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Where Are America’s Greenest Cities?

Travel + Leisure ranks the top 20 most environmentally friendly cities. Did your hometown make the cut?

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A Venti, No-Whip Cabernet: Starbucks Expands Beer and Wine Sales

Whether they’re furthering their world domination or simply expanding their horizons, once thing’s for sure: the 25 Starbucks locations set to start serving alcohol are about to see a lot more evening activity.

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Want Your City to Be Weird? Name it Portland

Or just move to New Orleans.

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DNA Proves Inconclusive in ‘D.B. Cooper’ Skyjacking Case

Uncertainty remains the name of the game in the “D.B. Cooper” hijacking, as DNA testing couldn’t pin down a new suspect in the 1971 case.

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Lexington, Ky: Home to America’s Biggest Couch Potatoes

According to one list, Lexington, Kentucky needs to hit the gym.

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Portland Reservoir Gets Drained After Man Urinates In It

Think back to your summer camp days: remember how annoying it was to evacuate the swimming pool when a kid had an accident?  Turns out a similar thing happened in an Oregon reservoir this week.

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Green Wars: Two ‘Living Buildings’ Battle for Sustainable Supremacy

Your office building doesn’t have solar panels lining the roof, composting in the basement, or mechanically controlled venetian blinds on the outside of the building to direct sun in or out depending on the time of day?

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Did a Portland Couple Shoplift $5 Million Worth of Groceries?

Safeway claims one sticky-fingered Oregon duo lifted everything from shampoo to DVDs over a span of many years.

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Maine Newspaper Apologizes For Daring to Run Muslim Photo on 9/11

If you are a Muslim in America, be warned: apparently now even the very fact that you exist is offensive to people on September 11th.

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Oregon County Cracks Down on Rogue Lemonade Stands

Might as well declare war on Americana itself.