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Oregon Has Lowest Rate of Childhood Obesity
CHICAGO (AP) - What's the magic in Oregon that keeps kids lean? It's a mystery health officials would like to solve as they admit all states are failing -- by a mile -- to meet federal goals for childhood obesity.
Oregon has the nation's ...
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Girls Put the 'Amp' in Camp as They Rock 'n' Roll
Members of the Electric Ligers take five at the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, Ore. Credit: Tave Drake
Boys can be sooo dense.
"They don't know girls dominate the world! And they don't know girls rock, rock ... and roll!
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Puppies Used in Latest Advance-Payment Scam
Say it together now: "Awwww." Credit: AFP/Getty Images
The lure of a cute little puppy. It is a weakness that many animal lovers have succumbed to. And now it's being used as bait for a variation of the time-tested advance-payment scam.
Animal ...
New American Doll Has Same Name as Arsonist
Rebecca Rubin -- new American Girl doll -- shares her name with an arsonist. Image: store.americangirl.com
Rebecca Rubin is American Girl's latest doll, a nine-year-old growing up in New York City in 1914, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants ...
Oregon Women Discover They Were Switched at Birth
Now grandparents, two women discover they were switched at birth. Photo courtesy of Dequella manera on Flickr. The time to mention to someone that you think you've been given the wrong baby is while you're still in the hospital. Marjorie Angell ...
Woman In Labor Calls Radio Station To Find Husband
Everybody who has ever had a child has a story about the day the kid was born. Some are better than others, of course. But this story might be the best I've heard yet. A very pregnant Kerry Colber of Portland, OR, started having contractions on ...
Little People dad gets DUI
DUI's are not just for young, rich Hollywood starlets. Matt Roloff, the father on TLC reality series, Little People, Big World, was pulled over in Washington County, Oregon in June after he was seen having difficulty keeping his car in one lane. ...
Southern Oregon loses libraries
As of April 7, Jackson County in Southern Oregon will have no libraries. Due to cuts in federal funding, the county will close all fifteen branches of its library system leaving many patrons in rural areas out in the cold. This makes it the largest ...Students raise pigs to fund school trip
Sure, raffles, auctions and bake sales are great -- but 12 seniors at Eddyville Charter School, a farming community school in Oregon, thought it'd be more fun to raise pigs instead. According to student Ashley Connor, "It started off as a joke," and ...Student threatens teacher in homework assignment
Wait -- did you just threaten to kill me? That's what one Oregon teacher is asking after an 8th grade student turned in a homework assignment describing a fictitious main character, overburdened with too much homework, who kills his teacher, and ...
Court decides name problem for two parents
An Oregon court has finally reached a decision on what to name a child, only after looking at 1,000 years of naming traditions. (Couldn't they have just contacted Baby Center?) The problem started in 2004 when an unmarried couple had a baby. While ...
"They put my sperm in a stranger's vagina"
We all make mistakes. I once used salt instead of sugar in a cookie recipe. Boy, was that a mix-up! Sheesh. The fertility clinic housed by the Oregon Health and Science University accidentally used Matthew Hayes' sperm to inseminate a stranger ...
Breakfast out with the boys: a photo essay
Last weekend after I returned home from my business trip, I made a point to play hooky from my computer for an entire day. First up: a late breakfast with my boys, the big one and the two littler (and equally cute) ones. The chandelier at Mother's ...
The Christmas tradition that would: a tale
Once upon a time there was a mama. She was an energetic mama, full of ideas, vim, vigor and spice. She had plans, big plans, and they revolved around the perfect Christmas. She had some very excellent ideas about a bucolic, authentic celebration, ...
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