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If, as it appears from news reports, the local police are really hot to trot on cold case murders, Fred Nemo has one he’d like them to look into. It’s the June 1978 double murder of Clay Wing and Buzz Mathews, two of Portland’s earliest gay activists. In other words, not really ...

Metro has no Plan B if it cannot figure out how to finance a 600-room top-of-the-line hotel — estimated at nearly $248 million — across the street from the Oregon Convention Center. “We don’t have a fallback plan,” said Rod Park, the Metro Councilor heading up the ...

An overturned truck that blocked the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 just south of the Capitol Highway for nearly two hours, reopening the road. At about 1:45 p.m. Friday, July 4, a truck towing a camper trailer traveling south overturned, blocking most of the lanes. An ODOT crew was called in to ...

While you’re chowing down on hotdogs and admiring the fireworks this Fourth of July, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance wants you to declare your independence from oil and join the “Gas Free Fridays” bicycle commute. Spurred by soaring gas prices, and what many believe to be an ...

The developer who drew neighborhood ire by cutting some trees to move a house along Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard said the city approved their removal – and the project always called for them to be replaced. “The way I see it is, the trees are just gone for awhile,” ...

Danielle Tudor didn’t want to reveal herself as another victim of serial rapist Richard T. Gillmore. She grew up in East Multnomah County, still lives in the area and knows a lot of people who, quite frankly, she isn’t wild about being privy to such personal information about her. Not ...

A suspected bank robber fleeing Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies Thursday afternoon crashed into several vehicles, closing the northbound lanes of Interstate 205 at Southeast Sunnyside Road. All lanes were open again by 6:30 p.m. Just after 3 p.m., the suspect vehicle was headed south on ...

Angela Oswalt is scheduled to return to her job as a desk clerk for the Portland Police Bureau on Monday after almost 15 months of paid administrative leave, during which she successfully challenged her dismissal. The Oregon Employment Relations Board recently ruled that the bureau could not ...

Two female corrections officers who work with serial rapist Richard T. Gillmore say he has not reformed and will not only rape again, but will kill future victims to eliminate witnesses. Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Russ Ratto, who successfully prosecuted Gillmore in 1987 for raping ...

Working steadily in the bright, early light, Forest Grove Lions Club members Chris Heaton and Red Rowley loaded American flags from a storage shed into the back of Rowley’s pick-up truck. Rowley and Heaton counted to make sure they had enough flags; they were told 40, but the list in their ...

This summer, Tualatin water customers will get splashed in the face with another rate hike. A 12-cent increase in the cost of water from the Portland Water Bureau will account for the bulk of a 20-cent increase for Tualatin water customers that took effect July 1. The city is increasing the water ...

Washington County transportation officials are moving forward with realignment of 175th Avenue and Roy Rogers Road at a point just north of Scholls Ferry Road after having condemned six acres needed for the project in March. The county late last month awarded a construction contract to ...

New standards for a high school diploma in Oregon will do one of two things: push students to perform better on state assessments or dramatically drop the graduation rates for school districts across the state. Last month the Oregon Board of Education unanimously approved changes to the ...

As the timeline for the Interstate 5/Highway 99W Connector Project moves closer to a preferred alternative, neighbors and cities are vying for public support. “This is too important, and we’ve worked on it for too many years for others to decide this for us,” said Shelby Crecraft ...

TIGARD — C. Ray Wilson is modest about his three-years of service in the Army. If he had to do it again, he probably would, he admits, but one time through is enough. “I did it, great,” he said. “But I wouldn’t want to do it again.” The 85-year-old Wilson ...

Jeff Duyck was forced to drop his bid to unseat state rep Chuck Riley today after he found out Monday that elections officials had mistakenly assigned him to the wrong congressional district. Duyck lives along Richey Road, just southwest of Forest Grove, on the dividing line between House ...

A little-known plant in Oregon is making its ascension as the new scourge in the kingdom of noxious weeds. Its ability to present different faces and move under the cover of dark and light has watershed planners nervous, to say the least. The plant is garlic mustard (alliaria petiolata). ...

Major League Baseball is coming to Portland, but it could take a decade or longer. A National Hockey League franchise won’t begin to happen until the Trail Blazers change their mind about direct competition. Major League Soccer has Portland on its expansion short list, but for starters, the ...

Rent can be a downer – if you actually pay it. But for much of the past four years, Lester “Tedd” White and Teresa Loucks lived in at least seven nice homes in and around Portland with their two dogs, Rigel and Sirius. And for a large portion of that time they did so for free ...

The Rev. Mark Knutson isn’t above having fun with the fact that he’s a Lutheran minister in a city known for its unchurched masses. “One of the fun clergy games is to walk into a coffee shop without a collar and challenge people to guess what you do,” says Knutson, pastor ...