Image via ehow.com d2bcomer: Do you know what your children are up to? On Sept. 10, Portland Police Officer Cody Berne testified that some gang members will use Washington Nationals hats and Boston Red Sox jackets to signify their loyalty to certain gangs. It’s not a Portland-centric thing, either. Last year, the Washington Examiner reported […]
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Witnesses Detail Near-Fatal Bike/Car Crash
There are some interesting witness accounts contained within the now-public police request for a search warrant in the case of Wayne Conrad Thompson, the Kia Sportage driver who struck and nearly killed Portland cyclist Mike Luther two weeks ago. Conrad is currently being held in jail on charges of first and second degree assault with […]
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“They Should Have Known”: Abused Foster Child Sues State Department of Human Services
Wednesday morning started bleakly for the Oregon Department of Human Services Children and Families Division—at 10AM a woman known only as “B.D.” filed suit against the Division and two of its caseworkers seeking $5 million in damages for years of abuse. According to the complaint, Children and Family Services (CAF) removed the woman from her […]
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Fatal Bike Crash was in Dangerous Intersection
Updated with cyclist’s name at 12:27 PM. The city’s third fatal car and bike crash this year occurred last night on NE 122nd. The police aren’t releasing much information about what happened, but it’s not clear whether they have much, since they arrived on the scene after 52-year-old cyclist James Neal Wagner was already dead […]
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Blogtown Crime Stoppers! Have You Seen This Sign?
Calling all Blogtown Junior Crime Stoppers! Have you seen this sign? Our good friends over at Bitch magazine had their awesome sign (which was donated, by the way) stolen off their Alberta storefront last night. From their blog post appropriately entitled, “Is That a Bitch Sign in Your Pocket or Are You Just a Giant […]
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Vandals in the Garden
Ravaged corn plants at Earl Boyles Community Garden I know that as an editor I should be all reporterly and unbiased, but when I read this story from the Oregonian this morning posted on Good Morning News, I was frankly too pissed to care about bias: Early this spring, Edith Gillis jumped at the chance […]
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If These Women Could Agree On Tying Him Up and Glueing His Cock to His Stomach…
…why couldn’t they agree to just, you know, share him? A sticky case of revenge unfolded last week in a Wisconsin motel after a woman discovered her husband was cheating and invited three other scorned lovers to settle the score—with Krazy Glue. The 36-year-old Lothario was carrying on with all of them before his wife […]
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“We Need to Get Smart on Crime.”
Portland police will embark on an “aggressive advanced gang patrol outreach” this weekend, after Portland has experienced seven shootings in the last seven days. At a press conference this morning, Lt. Mike Leloff emphasized that the string of shootings is not, from the police perspective, a gang war. “This is about people who are gang […]
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Video of Bar Fight & Gun Shot Outside Sewickly’s
It’s not too shocking to hear a fight broke out in front of Sewickly’s bar on Hawthorne last Friday night, but it is unusual to have an actual video of the fight. Portlander Phillip Ragaway stepped outside Tanker down the block to smoke a cigarette, saw the rowdy fight break out and rushed over to […]
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Any Last Words?
Execution in the ol’ US of A comes with a few perks, including your choice of last meal and the chance to get your departing words recorded for posterity. Most inmates take that chance, and truTV.com showcases an intriguing selection of these final statements. It’s haunting to stare into a mugshot of a dead serial […]
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Pagodaless
No more Pagoda for you, Hollywood! The project to erase one of the neighborhood’s iconic buildings is well underway. Now you see it. Now you don’t! As reported previously, Key Bank purchased the historic unhistoric building after the restaurant closed in January. They plan to remove every trace of the original style and make it […]
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What Ships Unearth
And now for some grisly news you didn’t want to know about Fleet Week. Sheriff’s department Lieutenant Mary Lindstrand called to inform us that every year the big ships coming into the port for Fleet Week churn up the bottom of the Willamette and up floats…. dead bodies that have been missing for months! According […]