Here. You might enjoy another retelling of Oregon First Lady Cylvia Hayes' recent life story—especially this one quote (which isn't about Governor John Kitzhaber): "I guess she must have been more in love with him than he was with her."
When you're slain (allegedly) in your outer East Portland ranch home someday, some reporters reporting on the report will notice your lion statues, yard fountain, and final choice of television programming (sports!). Others, if they work around cameras, will blare scary things about killers being on the loose.
Portland Public Schools is thumbing its nose over parents and community members' concerns that plans for new technology labs at Roosevelt High School are inadequate when compared what's in store for wealthier and whiter schools in the district.
Strippers in Las Vegas just hit the jackpot! (Get it? Jackpot? BECAUSE I WROTE "LAS VEGAS"! LOL!) The Nevada Supreme Court, in a ruling with national implications, says clubs must treat dancers like workers, not contractors—including paying a minimum wage and providing worker's compensation and sexual harassment protections.
The still-asymptomatic Ebola nurse in Maine who defied her quarantine the other day by taking a pleasant bike ride with her sweetheart has learned she can continue, by law, to leave her house. But with one very scientifically precise caveat: She must remain at least three feet away from everyone at all times.
More foreign jihadists are traveling to the Middle East than ever before, according to the United Nations, lured by the region's twin poles of armed conflict: Syria and Iraq. (And still no thanks for America sowing those happy seeds of war, I bet.)
Staring down a nascent Palestinian uprising, Israel finally agreed to reopen Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound—a holy site for Muslims and Jews alike—ahead of Friday prayers.
Hong Kong's dogged democracy protesters—bitterly disappointed that "free elections" in the territory means having China pick all the candidates first—have begun mulling over a big and potentially deadly change of scenery: Beijing itself.
Early voting has been good for Democrats, according to various polls and tallies—offering some hope that turnout and registration drives meant to bring in new voters and minority voters might stem what had otherwise been looking like a blood-red Republican tide this fall.
Senator Lindsay Graham was just kidding, his flack says, when he told a private audience that "white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency." Kidding! (But not kidding!)
The White House doesn't want many journalists tagging along when the president heads to Asia for a long visit. News organizations must pay $60,000 for the privilege of taking the government's chartered press plane, on top of food and rooms and other travel costs.
A Montreal woman photographed by Google while sitting on her front stoop complained of emotional distress when the picture—showing a bit more cleavage than she realized or intended—wound up on Street View. A court just have her $2,000 (in money with presidents, not the queen).
No big deal. A ten-inch drill digging a new subway tunnel in New York somehow bored its way into a subway car full of people on another line. No one was hurt.
SHUT UP. IT'S HALLOWEEN.
