Public Safety
Oregon’s congressional delegation demands action to address lags in medical care, staff shortages at federal prison in Sheridan
The lawmakers said they were particularly concerned by the indefinite suspension of the prison’s Residential Drug Abuse Program.
Chief of Portland State public safety taken to hospital as his officers make arrests on campus
PSU Campus Public Safety Chief Willie Halliburton was alert and reported to be talking to his family later Thursday night.
Portland man who made online threats to kill President Biden, bomb local schools also stalked neighbors, friends
"His real victims are people like us, people he deceived and has easy access to," said one of Jesse D. Bennett's neighbors.
Woman killed in Portland’s Hazelwood neighborhood; homicide investigation underway
A homicide investigation has begun, the second in Portland this week.
Beaverton police sought road rage suspect — only to find he was already in custody
A Portland man on a motorcycle is accused of harassing and threatening a woman May 17 while she driving with her children in Beaverton.
Oregon’s top judge orders courts to hold people arrested on serious drug crimes in jail
Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Meagan Flynn reclassified more than a dozen offenses.
Multnomah County could face lawsuits in 2023 jail deaths; deputy accused of neglecting to call for medical help
Clemente Pineda and Josiah Pierce were two of 10 people to die in Multnomah County jails during an unprecedented spike in inmate deaths.
Gunman pleads guilty except for insanity in road-rage killing of Tigard man who was driving home from Oregon coast
At sentencing, the victim's partner called the gunman Justin McAnulty a “coward for hiding your misplaced rage behind a deadly piece of steel.”
Medical backlog at Oregon’s only women’s prison leaves hundreds waiting months for care, report says
The problems run throughout Coffee Creek Correctional Facility: Women wait six months or longer for tests like scans or imaging to treat or diagnose medical problems, an inspection found.
Beaver causes power outage in NE Portland, overcoming safeguards against ‘wildlife interference’
A beaver felled a tree that fell on a transmission line, causing over 33,000 people to lose power.
Readers respond: Rising tide of antisemitism
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‘I knew a MAX was coming’: Man shoved onto light rail tracks recounts brush with death
"All I could think was that I was going to die," the 44-year-old man said.
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