Ray Dolby, an American inventor and audio pioneer who founded Dolby Laboratories, has died at the age of 80.

Norway’s Suzann Pettersen shook off an early double-bogey to post a final-round 65 and win the LPGA Safeway Classic by two strokes on Sunday.

A suburban Portland man says he was so moved by a documentary exploring the cause of the Great Recession that he decided to rob a bank.

But apparently the film didn't make enough of an impression for

James Tindell skipped out of state this spring rather than attend drug treatment and follow other conditions he accepted to avoid prison after pleading guilty to robbery in 2010.

But rather do everyt

Police say a 50-year-old Oregon woman is in trouble because of her relationship baggage - but it's not the emotional kind.

Kola J. McGrath was arrested on Monday for trespassing after workers at her

A huge floating dock cast adrift by Japan's killer tsunami has washed up on an Oregon beach, believed to be the biggest pieces of flotsam to make landfall on the US West Coast so far.

The 66-foot (20

A shipwreck hunter says he has found the wreck of a World War II merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod with a load of platinum now valued at $3 billion - perhaps the richest

All Jeff Ellis could do was wait as he sat terrified 30,000 feet (9,000 meters) in the air staring at the wriggling scorpion that stung him on a flight to Alaska.

He repeated to himself that a doctor