What started as a peaceful vigil to honor the memory of George Floyd in Portland, Oregon, turned into what the Portland Police Bureau is identifying as "a riot." The incidents lasted roughly five hours, during which police said people also took part in arson and looting. At 9:50 p.m. on Friday, a protester shot at…
Portland was under a state of emergency Saturday after rioting and looting raged overnight in the Oregon city’s downtown.Mayor Ted Wheeler announced a curfew after declaring the emergency around 4 a.m. The curfew goes back into effect from 8 p.m. PT Saturday until 6 a.m. Sunday.Portland police said they were investigating three shootings tied to the…
Troy R. Bennett | BDN Troy R. Bennett | BDN A stuffed animal wears a face mask and scrubs in the window at Salvage BBQ in Portland on Tuesday. An employee at the popular eatery tested positive for COVID-19 after leaving their shift over Memorial Day weekend. By Nick Schroeder, BDN Staff • May 26,…
PORTLAND, Maine — EDITOR’S NOTE: In the above video, NEWS CENTER Maine’s Clay Gordon demonstrates one of the proper ways to take off protective gloves.Another Maine long-term care facility is dealing with a cluster of coronavirus, COVID-19 cases. Ashton Gardens Gracious Retirement Living Community is dealing with a cluster of four COVID-19, coronavirus cases, according to a…
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…