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A devout Republican commissioner in northwest Oregon says she can no longer stand by the party because of Trump's "racist tactics" and changed her political affiliation to become a Democrat. Lori Stegmann left a long explanation on her Facebook page on Wednesday for her sudden choice after spending her entire adult life as a conservative.
Three men associated with the Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club have been charged by a federal grand jury for kidnapping, torturing, and murdering a former Portland member of the club in 2015. Mark Dencklau, Earl Fisher, and Tiler Pribbernow-all residents of the Portland metro region-were initially indicted by a Multnomah County grad jury in 2016.
She has served the maximum two terms allowed on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners-and voters rejected a 2016 ballot initiative that would have let her stay for a third. Smith is seeking a seat on the Portland City Council.
Bundy, a Nevada rancher and states' rights figure refused a ... . FILE - This Jan. 27, 2016, file photo provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office shows Ammon Bundy.
Rashad Roynel Banks shuffled into a federal courtroom in downtown Portland last month, his ankles chained together. His attorney immediately objected, and a judge directed two deputy U.S. marshals to escort Banks back out briefly before his arraignment.
In the race to replace Jules Bailey in District 1, emergency room doctor Sharon Meieran is battling Eric Zimmerman, chief of staff for McKeel. District 1 seat represents parts of inner east Portland and everything west of the Willamette River.
Authorities conducted an "investigative search" last weekend regarding the case of Kyron Horman, who went missing in 2010, an official said. Investigators were searching off U.S. 30, said Capt.
A man who has been booked into Portland-area jails 28 times was arrested Tuesday -- the day after he was released from jail. Matthew Medlin , 32, is headed back to jail after allegedly hopping on a police SUV, climbing a tree and running into a restaurant, police said.
Police were called to a meeting of the Multnomah County, Oregon, Democrats this weekend. According to the Oregonian , a "scuffle" broke out when a handful of Bernie Sanders supporters, led by one Leigh LaFleur disrupted the meeting by shouting.
The sheriff's office moved into the Hansen Building - at NE 122nd Avenue and Glisan Street - in 1976 under the assumption it was short-term stay. Forty years later, its moving out of a building that was never built to house law enforcement officers.
In thisJune 3, 2016, file frame from video provided by KGW-TV, smoke billows from a Union Pacific train that derailed near Mosier, Ore., in the scenic Columbia River Gorge. Oregon's Multnomah County Chairwoman Deborah Kafoury and Portland, Ore., Mayor Charlie Hales are calling on Oregon Gov. Kate Brown to oppose oil-by-rail projects like the Tesoro-Savage terminal proposed in Vancouver, Wash., and to work for a permanent ban on oil-by-rail--a request that comes in the wake of the Mosier derailment.