Senate Dems revive the immigration overhaul bill. (Will that effect the protest at city hall slated for Wednesday?)

Supreme Court rules that passengers have as much right to “challenge the validity” of a police stop as the driver does.

Another area teenager killed by a train this week, this time in Southeast Portland.

Want to be a cop, but don’t have a two-year college degree? Chief Rosie Sizer relaxes the requirements, allowing recruits with “two years active service in the military; four years in the military reserve; two years as an employee of the Portland Police Bureau or the Bureau of Emergency Communications; two years as a police cadet or reserve with at least 500 hours; or two years as a police officer with another agency.”

Portland’s median home price: up to $297,000.

Email list for Trimet drivers circulates photos of gay girls allegedly kicked off a bus last week for kissing. “We have this poor driver on that HORRIBLE 12 line, in the middle of the afternoon, probably hassled and late, and now dealing with two obvious (just look at the picture of those two) juvenile delinquents who I am sure have no respect for any kind of authority, never mind a bus driver!”