Sleepover Turns Nightmare as Father Drugs 12-Year-Old Daughter’s Friends — “Mom Please Pick Me...
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...
Smoothie-Spiking Oregon Dad Settles $2.4M Civil Suit From Prison Cell
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...
Alleged Serial Trailer Thief Strikes Across Oregon and Washington Even While Monitored by GPS...
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...
Portland Man Sentenced Over Attempted Export Of Aviation Tech
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...
WA Fire Department Procession Honors Firefighter Jeremiah Frenz, Who Died Tuesday
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...
Master tailor in Oregon celebrates 100th birthday with family
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,...
Girl’s terrifying texts exposed after dad spiked smoothies at sleepover
Michael Meyden, 58, pleaded guilty to lacing smoothies with sedative and giving them to girls at his daughter's sleepover in Lake Oswego, Oregon
Coast Guard Greenlights New Fixed-Span Bridge to Modernize Columbia River Crossing between Portland and...
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...
Downtown Bend library to close for a year starting in April
Renovations for downtown library kick off in February, new Central Library opens in May. The Deschutes Public Library system is in a transition phase, as staff move into the Central Library at Stevens Ranch before it opens this spring and the Downtown Bend Public Library gears up for its renovation, starting in...
‘Dismantling stability’: Families speak out against closure of small Vancouver high school
VPS aims to boost access for students who don't currently have a program that "meets their needs," a spokesperson said.
