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Giant skeleton hinted at legend of pirate treasure
Neighbors wondered if the eight-foot-tall corpse found by developer at what today is YWCA Camp Westwind was evidence that an old Native American lege…
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Mass murderer honored in courthouse monument
75 years ago, without realizing who he was, Wallowa County included Bruce “Blue” Evans — leader of the gang that massacred dozens of innocent Chinese…
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‘Ship of Romance and Death’ met a dramatic end
The Melanope's maritime career started with a witch's curse. But her most dramatic story was the torrid, doomed love affair its skipper carried on wi…
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Prison break happened during “conjugal visit”
By far the most embarrassing jailbreak in state history happened when a murderer simply walked out the back door of a Motel 6 during an unsupervised …
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Portland lost world’s biggest log cabin in 1964 fire
Ancient electrical wiring ignited Portland's legendary Forestry Building, a structure made of massive, flawless old-growth logs that had been built f…
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The mysterious demise of the S.S. South Coast
Historic steam schooner vanished on a calm night in 1930, leaving lifeboats and debris floating in the water — but no bodies, alive or dead. Was it a…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Horrific 'Trunk Murders' made headlines nationwide (Part 2 of 2)
Ruth Judd was in a fierce argument with her friends Annie Leroi and Sammy Samuelson. Furious, she stood up to go. She took her drink cup to drop it o…
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Locals drawn into 1930s’ most notorious murder (Part 1 of 2)
OREGON DIVORCEE AGNES Anne “Annie” LeRoi arrived in Phoenix in the first few months of 1931 with her best friend and roommate, schoolteacher Hedvig “…
2 months ago
Oregon’s Doolittle raiders and their startling stories (3 of 3)
Two of them had movies made about their wartime exploits — “30 Seconds over Tokyo” and “The Great Escape”; a third, captured and imprisoned in the ra…
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The Oregonians who flew over Tokyo with Doolittle (2 of 3)
Robert S. Clever, Everett “Brick” Holstrom, Henry “Hank” Potter and Robert G. Emmens were four Oregon aviators who did the Beaver State proud in what…
2 months ago