Fifty-five years ago, a dead sperm whale washed ashore near Florence — and what happened next became one of the most infamous moments in state history. Engineers from the Oregon Highway Division, ...

The word “meme” didn’t exist when Paul Linnman and Doug Brazil—a KATU-TV reporter and cameraman, respectively—chartered a flight from Portland to Florence one cool November day in 1970, and the notion ...

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Shocking footage has captured the moment beachgoers rallied to push a wounded whale, which washed ashore at Bondi Beach, back into the surf. In video and images uploaded to Facebook, a group of ...