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• Afroman's Because I Got High gets pro-marijuana remake

  17 Oct 2014: Remix of the 2001 No 1 song promotes medical benefits and crime-reduction claims before drug-legalisation votes in several US states

• Oregon governor's fiancee admits 'sham marriage' to immigrant for money

  10 Oct 2014: Cylvia Hayes, fiancee of governor and election frontrunner John Kitzhaber, says she accepted $5,000 to marry man in 1997

• Portland bomb case ends with 30-year sentence amid entrapment claims

  1 Oct 2014: Mohamed Mohamud sentenced after revelations of warrantless overseas wiretaps and lawyers’ accusations of entrapment

• Why it takes 13.75 hours of minimum-wage work to earn a Metrocard in New York

  29 Sep 2014: A comparison of public transportation around the world shows it can be prohibitively expensive for people who need it most
  

• Is Alaska the new Florida? Experts predict where next for America's 'climate refugees'

  28 Sep 2014: Jennifer A Kingson reports that rising temperatures could spark massive population shifts across the United States

• Portland church gives refuge to immigrant threatened by deportation

  25 Sep 2014: Mayor and parishioners rally for Francisco Aguirre, who came to the US nearly 20 years ago and has become a labour activist

• Portland police's problem with race: 'This city is not as liberal as it thinks it is'

  20 Sep 2014: New laws have been put in place after a Justice Department investigation into claims of excessive force, but critics say strains of racial prejudice still taint the city’s policing
  

• Missing Jack Russell terrier found 3,000 miles from Pennsylvania home

  18 Sep 2014: Gidget, found wandering a Portland suburb after more than four months missing from Philadelphia home, will return to owners

• FBI investigating cadaver donation programs in at least three US states

  10 Sep 2014: Authorities have been tight-lipped about what they are examining and why, but Oregon research center being looked into

• Should we design cities for 'collisions'?

  5 Sep 2014: City links: We explore the centrality of street food to Chengdu’s social life, the trend of parking spaces becoming parks, and a map of Portland’s immorality in this week’s best city stories

• Great Dane survives after eating 43 socks – and its hospital wins a prize

  4 Sep 2014:

  Portland animal hospital entered the dog's story, complete with X-rays, in a contest sponsored by a vet magazine

• Miley Cyrus's homeless VMAs date wanted by police

  27 Aug 2014:

  Jesse Helt, who highlighted the plight of homeless youths at the MTV video awards, sought for Oregon probation violation, reports Sean Michaels

• Northern California firefighters survive wildfire in personal fire shelters

  12 Aug 2014: Fires threaten hundreds as state issues mandatory evacuations and western US battles blazes in Oregon and Idaho

• Eight firefighters suffer burns in northern California wildfire

  9 Aug 2014: Five inmates from minimum-security facility hurt battling Wilderness Lodge fire that ‘could create a whole new set of problems’

• Oregon wildfire threatens 740 homes as residents told to evacuate

  8 Aug 2014: Wildfire burning in Oregon’s wind-swept Columbia River Gorge has already destroyed one home and damaged two

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