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PORTLAND — The 11-year-old boy accused of trying to rob a woman with a loaded gun is well known as a troublemaker in his Portland neighborhood.

PORTLAND — A driver who passed an Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife trooper going more than 90 mph had a message on the bumper that asked, “How’s my driving?” The trooper pulled over the driver last week at Gladstone with the answer.

The Eugene City Council Monday selected a vacant lot on North Garfield Street near Roosevelt Boulevard as a site for a homeless village.

The Purple Prince has passed on. Don Jackson, a well-known South Eugene High School principal who led the school for 16 years, died at home early Friday morning, daughter Carleen Robinson confirmed Monday.

Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy doesn’t often lend her name to fundraising campaigns, but she’s decided to make an exception for this holiday season. Piercy has teamed up with St.

Facing a $6 million general fund budget hole for the fiscal year that begins next summer, the Eugene City Council tonight expressed a willingness to explore two new flat fees for city residents. One proposal is a new “city service” fee of up to $10 a month charged to residents.

NEWPORT — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today that the opening of the ocean commercial Dungeness crab season in Oregon will be delayed through Dec. 30. The ocean commercial Dungeness crab season along the Oregon coast normally opens on Dec.

A man was killed this afternoon when he was struck by an eastbound freight train near Third Avenue, just east of the Interstate 105 Washington-Jefferson Bridge in Eugene’s Whiteaker neighborhood.

Oregon’s economy is on track to grow as it heads into 2013, but the recovery continues to be sluggish, according to a University of Oregon index that charts the state’s economic activity.

LOWELL — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will lower Fall Creek Lake’s water level to well below normal winter levels this week.