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Oregon Remote Workers Risk Being Passed Over for Promotions, Career Expert Warns
A career expert cautions Oregon’s remote workers who have fully embraced the benefits of remote work that there are risks, including the risk of missing out on being promoted.
Oregon Remote Workers Could Be Missing Out On Getting…
Oregon Ordered to Pay $500 a Day for Each Mentally Ill Defendant Left Waiting in Jail
Oregon must pay up for failing to admit mentally ill criminal defendants to the state hospital while it appeals a contempt ruling, a federal judge said on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson denied the state’s request to delay…
Human Remains Found in Board Shanty Fire Believed to Be Missing Grants Pass Woman
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The Josephine County Sheriff's Office (JSCO) indicated that the human remains found by investigators may be the woman reported missing on July 17 when the Board Shanty Fire was reported, 42-year-old Sarah Caron.…
Oregon Tightens Care Home Rules After Woman Wanders Out and Dies on Christmas Day
Following the tragic death last year of an elderly woman who wandered away from a care center and was found dead a day later, has resulted in legislation by Oregon lawmakers that tightens control of dementia facilities.
The new…
Douglas County Crash Leaves Passenger Dead as Police Seek Armed DUI Suspect
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. — A warrant was issued for the arrest of a Merlin, Douglas County man, 65-year-old Craig Hindle, on Thursday. Hindle faces six charges arising from the fatal crash in April that resulted in the death of his passenger.…
Oregon Governor Greenlights $45 Million Willamette Falls Project Despite Tribal Opposition
After the Willamette Falls Trust leaders persuaded Oregon Governor Tina Kotek that they would use the funds effectively, the governor indicated yesterday that she won’t veto the $45 million award to the trust for a project to expand public…
Las Vegas Man With Oregon Drug Convictions Gets Six Years for Firearms Heist in Nevada
A convicted felon, who previously committed drug trafficking crimes in the Oregon counties of Douglas, Clackamas, and Coos, has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of theft of firearms from a licensee…
Fentanyl Dealer Brought Down by Wiretaps Gets Five Years in Jackson County Court
JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — 32-year-old John Steven Diaz of Eagle Point, one of the 15-member drug trafficking family arrested in January on fentanyl trafficking charges, was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday.
Diaz played a…
Oregonians Could Pay More at the Pump and DMV as Kotek Tries to Save State Transportation Jobs
The Governor of Oregon yesterday announced a funding proposal to save hundreds of Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) jobs in jeopardy, following the federal government’s cutback on financing that is crippling maintenance and project…
Oregon Man Fakes EV Project and Walks Away With $1.8 Million in Carbon Credit Cash
A Multnomah County Circuit Court judge has ruled that Merlin K. Thompson of Tillamook must repay $1.8 million in monthly installments of $50 to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) that he admitted defrauding.
He…