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A man tried to kill a woman by throwing a pipe bomb into a Southeast Portland home last month, prosecutors say. The man’s alleged motive: to erase a debt for illegal drugs. Travis Parry, 49, told investigators he had recently been released from prison and owed his drug dealer several thousand dollars, according to...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A father and his 6-year-old son are dead after a driver hit the two in Vancouver, police confirmed. The crash occurred on Northeast 137th Avenue around 1:20 p.m. A witness told KGW that a man and a child were hit; the man was killed, with the...

PORTLAND, Ore. — For a recent trip to Vienna, Austria to study the city's social housing model, Portland City Councilor Candace Avalos allocated almost $20,000 from her office's budget to fund the trip for a three-person team. The cost breakdown came Tuesday in a blog post on Avalos' city...

In a significant crackdown on human trafficking, the Portland Police Bureau's dedicated operatives have brought four individuals to justice. Following a methodical investigation by the bureau's Human Trafficking Unit (HTU) in coordination with the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office (MCDA), two traffickers...

The City of Portland is facing a budget challenge and is cutting down on hiring, overtime, and reclassifications in order to save money, with the exception of frontline police, fire, and 911 roles.

PORTLAND, Ore. — When Tom Hanks stopped by Type Space in Southeast Portland two years ago, owner Antony Valoppi figured the story ended with the Oscar winner walking out the door with a $175 Underwood Leader. But Hanks had also promised something else: He’d send Valoppi a signed typewriter from his personal collection.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Oregon, said Wednesday it will issue a land use violation notice to the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building, accusing the facility of detaining people beyond the limits of what its land use approval allows. The building’s conditional land use approval, in place...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An explosive device was found Tuesday in a public bathroom at Sunset Beach State Recreation Site on the Oregon Coast. Around 10:21 a.m., Oregon State Parks staff notified Oregon State Police of a suspicious backpack in the bathroom. Bomb technicians from the Oregon State Police and Salem Police...

GRESHAM, Ore. (KATU) — Gresham Police say 15-year-old Gracie Hall has been located. She was reported missing on September 8, after she was last seen leaving Gresham High School just after 7 a.m. KATU’s Victor Park interviewed Hall’s father, Andrew Lawhern, last week and at the time he told...

Where the school had been, moments before, was a cloud of dust. The day was pleasant and partly cloudy in Mexico City when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook the earth, killing around 400 people. Of those, about 30 of the dead were inside the Enrique Rebsámen school, where the brittle, unreinforced concrete structure...