“Billy Moore was just a great kid,” said Bob Brandts, the activities director. “He was a kid who was trying to do his life right. He graduated from high school, got a job and was trying to help support his family.”

This is just so sad and so wrong.

Willamette Week has learned that federal, county and city law-enforcement officials say the reason for the search of Sauvie Island is that cell-phone records reveal Kyron’s step-mother, Terri Moulton Horman, may have been on the island the day he disappeared… This information comes from five separate law-enforcement officials from agencies at the city, county and federal level… Four of the sources say they’ve heard Horman’s story doesn’t jibe with her cell-phone records from June 4.

June has soaked through Portland’s record books. Rain continues to drench ballfields and bike riders, flood backyards and basements, shattering the precipitation record for the month. The total: 4.24 inches as of 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Thank you!  This was a complete mess-up by ODOT. I rarely drive my car but taking an hour to drive from downtown Portland to Jantzen Beach on a weekend (trying to support some businesses) is not acceptable.

Labs have moved on to test for other chemicals you’d expect to find in real human urine, as well as smelling specimens and shaking them to see if they foam naturally.

Starbucks has never offered unlimited free Internet access. Customers who bought and registered a Starbucks card and used it in the last month have been able to use the Web for two hours, after a somewhat complicated log-in process.

“The collapse of the financial system as we know it is real, and the crisis is far from over,” Soros said today at a conference in Vienna. “Indeed, we have just entered Act II of the drama.”