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  • Serrano sentenced to die for murders

    Ricardo Serrano is headed to Oregon’s Death Row for the November 2006 murders of a Bethany mother and her two young sons. Jurors unanimously decided Thursday morning that Serrano should die for the three murders. He will be formally sentenced in Washington County Circuit Court Tuesday, March ...

  • Arias exits a still-crowded county commission race

    Multnomah County commission candidate Enrique Arias dropped out of the race Thursday to replace Commissioner Jeff Cogen’s position. In a brief game of political musical chairs Tuesday, the filing deadline for the May 18 primary, Multnomah County Chairman Ted Wheeler backed out of his ...

  • Hill's departure whittles state treasurer's race

    Former Oregon Treasurer Jim Hill of Salem withdrew Thursday from the state treasurer's race, setting up a two-man Democratic primary between departing Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler and state Sen. Rick Metsger, D-Welches. The winner will face Republican state Sen. Chris Telfer, R-Bend on the ...

  • Looking past the coliseum

    As the Portland City Council moves closer to deciding the fate of Memorial Coliseum, two larger questions are starting to loom – what to do with the rest of the Rose Quarter and how to pay for all the improvements that the city and other interests would like to see. The council had been ...

  • Schools give nod to Tualatin urban renewal extension

    The proposal to continue Tualatin’s Central Urban Renewal District by another 25 years leapt at least one major hurdle last week: the Tigard-Tualatin School Board voted 4-1 to approve the plan last Thursday. The decision came on the heels of Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue’s vote ...

  • Legacy Meridian Park hearing draws crowd

    Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center’s ongoing effort to secure a zoning change — and make expansion easier in the future — hit a wave of neighborhood resentment this week. Dozens of residents stormed the council meeting to protest the idea of building a large office complex on ...

  • Cheers from the ‘Heart of Tualatin’

    Give me a T, give me a U, give me an H, give me an S. What’s that spell? The heart of Tualatin. The Tualatin High School cheerleaders have long been an important part of the school’s success, qualifying for OSAA state competition every year under the guidance of Head Coach Tracy ...

  • Inflatable Super Colon comes to town

    Have you ever wanted to know what the inside of a colon looks like? No? Good thinking. It’s not exactly pretty. But last Thursday, visitors in the main lobby of Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center got that view up close and personal, when the giant, inflatable Super Colon came to town as ...

  • Tualatin Road bridge out of urban renewal plan

    After an explosion of public outcry against the proposed bridge that would extend Tualatin Road over the river at Community Park last week, city officials voted early Tuesday morning to remove the project from the urban renewal plan. The vote came just before 2 a.m. Councilors had been meeting ...

  • Beaverton and Korea: Cultural exchange

    Korean families and individuals hoping to brush up on their Korean language skills are in for a treat. Beaverton’s sister city of Cheonan, South Korea, last month contributed more than 1,000 Korean language books to the Beaverton City Library’s world languages collection. The new ...

  • Former M.I.T.C.H. teacher files suit

    A former teacher at M.I.T.C.H. Charter School says that she was sexually discriminated against and fired after she learned that she would not receive paid maternity leave. The teacher, Gracia H. Merrill, is suing the charter school — and its founder Debi Lorence — in federal court ...

  • A need for speed

    Grant Heizenrader is hooked on racing karts 1½ inches above a track as fast as 85 mph. “I just have a need for speed,” the Mountain View Middle School seventh-grader said. “I’ve never really understood football, basketball or any other sport like that. “I’ve ...