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Where Anti-Tax Fervor Means ‘All Services Will Cease’
Some voters in rural Oregon are seeing what happens when taxpayers force government into retreat. Libraries are blinking out. Jails might be next. By Kirk Johnson.
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Portland stabbing suspect yells in first court appearance
Jeremy Joseph Christian began yelling as soon as he walked into the courtroom Tuesday.
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Muslim groups raise $500,000 for the victims of the Portland attacks
Islamic groups have raised nearly half-a-million dollars for the families of the men killed in Portland, Oregon while trying to defend Muslim women from a racist attack. Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Ricky John Best were fatally stabbed and another man was seriously injured after they attempted to help two teenage girls who were being racially abused on a train last week. In the aftermath of the attack the Muslim Education Trust and CelebrateMercy, started a crowdfunding campaign for the victims in order to “respond to hate with love”.
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Oregon man fired from Home Depot after trying to stop apparent kidnapping
A Portland man says he was fired for doing the right thing — jumping to action when he thought a child was in danger at his store. On the Friday night before Mother’s Day, Dillon Reagan was working at the Home Depot at Mall 205 when he heard a pounding on the door. “It ended up being one of our lot associates and he looked panicked and said ‘I need to know where the phone is, I need to call police,’” Reagan said. Then he raced out to the parking lot.
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What to know when your car is melted by 7,500 pounds of slime eels
Does insurance cover hagfish slime? By Rachel Becker.
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Oregon’s Psilocybin Society Drafts Framework For Legal Mushroom Therapy - Psychedelic Times
According to the most recent Global Drug Survey, psilocybin “magic” mushrooms are the safest recreational drug on the planet—even less dangerous than marijuana. Yet, despite the fungi’s wealth of medical benefits—including potential treatment for addiction, depression and end-of-life anxiety—psilocybin remains a Schedule I substance in America, meaning the federal government believes mushrooms have no medicinal …
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Owners must surgically 'debark' loud dogs, court rules
The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a southern Oregon couple must quiet their incessantly barking dogs by sending them to the vet to have their voices surgically squelched. The Appeals Court ruled “debarking” surgery is an appropriate solution to a noisy and relentless problem that neighbors living next to the dogs have had to endure for more than a decade on their rural property outside Grants Pass.
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Thousands of dollars of equipment stolen from Oregon wildfire crews while they slept
Two fire trucks staged to fight the Chetco Bar Fire were ransacked while firefighters slept nearby in Brookings early Saturday morning. Coburg Fire Chief Chad Minter, chief of the Lane County Fire Defense Board, told The Register-Guard that a task force comprised of firefighters from Coburg, Junction City, Lane Fire Authority, South Lane Fire and Mohawk Fire drove over 230 miles to Brookings from Lane County on Friday night.
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Chunks of a Portland Man's Exploded Hand Struck a Federal Officer. He's Charged With Assault.
When he set off an explosion during a traffic stop, authorities say parts of Jason Schaefer's mangled left hand struck a federal officer. Now, Shaefer faces a charge of assaulting that officer. The bizarre detail emerged today, in an unsealed probable cause statement filed along with federal charges against Schaefer, 26. Beyond the assault charge, he's also accused of using and carrying an explosive to commit a felony.
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A Very Old Man for a Wolf
He was the alpha male of the first pack to live in Oregon since 1947. For years, a state biologist tracked him, collared him, counted his pups, weighed him, photographed him, and protected him. But then the animal known as OR4 broke one too many rules. By Emma Marris.
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Detective solves 1979 cold case murder of Oregon teen
More than 38 years after Janie Landers was brutally stabbed and beaten to death, an Oregon State Police detective was finally able to return a pair of earrings to her family and deliver the news they'd long waited to hear: He knew who killed the 18-year-old Salem woman. "I'm really grateful and relieved that it's done," said Landers' sister, Joyce Hooper. "She can be totally at peace now because her case is solved."
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Porsche reported stolen in 1991 found at base of steep cliff in Oregon woods
A 1979 Porsche 924 reported stolen from a movie theater parking lot in Medford decades ago has been located at the base of a steep cliff in the woods southwest of Crater Lake, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said.Heavy forest debris
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New Jersey Is Last State to Insist at Gas Stations: Don’t Touch That Pump
As of Jan. 1, the only other holdout, Oregon, allows people in certain counties to fuel up their cars themselves.
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This Pricey 'Raw Water' Is a Total Scam—$64 Gets You Tap Water from Oregon
You've probably heard the buzz about "raw water," the hottest new drink in Silicon Valley. It promises benefits like "natural probiotics" and "beauty minerals" like silica—and as we just discovered, it's a total rip-off.
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Fear of the Federal Government in the Ranchlands of Oregon
Two years after the standoff at the Malheur Refuge, many people in the region remain convinced that their way of life is being trampled.
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110 dogs, 1 cat who were at risk of euthanization in Oklahoma, fly to safety in Oregon
An Oklahoma non-profit organization chartered a 5 ½-hour flight Saturday to transport 110 dogs and one cat to Oregon, where two local humane societies are confident they will be able to find the pets homes. The non-profit -- “Fetch Fido a Flight” -- says it spends about $250 per an animal to send animals without homes in Oklahoma to shelters across the country that won’t euthanize them.
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Woman has 14 worms pulled out of her eye after complaining of eye irritation
A US woman has become the first person ever infected with a rare, tiny eye worm previously only found in cattle, according to a Centres for Disease Control (CDC) report. Abby Beckley, a 26-year-old from Oregon, felt an itching sensation in her eye for more than a week before she pulled a half-inch (1.27 cm) long worm out of her own eyeball, researchers said.
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The Tallest Lighthouse in Oregon has a Haunted History
Yet there is more to Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Newport than these ghostly stories.
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Oregon Looks to Repeal Law That Gave Comcast a Huge Tax Break
A few years ago, you might recall that Oregon legislators passed a new law giving tax cuts to ISPs willing to quickly deploy gigabit broadband in the state. The goal was to encourage the rise of smaller broadband competitors, easing their entry into what traditional has been a very hostile market controlled by politically-powerful incumbents. But the effort had numerous issues, first of which being that an initial draft actually make deployment more expensive for companies like Google Fiber. The other problem: Comcast quickly nabbed millions in tax breaks due to the legislation without having to do much of anything different.
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