Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel said Thursday he’s filing charges against a driver for Cascades East Transit who allegedly used a “chokehold” to pull a passenger off a bus a week ago for wearing no shoes — only socks — and against the passenger as well, for spitting on the driver during an ensuing argument.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily lifted a lower court’s preliminary injunction on federal law enforcement officers’ use of force, threats and dispersal orders against journalists and legal observers working at Portland protests. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the injunction was put in place by U.S. District Court Judge Michael
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Two inmates from the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution who tested positive for COVID-19 died within hours of each other, prison officials said Thursday.
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The FBI chief in Portland said Wednesday he is shifting the agency’s resources to focus more heavily on crimes committed during nightly racial injustice protests in the city that often end in rioting, vandalism, clashes with police and dozens of arrests.
Continue ReadingThe American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging agents sent by President Donald Trump to protect a federal courthouse targeted by Black Lives Matter protesters used excessive force and illegal detentions to rob protesters of their freedom of speech and assembly.
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Rioters in Portland smashed windows at City Hall in a demonstration that started Tuesday night and stretched into Wednesday morning, and police made 23 arrests as they dispersed the crowd in Oregon’s largest city, officials said.
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The Roseburg man suspected of shooting cars along Interstate 5 in Oregon from his UPS tractor-trailer rig remained in jail Tuesday on $1 million bail.
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A caretaker using a security camera to watch a hospitalized family member’s southeast Bend home caught two burglars at work early Tuesday, and while the pair got away, they were caught and arrested later in the day.
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Bend police detectives turned to the public for help Tuesday in a double-homicide case, asking for any photos, videos or information about a car in and around an area of northeast Bend over a 24-hour period, a few days before a couple’s bodies were found in their home.
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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Tuesday an $85 million multistate settlement with American Honda Motor Co., Inc. and Honda of America Mfg., Inc. (collectively “Honda”), over allegations Honda concealed safety issues related to defects in the frontal airbag systems installed in certain Honda and Acura vehicles sold in the United States.
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Police in Portland used tear gas early Monday to scatter rioters who marched on a precinct station in another night of violence — hurling rocks, bottles, commercial-grade fireworks at officers and setting fires in the streets. Twenty three people were arrested, police said in a statement.
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Bend police and Central Oregon’s SWAT Team swept into a northwest Bend neighborhood late Saturday night and arrested a Bend resident wanted on a murder charge in last month’s shooting death of a Sacramento man outside a southeast Portland nightclub, police said.
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Police forced rioting protesters away from a law enforcement building in Portland early Sunday, as efforts to stop the demonstrators from gathering at the building seemingly fell apart.
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A federal judge has denied a proposal by three Christian schools in Oregon that wanted to reopen for in-person learning this fall, finding Gov. Kate Brown’s regulations on schools during the coronavirus are constitutional.
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Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins late Friday identified the man whose body was found early Thursday morning near U.S. Highway 26 northwest of Madras as a 51-year-old Redmond man and said investigators need the public’s help to learn what happened.
Continue Reading A 49-year-old Roseburg man who drove a semi-truck for UPS has been arrested in connection with a series of shootings along Interstate 5 in southern Oregon, including a recent one in which a woman was injured, Oregon State Police said.
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At least two federal buildings in Portland have been closed and the FBI is investigating after a threat of violence was reported, officials said Friday.
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Portland police said Thursday they have declared a riot 17 times and arrested a total of more than 500 people during nightly demonstrations throughout the city that began in late May following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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A traffic stop on Highway 97 just south of La Pine early Thursday morning led to the discovery of more than two pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a car, as well as heroin, and the arrest of two Gresham residents, Central Oregon drug agents said.
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Police investigating the double-homicide of a couple found dead in their northeast Bend home late Saturday said Wednesday they are following up on leads outside of the area in their active investigation.
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