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It started with the peaceful protest of a “pride” drag show by a children’s theater group during the first-ever Pride Day in a small town near Portland, Ore. It could have ended there but for a brawl between the Proud Boys and the masked bunch who attempted to infiltrate the group on Saturday. The gauzy in-between of it all is being seized upon by politicos such as former Congressman Adam Kinzinger and Rep. Eric Swalwell to make their political points. Even Elon Musk wanted to know what was going on. Naturally, because the media and Democrat narrative prevails, the Proud...

Oregon City is a mostly dreamy burg near Portland. It sits on picturesque Willamette Falls in God’s Country – Clackamas County, Oregon. Oregon City was the first official city in Oregon where people came to make a life and a living on this lush resource-filled land by the Willamette River. This is the place where fur trappers, dream seekers and saints came to put down roots after Lewis and Clark sent the word back to President Jefferson to send people. The Conestoga wagon wheel ruts can still be seen in Baker City in Eastern Oregon, on The Oregon Trail, where...

OREGON CITY -- Students and parents will discuss a controversial cartoon later today at Oregon City High School. It appeared in the school's newspaper. The student-drawn cartoon shows two men wearing Minutemen volunteer T-shirts... Depicting the recent volunteer border patrol enacted in Arizona. One cartoon says, "let's go get us some Mexicans." The other says, "remember, women and children are only worth two points." Several students took the paper home and complained to their parents. A teacher advisor and two student editors approved the cartoon for the paper. School administrators have apologized to the students saying "it was not meant...

Exclusive: Inside Weaver's Home, Shed 08/28/2002 By C.W. JENSEN, ABE ESTIMADA and AMY PALANUK, KGW Staff After a grueling weekend of work and two terrible discoveries, investigators finished their investigation of Ward Weaver’s rental house and turned the keys back over to the landlord Tuesday afternoon. Steve Hopkins, the owner of the home, said investigators told him a little of what they found. They said they found Miranda Gaddis’ remains stuffed into a box in a shed behind the house, Hopkins said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Oregon City police spent three days inspecting the shed where Gaddis’...

OREGON CITY, Ore. (Reuters) - The remains of at least one of two missing teenage girls discovered in an ex-convict's backyard had been put there recently -- explaining why past searches of the property had failed to find them, police said Tuesday. With a grand jury impaneled to determine whether to charge toolmaker Ward Weaver, 39, with murdering Ashley Pond, 12, and Miranda Gaddis, 13, police officials rushed to assure the public that they did everything they could to find the girls. Pond's body was found in a barrel under a concrete slab on the one-acre property rented by Weaver,...

Just breaking on the local news: The FbI is preparing to dig up the yard of the property previously rented by Ward Weaver. Mr. Weaver, who has described himself as the prime suspect in the disappearance of two thirteen-year old girls, was arrested last week on charges he raped his son's girlfriend. The young woman was found by a passer-by as she ran, naked, from Mr. Weaver's house. According to reports, she was terrified, saying that he had told her he was going to kill her. Mr. Weaver was arrested shortly thereafter. Late last night, it was announced by the FBI that they...