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Move over, Prince: An Oregon man gets his name changed to Captain Awesome and his signature to a smiley face.

A 73-year-old Oregon man traveled three miles in his wheelchair before hunters found him and helped rescue his 61-year-sister after their car got stuck for two nights in the snow.

The police are reopening an investigation into a Portland massage therapist’s allegations that former Vice President Al Gore groped her at a hotel in 2006.

ormer NBA player Chris Dudley has won his rookie political contest, grabbing the Republican nomination for governor of Oregon.

More than 16% of American children ages 10 to 17 years were not just overweight, but obese, in 2007. That's a 10% rise from 2003.

An Oregon jury finds the Boy Scouts of America negligent in a case of repeated sexual abuse by an assistant Scoutmaster in the 1980s and awards the plaintiff $1.4 million.

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Seton Hill University plans to give every first year undergraduate student a 13" MacBook and an iPad. Just last month, George Fox University in Oregon also announced that it plans to give its new students a choice between a MacBook or an iPad.

Ozone blowing over from Asia is raising background levels of a major ingredient of smog in the skies over California, Oregon, ...

Two F-15 fighter jets escorted a passenger jet that had been headed for Hawaii back to Portland International Airport in Oregon after a passenger in coach became "uncooperative," an airline official said Wednesday.

Rescue crews were searching for three climbers missing on Mount Hood after they may have tried to use a cellphone early Saturday ...