Portland OR

A sleepover turned into a nightmare for three young girls in Oregon when they were sedated by their friend’s father. As the girls headed to Lake Oswego for a night at their friend’s place, her father, 58-year-old Michael Meyden, made them mango smoothies and added a sleeping drug into it. The incident happened in...

The legal saga involving an Oregon father who drugged his daughter’s friends during a sleepover has concluded. Michael Meyden, 57, has settled a $2.4 million civil lawsuit filed by the family of one of his victims. Meyden is serving a two-year prison sentence at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility after...

Nickolas Alexander Edwards was arrested on Thursday by the Portland Police and the Multnomah County District Attorney's Auto Theft Task Force for a series of utility trailer thefts in Oregon and Washington. Despite wearing a court-ordered GPS ankle monitor, Edwards allegedly continued his criminal activities, leading...

A Delhi businessman is heading to federal prison in Portland after admitting he tried to help ship high-end aviation navigation gear to Russia, prosecutors say. The plan centered on an aviation-grade attitude and heading reference system ordered from an Oregon supplier, a unit that was intercepted before it could...

The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Jan. 17—The City of Vancouver Fire Department honored firefighter paramedic Jeremiah Frenz, who died earlier this week, with a procession Friday through the city to a funeral home in Camas. Frenz, 32, died Tuesday while off duty. No cause of death has been released. “This...

A tailor who moved to Oregon and achieved staggering professional and personal achievements is celebrating his latest milestone — turning 100 years old. Jose Betancourt celebrated his birthday on Sunday, Jan. 18, in Gresham, surrounded by family and friends. Betancourt was born on Jan. 18, 1926, in Zacapoaxtla,...

Michael Meyden, 58, pleaded guilty to lacing smoothies with sedative and giving them to girls at his daughter's sleepover in Lake Oswego, Oregon

The U.S. Coast Guard has advanced the effort to modernize the vital Columbia River crossing by officially sanctioning a fixed-span bridge to replace the antiquated Interstate 5 connection between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. The projected 116-foot-high construction is poised to supplant the current...

Ill-fitting knit hats, Christmas ornaments that leak glitter, lopsided clay bowls. Sometimes, when it comes to crafting, you have to settle for process over product. Appreciating the journey and not the end result. My house is strewn with things I enjoyed making that look, well, terrible. But sometimes, a craft...

WEST LINN, Ore. — Strong wind gusts have cancelled ODOT’s planned closure of Interstate 205 at the Abernethy Bridge on Friday night. Transportation officials said Saturday night’s closure of the Willamette River crossing in West Linn is still scheduled, however, that depends on the weather. Weather permitting,...