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Boy, 6, Crashes Van on Trip to Buy Food

Dings mailboxes, then crashes into truck

(Newser) - Talk about a bad case of the munchies—a 6-year-old boy in Oregon who got hungry yesterday decided to drive to the store in the family van. The tiny driver crashed into several mailboxes then swerved into the oncoming lane and smashed into a pickup. The boy was unharmed, and...

Oregon Legislators Rickroll Colleagues
 Oregon 
 Legislators 
 Rickroll 
 Colleagues 
in case you missed it
Apr 16, 2011 6:34 AM CDT

Oregon Legislators Rickroll Colleagues

April Fool's Day prank goes viral

(Newser) - From Oregon, a lesson in April Fool's Day pranks, viral videos ... and bipartisanship: A group of 12 state lawmakers managed to "Rickroll" their colleagues last year, by slipping the lyrics to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" into speeches they made on the House floor....

Jesuits Settle Sex-Abuse Suit for $166M

Staggering case involves 470 victims in Pacific Northwest

(Newser) - A Catholic order will pay $166 million to some 470 survivors of sexual abuse and "spiritual incest" in a case of staggering scale that dates back to the 1940s at Jesuit-run schools in the Pacific Northwest. The victims were almost all Native Americans and Native Alaskans, notes the Seattle ...

Oregon May Get Nation's First Tsunami-Resistant Building

Cannon Beach considers $4M city hall

(Newser) - Maybe Japan's plight will make the cost easier to swallow: The Oregon city of Cannon Beach is kicking around the idea of building a new city hall that would have the distinction of being the nation's first tsunami-resistant building, reports Scientific American . Among other things, the design calls for concrete...

Coast Guard Searches for Man Swept Out to Sea
 Coast Guard Searches 
 for Man Swept Out to Sea 
Tsunami victim in US
Mar 11, 2011 5:46 PM CST

Coast Guard Searches for Man Swept Out to Sea

He was taking photos of tsunami waves along California coast

(Newser) - The tsunami that roiled the US West Coast today may have claimed at least one victim. The Coast Guard is searching for a man swept out to sea while taking photos in northern California, reports the Eureka Standard-Times . The man and two friends were near the mouth of the Klamath...

Newspapers, GOP to Rep. Wu: Resign

Pressure on Oregon Democrat David Wu increases

(Newser) - In the middle of last year’s campaign, Oregon Rep. David Wu sent a picture of himself wearing a tiger costume to his staff members. The Democrat ended up winning the election—handing him his seventh term—but the tiger picture and other strange revelations have led to calls for...

Congressman's Ex-Staffers Say He's Mentally Unstable

Oregon's David Wu refused their plea to get psychiatric help

(Newser) - Oregon Democrat David Wu recently won a seventh term to Congress, but several former staffers think he'd be better off in a psychiatric hospital instead of on the House floor. That's not an exaggeration, as the Oregonian explains. Staffers were so worried about his increasingly erratic behavior during the campaign—...

At Cuckoo's Nest Facility, 3,500 Forgotten Remains

Officials contact kin of patients at Nurse Ratched's stomping grounds

(Newser) - The remains some 3,500 patients of an Oregon mental hospital used as a stand-in for the sadistic facility in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest have sat in a storage area for years—and officials have published the names of patients who died at the hospital between...

Oregon Hands Dad-Son Bombers Death Sentences

Would-be militiamen killed two police officers

(Newser) - An Oregon judge has signed death warrants for a father-son team that planted a homemade bomb in a bank, killing two police officers. Bruce Turnidge, 58, and his 38-year-old son, Joshua, were found guilty last month of planting the device that killed a police bomb technician and another police officer,...

Oregon Students Can Use Spell Check on Writing Tests

Educators want to take emphasis off typos

(Newser) - Grist for curmudgeons: Oregon students will be able to use spell check on state writing tests next year, reports the Oregonian . The new rule applies only to middle-schoolers and high school students, not to younger kids still presumably mastering the fundamentals. "We are not letting a student's keyboarding skills...

