| April 26, 2008 | - A group of Oregonians unhappy with the state government announced a campaign for “Eastern Oregon” to secede and form its own state from the Cascade Mountains to the Idaho border.
| Source:
KATU.com
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| February 15, 2008 | - In a thousand-square-mile, low-oxygen zone growing along the coast of Oregon and Washington, every fish, crab, and sea worm was dead.
| Source 1:
Seattle PI
Source 2:
Los Angeles Times
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| June 14, 2007 | - An Oregon teenager was arrested after being videotaped molesting a horse.
| Source:
Corvallis Gazette-Times
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| December 11, 2006 | - An Oregon fraternity brother shot a homeless man who was collecting cans behind the frat house.
| Source:
local6.com
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| November 23, 2006 | - A college student in Portland, Oregon, was expelled after questioning a classmate's belief in leprechauns.
| Source:
Portland Mercury
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| August 14, 2006 | - Marine biologists discovered a huge hypoxic “dead zone” off the Oregon coast. “We can't be sure what happened to all the fish,” said a researcher, “but it's clear they are gone.”
| Source:
Science Daily
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| July 31, 2006 | - Hot weather killed 141 people (as well as 25,000 cattle and 700,000 fowl) in California, at least 170 people in France, Italy, and Spain, and dozens of racing dogs in Oregon, and shut down MySpace.
| Source:
CBS
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| May 7, 2006 | -
Army recruiters in Portland, Oregon, were under investigation for recruiting an autistic boy for a dangerous position in the cavalry scouts.
| Source:
TwinCities.com
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| January 17, 2006 | - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Oregon law allowing for physician-assisted suicide.
| Source:
CBC.ca
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| January 9, 2006 | - A noseless one-eyed kitten died in Oregon.
| Source:
AP
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| October 31, 2005 | -
Oregon officials forced a father and son to give up the pet bear, Windfall, that had lived with them for two years. While at their home the bear showered, had her hair blow-dried, and slept in a bed. “The only thing we did wrong,” the father said of the bear, “was love one another.”
| Source:
KIROTV.com
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| October 28, 2005 | - An Oregon woman won $1 million in the lottery, but was discovered to have purchased the winning ticket with a stolen credit card. If convicted, she will not be able to collect any prize money.
| Source:
CNN
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| October 22, 2005 | - An Oregon man won $340 million in the Powerball lottery.
| Source:
ABC News
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| October 7, 2005 | - A registered sex offender in Medford, Oregon, was arrested after he asked a group of four girls for a ride to the mall. The police said that the suspect was covered in feces, but the man insisted he had just been rolling in tomato paste.
| Source:
SFGate
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| October 4, 2005 | - An Oregon woman was suing her doctor for trying to heal her lower back pain by having sex with her. The doctor was also in trouble for charging the state $5,000 for giving the woman the treatment.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 26, 2005 | - A man in Portland, Oregon was calling people, telling them he had kidnapped an 11-year-old girl, and threatening to hurt the girl unless the recipients of the calls engaged in phone sex.
| Source:
The Corvallis Gazette-Times
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| September 6, 2005 | - A large bulge appeared in Oregon.
| Source:
LiveScience.com
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| June 22, 2005 | - A two-headed kitten died in Oregon.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| June 16, 2005 | - A two-faced kitten was born in Oregon.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| March 8, 2005 | - An Oregon high-school teacher was under investigation for licking the bleeding wounds of his students.
| Source:
The Register-Guard
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| November 15, 2004 | -
Catholic dioceses in America were buckling under the financial strain of sex-abuse lawsuits; dioceses in Tucson, Arizona, and Portland, Oregon, had declared bankruptcy.
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| October 15, 2004 | - Officials in Oregon and Nevada were investigating claims that Republicans destroyed Democratic voter-registration forms.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 3, 2004 | - It was reported that Al Gore was given a speeding ticket in Oregon.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 13, 2004 | - a crow in Oregon tested positive for West Nile virus,
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 7, 2004 | -
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, filed for bankruptcy.
| Source:
Oregonian
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| June 30, 2004 | - two conservative groups were caught illegally promoting Ralph Nader's presidential candidacy in Oregon.
| Source:
CNN
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| March 27, 2004 | - Benton County, Oregon, decided to stop issuing marriage licenses to heterosexuals.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 27, 2003 | - A poultry expert in Oregon denied that turkeys are dumb.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 22, 2002 | -
A wrestler from Portland, Oregon, was in trouble for biting the head off a live rabbit.
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| October 8, 2002 | -
“I am an enemy of your country.” Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed to have “neutralized a suspected terrorist cell within our borders” with the arrest of four people in Portland, Oregon, who were accused of taking part in “physical training” and attempting to visit Afghanistan.
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| August 27, 2002 | -
After reviewing the devastation caused by the biggest wildfire in Oregon's history, President George W. Bush announced his plan to protect 190 million acres of national forest land by allowing more logging to do away with flammable old trees and by protecting the timber industry from environmentalists' lawsuits that could delay such logging. “There is a fine balance between people expressing themselves and using litigation to keep the United States . . . from enacting a common-sense forest policy,” he noted.
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| June 11, 2002 | -
In Oregon, a state appeals court reinstated $79.5 million in punitive damages against Philip Morris, saying that the company's perpetuation of a spurious argument over the safety of cigarettes warranted “strong judicial punishment.” Japan ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
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| December 18, 2001 | - Some Oregonians were circulating a petition to repeal the law that bans the eating of roadkill.
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| November 13, 2001 | - Federal agents, who now believe the anthrax to be the work of a lone domestic terrorist, still have not gotten around to locating all the labs in the United States where the bacteria can be legally handled, though they were busy cracking down on medical
marijuana in California and assisted suicide in Oregon.
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| August 28, 2001 | - An Oregon car dealer was fined $120,000 for selling seven cars in one month to a 78-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease.
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| July 24, 2001 | - An 18-year-old man attempted to rob a Eugene, Oregon, porn shop with his thumb and forefinger held in the shape of a gun.
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| July 3, 2001 | - Millions of anchovies were dying in Oregon.
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| June 26, 2001 | -
Farmers in Oregon were upset about suckerfish.
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| May 15, 2001 | - A large bulge was detected in Oregon near the Three Sisters, a group of volcanoes in the Cascade mountains.
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| August 8, 2000 | - The world's largest fungus was discovered in Oregon; the fungus, which covers 2,400 acres, is believed to be 2,400 years old.
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