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11:15 PM Sun, Aug 17, 2008 | Permalink
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By: Amy Troy
When you're expecting, you'll hear this comparison. At seven months into your pregnancy your baby is, statistically, the size of a football.
Well, we've hit that mar...
8:45 PM Sun, Dec 30, 2007 | Permalink
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By Amy Troy
Candid talk and original music.
That's what you'll find during the New Year's Day special on KGW-TV, called Behind The Lens.
Sure, you can catch a newscast almost any time you turn on your television.
But few really know what photojournalists go through, to capture those images for a newscast.
At 6pm on January first - you'll find out. In candid language.
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3:53 PM Sun, Dec 16, 2007 | Permalink
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by Amy Troy
Ten children are making Christmas merrier for 135 other kids. Way to go!
Here's a cyber high-five to the children of the Portland Quarter Midgets Club.
I met the group Saturday, December 15th, at Cedar Hills Crossing. My husband and I were collecting toys for the Newschannel-8 Great Toy Drive. While we met many generous souls as they dropped off new, unwrapped toys to be del...
4:41 PM Sun, Apr 29, 2007 | Permalink
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It’s a story that still haunts me. I still feel the anguish that gripped neighbors, still see the tears in their eyes. I still hear their words “thank God police found her before he killed her.” I still ask --- how could it happen?
Last August a convicted sex offender lured a seven-year old girl out of her Albany front yard. He took her to a secluded area along the banks of the Willamette River, and assaulted her. ...
9:08 AM Tue, Apr 03, 2007 | Permalink
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By Amy Troy
I can't get their faces out of my mind, can't believe their dedication.
They're grandparents like Charlie and Margaret who are living with seven family members in their FEMA trailer next to their home in the Lower Ninth Ward. It's been nearly two years since the floodwaters literally jolted them out of bed. Charlie is disabled and couldn't swim so he and three family members climbed into the attic and waited fo...
5:25 PM Tue, Mar 14, 2006 | Permalink
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They call it "Plunkett's Project". And it's taking off.
On February 27th we learned a World War II Veteran, 82 year old Luke Plunkett, was about to be evicted from his Vancouver home. The City of Vancouver found many dangerous code violations inside Plunkett's house. The deadline to fix the violations was looming - he had no money to fix them.
While photojournalist Steve Redlin and I were interviewing Plunkett in h...
