The sheriffs of Clackamas and Washington County in Oregon said they won't send staff to help with the nightly unrest in Portland after Gov. Kate Brown unveiled a plan to bring an end to violence in the city.Brown had asked the sheriffs and the Gresham Police Department to support the Portland Police Bureau with personnel and resources…
Portland protest turns violentFox News Christina Coleman reports on the escalating tensions between pro-Trump supporters and demonstrators in Portland, Oregon.Oregon State Police will return to Portland to assist local officers after a man was fatally shot amid clashes between supporters of President Trump and Black Lives Matter protesters.Gov. Kate Brown announced the decision in a statement Sunday which is…
The Oregon Health Authority reported 212 new confirmed and presumptive coronavirus cases and five deaths Thursday, bringing the state’s death toll to 438.The state also reported an outbreak of 21 new coronavirus cases linked to Independent Transport, an employment agency in Morrow County. State officials began investigating July 28, but the initial case count was…
A UPS driver was arrested in connection with the shooting of driver on an Oregon interstate Wednesday, and he is suspected in six other shootings along the highway that occurred since late May, state police said Friday.Kenneth Ayers, 49, of Roseburg, was arrested at around 11 p.m. Thursday, and he has been booked on attempted…
OHA reports 294 new cases, including 18 in Central Oregon PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- COVID-19 has claimed eight more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 383, including Deschutes County's 11th death -- the eighth among residents of Mt. Bachelor Memory Care in Bend, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday. OHA also reported…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…