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Traffic was stopped in both directions as crews worked to get the driver out of the truck. He did not appear to be hurt. The crash happened around 3:40 p.m.
For more details, read the full story from KGW.com.
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Fareed Lafta and Kent Couch (L) lift off from Couch's Stop & Go Mini Mart in Bend, Oregon, July 14. The two men, sitting in lawn chairs tied to a cluster of 350 helium-filled balloons lift-off in a bid to break the Guinness World Record for the longest two-man cluster balloon flight.
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Oregon gas station owner Kent Couch and Iraqi adventurer Fareed Lafta lift off Saturday, July 14, from Couch's gas station in Bend, Ore., as they attempt to fly some 360 miles to Montana. The flight is a warm-up for a future flight planned in Iraq.
FROM AP- BEND, Ore. — An Oregon gas station owner and an Iraqi adventurer took flight Saturday aboard a pair of lawn chairs suspended from helium-filled party balloons in an attempt to fly across Oregon and Idaho and into Montana.
About 90 volunteers and several hundred onlookers counted down and then cheered as Kent Couch and Fareed Lafta lifted off from Couch's Shell gas station. The duo safely cleared a two-story motel, a coffee stand and a light post. Click here to read more about this world-record attempt.
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This handout photograph obtained courtesy of the Oregon Parks and Recreation (OPRD) and released June 7, 2012 shows a team of about a dozen staff and volunteers organized by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to remove marine organisms from the dock which landed on Agate Beach, Oregon.
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This photo, taken by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department Thursday shows an invasive species commonly known as "wakame" attached to a dock float that washed up on Agate Beach Tuesday near Newport, Ore.
Miguel Llanos reports on msnbc.com's US News blog that the 66-foot dock is the largest debris to wash ashore in North America from the tsunami:
A check for any radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant came up negative, said Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation spokesman Chris Havel.
The department is overseeing efforts to remove the dock but hasn't decided yet whether to demolish it on site or have it towed off. "You can't preplan for stuff like this," Havel told msnbc.com.
A starfish native to Japan was found clutching to the structure, Havel said, adding that another concern is to keep out any nonnative species that might have hitched a ride on the dock.
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This handout photograph obtained courtesy of the Oregon Parks and Recreation (OPRD) and released on Thursday shows a team member of about a dozen staff and volunteers organized by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to remove marine organisms from the dock which landed on Agate Beach, Oregon, after drifting at sea following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Workers with shovels, rakes and other tools first scraped the structure clean, then briefly used low-pressure torches to sterilize the dock. The material was bagged and hauled up the beach well above the high tide line to store it temporarily.
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This photo, taken by the Oregon Park and Recreations Department Thursday, June 7, 2012, shows exotic mussels attached to the dock.
When a large dock that broke away from a Japanese harbor after the tsunami and washed up on an Oregon beach, it brought along millions of organisms. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
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John E. Brennan stands naked after he stripped down while going through a security screening area on April 17 as a protest against airport security procedures. Click the image to view the complete photograph.
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The Port of Portland police say a 49-year-old man stripped naked at Portland International Airport as a protest against airport security screeners, reported the Associated Press.
The incident report said John E. Brennan's actions Tuesday evening caused some passengers to cover their eyes and their children's eyes while others looked, laughed and took photos.
Police say the Portland man was arrested for investigation of indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.
The Oregonian reports the Port of Portland summary said Brennan "disrobed completely naked" while going through a security screening area. Read the full story in Overhead Bin.
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Police arrested John Brennan of Portland, Ore., for indecent exposure and disorderly conduct after the incident. MSNBC's Chris Jansing reports.
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A whimsical roadside metal sculpture sports a full head of snow as a winter storm hits the area, dropping 2-4 inches of snow, in Corbett, Ore., Wednesday, March 21, 2012.
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Tyler Rhett phones for help after driving his vehicle off the road, through deep snow and into a deep, slushy pond in Corbett, Ore. on March 21. Rhett, who eventually was pulled out by passersby, says he deliberately drove into the pond not realizing how deep it was.
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Nicholas Henry, 12, receives the presentation of the flag by a Navy representative during the burial for Naval Petty Officer 2nd Class Stevenson L. Roy, a recently deceased homeless Vietnam veteran, Jan. 25, at Willamette National Cemetery, in Portland,
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A member of the Honor Guard salutes during the burial for Naval Petty Officer 2nd Class Stevenson L. Roy, a recently deceased homeless Vietnam veteran, Jan. 25.
The burial of a homeless Navy veteran at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland was the 1,000th in a national program that provides military honors to homeless and indigent vets.
Petty Naval Officer 2nd Class Stevenson L. Roy died of natural causes on Dec. 16, when it was discovered that he had served during the Vietnam War.
The Oregonian reported no family members could be found, so the funeral was handled by the Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home through the Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program.
The program provided Roy with a full military burial, complete with a 21-gun salute, missing-man procession by the Patriot Guard motorcycle riders, and presentation of the flag by the Oregon Honor Guard.
Since Roy had no widow, children, siblings, or other relatives, the honor guard presented the folded flag to 12-year-old Nick Henry because he is a member of the Civil Air Patrol and his mother is an executive at Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home, which conducted the service, reported OregonLive.com.
The Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program began in 2000 and is one of several efforts by the Dignity Memorial network to honor and support our nation's veterans and active military.
