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'Last year a dog won' | Kid-led 'straightest stick' contest brings smiles to Minnesota village
Siblings Setona and Soren Mahoney hosted their second annual straightest stick competition in Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota.
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Stray bullet comes within a foot of 11-year-old's head in Tigard apartment, father says
TIGARD, Ore. (KOIN) — A Tigard father says he wants to move out of his apartment after a bullet tore through the walls Sunday morning, coming within a foot of his 11-year-old son’s head. Justin McLean says the shooting happened around 9:20 a.m. at Terrace Glen Apartments, an affordable housing complex where he has…
Brewers-Rays will produce a first-time champion, and maybe the first all-indoor World Series
The Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays will face off in the first World Series between title-less teams since the Phillies defeated the Kansas City Royals in 1980.
Powerball: See the winning numbers in Monday’s $607 million drawing
Check your numbers to see if you hit it big in Monday's jackpot.
Did anyone win Powerball's $607M jackpot? Here are the winning numbers for Oct. 19
A $607 million jackpot was up for grabs in Monday's Powerball drawing. Here are the winning numbers.
Japan launches spacecraft to mysterious moons of Mars in a bold mission to bring home soil samples
Five of the world's space agencies have joined forces for the five-year mission that will attempt to land a robotic prospector plus a rover on Mars' moon Phobos.
Lanning: Stewart incident 'didn't match our standard'
The Ducks' top pass-catcher was booked in Springfield Municipal Jail on Sunday morning, and Lanning spoke on it for the first time Monday night.
Ballots mailed out to Oregon voters: What to do if you didn't get one
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Election Day is just over two weeks away and ballots in Oregon and Washington were mailed out last week. But there are plenty of voters still wondering where their ballots are and if the color of their ballot reveals anything about them. A flood of thousands of ballots poured in from
Family of Portland stabbing suspect fatally shot by police speaks out, pushes for mental health awareness
Eric Hurtado's family is grappling with his death after they say a mental health crisis led to a police shooting. They're asking for better mental health resources.
Woman stabbed boyfriend in neck with kitchen knife during argument, ClackCo officials say
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A woman was arrested after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the neck during an argument in the Rhododendron area early Saturday morning. The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said they responded just before 1 a.m. on Saturday to a home in the 652300 block of East Alpine Way in…
Fan accused of dressing as security to get into SEC game
Axis supervisor 20-year-old stole polo shirt and hat.
Oregon coach Dan Lanning holds press conference after Evan Stewart's DUII arrest
EUGENE, Ore. (KOIN) -- Oregon football coach Dan Lanning is holding his weekly press conference on Monday night. It comes in the wake of the arrest of Ducks receiver Evan Stewart, 23, who was jailed on Sunday morning and charged with DUII, hours after Oregon defeated Nebraska 17-14 in Eugene on Saturday night. Stewart…
'Like nothing anyone’s ever seen before': Inside the painstaking stop-motion of LAIKA’s ‘Wildwood’
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Three seconds of animation. That’s about all the average animator at LAIKA can shoot in a week. Now multiply that across an entire feature film, with hundreds of handmade characters, intricate sets and a story that unfolds in a magical forest. That’s the painstaking work behind Wildwood, the…
Woman accused of stabbing boyfriend in neck after argument
A man told Clackamas County deputies that his girlfriend stabbed him with a kitchen knife after they were in an argument.
OHSU secures $12.5M for research on ubiquitin signaling and its role in disease prevention
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University received $12.5M to study ubiquitin signaling, which may play a critical role in diseases like cancer.
More human remains found in downtown Portland: What to know
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A week after the discovery of human remains prompted a suspicious death investigation in Downtown Portland, additional remains have been found. Portland police said they were dispatched to the area of West Burnside Street and Interstate 405 on Oct. 19 at 12:40 p.m. after a crew contracted to…
Man who took Peachy the flamingo from Las Vegas hotel exhibit found guilty of animal cruelty
A jury convicted a Canadian tourist of animal cruelty charges for snatching a flamingo named Peachy at a Las Vegas hotel.
Couple embezzled millions from large Portland business to fund trips to Vegas and Legoland, lawsuit says
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — One of Portland's largest employers has filed a lawsuit against one of its workers. Daimler Trucks North America is seeking more than $6.5 million in damages from Terry Watson, a former employee, and his wife, Krystal. Watson is accused of embezzling millions of dollars from the company while…
Delayed rescue effort now underway for 140 wild horses in danger after Oregon wildfire
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Following a delay, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is commencing a rescue effort of more than 100 wild horses in southeast Oregon after a wildfire threatened the herd's survival. The emergency operation is officially set to begin on Tuesday, and up to 140 wild horses from the Riddle Mountain…
With 2 weeks until midterms, analysts say Dems still on track to win US House majority
Democrats have used President Donald Trump’s unpopularity to expand the midterm map, and analysts project the party carries momentum heading into the final two weeks of the election cycle, even as Democrats are expected to flip fewer U.S. House seats than wave elections this century. The Cook Political Report with Amy…
Bear killings skyrocket as garbage, bird feeders draw them into conflict
Bears are having a very bad year. Across much of the United States, a warm winter and persistent drought have decimated the natural foods that black and brown bears rely on. With nearly every station at the buffet in short supply, the adaptable eaters are turning to human food. From California to Connecticut…
Trump order sets up new women’s health research initiative at NIH, White House task force
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health. The new division is set to work with the agency’s existing Office of Research on Women’s Health, which was established in 1990 and “has served as the focal point for…
More ballot drop boxes, please
Oregon famously allows people to place their completed ballots in the mail for dispatch to the county elections office. It’s safe and it works. If you want to be really super-rigorous about security, the platinum standard a small but determined group of Oregonians hold to is to take your completed ballot to the county…
Dems take the lead in fundraising this quarter in Oregon’s congressional swing districts
The three Democratic incumbents representing former congressional swing districts in Oregon far outraised their Republican challengers in the third financial quarter of the year, according to federal campaign finance records. With less than three weeks before the general election, congressional candidates Thursday…
Oregonians urge early voting at statewide ‘No Kings’ protests ahead of election
With the November election looming less than three weeks away, Oregonians took to the streets Saturday in the nation’s first vote-by-mail state to encourage their fellow citizens to cast their ballots.
Data centers are now the largest financial bet in US history
The sheer size of investment in data centers is drawing concern as it surpasses all other historical booms and crowds out other more job-creating ventures. Until now, no industry had driven the U.S. economy with such force since the railroad expansion of the late 1800s, when titans battled one another to lay the…
Feds intercept ‘suspicious’ package intended for Oregon election office
Federal officials intercepted a “suspicious package” addressed to Oregon’s election office before it arrived in the state, Secretary of State Tobias Read said Friday. “We are not aware of any additional suspicious packages heading to Oregon, but our office and our federal partners remain vigilant, and we are asking…