Elvira Arellano spent a year in an Illinois church to avoid deportation and separation from her 8-year-old son. On Sunday, she was arrested in L.A., where she’d arrived “after leaving her sanctuary to campaign for immigration reform.”

Two NYC Firefighters died on Saturday, fighting a fire at a building damaged on 9/11 that was just now being dismantled.

Here comes Hurricane Dean!

“A 23-year old Serb was found dead and half-eaten in the bear cage of Belgrade Zoo at the weekend during the annual beer festival,” CNN reports. “‘There’s a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage,’ zoo director Vuk Bojovic told Reuters.”

Portland’s drivers drive less, save $2.6 billion a year, and “most of that money, which otherwise would go to far-flung car makers and oil companies, appears to go instead to housing, entertainment and food in the Portland-area economy.” Yay us!

Portland homes are “now the least affordable” since the Regional Multiple Listing Service started tracking sales over a decade ago.