Tigard’s Landmark Ford blood drive set
In partnership with The American Red Cross, Tigard’s Landmark Ford will be hosting a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, inside a blood mobile parked next to the dealership’s new car showroom, located at 12000 S.W. 66th Ave. All blood types are currently...
‘Airbender’ and ‘She-Spawn’ authors greet comic book fans for huge Portland turnout
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Famous comic book artists meet with fans in Portland on Saturday. Comic book writers Brandon Hoang and Gail Simone held fan signings at Cosmic Monkey Comics in Southeast Portland in the afternoon. Hoang is known for writing Avatar: The Last Airbender, while Simone, a Portland...
Third Arrest Made in Vancouver Child Molestation Investigation
VANCOUVER, Wash. — The ongoing child molestation investigation involving former pediatrician Michael Wilmington and Chad Hartley continues as detectives with the Vancouver Police Department’s Digital Evidence Cybercrime Unit work through digital evidence connected to the case. Wilmington was found deceased last Saturday, while Hartley remains incarcerated in the...
Learn about the Portland Police Bureau Unit that tried to help MAC bomber
The Portland Police Bureau’s highly specialized Behavioral Health Unit consists of five officer-clinician teams whose job it is to find and try to help people nearly everyone else is busy avoiding. “We are at the intersection of two nearly broken systems,” Sgt. Josh Silverman told The Oregonian/OregonLive last spring,...
People’s Pharmacy: Does putting nail polish on a chigger bite really work?
Q. I’ve had chigger bites three times now. I used clear nail polish on the bites, and it immediately took the itch away by suffocating the chiggers. This definitely works!. A. Dermatologists have long maintained that nail polish is worthless, since chiggers don’t actually burrow into the skin.
National Train Day celebrated at Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — May 9 is National Train Day and the Oregon Rail Heritage Center is celebrating all weekend long. Guests are able to get up and personal with the numerous steam engines and hop on board for a short ride along the Southeast Portland waterfront near OMSI. “They don’t get them running that […]
THE HIDDEN CREEK SMOKESCREEN: Fact-Checking Hillsboro Mayor Pace’s Data Center Defense
Mayor Beach Pace took to video this weekend from the Hidden Creek Community Center, attempting to link the City’s massive data center tax giveaways this past week to beloved community […] The post THE HIDDEN CREEK SMOKESCREEN: Fact-Checking Hillsboro Mayor Pace’s Data Center Defense appeared first on The Hillsboro Herald .
‘He was 1 in a million’: Friends, family remember motorcyclist killed in Woodburn crash
Several dozen people gathered at CJ’s Sports Bar and Grill in southeast Portland Saturday night to ride and remember 35-year-old Cyrus Pino.
Lake Oswego police log: Theft of cell phone on State St., cooking s’mores at...
4/24 10:29 a.m. A vehicle was reportedly “constantly” running stop signs at the intersection of Kingsgate Road and Galen St. 4/24 3:51 p.m. Someone driving a worker’s van reportedly ran through a red light and was tailgating at the intersection of Boone Way and Spring Lane. 4/24...
East Vancouver WA is One Step Closer to Getting a Giant Performing Arts Center
Vancouver, WA is finally one step closer to leveling up its performing arts game! If you’ve been following the buzz in East Vancouver, you know we’ve been waiting for something big to anchor the Columbia Palisades area. Well, the wait is over (sort of). The “Friends of Center for the Arts” (formerly known as the Southwest Washington Center for the Arts) just dropped the...
