occupied by an armed anti-government group was surrounded by law-enforcement agents after one of the occupiers was killed by officers during a traffic stop and...
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FBI shows video of Tuesday shooting of occupier
BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The FBI released video Thursday of the shooting death of a spokesman for the armed occupiers of a wildlife refuge that appears to show the man reaching into his jacket before he fell...
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Prosecutors use refuge occupiers’ own words against them
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Ammon Bundy and his followers made ample use of social media and videos to summon armed recruits to join their takeover of a wildlife refuge and to declare their readiness to...
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Oregon standoff leader strikes defiant tone from behind bars
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The jailed leader of an armed group that took over an Oregon wildlife preserve struck a defiant tone Tuesday while again urging four holdouts to leave, saying local residents...
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