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    Semi-trucks along a highway, May 24, 2013 (KOIN 6 News)

    Overloaded truck permits ‘not a problem’

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    Truckers told KOIN 6 News getting a permit for an overloaded truck is not a problem for big companies in Washington. They simply file online.

    The East Fork Lewis County Bridge in Washington state is both structurally deficient and functionally obsolete, May 24, 2013 (KOIN 6 News)

    The risky bridges of southwest Washington

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    In southwest Washington, there are about 12 deficient and obsolete bridges, and officials considered closing some of them because of height and weight restrictions.

    Cops: Albany teen planned to blow up school

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    Lani Doser, a family nurse practioner at Providence in Portland (May 8, 2013, KOIN 6 News)

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    In the wake of the tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma, many families are making sure they are prepared in case of a disaster and emergency.

    An undated photo of Pastor Chris Schauermann's family. They moved into an allegedly haunted Astoria house in 1991 and still live there. (Courtesy photo, May 19, 2013)

    Astoria’s Hess House haunted no more

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    “This was the haunted house,” Sam Hess told KOIN 6 News, “just because it was so dilapidated and looked scary.” So Hess offered the house rent-free to the family of Pastor Chris Schauermann.

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Semi-trucks along a highway, May 24, 2013 (KOIN 6 News)

Overloaded truck permits ‘not a problem’

Updated: 16 mins ago

Truckers told KOIN 6 News getting a permit for an overloaded truck is not a problem for big companies in Washington. They simply file online.

The East Fork Lewis County Bridge in Washington state is both structurally deficient and functionally obsolete, May 24, 2013 (KOIN 6 News)

The risky bridges of southwest Washington

Updated: 1 hour ago

In southwest Washington, there are about 12 deficient and obsolete bridges, and officials considered closing some of them because of height and weight restrictions.

Melissa Borgaard lost control of her car on the Morrison Bridge and plunged into the Willamette River in 2005. (KOIN 6 News, file)

Plunging off bridge ‘very disorienting’

Updated: 2 hours ago

Most people can’t imagine what it was like for the three people who fell into the Skagit River when a bridge along I-5 collapsed Thursday night. But Melissa Borgaard can.

In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, Rescue workers head to the scene where a pickup truck and a car fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco Rodriguez)

Photos: Interstate 5 Skagit Bridge collapse

Updated: 7 hours ago

The collapse of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River at Mount Vernon and rescue efforts, Thursday, May 23, 2013.

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Cops: Albany teen planned to blow up school

Updated: 2 hours ago

A 17-year-old was arrested after authorities received a tip he was planning to blow up West Albany High School.

This panorama is believed to have been taken on or near May 15, 1903 when the Great Northern Railway bridge collapsed into the Skagit River. This was taken roughly 1,200 feet east of where the Interstate 5 bridge collapsed Thursday night. The 1903 bridge collapsed because a weak foundation, and two train employees were killed. (KIRO-TV/Dan Kerlee)

Skagit River bridge also collapsed in 1903

Updated: 4 hours ago

The collapse of the bridge Thursday into the Skagit River occurred about 1,200 yards west of where another bridge collapsed 110 years earlier.

A collapsed section of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River is seen in an aerial view Friday, May 24, 2013. Part of the bridge collapsed Thursday evening, sending cars and people into the water when a an oversized truck hit the span, the Washington State Patrol chief said. Three people were rescued from the water. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday declared a state of emergency in three counties around the bridge, saying that the bridge collapse has caused extensive disruption, impacting the citizens and economy in Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom Counties. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Mike Siegel)

‘Horrified’ trucker watched I-5 bridge collapse

Updated: 5 hours ago

The truck was hauling an oversized load of drilling equipment destined for Vancouver, Wash.

An officer and a horse in Portland's Mounted Patrol Unit, May 2013 (KOIN 6 News)

Group to City: Nix mounted patrol donation

Updated: 3 hours ago

In a letter, the group asked, “If we had thousands of dollars, could we pay for a squad of police to wear clown suits?”

Powell's Books in Portland, May 10, 2013 (KOIN 6 News)

Powell’s Books to get seismic upgrade

Updated: 5 hours ago

Built in the 1920s and remodeled in the 1970s, Powell’s Books is about to get a seismic upgrade.

Oklahoma City Thunder NBA basketball player Kevin Durant walks past tornado-damaged homes in a neighborhood in Moore, Okla., Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Durant donated $1 million through to the American Red Cross for relief efforts. The Thunder matched the $1 million donation. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Durant challenges Nike to match $1M donation

Updated: 3 hours ago

The apparel giant announced it would donate $1 million in footwear and apparel for tornado relief efforts.

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