We know a bit more about the "manifesto" the Umpqua Community College killer left with a surviving student. According to an unnamed source who spoke to the AP, it's full of the sort of garbage you've come to expect from these types. The news service says Harper-Mercer "ranted in writings he left behind about not having a girlfriend and thinking everyone else was crazy."
President Obama will fly to Roseburg on Friday to meet with the victim's families.
Also: The killer's mother appears to enjoy guns as much as he did, if the trail she's left behind in online forums is a reliable indicator.
Meanwhile, PSU is still arming its campus police force, and some students are still very upset about that.
Looks like you're going to have a say in funding fixes to Portland roads. After more than a year of controversy over various schemes, Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick announced yesterday he wants to put a 10-cent gas tax on the ballot. He's got the support on city council to do it, but with polls suggesting just 55 percent of likely voters are on board, it's far from clear there's enough support to weather an opposition campaign.
Among the accused shooters in last weekend's gun-fueled mayhem: The grandson of a veteran Portland gang outreach worker. The 21-year-old is accused of murdering two people outside of an East Portland bar.
Speaking of the recent spate of violence, it continues: Police are investigating what they say was another homicide last night, though details on the victim and the cause of his injuries are sparse. The O notes it's the fourth killing in five days.
The Tribune follows up on our report that Mayor Charlie Hales is considering an old US Army Reserve center in SW Portland as the new site of a homeless shelter. Surprise! Not all the neighbors are so hot on the idea.
Sometimes a quiet search for Yamhill County mushrooms unearths a BONANZA OF SKULL FUNGUS. (Look, I don't know what I'm writing, either. A mushroom hunter found part of an old skull.)
It couldn't be more simple, Portland. Next time a grizzly bear's trying to kill you, just jam your hand down its throat.
The particulars of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that controversial deal the US hopes will promote trade and fend off China's rise to the economic top, are all worked out. There's no guarantee the deal will make it past congress, though—particularly in the thick of election season.
Striking French airline workers, worried over a restructuring that could involve the loss of thousands of jobs, have a new strategy: Ripping the clothes off executives scheming on their livelihoods.
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