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2-Year-Old Boy Found Safe in Home of Deceased Southeast Portland Woman

The Oregon State Medical Examiner has determined that the woman, 40-year-old Micaela Quinn, died of natural causes.

(PORTLAND, OR) - This morning, Wednesday October 31, 2012, at 8:31 a.m., Portland Police officers assigned to East Precinct responded to a residence in the 10100 block of Southeast Long Street on the report of a deceased female inside the home.

Additionally, officers learned that a 2-year-old boy was alone in the residence.

Portland Archdiocese Funneling Money to Fund Anti-Gay Discrimination in Minnesota

New HRC report finds money being siphoned from Dioceses around the country to fund political campaigns aimed at discrimination.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Portland Archdiocese has sent $1,000 to Minnesota specifically for the purpose of funding anti-gay discrimination.

The finding is part of a new report from the Human Rights Campaign...

Measure 80 Brings Legalize It Documentary, Filmmaker to Oregon

Shows from Oct. 18^th - 21^st at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Mt. Hood Community College and OSU.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Yes on 80 campaign is bringing Legalize It, and its film-maker, Dan Katzir, to Oregon for a series of screenings and private events.

Legalize It is an inspiring journey demonstrating that even those without wealth and political connection can bend the arc toward greater social justice.

Traveling Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall Comes to Portland

Community Invited to Pay Respects to America’s War Veterans

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Dignity Memorial® Vietnam Wall, a three-quarter-scale traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be open for public viewing November 9 – 12 at Skyline Memorial Gardens.

Free and open to the public 24 hours a day from Friday, November 9 through Monday, November 12 the replica is eight feet high and 240 feet long. Its black, reflective surface is inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 servicemen and women who died or are missing in Vietnam.

Waiting for Women

'Breathes there a man with soul so dead that never to his wife has said'... “WILL YOU PLEASE HURRY UP?”

(PORTLAND, OR) - During my adult life I have always found myself standing at the front door of the house WAITING, watching time ticking away wondering what the hell she could be doing that is keeping her. This time it's the car keys she can't find. And it's my fault she can't find them! I should never have let her use them.

HEAD FOR THE HILLS; The West Hills that is...

The East side has a lot of streets with speed “Bumps.” Here on the West side they are called speed “Humps.” Hmm.. Speed Bumps, speed Humps. Sounds like a “quickie” to me...

(PORTLAND, OR) - Did you ever fall asleep in one place and wake up in another? No, I don't mean like when you had a hangover and blacked out.

That's what it seemed like when I moved from the Section 8 ghetto of East Multnomah county to the West Slope-Beaverton part of town. “Where in the hell am I? I thought. How can the culture and ambiance of the neighborhood be so radically different “just a few miles up the road?”

Remembering Mark Bosworth as Cycle Oregon Rolls, Anniversary of Disappearance Nears

Cycle Oregon has made buttons with Mark's photo on them available for volunteers and riders to wear during this year's ride.

(PORTLAND, OR) - With Cycle Oregon now underway in South Oregon, thoughts are turning to Mark Bosworth, the avid cyclist and longtime Cycle Oregon volunteer who disappeared during the event last year.

Mark, then 54 years old, went missing on the night of Friday, Sept. 16, near Riddle High School.

Portland Fire & Rescue Battles a 5-Alarm Blaze on Hayden Island

The fire was declared under control at 7:02 AM.

(PORTLAND, OR) - At 2:53 this morning, Portland Fire & Rescue was dispatched to a commercial fire at 1401 N Hayden Island Drive. Engine 17 (Hayden Island) arrived to find that heavy fire had already vented through the roof. The fire grew to 5 alarms by 4:23 AM.

This building has been vacant and secure for a number of years, but has been used for storage, which created a heavy fire load.

FBI Raids Homes of Seattle and Portland Occupy Activists

A US newspaper has revealed that the FBI has been raiding the houses of anti-Wall Street protesters in Oregon and Washington in what the agency describes an “ongoing violent crime investigation.”

(TEHRAN) - The Oregonian newspaper reported that heavily-armed domestic terrorism units of the FBI have been raiding the homes of activists in Seattle and Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon over the last month.

The report said that at least six homes have been raided in the two states since July 10.

Evil Dead, the Musical is a Bloody Great Show

The only musical in the world with a Splatter Zone!

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Pacific Northwest has plenty of mysterious legends synonymous with the area, some hauntings, even aliens. Still, it was Evil Dead, the Musical that brought the Salem-News.com staff to Portland one recent summer evening.

The two hour rock musical stage play is a tribute to the “Evil Dead” film trilogy, which has developed a strong cult following since the first film’s release in 1981.