News Horrorcore rappers Insane Clown Posse announced last week that they're looking into why the Federal Bureau of Investigation has categorized their fans, the Juggalos, as a gang.The band's front men, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, might want to look at Oregon. The FBI's 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment lists Juggalos as a "hybrid gang," citing a 2010 attack by two Corvallis teenagers on a homeless ...   More

News The FBI wants Facebook to hand over its records on Cody S. Crawford, the Corvallis man previously identified as a person of interest in an arson attack on an Islamic center and mosque.A search warrant affidavit (PDF) filed last month in U.S. District Court in Portland describes several bizarre outbursts by Crawford in arrests made since the firebombing last fall. In one encounter, Crawford allegedly ...   More

News Exactly three weeks after weathering an arson attack, the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center of Corvallis will gather for a peace solidarity rally at Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square this Sunday, Dec. 19 at 2 pm. The square, of course, was the location of an alleged bomb plot late last month. The suspect in that case, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, occasionally attended the Corvallis mosque. A press ...   More

News The Northwest scored well on lists released today by the Peace Corps that detail the top states and cities for volunteers in 2009. Corvallis was #2 per capita in top volunteer-producing metropolitan areas. Oregon was in the top 5 per capita. And Washington state was among the top five volunteer producing states overall. The Peace Corps notes that its overall number of applicants has increased ...   More