It's Thursday and you're almost to a long holiday weekend, Blogtown! Let's have some news!
Scandal! Apparently Portland First Lady Nancy Hales didn't bake her own cake for the Oregon Historical Society contest. Oh, the humanity! Fellow participant and KOIN-TV anchorman Jeff Gianola summed the whole thing up pretty well when he said, "This is a stupid story." Sadly, I read it anyway.
The six former Baltimore police officers accused of killing Freddie Gray will stand trial separately instead of as a group. The five men and one woman face a range of charges, from false imprisonment to involuntary manslaughter.
That guy from Roseburg, Alek Skarlatos, who helped stop a would-be terrorist on a train in France, is going to be on the next season of, 'Dancing With the Stars.'
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar thinks presidential hopeful and lunatic Donald Trump is a douche, too!
Rockers in Texas were disappointed when Motorhead's frontman Lemmy cut their latest show short due to health concerns. He probably just has a cold, because it couldn't possibly be 40 years of fronting Motorhead and allegedly drinking a bottle of whiskey a day.
Speaking of people who make poor choices, that clerk in Kentucky who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples even thought the US Supreme Court and pretty much everyone else thinks she should just do her damn job? Kim Davis? Yeah, she's still in the news and is being represented by other religious bigots in court.
But, oooohhh, this is good: Ol' stick-in-the-mud Kim Davis already unknowingly issued a marriage to a transgendered man! Ha, Kim Davis! God's gonna be really mad at you now!
Former US Senate candidate Monica Wehby isn't going to run for governor, after all, following days of speculation, and surprise, that she would throw her hat in the ring.
There are underground pipelines transporting fossil fuels all around us, but an attorney in Wilsonville decided to look into one near his home and here's a story about it.
This puppy is displeased about this window being rolled up:
