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In 1857, Franklin Mowry was 27 years old, mining for gold on Jackson Creek near Jacksonville, Ore. In a letter to his brother Silas in Pennsylvania, Mowry…

After approving 31 Oregon counties for Phase 1 reopening four weeks ago, and then allowing 26 of those to open further to Phase 2, last week, Gov. Kate Brown is slamming the brakes on further relaxing of rules she put in place to stem the spread of COVID-19.

The governor of Amazonas, Colombia, says it was impossible to cut the area off from Brazil, even as the virus spiked. Now the Colombian border town of Leticia is a coronavirus hot spot.

As the country again confronts its record of structural racism, Joe Biden is facing growing calls to choose a black woman as his running mate.

Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad is accused of violating American sanctions laws against Iran, but prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are backing away nearly three months after convicting him.

Omaha, Neb., community organizer Morgann Freeman believes this year's election is still the best place to affect change.

Miranda Dawn and Chris Hawkes first met in 2010 when he crossed an Austin barroom floor and asked her to dance. A modest beginning became an undeniable…

Lone Rock Timber and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians were ready to take over part of the state-owned Elliott State Forest, but Oregon leaders had…

A profession as dangerous as smokejumping--parachuting into remote areas to fight fires--is bound to suffer a few casualties. Malvin Brown was the first…

It was a web site where you could buy ANYTHING. eBay? Not hardly. "Silk Road" was the name of the purposely obscure website that moved goods and services…