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If you don't already have a favorite newsreader, I use and recommend Pulse.

 

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offbeatoregon.com: A Web site full of true Oregon stories — of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Of shanghaied sailors and Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers and unsolved mysteries. An exploding whale, a 19th-century serial killer, several very naughty ladies, a handful of solid-brass con artists and some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of the universe ....