State Dept. worker, wife charged in Oregon with trafficking in counterfeit goods
A U.S. Department of State employee and his spouse were arrested Wednesday for their role in an international conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit…
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Body of Vancouver teen found, man arrested
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Police say the remains of missing Vancouver teen Nikki Kuhnhausen have been found and a man has been arrested and charged…
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Interior Dept., states appeal sage grouse ruling
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Interior Department, Idaho and Wyoming are appealing a court ruling that halted a Trump administration plan to ease land-use…
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Canadian couple gets $9 million jury verdict in bike wreck
A Portland jury has awarded more than $9 million to a man and woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, who were struck by an 18-wheeler truck while…
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Supreme Court won’t revive homeless camping ban in Idaho
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will not review an appellate decision that makes it harder for cities to keep homeless people from sleeping on…
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Theft of Christmas trees from Wash. farm leads to arrest
Authorities in Washington state are calling a Christmas tree thief a real-life Grinch after arresting a man they say stole dozens of evergreens from…
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Man found guilty in shooting of Salem police officer
A Salem man has been found guilty of shooting a veteran Salem police officer four times during a nighttime traffic stop on April…
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Jury awards $18M to parents of man killed by bus in S. Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury in Dallas, Texas, has awarded $20 million in damages following the death of a Seattle man killed in 2017 by a…
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La Pine home burglar found in child’s room, chased out, arrested
A barking dog Thursday afternoon alerted a La Pine family to a burglar in their child’s room, who they chased out of the house and was caught while…
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Report outlines sexual abuse at Portland private school
A report says at least nine former teachers and other staffers at a private school in Portland sexually abused, groped or had sex with students in…
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Man jailed on 23 years of child sex abuse charges
Authorities say a man was arrested on child sex abuse charges, some of which date back to the…
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Bend man gets year and a day in prison for BHO lab explosion
A Bend man was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in federal prison and two years’ supervised release for illegally manufacturing and possessing…
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Rosenblum, other AGs urge FTC to boost online protections for kids
Oregon Attorney General Rosenblum joined a bipartisan coalition of 25 state attorneys general in a letter urging the Federal Trade Commission to…
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Prineville PD offer details of what led to high-speed Hwy. 26 chase, crash
Prineville police provided details Monday on the events that led to a wild high-speed chase of a menacing suspect Friday on U.S. Highway 26 that…
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Portland police release names in officer’s fatal shooting of man
Police have released the name of the officer who shot and killed a man Sunday outside a Starbucks coffee shop on Portland’s southeast side.…
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland police fatally shot a man Sunday afternoon outside a coffee shop on the city’s southeast side after a caller reported…
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Police: 55 shots fired, 1 hurt at Portland rental house party
One person was injured in a shooting at a party at a Portland Airbnb rental in which police say 55 shots were fired from multiple guns. No other…
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Umatilla woman jailed on manslaughter, DUII charges in fatal crash
A Umatilla woman was arrested on manslaughter, drunken driving and other charges Friday night after she allegedly ran a red light and crashed into…
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2 businesses sue pipeline company over 2016 Portland blast
Two businesses whose Northwest Portland storefronts were destroyed by a 2016 gas explosion have filed new lawsuits against the company that was…
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Ex-TV station bookkeeper gets prison for embezzlement
A longtime bookkeeper was sentenced to prison after admitting she embezzled more than half a million dollars from a Southern Oregon television…
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