(Update: OHA corrects new case total to 218; adding St. Charles hospitalizations) PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- COVID-19 has claimed five more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 220, along with 218 new cases and a new outbreak at a northeast Oregon cheese factory, the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday. OHA reported 218…
Coronavirus is spreading more pervasively across a growing number of communities statewide as surging case counts can no longer be largely attributed to concentrations in only a handful of ZIP codes across Oregon.State data released by the Oregon Health Authority last week showed 1,402 confirmed or presumed new infections for the week ending June 28,…
An Oregon police officer was cleared of any wrongdoing after a video appeared to show him flashing a 'white power' sign during a Black Lives Matter protest on the Fourth of July.The Department of Oregon State Police announced that it launched an investigation into the disturbing allegations after footage was shared to social media.Video shows at…
Over the past month, the confirmed case count more than doubled – surpassing 9,600 total cases. PORTLAND, Ore. — It was early June when the mayor of Newport, a small city perched on Oregon's coast, received a phone call that he had been dreading. It was the county commissioner — two workers at a local…
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown met Friday with three Oregon State Police troopers who were seen on video earlier this week defying a mandated statewide mask order while visiting a Corvallis coffee shop.The incident occurred the same day the governor's mask order took effect as a response to the coronavirus outbreak.Brown said on social media that the…
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…