By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking a key part of a tough new voter-approved gun law intended to curtail mass shootings, but did not immediately rule on its most controversial part — a ban on the sale and transfer of high-capacity magazines. Harney
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Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she will use her executive clemency powers to commute the sentences of the 17 individuals on Oregon’s death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A man at a poker table went on a sudden, unprovoked attack at a casino in Washington state Monday night, stabbing or slashing four people before being arrested after a high-speed car chase, authorities said. All four victims were expected to survive, according to the Clark County
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Oregon State Police on Tuesday identified and asked the public for help in locating two murder suspects – one considered armed and dangerous – in the Oct. 31 shooting death of a 24-year-old man in the Strawberry Heights neighborhood of southeast Madras.
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A student at a high school in Portland, Oregon, was shot and wounded Monday outside a school building, resulting in a lockdown, police said. The 16-year-old student walked into a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, Portland police said in a statement. No other detail on the injury was provided. Officers
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Three men died and a woman was hurt in an apparent murder-suicide shooting in Portland Sunday night, police said. Dozens of police and medical personnel responded to a home in the Centennial neighborhood at around 6:45 p.m., KOIN TV reported. The Portland Police Bureau said officers found three men deceased. Officers
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of failed crypto exchange FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday after US prosecutors filed criminal charges against him, according to a statement from the government of the Bahamas. The Southern District of New York, which is investigating Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX and its
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Thanks to a tip to Bend police, a Tacoma, Wash., man is facing federal charges after he allegedly used social media to find young girls and convince them to produce and send him sexually explicit photos and videos and engage in self-harm.
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EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A courthouse in Washington state was locked down for several hours on Monday as authorities negotiated with and later arrested an armed man in the building’s lobby, law enforcement officials said. The standoff at the county courthouse in Everett, north of Seattle, began at around 12:30 p.m., The Herald reported. The
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Oregon Attorney General Rosenblum, along with many of her AG colleagues across the country, announced Monday a national agreement totaling $10.7 billion with CVS and Walgreens for the pharmacies’ conduct in fueling the opioid epidemic.
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The Joint Legislative Emergency Board convened Friday to approve $10 million in emergency funding to support defendants across the state who are currently unrepresented amid the ongoing public defense crisis.
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A texting system called SPIDR Tech first rolled out in April and helped better connect Bend Police and the community they serve. In its quarterly reports since, police have included the ratings given by the public for interactions with officers.
Continue ReadingCNN, KING, KAYU By Emma Tucker, CNN The investigation into the killings of four University of Idaho students has received an overwhelming amount of tips related to their search for a white sedan seen near the crime scene around the time of the deaths last month, police said Friday. Due to the amount of tips
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A store that had been openly and illegally selling psychedelic mushrooms in Portland, Oregon, was raided by police on Thursday, authorities said. In 2020, Oregon became the first state in the country to legalize the use of psilocybin for people 21 and older in a controlled, therapeutic environment under the supervision
Continue ReadingCNN, WRAL By Nouran Salahieh, John Miller and Holly Yan, CNN A growing number of reported threats to power infrastructure are under investigation following attacks on substations in the South and on the West Coast as electricity becomes a more critical need in winter. Even before the gun assaults Saturday in Moore County, North Carolina,
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By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In 2014, Oregon voters approved a ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana after being told it would eliminate problems caused by “uncontrolled manufacture” of the drug. Illegal production of marijuana has instead exploded. Oregon lawmakers, who have heard complaints from police, legal growers and others, are now
Continue ReadingCNN, KAYU By Veronica Miracle, Stella Chan, Jason Hanna and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Police on Wednesday will begin returning to their families some personal belongings of the four University of Idaho students found slain last month, the Moscow department said. “It’s time for us to give those things back that really mean something to those
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The Oregon Supreme Court late Wednesday afternoon rejected an appeal by the state Department of Justice seeking to thwart a Harney County judge’s injunction that blocks Thursday’s enactment of Ballot Measure 114, one of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws.
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police are asking for help finding the occupant of a car that was seen near where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death last month, saying that person could have “critical information” about the case. The Moscow Police Department issued a statement Wednesday afternoon
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Somewhat dismayed but undeterred by the rising cost of a Deschutes County Courthouse (Justice Center) expansion, county commissioners signed off 3-0 Wednesday on initial plans for an estimated $44.5 million, four-story addition, including two floors of “shell space” to “future-proof” the court facility.
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