20+ hour, 44+ min ago   (734+ words) Federal protest prosecutions that began on Portland streets are returning to Oregon courtrooms this fall, where the U.S. Department of Justice faces an uneven record in converting allegations of assaults against federal officers into felony convictions when defendants take their cases…...

20+ hour, 41+ min ago   (523+ words) Oregon’s chief government ethics administrator emerged Friday from an outside examination of her own conduct with no violation established, closing an extraordinary case that required the state’s ethics watchdog to look beyond its own offices for someone to investigate the…...

20+ hour, 43+ min ago   (581+ words) More than 110,000 marijuana plants, 81,000 pounds of bulk cannabis and 86 firearms were seized as authorities moved across six properties in Clackamas and Marion counties during a three-day operation targeting a suspected large-scale drug trafficking network. The coordinated raids dismantled cultivation sites…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (1055+ words) Former Clackamas County Commissioner Melissa Fireside, already wanted in Oregon under an expanding collection of felony charges, has been indicted in federal court on two counts of wire fraud while authorities continue efforts to locate her and return her to…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (918+ words) A dispute that began amid contentious budget reductions and academic program closures at Lane Community College has moved into federal court, where a former student alleges college administrators and board officials violated his constitutional rights by barring him from campus…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (456+ words) The investigation substantiated misconduct involving Chavez-DeRemer across six areas of her tenure, placing conduct inside the secretary’s office, during government travel and at her private residence within the same federal inquiry. Conditions inside the Labor Department became one of the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (375+ words) Federal authorities are expanding a nationwide crackdown on commercial trucking violations after a three-day enforcement operation across four Midwestern states produced 86 arrests, 766 out-of-service orders and nearly $1 million in recovered stolen cargo. Operation Highway Shield moved through Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (626+ words) On Wednesday morning, September 2nd, Circuit Court Judge Laurie Norman rejected Baertschiger’s petition to amend the ballot title language, for many of the same reasons as we stated in this column last week. It appeared to be a quick and easy…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (583+ words) An armed robbery investigation that began Sunday night at a Walgreens escalated into a multi-agency pursuit Tuesday afternoon, carrying officers from the Grants Pass area into Jackson County before spike strips disabled the fleeing vehicle along Interstate 5 and its occupants…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (919+ words) A sudden knife attack cut through the afternoon congestion of Times Square on Monday when a woman armed with two large knives stabbed two strangers within seconds of one another, killing a 32-year-old New Jersey woman and seriously injuring a…...