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A 26-year-old wanted in a late‑2024 Portland homicide was arrested in the Loma Linda area after nearly two years on the run. He is booked at the Central Detention Center pending extradition to Oregon.
Portland Fire & Rescue says crews were responding to a structure fire in the Brooklyn neighborhood; officials have not yet released details on injuries or damage.
Two rounds were fired near SE Columbia Way after a dispute between a dog walker and a man; no one was hit and a 31-year-old was arrested, police say.
Police in Salem say searches tied to a stalking arrest turned up 54 guns, ghost‑gun parts and a stash of illegal drugs.
Allstate says it paid $747,000 after a 2024 Humboldt neighborhood blaze and has sued a neighbor it blames for leaving a Solo Stove smoldering.
A Portland man received a 14‑year federal sentence for his role in a 2019 Sinaloa cartel‑linked kidnapping and killing near Molalla, Oregon. The case grew from a drug‑debt dispute and a multiagency probe.
Clackamas County deputies responded to a reported drowning at Canby Community Park; officials posted a brief news release and released few details.
A Portland man received a 20‑year prison term after pleading in connection with the July 11, 2025, four‑alarm fire that gutted the Vandalay Arms and injured residents.
A Roseburg teen suffered catastrophic burns after a makeshift Tannerite-packed firework exploded in a Fourth of July bonfire; family has launched a fundraiser.
A Long Beach woman was booked on first-degree attempted murder after an afternoon stabbing along the city’s oceanfront; police say video and witnesses recorded the attack.
Two Portland officers were treated for non-life-threatening injuries after a combative early-morning arrest in the King neighborhood. The suspect is in custody and the case is under investigation.
A Portland man with a long criminal history is charged in a Sept. 22, 2025, assault on a downtown MAX train that left a rider with a head laceration.
A federal judge dismissed Joshua Turnidge’s suit over constant cell lighting at Two Rivers, saying the corrections agency’s security-focused lighting policies did not violate his rights.
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