Oregon News

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, part of a bipartisan coalition of states, confirmed yesterday that Oregon could expect up to $66 million of the $7.4 billion national settlement reached with the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma for…

For two years, a Portland woman sent nearly $1.9 million to a man she met online on Millionaire Match Maker, believing he would marry her. The man, Oscar Peters (65) from Britain, was yesterday sentenced to 37 months in prison after his…

A federal judge has committed 52-year-old Joseph K. Banks, a diagnosed schizophrenic and serial killer, to the lifelong jurisdiction of the Oregon Psychiatric Security Review Board. While the ruling places him under state psychiatric…

A transgender woman who fled Mexico in 2023 after being subjected to violence because of her sexual orientation and gender identity was arrested outside a Portland courtroom 23 minutes after seeking asylum on Monday. The 24-year-old…

MEDFORD, Ore. — The Medford Police Department (MPD) has again partnered with law enforcement agencies across Oregon and the United States in a large-scale retail crime operation, focusing on the Target store on Crater Lake Highway,…

Yesterday, a Milwaukie, Oregon resident, 22-year-old Jack E. Wagner, pleaded guilty to unlawfully distributing controlled substances, specifically psilocybin, to two West Linn high school students. The case- part of Project Safe…

A Mexican national and leader of a drug trafficking cell in Lane County was yesterday sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for possession of the largest ever single seizure of methamphetamine in the history of Oregon. Found in…

Four federal unemployment insurance grants to the Oregon Employment Department (OED) worth $12.2 million have been canceled by the U.S. Department of Labor. OED received the notification of the immediate termination on 22 May and told…

In the Oregon District Court lawsuit of 3 plaintiffs against the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to allow disabled Oregonians who can't travel to access licensed psilocybin centers the ability to obtain the treatment at home, the judge…

Oregon played a pivotal role in the recent crackdown on an international drug trafficking cartel that has distributed hundreds of thousands of lethal drugs worth millions of dollars locally, to neighboring California, and primarily to…