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Oregon's defensive line didn't look like it was supposed to Saturday night. A slew of recent injuries compelled the Ducks to start two true freshmen on the D-line in Arik Armstead and DeForest Buckner and add another when true freshman Alex Balducci, who graduated from Central Catholic High School, burned his redshirt to make his first appearance of the season.

The Waterfront Blues Festival is Oregon Food Bank's most powerful fundraiser. A number of festival vendors make donations to OFB to provide additional support. Dave's Killer Bread will donate a portion of its bread sales at the festival to OFB, up to $3,000. Ceramic and Glass art sales at the Empty Bowls booth benefit OFB.

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd joins John Canzano of the Bald Faced Truth to talk about drugs, baseball and his biggest regrets

The Oregonian is highlighting the Best of Oregon in a special section later this year. Our staff will make some picks, but readers get to have their say, too. We've waded through hundreds of reader nominations in the category "best of Oregon active/outdoors." Now, you get to vote for one reader favorite.

The Oregonian is highlighting the Best of Oregon in a special section later this year. Our staff will make some picks, but readers get to have their say, too. We've waded through hundreds of reader nominations in the category "best of Oregon dining." Now, you get to vote for one reader favorite.

Follow @PortlandPolice Attachment: VIEW FILES This morning, Tuesday July 3, 2012, at 7:37 a.m., Portland Police officers assigned to North Precinct responded to the report of a residential armed robbery at a residence in the 7100 block of Northeast Killingsworth Street.

The Boy Scouts of American had a fundraiser on Friday in which people, for a donation, could rappel down 42-story-high U.S. Bancorp building in downtown Portland. The event was sponsored by Over the Edge, and it raised more than $100,000.

All of which is a prelude to my saying that I've known Anderson Cooper as a friend for more than two decades. I asked him for his feedback on this subject, for reasons that are probably obvious to most.

Chael Sonnen joined the BFT to talk about his upcoming UFC rematch with Anderson Silva

Anna was 15 when her big brother died and so she didn't much like talking about it. It's been nearly seven years since David Heller came home from that Central Catholic High School basketball scrimmage, went to sleep and never woke up.

Former Blazers All-Star announces that he's working out daily and planning a return to the NBA next season

As the June 28 NBA draft nears, rumors and speculation run rampant, and the latest involving the Trail Blazers is that Syracuse shooting guard Dion Waiters has been given a promise by the Blazers that they will select him with the 11th pick.

As Shea Turner marched through the halls of the Harriet Tubman Leadership Academy for Young Women in her yellow cap and gown, the recent graduate couldn't help but smile. Throngs of her classmates had lined up along the lockers on the last day of school to cheer on Turner and three other graduates, before joining the four in a parade to the auditorium.

Board member Bobbie Regan proposed during a Monday work session that former board members should have to wait six months to a year before entering employment with the district to avoid allegations of impropriety and any undue pressure on the superintendent.

The Portland School Board appears ready to send another capital bond measure to voters this November, following the narrow rejection of a $548-million measure on the May 2011 ballot.

It was an honest moment at the end of Miami's Game7 victory over Boston in which LeBron James and his teammates slapped backs, and celebrated a return to the NBA finals. All around them, there were the Celtics, lingering on the court, shaking hands, hugging, soaking up one last look, when other losing teams would have bolted for the locker room.

The husband and I just returned from watching this year's second adaptation of the fairy tale involving a wicked stepmother thwarting a stepdaughter's access to love, royalty, and a lifetime of happiness. No, not Cinderella. The other fairy tale that gives stepmothers a bad rap - the one involving seven little dudes, three drops of blood, a poisonous apple and a magic mirror.