News Convenience colossus 7-Eleven has quietly shelved a controversial effort to freeze out the Swan Mart, a locally owned Korean-American grocery store on Southwest Barbur Boulevard. "7-Eleven has can ... More
Swan Mart Survives
News Convenience colossus 7-Eleven has quietly shelved a controversial effort to freeze out the Swan Mart, a locally owned Korean-American grocery store on Southwest Barbur Boulevard. "7-Eleven has can ... More
Thinking Inside the Box
News Last week, an unknown left-wing propagandist slipped dozens of tabloid-size fliers into WW newspaper boxes in inner Southeast Portland.Illustrated by a grainy photograph of Osama bin Laden, the flie ... More
The Long March
Turf battles threaten mental-health reform.
News The long and tortuous campaign to reform Multnomah County's splintered mental-health system--described by County Chair Diane Linn as her top priority--has become bogged down in a quagmire of confu ... More
Operation Branding Patriotism
Local ad gurus weigh in on the propaganda war.
News Last month, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld scuttled "Operation Infinite Justice"--deemed potentially offensive to Muslims--and launched a new codename for the Bush Administration's crac ... More
FBI Watching Ex-Portlanders
News Three months ago, Selim Esiktas, a student at a Minneapolis flight school, shared his flight simulator with another student--a wealthy London businessman named Zac."He seemed to be a regular guy," ... More
THE TRUTH IS UP THERE
PORTLAND "CHEM TRAIL" TRACKERS SAY TERRORISTS AREN'T THE ONLY DANGERS LURKING IN THE SKIES
News Every morning when she opens her eyes, Patricia Leedy, a Hillsboro antique dealer, rolls out of bed, pulls back the blinds and scans the sky. She's not worried about the terrorists. She's worried ... More
YO! Is Anybody There?
News The Portland chapter of the NAACP is demanding that a high-profile youth training program be shut down until its books can be inspected.The NAACP's demand was issued after Worksystems Inc. held a sp ... More
Crossroads of Shame
Bicyclist's death sparks campaign to improve a dangerous intersection.
News The afternoon of Thursday, July 5, was hot and dry, and the sun was just peeking through the scattered clouds as Nancy Wernert, 26, pedaled her silver Signal Cherokee home from work along her usua ... More
Fantasy Island
Local stuntman Nigel Sanders lures Portlanders by the score with promise of a dream job in the Bahamas.
News "Please be advised that per your inquiry, Sun International, owners and operators of Atlantis, Paradise Island are not engaged in any entertainment related projects whatsoever with Blackhorse Prod ... More
BRIANNA: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL TEENAGER
How 32-year-old Treva Joyce Throneberry, a.k.a. Brianna Rebecca Stewart, a.k.a. Stephanie Danielle Lewis, a.k.a. Emily Kara Williams, a.k.a. Keili Traci Smitt, a.k.a. Leeann Davis, a.k.a. Cara Lewis, a.k.a. Leeann Keili, convinced the world she was
News "It's hard to know where to start," she said with a twang and a flip of her pigtails. "I'm desperate."It was a hot August afternoon in 1999. We were sitting at a booth at the Roxy Cafe. Her name w ... More
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The year's sleeper hit was inspired by a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit from Atlantis. BRIANNA: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL TEENAGER
How 32-year-old Treva Joyce Throneberry, a.k.a. Brianna Rebecca Stewart, a.k.a. Stephanie Danielle Lewis, a.k.a. Emily Kara Williams, a.k.a. Keili Traci Smitt, a.k.a. Leeann Davis, a.k.a. Cara Lewis, a.k.a. Leeann Keili, convinced the world she was SATAN'S PILGRIM
Rex Diabolos Church THE CONTENDER
Andy Minsker, featherweight boxer THE PERFECT VICTIM
Azalea Cooley, cause célèbre THE BAD BOY
Frank Peters, man about town THE TRUTH IS UP THERE
PORTLAND "CHEM TRAIL" TRACKERS SAY TERRORISTS AREN'T THE ONLY DANGERS LURKING IN THE SKIES THE GIRL FROM ELECTRA
Brianna Stewart, a.k.a. Treva Throneberry River Rats
Life and death on the Sandy River. FAMILY FEUD
Who's gonna wind up with Reuben Lenske's millions?
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