Here we are at Thursday, again, Blogtown. Let's have some news!

Dead blue whale news, that is. An 80 foot long, 20 ton whale washed up on a beach in Ophir, about seven miles north of Gold Beach on the Southern Oregon coast. Crowds showed up to check it out, and the Curry Coastal Pilot reports there are no plans to remove the carcass. Authorities instead plan to "let nature take its course."

Some of you might remember when, in 1970, Oregon highway engineer George Thornton led an ill-fated crusade to blow up another whale carcass, this one rotting on the Oregon coast near Florence. He used 20 cases of dynamite, which may have been a little much. Let's watch:

Luís Ortíz, a 26-year-old from California, started having headaches in August. He tried to ignore them, until one day the pain intensified and he began feeling disoriented an nauseous, so his mom rushed him to the hospital. It's a good thing she did, because a neurosurgeon removed a tapeworm larvae that was lodged in his brain. Here's the worst news: doctors think he probably got it from eating pork.

Hazel Abel, 86, was kidnapped from her home in Kennewick, Wash., in a horrific manner by her own grandkid and his friends and stuffed in the trunk of a car to endure a 200 mile joyride. But don't worry, this story gets better: The feisty old lady waited until the car was stopped at a Walmart near Portland, managed to untie her hands, pull a cord to pop the trunk, and run to a store employee who called police.

Know what else ended up in Portland? Only the second best dive bar in all the US. The Reel M Inn on SE Division was voted almost number one by some place called The Daily Meal.

You might end up with a hangover after your visit to Reel M Inn, but you probably won't get E. coli like the nearly 40 people did who ate at Northwest Chipotle locations. Management says they're dealing "aggressively" with the situation. Aggressive, like the vomiting and... nevermind.

Speaking of gross: Seattle's famous gum-covered wall—also known as the Market Theater Gum Wall—is getting blasted clean. Just look at that icky thing:

Mexico's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that it is unconstitutional to prohibit people from growing their own weed for personal use, which could set a precedent for future rulings around the sales and use of marijuana in the country, where there are "tens of thousands" of drug-related killings each year.

Not to be outdone, Vermont Senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders introduced a bill that would end federal marijuana prohibition. #Bernonedown

It's looking to investigators that a bomb was to blame for the Saturday crash of a Russian airliner over the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula that killed all 224 people aboard.

A six-year-old boy in Louisiana was shot and killed by marshals when they fired at the vehicle in which his father was trying to flee. The boy, Jeremy Mardis, was a passenger. He died from multiple gunshot wounds to his head and chest.

So we don't end with a total tragedy, an 18-year-old boy who was reported missing more than a decade ago has been found alive in Cleveland, Ohio.