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PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland felon convicted of heroin distribution in 2014 and for failing to register as a sex offender in 1999, will be arraigned next week on two counts of child neglect and criminal mistreatment. Tidings Context In…

A transgender woman was attacked and repeatedly punched by a man with a long criminal record of violent crime at a MAX stop at Portland State University last Sunday. The woman told a Portland State University (PSU) campus public safety…

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Mexican national, who was returned to his country of origin in June 2018, appeared in federal court in Portland last Thursday, charged with illegal reentry into the USA. Manuel Cruz-Ramirez (38) appeared in court on an…

Amid a housing shortage, Portland City Administrator Raymond C. Lee has disclosed that a surplus of $106 million allocated for new homes is lying dormant in several City Council accounts. The Surplus is a Relic of a Previous…

A suspect was shot and killed at his home yesterday morning in the Pearl District Neighborhood by a Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officer from the Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT). Mayor Keith Wilson was Briefed at the Scene…

A 29-year-old Portland mother, whose five-year-old daughter died in a car accident, admitted to investigators that she had smoked marijuana and consumed a shot of tequila and two malt liquors before driving. She Will Never Be…

PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal court judge granted a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after finding excessive force was used outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South…

Portland police officers yesterday arrested a 71-year-old man suspected of shooting and seriously injuring a male victim on a MAX light rail train in the Hazelwood Neighborhood. The incident occurred at 1.03 a.m. on a train that was…

A 68-year-old Portland man, who was frightened that he would become homeless, hid his mother’s body in the kitchen freezer so that he could keep collecting her Social Security checks. Portland police found the body of the 104-year-old…

PORTLAND, Ore. — Forty-one-year-old Eric F. Oelkers of Portland has been identified and arrested as the shooter of two local police officers on January 19. Oelkers is charged with two counts of first-degree attempted murder, two counts…