Mona Jimenez was found by Portland police Sunday. Molly Hottle, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/mollyehottle/index.html

Portland’s City Council is considering a plan to invest part of the city’s tax dollars in local credit unions and community banks. But first, the city must change its own rules on investing. On Friday, Mayor Sam Adams released the draft of a three-page ordinance that would give the ...

About 30 people line up at the Clackamas and Tanasbourne Targets to get their hands on Jason Wu's new line, while in Portland, bargain hunters devour clearance deals by local artists and designers. Molly Harbarger, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/mharbarger/index.html

Owner Bo Kline said her husband's death last year left her without a co-owner and made running the business more difficult. Molly Hottle, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/mollyehottle/index.html

Organizers dubbed today's event the Park Liberation Party to note the reopening of Chapman Square. The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html

A few people turn out during the first weekend the square has been reopened since a 38-day encampment was cleared in November. The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html

Portland Mall Management Inc. is bringing in tons of snow to Unico Plaza, where artists from the summer favorite Sand in the City will return to turn the mounds into sculptures. Anne Saker, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/asaker/index.html

The woman has serious health conditions. Tom Hallman Jr., The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/thallman/index.html

Portland Fire Bureau calls a 2nd alarm to fire the apartment fire.

The Tour de Nerdfighting recently came to Portland and well...it's pretty great, according to Erin S., who writes at the Snarke blog. Where else can you see hundreds of people sing (with gusto!) songs about particle physics, angler fish and Harry Potter? The Oregonian News Network http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/OregonianNewsNetwork/index.html

Film Festival ready to kick off another year.

The fire started in a single-story unit at El Moro Apartments and was fueled by strong east winds. Investigators identified careless smoking as the cause. Rachel Stark, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/rachelstark/index.html

Oregon's health care reform plan, now up for review in the Legislature, proposes to do the same. Outreach workers like Becky Wilkinson will play a key role in the plan that is to unfold this summer with teams of doctors, nurses, dentists, therapists and other providers in what's called Coordinated Care Organizations. Bill Graves, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/bgraves/index.html

Questions can be amazingly difficult, yet high school students seek out the Science Bowl in numbers -- the western Oregon and Washington regional competition, sponsored by Bonneville Power Administration, is the largest in the country. Sixty-four teams faced off Saturday, 16 made it to the final rounds, but only one advanced to Washington, D.C., to compete in nationals. Molly Harbarger, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/mharbarger/index.html

A startup recently won a Microsoft-sponsored contest, snaring $50,000 and a year's subscription to the company's new Office 365, its offering in the cloud computing market. Molly Young, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/young-mk/index.html

From the moment he decided to pursue a career in food, few have doubted Rucker's talent or drive. But the climb has been steep. In the past 10 years, he has risen from a party-hard college dropout to Portland's most highly decorated young chef. Michael Russell, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/mrussell/index.html

Portland Fire and Rescue responded to a fire at an abandoned house on Southeast Sherman Street shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday. Rachel Stark, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/rachelstark/index.html

Portland writer Jay Lake has had a recurring fight with cancer. On this occasion, he gets an anti-cancer marker tattooed onto his status. The Oregonian News Network http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/OregonianNewsNetwork/index.html

Beautiful but volatile, the mountain's danger zones are clearly defined

A 53-year-old man turned himself into police Thursday in connection with the Jan. 28 hit-and-run death of a 26-year-old Vancouver, Wash., man at Southeast 70th Avenue and Foster Road. Police said Jim Dean Patterson was charged with two counts of failure to perform the duties of a driver in the ...