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Officer's illegally parked car isn't above the law

Associated Press

Portland police are not above the parking laws, even if they're hungry.

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  • River cleanup could take days

    Dozens of cargo ships, petrochemical tankers and smaller vessels stacked up Thursday near a closed stretch of the Mississippi River, a day after a collision between a barge and tanker spilled more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the nation's busy shipping waterway.

  • Man watching construction killed by crane

    Church members watching the steeple being raised on their new building looked on in horror Thursday as a crane holding the structure toppled, crushing a car and killing an 80-year-old man who had been watching from inside the vehicle, firefighters said.

  • South Texas begins hurricane cleanup

    Residents across south Texas slogged through knee-deep muddy waters, tiptoed around downed power lines and dug through debris Thursday, but were thankful that Hurricane Dolly didn't pack the wallop they had feared.

  • Deaths from painkiller fentanyl exceed 1,000

    More than 1,000 people died over two years from an illegal version of the painkiller fentanyl, the government reported Thursday in its first national tally of those deaths.

  • Dolly heads inland along S. Texas coast

    Hurricane Dolly barreled into South Texas on Wednesday, lashing the coast with winds up to 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that threatened to flood low-lying areas but spared levees along the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley.

  • Researcher warns of risks with cell phones

    The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

  • Ship-barge crash may halt river traffic at New Orleans

    A stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans could be closed for days as crews clean a 12-mile oil slick caused Wednesday when a tanker and barge collided, officials said.

  • Minimum wage up -- guess what else is also?

    About 2 million Americans get a raise today as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers.

  • Man who made $100,000 lived in company paint shed

    A New York state report says a maintenance man who earned $100,000 last year working at a psychiatric center has been living for free in a paint shed on company grounds and even had his mail delivered there.

  • Traffic deaths decrease rapidly

    Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.

  • Mother of missing girl, 2, called 'person of interest'

    The mother of a missing 2-year-old is a person of interest in a case that is beginning to look like a homicide, prosecutors said Tuesday. Sheriff's deputies said they still hope to find the girl alive.

  • Hurricane Dolly takes aim at Texas

    McALLEN, Texas -- Dolly spun into a hurricane Tuesday, heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border and the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley, where officials feared heavy rains could cause massive flooding and levee breaks.

  • Today in History

    -- Today is Wednesday, July 23, the 205th day of 2008. There are 161 days left in the year.

  • Texas, Mexico prepare for Tropical Storm Dolly

    McALLEN, Texas -- Residents along the Texas-Mexico border kept a watchful eye on Tropical Storm Dolly on Monday, stocking up on plywood, generators and flashlights as forecasters predicted the storm would strengthen into a hurricane later this week and make landfall.

  • Paulson: Recovery to take months

    Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Sunday that the current economic difficulties will take months to pass but added that turmoil in the banking sector is under control.

  • Business at lake goes down the drain

    Not a cloud in the sky and the temperature is flirting with 90 degrees. Usually, it doesn't get any better than this for the Tommy Bartlett water ski show.

  • Cristobal breezes by the Carolinas

    Tropical Storm Cristobal hugged the North Carolina coast much of Sunday but offered little relief to firefighters in the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge or drought-parched counties further inland.

  • As war continues, some Army families do not

    Far from the combat zones, the strains and separations of no-end-in-sight wars are taking an ever-growing toll on military families despite the armed services' earnest efforts to help.

  • Young Jews invited by Israel to visit ancestral homeland

    Ben Narynski recently flew home to a place he'd never been.

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