| In 1999, two DJs at KSJJ in Bend, Ore., announced that the Ochoco Dam had burst, sending millions of gallons of water downstream. |
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| In Portland, Ore., a delusional veteran jumps off the roof of the VA hospital. |
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| Before his brutal killing along a dark bike path in Ashland, Ore., 23-year-old David Grubbs loved playing videogames. |
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| Her casual remark led to an anecdote typical of this Portland, Ore., singer and songwriter. |
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| His mother is a cytotechnologist in the Tigard, Ore., laboratory of Quest Diagnostics. |
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| Travis McKinney, a forklift driver for Georgia-Pacific in Portland, Ore., said the company's political packet had spurred widespread discussion. |
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| A gunman went on a rampage in a Portland, Ore., shopping center, killing two people and then himself. |
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| In some places, like Portland, Ore., you can also blame the bicycle. |
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| Just a few hours from Portland, Ore., or Seattle, you can stroll through the lush foliage of ferns and wildflowers, beneath ancient spruce, hemlock and cedar trees. |
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| These awards, presented each year in the cafetorium of the James A. Garfield Middle School in The Dalles, Ore., celebrate innovation in technology. |
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| Of course, Ms. Deschanel and Mr. Ward, a musician based in Portland, Ore., whose quiet troubadourism sells out midsize clubs, are not unknown. |
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| She writes: A couple of years ago in the course of touring Bob's Red Mill, the whole-foods purveyor based in Portland, Ore., I learned a new word: spurtle. |
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