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The Durkee Fire, burning near the Oregon-Idaho border about 130 miles west of Boise, Idaho, caused the closure of a stretch of Interstate 84 again Wednesday.
Naomi Pomeroy, who helped put Portland, Oregon, on the map as a culinary destination and appeared on TV cooking shows, has drowned in an inner tubing accident.
Daniel Burda, 41, pleaded no contest Monday to charges in the death of Dennis Day, who starred on Walt Disneys Mickey Mouse Club TV program in the 1950s.
An Oregon tribal nation has been rocked by the fatal shootings of a pair of girls, who were tribal descendants.
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The 18-year-old told People she felt "lucky to be alive" after being trapped upside-down 50 feet in the air for more than 20 minutes.
When the ride stopped, park staff immediately called 911 and emergency responders arrived about 25 minutes later, the park statement said.
The hero hound went back to the camp where they were staying after Brandon Garrett's pickup truck went off a remote road in Oregon.
Videos posted online showed the bull running through a concession area, knocking over a garbage can and sending people scrambling.
"It never crossed my mind that I could be agiant, in-person mirror for a young person struggling to see herself in the world."
For us, getting to work with all these communities it felt like, Oh, this is what we should have been doing all along,'" says one Portland Fruit Tree Project member.