It’s Saturday and this is the news in Southeast Portland.

First, the weather: Rain with a high around 40. This is what it's expected to look like for the foreseeable future.

The 11-year-old boy accused of an attempted car-jacking had fired his father's pistol several times in the back yard the day before the crime.



The owner of the Portland-based Laughing Planet Café chain has sold his restaurants to the Laughing Planet CEO.

It looks like the final part of the old Dixie Mattress building will soon have a new owner. No news yet, however, on what it will be once the sale is complete next month.

Sculptures commissioned for the Hawthorne and Morrison Bridges will depict the neighborhood's industrial past.



Portland Police seized eight firearms early Friday morning from a Southeast Portland home after reports that a man was firing shots inside and seemed to be hallucinating.

Slappy Cakes, the beloved purveyor of pancakes on Southeast Belmont Street, is opening at a second location in Tokyo.

Southeast Hawthorne's Bridgeport Ale House is closing today.



Elsewhere on Oregonlive.com: The young man who killed two people at Clackamas Town Center mall this month led a troubled life.

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