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“Shorty” Davis may be Oregon’s oldest cold case
Shorty Davis was a popular sheepman who one day in 1900 disappeared ... and no one has ever seen a sign of him since. Virtually everyone suspects fou…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Filming of “worst Western ever” was a real spectacle
It was no 'Heaven's Gate' -- 'The Way West' was more like the 'Ishtar' of the late 1960s. It was spectacularly and expensively shot on location in Or…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Boys’ summertime shipwreck adventure couldn’t happen today
They pedaled their bicycles from Portland to Astoria, snuck aboard a wrecked ocean liner, and spent the night marooned on board, with breakers crashi…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
First Ashland Shakespeare Festival kayoed competing boxing event
The city business leaders hoped the Shakespeare Festival would do OK, but just in case it tanked, they insisted that it share the stage with a series…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Oregon's ‘King of moonshiners’ was an old-time music legend
Among musicians and fans of old-time string-band music, Benjamin Franklin Jarrell is basically royalty. As a member of one of the most influential ba…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
What really happened to DB Cooper? Pick a theory
For more than 40 years, amateurs and pros alike have put forward dozens of theories, many quite plausible and backed with some evidence. But the stor…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
D.B. Cooper deplanes like a boss: Getting away with the loot
The hunt for the man who called himself Dan Cooper started just hours after he disappeared into the night sky with a bag of $20 bills tied to his wai…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
D.B. Cooper deplanes: Getting away with the loot
After demanding four parachutes and a knapsack of $20 bills, the legendary anonymous skyjacker disappeared into the night sky over southwest Washingt…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
D.B. Cooper skyjacking legend started at PDX
History's only unsolved hijacking drama started at Portland International Airport when a nondescript man calling himself 'Dan Cooper' stepped aboard …
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Finn on KPNW's Wake Up Call: Hathaway Jones, Self-declared 'damnedest liar' in Oregon country
A recording of an on-air conversation with Bill Lundun and Gerry Snyder of the Wake Up Call on Eugene's KPNW Radio AM 1120. Topic: The wonderful tall…
9 months ago