News Laura Willis is a Salem housewife and Harley-Davidson enthusiast who saved for years to amass enough money—$12,000—to pay for breast implants and a tummy tuck.
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News KATU News has acquired unedited dashboard video of Oregon Ducks stars Cliff Harris and Darron Thomas being pulled over in June doing 118 mph on I-5 n...   More

News I can't count the number of hours I've spent wondering who would win in an imaginary war between Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard and Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge guerrilla army. Actually, I can: zero.
But in case you've ever imagined that unlikely matchup, Spike TV on Wednesday will help decide who would emerge victorious. And a Portlander who survived the Khmer Rouge genocide will offer his i...   More

News Legendary Portland drag queen and newly minted author Darcelle XV was arrested Thursday night for allegedly assaulting two Oregon Liquor Control Commission officers, according to    More

News Over at Slate, freelance writer Brian Palmer asks and answers the question: How far do you have to commute by bike to cancel out the carbon emissions produced in the manufacturing of your bicycle?Palmer's answer: Around 400 miles should erase the bad environmental karma of the 530 pounds of CO2 emissions that go in...   More

News Last month, I bought a 9mm handgun in a Safeway parking lot in Northeast Portland, to show how easy (and legal) it is to get a gun on the street.When I published my cover story about the gun earlier this month, I'd planned to turn the pistol over to the Portland Police at the next city-sponsored...   More

News As first reported by The Oregonian, federal officials this morning raided the home and city office of Portland city parking manager Ellis McCoy to investigate allegations that he received kickbacks from the city's Florida-based parking-meter company. The feds ha...   More

News The City of  Portland, TriMet and Multnomah County face a federal civil-rights lawsuit that claims a Portland cop Tasered a developmentally disabled man on a public bus. Police reports obtained by WW in a public-records request fill in the cops' side of the story.
According to the suit filed July 21 in U.S. District Court in Portland, Calbruce Jamal Green was on his way home from Gresham t...   More

News Tom Chamberlain, a former Portland firefighter and current president of the Oregon AFL-CIO, tells WW he is strongly considering running for mayor of Portland."I have had a number of people call me in the last two weeks about running," Chamberlain says, "and I haven't said no."Mayor Sam Adams    More

News A second candidate has officially indicated his interest in replacing Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schrunk.Rod Underhill, a chief deputy district attorney in Schrunk's office, registered a candidate committee on Tuesday with the Oregon Secretary of State's office to run f...   More