It’s the first Thursday of 2016, Blogtown. Let’s have some news!
The huge Powerball jackpot went un-won last night, meaning Saturday’s drawing will be a cool $500 million.
Oregon utility companies could eliminate coal as a power source by 2035 if a bill they plan on introducing this session passes. The bill would also include a host of other environmental protections.
Sheriffs deputies from Multnomah, Columbia, and Marion counties are on their way to Burns to help Harney County Sheriff David M. Ward with the idiots who are still holed up at the wildlife refuge. Will this “standoff” ever end?
I shouldn’t even have to say this, but it’s not a good idea to succumb to road rage, and it’s an even worse idea to let that rage inspire one to let loose with a string of racist slurs. A Beaverton man found this out the hard way after he was fired for yelling a bunch of horrible things at a driver who caught his tirade on camera.
Look, guys! It’s going to get up to the mid-40s today. Goodbye ice!
“Hut Swag” is a thing, and it’s just as ridiculous as it sounds: Pizza Hut has introduced a pizza-themed clothing line.
Speaking of food, (does Pizza Hut count as food?) the government has once again revised its dietary guidelines, and says Americans can eat more eggs.
A man in Paris wearing a fake explosive vest and wielding a knife was shot dead by police earlier today, on the one year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Turkish police have discovered a factory making life jackets filled with material that doesn’t float. Earlier this week, more than 30 bodies washed ashore in Greece, some of which were wearing life jackets, which led authorities to become suspicious the life jackets may have been fake.
I watched this ad several times and I still can’t believe he’s being serious: