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You remember that little Harry Potter spent most of his formative years living in a closet under the stairs. And if that's always been a dream of yours to live in that tiny closet, that dream can now come true! There's a guy in Portland renting out the closet under his stairs for $300...

Good idea: building tunnels under the docks to unload a ship if your city receives a lot of rain. Bad idea, using those tunnels to kidnap people and sell them as slaves to become sailors or prostitutes.

I'm about to to a new place in July (hopefully), but with the housing market going back up for the summer, I'm looking for cheap.

The State Department is telling him no, but Portland musician James Twyman says he has a peace concert planned for Feb. 1 in ISIS-controlled Syria and wants you to pray for him here.

Movie theater staff are pretty patient people. Considering they're mostly teenagers, and deal with some really grumpy (and messy) people sometimes, they do a great job. But there are couple things you could do or say to be immediately evicted... and one Portland woman discovered one:

Imagine you risk your life daily for 24 years to help people for a living, and a group who wants to protest your profession is forcing you to work late on Black Friday. Would you be upset? But what if you're a cop and you're complaining about "Black Lives Matter" and call them "fools" on Twitter... it puts your employer in a sticky situation.

Cleveland High School in Portland, Oregon, has cancelled its winter formal. The vice-principal told the student newspaper he's sick and tired of the grinding.

Missouri State University was in turmoil this month because African Americans students felt the school did not do enough responding to racism messaging on campus. Now Lewis & Clark College in Portland is doing the same thing over Yik Yak.

Municipal police and Multnomah and Clackamas county leaders are scratching their heads after dozens of residents reported "Join the Klan to Save Our Land" fliers being placed on their doors and driveways this week.

Richard Dean Defeudis is in big trouble for brandishing a knife last week. It was what he did before that you won't believe.

Portland, Oregon, is famous for being weird, so when a local resident spotted a court case labeled "United States of America v. All Roosters, Born and Unborn (to include Gamecocks, Cocks, Birds and Chickens)" they naturally demanded an explanation.

If my boss wore a crucifix necklace or posted Christian-themed memes to Facebook I wouldn't mind a bit. But if she started leading prayer circles at work and pasting Bible verses around the office I might get uncomfortable -- even if I agreed. That's the position four mall cops found themselves in and when they complained they were fired.