Readers respond: Proud of Portland protests
Dear Portland, I am so proud of you. Thank you for your peaceful, playful response to the brutal presence of ICE (U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement) here. Thank you for wearing those cheerful costumes, for the bubble-blowing, dancing, music-playing, Auntie Tifa knit-ins and the emergency naked bike ride, (“U.S....
Portland Police Monitor Peaceful South Waterfront Protest; No Arrests Made
Portland residents gathered in what has become a familiar scene in the South Waterfront area, but the Sunday protest on October 19 was met with police presence that ended without incident. The Portland Police Bureau, overseeing the assembly, assigned an Incident Command Team, which managed various units, including...
Damaging winds, heavy rain possible as a strong Pacific storm arrives on Friday
A stretch of stormy fall weather is on the way for the Pacific Northwest this weekend.
Woman Found Fatally Shot Inside Her Car As Police Probe ‘Brazen’ Killing
A peaceful Saturday afternoon in Northwest Portland was shattered by tragedy when 39-year-old Krystal Lynne Pendergraph was found shot to death inside… The post Woman Found Fatally Shot Inside Her Car As Police Probe ‘Brazen’ Killing appeared first on Shine My Crown .
Court docs: Vancouver murder suspect attacked hospital security guard with taser
VANCOUVER, Wash. (KATU) — A lot of questions are being raised about the security protocols when a man suspected of murder was placed on a hold at a Vancouver hospital. According to court documents, Vancouver Police were called Wednesday morning to the Econo Lodge Motel after hotel staff found blood all over the bed...
Blind man handcuffed, dragged by federal agents at ICE facility, he says
PORTLAND, Ore. — A blind man sat down with KGW to detail the abuse he said he was subjected to at the hands of federal agents while he protested outside the ICE facility — not once, but twice. Both of those incidents were captured on video. Quinn Haberl...
Feds repeatedly use tear gas, pepper spray on crowd of hundreds outside Portland ICE
The atmosphere among the crowd of several hundred protesters alternated between tense and festive, depending on the agents' actions.
ICE in Oregon: Pointing rifles at family, stopping teens at gunpoint, pinning man during...
For more than an hour Wednesday, several armed ICE officers repeatedly shouted the name of a man from the outside of a Gresham apartment. Maricruz Andres, 24, and her 3-month-old baby were inside, along with her stepfather and brother. None of them recognized the name that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Cable TV in Portland is going the way of the VCR
There was a time cable TV seemed ubiquitous. It felt like every home had replaced the rabbit-ear antennas on top of their TV set with a cable box that brought the local channels along with popular networks like ESPN, MTV, CNN, the Discovery Channel and Nickelodeon. In less than a...
John Minick would love to clean up the world but he settles for making...
John Minick really can’t enjoy a casual walk around Tigard these days without coming across some litter, so he never leaves his house off Greenburg Road without his litter pick-up equipment: A wheeled cart with a large compartment for litter, an open-weave bag to hold pop cans, a sharpie container, a grabber and...

















