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Oregon city sees sporadic violence and a dozen arrests as Donald Trump and Proud Boys chairman denounce anti-fascists
Portland saw its largest far-right demonstration of the Trump era on Saturday, as 500 rightwingers traveled from around the country to march back and forth across the city’s bridges, and briefly occupy a patch of its waterfront.
By making extensive accommodations for the unpermitted rightwing protest, including close police escorts, concrete barriers, and reopening a bridge to allow them to leave the downtown area, Portland authorities succeeded in preventing head-on confrontations between it and a much larger counter-protest.
Police are fearful of an outbreak of violence at the ‘End Domestic Terrorism’ rally, which is targeted at Portland’s antifascist groups
Portland is preparing for a large far-right rally on Saturday that may be the largest in a series of demonstrations that have descended on the city in the Trump era.
Police in the Oregon city are fearful of an outbreak of violence at the “End Domestic Terrorism” rally, which is targeted at Portland’s antifascist groups, who in recent years have clashed with rightwing activists in running street battles.
Gregory Randolph was near death when a long-distance mountain biker stumbled upon him, 14 miles from his broken-down car
A 73-year-old man who was stranded in the remote Oregon high desert for four days with his two dogs was rescued when a long-distance mountain biker discovered him near death on a dirt road, authorities said Thursday.
Gregory Randolph had hiked about 14 miles (22.5km) with one of his dogs after his Jeep got stuck in a narrow, dry creek bed. He was barely conscious when biker Tomas Quinones found him on 18 July.
Medical students in Oregon made the discovery only after the death of Rose Marie Bentley
Rose Marie Bentley was an avid swimmer, raised five children, helped her husband run a feed store and lived to 99. It was only after she died that medical students discovered that all her internal organs, except for her heart, were in the wrong place.
The discovery of the rare condition, which was presented this week to a conference of anatomists, was astounding — especially because Bentley had lived so long. People with the condition known as situs inversus with levocardia often have life-threatening cardiac ailments and other abnormalities, according to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).
Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat, said Congress should follow Canada 's lead and federally legalize marijuana, citing economic benefits being reaped north of the border by retail weed sales starting Wednesday. "Congress should seize the moment, do the right thing and end the federal prohibition on marijuana once and for all by responsibly regulating and taxing cannabis like any other legal substance," Mr. Wyden said on the eve of Canada 's recreational marijuana law taking effect.
Oregon's government never seems to have enough money. Even with the economy purring in 2017, top lawmakers from both parties warned that the state was headed toward painful budget cuts north of $1 billion.
Four people were arrested Saturday as a conservative Patriot Prayer rally broke out into violence with opposing anti-fascist protesters and police in Portland, Oregon. The city, which had been bracing for the potential violence, mobilized a massive police presence in the area of Tom McCall Waterfront Park in the heart of downtown.
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Small scuffles broke out Saturday as police in Portland , Oregon, deployed "flash bang" devices and other means to disperse hundreds of right-wing and self-described anti-fascist protesters. The number of arrests and injuries wasn't immediately clear.
In this June 30, 2018, file photo, Joey Gibson, left, leader of Patriot Prayer, heads the group's rally in Portland, Ore. Portland is bracing for what could be another round of violent clashes Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018, between a right-wing group holding a rally here and self-described anti-fascist counter-protesters who have pledged to keep Patriot Prayer and other affiliated groups out of this ultra-liberal city.
Mother-of-two rescued by US Coast Guard from Oregon cliff after going missing for four days last year is charged with 96 felony counts Heather Mounce, 38, is facing 62 counts of identity theft, 24 counts of criminal mistreatment and 10 counts of theft Mounce is also suspected of stealing the identity of a man in his 90s who was in her care, as well as $5,000 Authorities said at the time Mounce drove to the coast on her own free will, but did not reveal why An Oregon woman who went missing for nearly four days last summer, only to be rescued by the US Coast Guard from a remote cliff, has now been charged with nearly 100 felony counts.
A small group of protesters has set up camp outside the Portland, Oregon headquarters of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to protest the Trump administration's policy of separating families after illegal border crossings. About two dozen protesters gathered Tuesday, June 17, 2018, for a round-the-clock vigil and vowed not to leave until the policy was changed.
In this Tuesday, May 29, 2018 photo, Adam Smith, left, founder and executive director, Oregon Craft Cannabis Alliance, is shown a marijuana variety called Cherry Skunk by Tree PDX marijuana shop owner Brooke Smith at her shop in Po... . In this Tuesday, May 29, 2018 photo, Tree PDX marijuana shop owner Brooke Smith poses for a photo outside her small shop in Portland, Ore.
The election returns weren't more than 40 minutes old, and the Democrats had three emails out challenging or criticizing Rep. Knute Buehler, R-Bend, who the first batch of ballots showed was on his way to winning the 2018 Republican primary for governor. It was part of a flurry of activity in the wake of Buehler's win Tuesday.
Two years ago, the central question in Oregon legislative elections was whether Democrats could achieve the supermajority they needed to raise taxes. That's the case again this year, with the answer to be decided in November.
Small cities and counties in Oregon are scrambling after state officials said their building inspection programs violate the state Constitution. Many small communities have long relied on private companies to run their building departments, including approving building plans and issuing permits.
Two signed statements in the latest Oregon State Bar bulletin - one by the bar condemning speech that incites violence and the other by non-bar specialty groups decrying the rise of the white nationalist movement during President Donald Trump's time in office - have been criticized by some lawyers who say the bar shouldn't allow political statements. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the bar has approved partial refunds of bar dues for six lawyers who requested their money back.
For five years, Sen. Ron Wyden has pushed Congress to address how U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management leaders often must divert money from other programs, including fire prevention and forest management budgets, to cover the increasingly high cost of fighting massive wildfires. The Wildfire Disaster Funding Act was a part of the $1.3 trillion federal spending package passed by federal lawmakers and signed by the president late last month.