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Oregon family of five dead in possible murder-suicide

SALEM, Ore. — A mother and three children were found dead during a house fire in Northeast Salem Tuesday, according to police.

Oregon norovirus traced to reusable grocery bag

Oregon investigators have traced an outbreak of norovirus to a reusable grocery bag that members of a Beaverton girls' soccer team passed around when they shared cookies.

Another sex scandal for Democrats

JOHN BRESNAHAN & JONATHAN ALLEN Politico.com 07/24/2011
Another sex scandal for Democrats

Rep. David Wu has been accused of an “unwanted sexual encounter” with the teenage daughter of a longtime friend, the latest scandal to engulf the troubled Oregon Democrat.

Man urinates in water, city flushes 8M gallons

Call it the big flush. Because a 21-year-old man was caught on a security camera urinating into a city reservoir, Oregon's biggest city is sending 8 million gallons of treated drinking water down the drain.

Woman’s Cell Phone Use Halts Train

CBS Sacramento 05/17/2011
Woman’s Cell Phone Use Halts Train

A passenger train made an unscheduled stop in Oregon over a woman’s cell phone use and verbal confrontations with other passengers.

Unwitting audience clap and cheer as teenager stabs himself to death on stage at open mic night

A troubled 19-year-old stabbed himself to death on stage at an open mic night after playing a song called Sorry For All the Mess.

Laurie 'Bambi' Bembenek, ex Playboy Club bunny and escaped felon, dead

Michael Sheridan New York Daily News 11/21/2010
Panicked intruder calls 911 when homeowner returns unexpectedly......tells operator, 'I think she's got guns'

After breaking into an Oregon residence last night, Timothy Chapek, 24, barricaded himself in a bathroom after the owner unexpectedly arrived home. Chapek, you see, was worried that Hilary Mackenzie might be armed (or that her barking German Shepherds could prove problematic).

Laurie 'Bambi' Bembenek, ex Playboy Club bunny and escaped felon, dead

A one-time Playboy bunny who later became an escaped felon died on Saturday. Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek, who was convicted of killing her husband's ex-wife in 1982, passed away from liver failure in a hospice in Portland, Ore, her attorney Mary Woehrer said.

Facebook Will Double Size of Oregon Data Center (from 60,000 servers to 120,000!)

Facebook said today that it will double the size of its first company-built data center in Prineville, Oregon, which is currently under construction. The expansion will add another 160,000 square foot shell to the 147,000 square foot facility now being built, for a total of 307,000 square feet of space.

Brothers collide in head-on crash in Oregon

State police in Oregon say two brothers collided in a head-on crash that left one of the men critically injured and his wife dead.


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