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2 people dead after shooting at La Mota cannabis store in St. Johns neighborhood
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two people are dead following a shooting at a cannabis store, La Mota, in Portland's St. Johns neighborhood Thursday night. Around 9:39 p.m., police officers responded to a shooting at a cannabis store near North St. Louis Avenue and New York Avenue. The officers found two people dead when they arrived at the scene. Their names and official cause of death have not been released yet.
Hazelnut processing barn fire brings 49 personnel to rural Washington County
A barn fire where hazelnuts were being processed took nearly 50 firefighters, five hours and 100,000 gallons of water to quell late Thursday, Oct. 3. Forest Grove Fire & Rescue firefighters were dispatched to a reported barn fire around 8:15 p.m. Thursday in the 45000 block of Northwest Hillside Road, northwest of Forest Grove. Upon arrival, they found a 3,500-square-foot metal barn ablaze, prompting a second alarm to bring more...
Two more Oregon locations ditch names with racist past
Oregon has renamed two more geographic locations that previously bore racist slurs. On Sept. 18, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names christened Jack Creek in Tillamook County and Triple Nickles Creek in Douglas County. The new names replace ones that included an antiquated term now often considered offensive to Black...
Three men sentenced to federal prison for roles in fatal Fentanyl overdose Of Southern Oregon teenager
MEDFORD — Three Oregon men were sentenced to federal prison Sept. 19 for distributing fentanyl that caused the overdose death of a Medford teenager. Hunter Fenstermaker, 23, a Medford resident, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison and six years’ supervised release; Napoleon Gomez, 22, also of Medford, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison and six years’ supervised release; and Conner Lee Francis, 27, of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced to 73 months in federal prison and four years’ supervised release. All three...
Armed man yelled ‘Shoot me’ before police shot him to death at SE Portland apartment: witness
Signs of the violence were still visible hours after police shot to death an armed man at the Pacific Crest Apartments in Southeast Portland early Friday morning. Two large bloodstains remained on the upstairs terrace floor in front of the apartment where the man lived, and colored chalk that appeared to be written by a child marked the wall next to where an abandoned medical kit was still lying on the ground, apparently left after Portland police tried to resuscitate the mortally injured man.
Oregon, Washington move ahead with tolling plans for present and future Interstate Bridge
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Despite Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek's pause on plans to toll Portland-area interstates earlier this year, tolls are coming sooner than rather than later. Partly, that's because 2026 isn't all that far off and the Oregon Department of Transportation desperately needs funding one way or another — but it's also because the Interstate Bridge was never included in the governor's tolling moratorium, and tolling has long been a part of the planning for its replacement.
By morning, he was a TV model. By afternoon, he was a Vancouver police suspect
Vancouver police arrested a man on allegations of identity theft this week hours after he appeared on a Portland morning news program. Police said his outfit and jewelry on air helped detectives identify him as a suspect. The man was later identified as Jonathan M. Alvarado. Alvarado allegedly used a...
Man shot to death by Vancouver police during standoff in September identified
The Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office has publicly identified Michael D. Williams as the man killed in a Sept. 27 shootout with police in Vancouver. A Vancouver officer shot and killed Williams, 56, after police said he fired at law enforcement. The sheriff’s office said multiple shots hit an occupied armored police vehicle.
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