According to the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs, approximately 130,000 veterans in the United States experience homelessness in a given year.
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The Honor Guard holds the flag during the burial for Naval Petty Officer 2nd Class Stevenson L. Roy, a recently deceased homeless Vietnam veteran Jan. 25.
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Members of the Patriot Guard motorcycle riders carry the casket of Naval Petty Officer 2nd Class Stevenson L. Roy.
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Traffic veers around a wreck in snowy conditions after winter weather hit Beaverton, Ore. on Jan. 17, 2012. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for much of Ore. through Wednesday for heavy snow.
The Weather Channel reports on Tuesday morning that the dusting of snow that valley floors of the Pacific Northwest have received since Sunday are only a prelude to what could develop into one of the biggest winter storms to hit the region since 1985.
Tuesday night through Wednesday, a strong low-pressure system with copious amounts of moisture will approach the Northwest coast. This will set the stage for a potential major winter storm across the lower elevations and mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Travel could become dangerous or impossible in cities from the Canadian border down through Portland, Ore.
Msnbc.com reports I-90 at Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascade Mountains was shut down Tuesday morning for avalanche control.
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Shortly after 5 p.m. on Sept. 28, 2007, Lovelle Svart, suffering from terminal lung cancer, drinks the lethal cocktail permitted under Oregon's Death with Dignity Act.
Excerpted from 'The Image, Deconstructed':
Photographer Rob Finch:
In this photograph, Lovelle is drinking the lethal barbiturate that will end her life. I am trying to make this photograph as unobtrusively as possible. I am damning the sound of the shutter – which sounds more like a boom than a click. I suppose I was tense. I did not know what was going to happen. Would she die immediately? Would she throw up? Would a family member try to stop her? Looking back, it still gives me chills. I have photographed death in many different situations – natural causes, epic acts of nature, violence – but this was a totally different experience. This was the actual act of a person ending her own life. I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around it.
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The reality of any intimate story is that you must give of yourself if you expect people to open up to you. It's simple advice but difficult to do. You are there because of your job. They are living their real life. If you are not empathic to them, you will never gain access to their lives. Those feelings must be real and genuine. You cannot fake it. Never think about your subjects as compositional elements. Respect them. Give of yourself. Treat them how you want to be treated. It's basic life stuff and they teach it in preschool.
To learn more about Rob Finch, Lovelle Svart and his approach to telling her story, visit 'The Image, Deconstructed'.
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Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber pauses while announcing in Salem, Ore., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, that the execution of convicted killer Gary Haugen will not go on as scheduled next month and no more executions will happen while he is in office.
The look on this man's face stopped me in my tracks.You have to admire someone who makes a decision like this based on conscience rather than political calculation.
AP reports:
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber on Tuesday imposed a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term, saying he's morally opposed to capital punishment and has long regretted allowing two men to be executed in the 1990s.
Kitzhaber's decision gives a temporary reprieve to a twice-convicted murderer who was scheduled to die by lethal injection in two weeks, along with 36 others on death row. It makes Oregon the fifth state to halt executions since 2007.
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In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, an Oregon State Police trooper dodges ash from a fire burning along Interstate 5 near Rogue River, Ore. Gov. John Kitzhaber invoked the state's Emergency Conflagration Act on Thursday evening, ordering police and fire officials to send resources from around the state to fight the North River Road Fire burning near the City of Rogue River.
AP reports:
ROGUE RIVER, Ore. — An Oregon Department of Forestry spokesman says a fast-moving wildfire has raced across 300 acres of grassland in southern Oregon near Rogue River, threatening some homes and briefly closing northbound lanes of Interstate 5. Five helicopters and two air tankers dropped water on the blaze before darkness fell Thursday. Spokesman Kevin Weeks says ground crews will be fighting the North River Road Fire overnight.
Jeff Barnard of the AP reports from Oregon City, Oregon:
As long as American Indians have lived in the Pacific Northwest, they have looked to a jawless, eel-like fish for food.
Tribes once harvested the lamprey from rivers throughout the Columbia Basin, which stretches from the Oregon coast up into Canada. But with dozens of hydroelectric dams in the way, the fish has followed the path of the buffalo — from a food staple of a people to a curiosity.
Today, the tribes in the Northwest have just one place to go for them: a 40-foot waterfall on the Willamette River flanked by an abandoned paper mill and a power plant, and located about a dozen miles upstream from a Superfund site.
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A tribal member tossing a lamprey at Willamette Falls, in Oregon City, Ore. on July 8. As long as Indians have lived in the Northwest, they have looked to the lamprey, a jawless, eel-like fish, for food.
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A lamprey caught at Willamette Falls.
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Tribal harvesters searching for lamprey at Willamette Falls, the only place in the Pacific Northwest where they can still be fished.
Unlike salmon, which have drawn billions of dollars in government funds to modify dams and restore habitat, the lamprey have gone largely ignored. It's the tribes that still eat them that are driving the effort to bring them back.
The greatest threat the fish now face is the dams, which "will probably lead to their demise," said Aaron Jackson, who heads efforts by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation — a federally recognized confederation of three Sahaptin-speaking Native American tribes who traditionally inhabited the Columbia River Plateau region — to restore lamprey.
"That's really sad," he said, of a fish that has survived hundreds of millions of years while other animals, such as dinosaurs, didn't. "That something this old would just wink out in my lifetime — that's unfathomable to me."
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