• Craigslist scam: Home rental in Portland is too good to be true
Everything about the online ad for the cute rental house in North Portland sounded good to Annette Barrackman: three bedrooms, a good neighborhood and the screaming deal of $1,000 a month for rent -- utilities included.

• Castelli-sponsored team withdraws from Tour de France
Cycling apparel maker Castelli celebrated Riccardo Ricco's Tour de France victories earlier this week by hanging a banner outside its U.S. headquarters in Portland that read "Ricco Come Pantani."

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• KeyBank grows its mortgage business as other firms get out
Amid nationwide banking losses because of turmoil in the housing industry, KeyBank announced Friday that it plans to double its mortgage lending business in Oregon and southwest Washington.

• Lots more businesses forced to shut doors
Driven by a sour economy and skittish consumers, U.S. business bankruptcies saw their sharpest quarterly rise in two years, jumping 17 percent in the second quarter of 2008, according to an analysis by McClatchy Newspapers.

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