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Man throws in towel on Jordan lawsuit

Um, yeah, ya think?

The Northeast Portland man who sought more than $800 million from Michael Jordan and Nike founder Phil Knight because he said he was tired of being mistaken for the famous basketball player is giving up his defamation lawsuit.
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Date: August 2nd, 2006 | No Comments


Giant rubber band ball idea circles back around again

Woo whee!  Now here’s something fun to try!
It’s a stretch to break the record, but Steve Milton wants to make the world’s largest ball of rubber bands.

Milton, 26, an estimator for a local insulation company, was showing his 6-year-old son how to wrap rubber bands into a sphere last year, and the project snowballed from there. The ball now weighs 580 pounds and is roughly 3 feet high.

“Nobody’s really called me crazy,” Milton said. “They do think I’ve got a lot of time on my hands.”
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Date: June 27th, 2006 | No Comments


Murderer deceived residents of Oregon town

This is what happens when you are nice to strangers!!!
FLORENCE, Ore. — After Gordon Weaver left his wife for dead in their White Bear Lake (Minn.) home, he decided his own life would go on. He jumped $300,000 bail and made his way to the West Coast, where he called himself “David Carson” and became deeply involved with an Oregon family — eluding police for four years.
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Date: May 11th, 2006 | No Comments


Oregon students can sue over tough coach dispute

I love it! Lets sue everybody! Whee!!!

Members of a high school basketball team can sue over their suspensions after they protested a verbally abusive coach, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday.

Eight students on the Clatskanie High School basketball team in Clatskanie, Oregon, during the 2000-2001 season signed a petition seeking the removal of coach Jeff Baughman because of what they described as his intimidation tactics.

Oregon students can sue over tough coach dispute


Date: May 2nd, 2006 | No Comments


School cancels classes due to nice weather

Not technically Oregon, but I like to claim Washington (sometimes…)

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Instead of enduring a day of inattention and spring fever, Bellingham Christian School declared a “sun day” and gave everyone the day off.

School cancels classes due to nice weather


Date: April 27th, 2006 | No Comments


911 call for ‘cute’ deputy gets woman arrested

So fantastic.  What a great use of our limited law enforcement…
ALOHA, Oregon (AP) — A woman who called 911 to get “the cutest cop I’ve seen” sent back to her home got a date all right — a court date.

The same sheriff’s deputy arrested her on charges of misuse of the emergency dispatch system.
911 call for ‘cute’ deputy gets woman arrested


Date: July 14th, 2006 | 1 comment


Police clock I-84 speeder at over 140 mph

Woo hoo!  Lets go fast now, ya hear?
Police say they nabbed a speeding BMW on Interstate 84 near Troutdale Thursday after the car posted an eye-popping 146 mph on their speed detection equipment.
Police clock I-84 speeder at over 140 mph


Date: May 22nd, 2006 | No Comments


Crossbow-Wielding Robbers Hit Portland Bar

Are you kidding me? A crossbow? Who hits up a bar with a CROSSBOW??? Oregonians, apparently.

PORTLAND — Police are looking for two men who robbed a Portland bar this weekend with a handgun and a crossbow.

Crossbow-Wielding Robbers Hit Portland Bar


Date: May 8th, 2006 | No Comments


OLCC Liquor Chief Charged With Drunken Driving

Ohhh…the irony! I love it! OLCC makes it difficult and expensive for business’ to get licenses and offer some of the most stringent policies in the country. Obviously, they have some internal issues to work out…

The director of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission abruptly resigned Thursday after she was charged with drunken driving.

Teresa Kaiser was stopped Saturday night in Portland and was found to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.16 percent, twice the legal limit for driving in Oregon, said police Detective Paul Dolbey.

Liquor Chief Charged With Drunken Driving


Date: April 28th, 2006 | No Comments


Revenge Of The Sick?

Now that’s what I call an embarrasment…

APRIL 25–Meet Dusten Jacob Williams. The 20-year-old Oregon man was arrested yesterday afternoon for brandishing what appeared to be a handgun outside a school…Now as for the face paint, apparently the 6′ 4″ Williams was going for a devil/”Revenge of the Sith” look, surmised one law enforcement official. So what kind of guy parades around in the middle of the day with red and black paint on his face a la Darth Maul? The kind who waves a fake gun around outside a school and then escapes on his waiting skateboard.

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Date: April 26th, 2006 | No Comments

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