Without fail, we media types climb atop our soap boxes this time of year and warn you not to go and get yourself killed. Enough preachy. Let's try cheeky.

Sheriff's Deputy Jared Gray is A-OK. His Dodge patrol car is not.

A jury has sentenced Angela McAnulty to death. The Eugene woman pleaded guilty to torturing and killing her teenage daughter, Jeanette Maples.

As a child, the late Pearl Jones sat and listened to the elder ladies of Baker City, Ore., who arrived here on the Oregon Trail. Pearl's love of Oregon history was infectious - and, it turns out, appropriate.

America loves Portland, Ore. Or at least Portland thinks so.