Winners & Losers WINNERSAny roster of winners must include Melissa Borgaard, the SUV driver who survived both a 60-foot plunge off the Morrison Bridge and large gulps of Willamette River water. Credit Borgaard's survi ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSThe Rosarian People's Liberation Front rejoiced as Rosa Montoya, a single mom, won Roosevelt High School's spot on this year's Rose Festival Court. Traditionalists were shocked as the hidebound ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSLady Luck shook her moneymaker for Portland's gamblers: Two new casino projects aim to take over the city's moribund racing palaces. Provided they can get a ballot measure passed in '06, two La ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSAtheist public-school kids will no longer have to cry themselves to sleep after being excluded from the Boy Scouts. The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that barred the Scouts from recru ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSWin some, lose some. Local cartoon lovers raised their Elastigirl action figures in jubiliation after watching Corvallis native Brad Bird snag an Oscar for The Incredibles, which he wrote and d ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSSchool kids owe three cheers to new Oregon Lottery director Dale Penn, who last week proposed cutting taverns' commissions nearly in half on video slot machines. Unlike previous directors, Penn ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSAfter the show, did they grab a pitcher to go? On Sunday night, Kentucky cradle-robber Loretta Lynn and pasty-faced Detroit rocker Jack White won a Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vo ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSLocal secret agents, mob informants and Indiana Jones wannabes breathed a sigh of relief at the news that the Legislature is considering a ban on carnivorous piranhas. If Senate Bill 125 passes ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSTremendous news for gambling addicts: They have yet another way to reduce themselves to sniveling penury as of this week. Slot machines, which is what we have in Oregon instead of a sound state ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSOne faction says "Nay-to," the other says "Nie-to," but now no normal people have to pretend to care. The two halves of the battling Naito clan finally settled a long-running feud, agreeing to ...   More