Guy Formerly Named Smith Is Now 'Captain Awesome'

Crazy people lurking in Eugene, Ore.

(Newser) - An unemployed cabinet installer might have just upstaged Prince's infamous name change: Douglas Allen Smith Jr, perhaps with a bit too much time on his hands, legally changed his name last month to Captain Awesome. Smith, er, Awesome, says he was inspired by a character on NBC's Chuck—Dr. Devon...

Oregon Terror Suspect's Mosque Torched

Feds investigating arson as suspected hate crime

(Newser) - Federal authorities are investigating a suspected hate-crime torching of a mosque attended by the Oregon teen charged in last Friday's attempted terror attack. Arson destroyed part of the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center in Corvalis a day after former Oregon State University student Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested when police...

Oregon Terror Suspect Sought 'Jihad' for Years

Mohamed Osman Mohamud: 'Since I was 15 I thought about all this'

(Newser) - FBI agents used another sting operation to foil a terror plot in Portland yesterday, as they did in Virginia recently. Steve Duin of the Oregonian is "incredibly thankful" to the FBI that all ended well, but adds this caveat: "It's still unclear how close Mohamed Osman Mohamud would...

FBI Sting Nabs Would-Be Car Bomber in Oregon

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, tried to sabotage tree-lighting ceremony

(Newser) - An Oregon man was arrested last night and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction after trying to detonate a car bomb at a tree-lighting ceremony. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a US citizen born in Somalia, drove a van to Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland and attempted...

Cuckoo's Nest Hospital to Reopen

Oregon facility has history of psychiatric abuse, too

(Newser) - An Oregon mental hospital that served as the set for the classic film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest—and the scene of some real-life psychiatric abuse—is being overhauled and will reopen, the AP reports. Though Cuckoo's Nest wasn't about Oregon State Hospital, the institution, like its fictional counterpart,...

John Kitzhaber Wins Oregon
 John Kitzhaber Wins Oregon 
election 2010
Nov 4, 2010 2:04 AM CDT

John Kitzhaber Wins Oregon

Democrat defeats ex-NBA player Chris Dudley for governor

(Newser) - It was too close to call until late yesterday, but former standout NBA shot blocker Chris Dudley couldn't block Democrat John Kitzhaber from winning a historic third term as Oregon governor. Kitzhaber, whose last term ended 7 years ago, will replace Gov. Ted Kulongoski, AP reports. The Democratic governor is...

Guy Who Flipped Cops Off Settles Suit for $4K

Robert Ekas says police violated his free speech

(Newser) - Robert Ekas fought the law, and the law has to pony up four grand: The Oregon man brought himself folk-hero fame when he sued cops for violating his free-speech rights when he flipped them the bird and they slapped him with baloney tickets, reports the Oregonian. Today, he settled the...

Mom Robs Bank, Picks Kids Up From School

(Newser) - Here's a woman who can plan an afternoon: UPI reports that Oregon police arrested a 37-year-old mother who allegedly robbed a bank, then made it to the local elementary school in time to pick up her children. Erica Fay Anderson walked into the Umpqua Bank branch at about 2:15...

Oregon Firefighters Save Stuck Camel

1,200-pound beast rescued from sinkhole

(Newser) - Firefighters in rural Oregon have saved plenty of animals, including their share of stuck cats—but a trapped camel was a unique experience. The animal's owners called in Clackamas County firefighters after the pet camel, which weighs more than 1,200 pounds, became stuck up to its neck in a...

Man Literally Paralyzed By Love
 Man Literally Paralyzed By Love 
Aug 20, 2010 8:56 AM CDT

Man Literally Paralyzed By Love

Matt Frerking suffers from narcolepsy with cataplexy

(Newser) - Love paralyzes Matt Frerking—quite literally. The 39-year-old scientist suffers from a rare condition called "narcolepsy with cataplexy" that leaves him paralyzed every time he has 'warm and fuzzy' feelings for his wife or stepchildren, looks at old pictures, or watches movie previews, finds ABC News . He tries to...

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