October 2007 Archives
2:46 PM Tue, Oct 30, 2007 | Permalink
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My oh my, where to begin today.
Teamwork is the key to tracking down information on the Richard Curtis story. He's the State Representative from Southwest Washington that ended up in the middle of a sex scandal while attending a Republican Party meeting in Spokane.
KREM is our sister station in Spokane and since the story is really playing out on two fronts we are lucky to have them. KREM reporters are able to track down docum...
3:06 PM Fri, Oct 26, 2007 | Permalink
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Chances are, you are familiar with many of our stories today. That's not to say there isn't something new!
Thursday, Kyle Iboshi broke the story of a Portland police officer - who was set to plead guilty to official misconduct. That happened today. Four women have accused him of sexual misconduct -- in the line of duty. Kyle will have the latest on a once - up and coming officer -- who has now plead guilty and handed in his badge...
2:11 PM Thu, Oct 25, 2007 | Permalink
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It's not over yet. We were all expecting the Snowball saga might wrap up today with the disabled deer returned to the family that rescued her in Molalla. We should have known better after all the twists and turns this story has taken. A judge did rule in favor of the family but the State is now asking the Court of Appeals to stop it.
Here's a sample of the kind of emails coming in today...
"Just let the deer go back to the ...
3:20 PM Wed, Oct 24, 2007 | Permalink
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Everyone is talking about the California wildfires.. and for good reason. More than a million people have now been evacuated. We have sent Scott Burton to San Diego to augment our coverage. He hit the ground this afternoon, and will join us live - in our 5 o'clock broadcast.
We will also update the story of Snowball the deer. Remember her? The state removed the animal from a Molalla family's property, and sent her to an Elk farm...
2:26 PM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 | Permalink
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Once again today the big story is the fires in Southern California. Everyone I ran into today seems to know someone affected by the fires there. It's the same here in the newsroom. Laural's brother and his family are still evacuated. Her sister is on standby to evacuate. Kyle Iboshi has a family member there that had to evacuate. Voluntary evacuations are in place where our 5pm producer Gina Zandy's folks live. And the list goes on. So ...
3:31 PM Fri, Oct 19, 2007 | Permalink
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We wrap up the week, with an update on a story from 9 months ago. It's a story that has certainly divided a lot of people. It had just snowed in the area, and people were out enjoying the somewhat rare opportunity to use their sleds in town. Peter Gecho tied a sled to the back of his pick-up truck, and headed for a field at a Vancouver middle school. Gecho made a sharp turn, and the force of that turn - whipped the sled around and hurled t...
2:35 PM Thu, Oct 18, 2007 | Permalink
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Just finished getting briefed by our 5 o'clock producer Gina Zandy about the stories we are working on. It's another wild afternoon and I'm NOT talking about the weather.
For starters the Governor finally answered our question about the ethics complaint filed against him by radio talk show host Lars Larson. This all has to do with what he knew or didn't know about the Goldschmidt sex abuse case.
It wasn't much of an an...
3:27 PM Thu, Oct 11, 2007 | Permalink
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I fell in love with Falls City.
It's a small timber town about 90 minutes from Portland, west of Dallas.
It's on a dead end road... but it dead ends in some of Oregon's most beautiful country in the coast range.
It's not just the towering Doug Fir trees of Black Rock Mountain that cast their spell, but the people of this one street town.
Nels E.G. Olsson runs the "A and E Hometown Grocery Store".
He bought ...
