Troops coming to Portland, churchgoers in fear
The pews inside the Augustana Lutheran Church in Northeast Portland were filled with people gathered for an interfaith service, brought together by fear of 200 National Guard troops being deployed in the city this week and a desire to not be alone.
ODHS searching for missing, possibly endangered 15-year-old last seen in Portland
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Oregon Department of Human Services is searching for 15-year-old foster child who they say went missing in Portland and is possibly in danger. ODHS says 15-year-old Jordan Cushing went missing in Portland on Friday, Sept. 26. Cushing is believed to still be in Portland and...
4 undocumented suspects detained after laser pointed at border patrol helicopter
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Four people are in custody after one of them allegedly pointed a laser at a law enforcement aircraft flying over Portland on Saturday night. The Federal Bureau of Investigation Portland Division announced Monday that they located and searched the home of a suspect who is accused of aiming a...
Portland Suspect Charged with Attempted Murder After Alleged Assault on Police Officers
A suspect in Portland is facing multiple charges, including attempted murder, after allegedly trying to seize an officer's gun during a confrontation last weekend. Bo W. Davis, 43, was booked into Multnomah County Detention Center on multiple charges, including robbery, assaulting a public safety officer, menacing,...
Portland shutters RV homeless shelter as mayor cracks down on people living in vehicles
Portland has eliminated one of its two homeless villages for people living in RVs at the same time as Mayor Keith Wilson is cracking down on the practice of people sleeping in derelict vehicles. The 55-spot Sunderland RV Safe Park, which opened more than two years ago near the intersection...
Watch: Gov. Tina Kotek held press conference on transportation tax hikes, federal troop deployment...
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek held media availability Monday to answer questions about the passage of the state’s transportation funding plan. Reporters also asked questions about the planned federal troop deployment to Portland. Watch the livestream:. The transportation package will increase the state’s 40 cents per gallon...
Portland Police Arrest Suspected Robber Armed with Defaced Firearm in Old Town
Portland Police Bureau officers responded to a robbery with a gun in Old Town late Saturday night. According to an official statement from the Portland Police Bureau, the incident occurred near Northwest 2nd Avenue and Northwest Davis Street at 11:33 p.m. on September 27. Within minutes of the reported robbery,...
Venezuelan man identified as victim in fatal SE Portland shooting
The victim in a Southeast Portland shooting on Saturday was identified by police Monday morning.
Sibling caught man groping 10-year-old in store, OR officials say. He’s sentenced
A man groping a 10-year-old girl in an Oregon grocery store fled when the child’s sibling came around a corner and screamed for help, officials said. Adam M. Caldwell now has been sentenced to four years in prison, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said in a Sept. 26 news release. The incident happened...
Zimmerman takes on the freeway
City Councilor Eric Zimmerman has long had his eye on Interstate 405, particularly the dangerous, dirty and dire conditions under the ramps separating the Pearl and Northwest districts.
