Boring News

A registered sex offender was sentenced this week to 50 years in prison for raping and sodomizing an 11-year-old girl.

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When Toshiba went looking for the everyday ways people use laptop computers for an advertising campaign, it decided to focus on two towns whose names scream run of the mill.

Dozens of Siamese cats will soon be up for adoption after they were rescued from a home in Boring.

TV cheffery show Top Chef Masters has hit screens across the US. Would it work in the UK, or is the scene too small and the egos too large? If not fed with a constant rotating platter of food porn, TV schedules worldwide would, if not starve, at least be a lot less flabby.

Firefighters will be going door to door Saturday at the Orient Mobile Home park to test and install smoke alarms.

At 4:30 a.m. Thursday, June 4, this four-story house off Wildcat Mountain Road was fully involved in flames, challenging firefighters from four agencies to prevent fire from spreading to the nearby forest.

She finds inspiration where she can: the Catholic Church and comic books. [FREE-SPIRIT POP] Rachel Taylor Brown has gotten used to people calling her music "weird." It doesn't really bother her anymore, even if she disagrees.

During the past weekend's grand opening of the Sandy Historical Museum, Cori Whitlock, 12, of Sandy spun Icelandic sheep's wool she had pulled from sheep on the Olympic Peninsula and dyed several colors.

A Boring resident will spend 10 years in federal custody for his role in a major drug trafficking ring.

Three people received non-life threatening injuries Sunday morning in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 224 about 2 1/2 miles east of Carver.

Oregon 224 near Carver was closed for 90 minutes Sunday following a two-vehicle crash in which a car plunged down an 80-foot embankment.

Award-winning local musicians will perform at a special benefit concert for radio station KZME from 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday, May 31, at the Skyway Bar and Grill, 71545 E. Highway 26, Zigzag.

The stretch of Highway 26 between 362nd and Orient Drive, half of which is inside the city limits, is often filled with highway-speed traffic.

Adolfo Reyes and his daughter Francisca Reyes weed the marionberries on Liepold Farms in Boring, where Adolfo has worked for 30 years.

Friends and family of a Boring teen who died last week came together to remember her Thursday morning.

John Griffith and Marjan Salveter took early leads in the two contested races for positions on the Oregon Trail School Board in results released by Clackamas County Elections at 8 p.m. on Tuesday night.

But the two suburban counties have reached very different conclusions about how urban reserves should be handled, according to Metro Chief Financial Officer Michael Jordan .

Sandy Mountain Festival co-founder Ann Fenwick is nearing the end of her reign as queen of the annual event that brings thousands of visitors to Sandy each July.

Three Clackamas County water districts, together representing more than 30,000 residential and commercial service connections, have contested races in the May 19 election.