Snap to, vape fiends! Multnomah County commissioners are mulling over putting some new restrictions on your e-cigarette-type flavored tobacco juice vaporizers—maybe banning them in hospitals and certain outdoor spots—out of concern over findings (like in this study from Portland State turning up evidence of formaldehyde) that the vapor's not as healthy as devotees argue.

Another shakeup at Portland City Hall might be in the offing. Switching around city council bureau assignments after almost two years might be a good way for Mayor Charlie Hales to repair frayed relationships and change a certain subject whose name rhymes with beet pee.

It's cold and flu season, right? So wash your hands more than you think you should. This probably won't happen to you. But that's what everyone says.

The morning after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, staff at Lincoln High School found a swastika painted onto a classroom door and some broken windows. Oregon. Tolerant Oregon.

LaMarcus Aldridge has died. And the Trail Blazers are being folded and will never win or play another game again.

Saudi Arabia has a new boss. State media last night announced the increasingly expected death of 90-year-old King Abdullah, who took only limited steps to modernize a country dominated by oil politics and its stewardship of two of Islam's holiest sites. His 79-year-old half-brother, King Salman, has taken the throne, and he's even less of a reformer. Salman also won't change Saudi Arabia's scorched earth tack when it comes to oil, overseeing a glut of production to drive down global prices.

The abortion bill that House Republicans tabled after protests by the women who make up less than 10 percent of the party's caucus was quietly reintroduced with some revisions and muscled through with a narrow vote.

An experimental Ebola vaccine, using a chimpanzee cold virus, which actually sounds disturbing, has been shipped to Liberia for live trials. That slight hope comes as cases overall have begun dropping.

McDonald's has had its worst year in forever.

The investigation into 12-year-old Tamir Rice's shooting by Cleveland cops has turned up, unsurprisingly, "a series of miscommunications, tactical errors and institutional failures" that "cascaded into one irreversible mistake."

France has seen more anti-Muslim attacks in January, according to one of the country's top Muslim groups, than were reported in all of 2014.

The chinbeard on King Tut's mask has broken off. Someone tried to epoxy the thing back on. It wasn't terribly successful.

It's okay if Russians starve because of Western sanctions over Ukraine, Russian propagandists say. Russians will "eat less" for Vladimir Putin.

HOLY LORD WHO IS HUNGRY NOW YOU ALL?