The town is a shadow of what it once was, and it never was very much. The railroad that ran through Timber shut down in 2007. The former logging outpost’s only bar — the Timber Inn Tavern — burned down years ago and was never replaced. Its tiny U.S. post-... See more
A 73-year-old man has been sentenced to two decades in prison for the 1983 homicide of a Josephine County woman, the Oregon Department of Justice announced this week. Marcus Sanfratello pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in Josephine County Circu... See more
Police arrested a suspect after a man’s neck was sliced open in an alleged attack in North Portland on Sunday. Christopher James Parkins, 39, faces attempted murder, assault and unlawful use of a weapon charges, according to court records. He is being hel... See more
When his money ran out, again, he began calling himself Billy Foodstamp. This was the 1980s, and 40-year-old Billy Foodstamp, né Hults – former Navy man, traveling musician, movie-set hanger-on and failed husband – lived in a rundown, 12-foot-long trailer... See more
President Donald Trump this week called Democratic U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez “a true Radical Left Extremist with a Track Record that REEKS.” In the Truth Social post, he claimed that Gluesenkamp Perez “wants Open Borders, Men playing in Women’s Sp... See more
