It’s official; filming of Twilight : Eclipse in Vancouver is coming to a close. On Tuesday, the movie’s director, David Slade tweeted, “Just one week and a few days to go to complete principle photography, the finish line seems still so far.” It probably can’t come soon enough for Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart who get stalked daily by [...]
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Man Arrested for Being Naked in His Own Kitchen
Springfield, Virginia resident Eric Williamson was arrested and charged with indecent exposure yesterday for failing to put on any clothes after getting up at 5:30 am to make some coffee. A woman and her 7-year-old daughter had cut across Williamson’s front yard and saw him through his kitchen window. [...]
That “Free” Checking Account
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The Willamette Week blogs about an OSPRIG report about “free checking” in Oregon.
Here are two alarming facts the consumer protection group discovered in a survey of 10 banks and eight credit unions offering “low cost” checking accounts in Portland, Eugene and Ashland:
An overdraft of $20 paid back in two weeks amounts to a [...]
Suspect in Beaverton bank bomb threat captured
The suspect in the robbery of a Chase bank inside a Beaverton Fred Meyer store has been arrest. Robert Kuch was arrested in Seattle while preparing to board an Amtrak train to Portland.
Beaverton detectives received information on Kuch’s whereabouts and coordinated with other agencies to facilitate the arrest. A Beaverton police spokesperson would like to [...]
Grandpas Barn
My grandfather built several barns around Eastern Washington. All his barns are gone now, except for this one, fires got most of the others, but this still stands near Palouse, Washington. Granddad built this sometime between 1930 and 1940. It’s a source of controversy in the family, with siblings remembering [...]
Delaware Catholic Diocese follows Portland’s Lead
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A sex abuse case against Delaware’s Catholic Diocese of Wilmington and a former priest will be delayed after the diocese filed for federal bankruptcy protection on the eve of trial, AP reports.
In a separate development, the Catholic hierarchy, religious, priests and laity in Ireland are braced for the publication of a report on [...]
Oregon is Number 2!
A national study out this week (pdf) reports that Oregon had the second-highest number of students per teacher in the nation for the 2007-08 school year.
If we can just under-fund education for a few more years, I’m sure we can knock the current champion (Utah) out of the #1 spot. It’s interesting to note: the [...]
Miles plays, triggering $18M salary hit, cap tax for Blazers
Darius Miles hits milestone with Grizzlies, digging into Blazers’ pockets – ESPN
It came and went without fanfare — and presumably fear of retribution.
Just more than a week had passed since the Portland Trail Blazers threatened their 29 fellow NBA teams with a lawsuit if someone signed Darius Miles.
Miles had already played in two regular-season games [...]
This Robot can’t Swim
Stolen robot pulled from Beaverton Lake
Washington County Sheriff’s OfficeShown here in better days, this “Propeller Quadrover” robot, weighing 90 pounds and about two-and-a-half feet long, was stolen last Monday and recovered Sunday from Commonweath Lake.Washington County Sheriff’s deputies made a strange discovery Sunday in Beaverton’s Commonwealth Lake — a stolen robot poking out of the [...]
More Layoffs in Oregon
Precision Castparts division laying off workers
Portland’s PCC Structurals Inc. — a division of Precision Castparts Corp., the second-largest publicly traded company based in Oregon — will cut 10 percent of its salaried workers, a PCC spokeswoman confirmed today.