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Oregon Set to Expand Hotline for Bias Crime Reporting
With a rise in hate crimes and bias incidents in Oregon and nationwide the two-person office just couldn’t handle the volume.
Portland Shootings Prompt DA to Spend $1M to Handle Cases
Multnomah County plans to hire four prosecutors and two investigators to help with an increasing caseload of homicide investigations
Cascadia Whole Health Honors Community Justice Leader, Fine Artist with Culture of Caring Awards
Erika Preuitt and Jeremy Okai Davis recognized for positive contributions to community.
Salem-Keizer School Boards Adopts Anti-Racism Resolution
The Salem-Keizer school board has voted to adopt a resolution outlining the board’s commitment to equity and anti-racism.
Sen. Kayse Jama Announces Re-Election Campaign for Senate District 24
Since his appointment, Jama has worked to address the systemic inequality that Oregonians have faced ...
Dion Matthews Jr. Homicide Remains Unsolved After Six Years
The 2015 homicide is a Crime Stoppers featured case ...
Joint Center Commends Senator Whitehouse for Hiring Monalisa Dugué as Chief of Staff
Dugué is one of two Black Chiefs of Staff in the Senate ...
FBI Offers up to $25,000 for Information in Mass Shooting Event
18-year-old Makayla Maree Harris killed and six others injured in a Portland shooting on July 17, 2021 ...
Nearly 100 Animals Seized From Woofin Palooza Forfeited to MCAS
A Multnomah County Circuit Court judge has ruled that dogs and cats seized from an unlicensed facility named Woofin Palooza are now...
National Democratic group defends Oregon’s congressional map
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's new congressional districts are receiving national attention as a Democratic group pushes back against Republican claims that the state's political boundaries are gerrymandered. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that in a filing on Monday, the...
InvestigateWest: Cleaner buildings will cost billions
Pumping insulation into walls and scrapping gas furnaces aren’t the most glamorous ways to attack climate change. Renovating old buildings seems downright mundane compared to fast-charging elec-tric cars or efficient high-rise buildings. But for Francisco Ramos, upgrading his Northeast Portland...
No. 21 Texas A&M runs over Missouri, 35-14
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher warned his team all week that it couldn’t afford a letdown after its upset of top-ranked Alabama. His message got through, as the 21st-ranked Aggies buried Missouri early in a 35-14 victory Saturday. “We preached it,...
No. 21 Texas A&M heads to Mizzou after 'Bama upset win
No. 21 Texas A&M (4-2, 1-2 SEC) at Missouri (3-3, 0-2), Saturday at noon EDT (SEC Network). Line: Texas A&M by 9 1/2, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. Series record: Texas A&M leads 8-7. WHAT’S AT STAKE? ...
How Food Became the Perfect Beachhead for Gentrification
What could be the downside of fresh veggies, homemade empanadas and a pop-up restaurant specializing in banh mis? ...
Homelessness, Houselessness in the Richest Country in the World: An Uncommon Logic
When and why did the United States of America chose the wealth of a few over the health, wealth, and well-being of so many ...
American Business Leaders Step Up to Fight Inequities in the South
With COVID-19 still an omnipresent concern and the country’s recovery still very much in jeopardy, individuals, families, and communities are struggling to deal with issues that have only been exacerbated by the pandemic. ...
Waters Statement on 20th Anniversary of September 11 Attacks
Twenty years ago today, our nation suffered devastating terrorist attacks on our soil and against our people that wholly and completely changed the world as we knew it. ...
ACLU demands reform after Black girl arrested in Hawaii
HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu police officers and officials with Hawaii’s public school system discriminated against a disabled Black child by handcuffing, arresting and interrogating the 10-year-old girl for a “run-of-the-mill” dispute between children, the American Civil Liberties Union of...
Texas sued as GOP closes in on passing redrawn US House maps
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Taking Texas to court again over voting laws, civil rights groups sued Monday over redrawn U.S. House districts that they allege thwart the political strength of a booming Latino population that is driving the state's explosive growth. The federal lawsuit...
Colin Powell dies, trailblazing general stained by Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — Colin Powell, the trailblazing soldier and diplomat whose sterling reputation of service to Republican and Democratic presidents was stained by his faulty claims to justify the 2003 U.S. war in Iraq, died Monday of COVID-19 complications. He was 84. A veteran...
Betty Lynn, Thelma Lou on 'The Andy Griffith Show,' has died
MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) — Betty Lynn, the film and television actor who was best known for her role as Barney Fife's sweetheart Thelma Lou on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. She was 95. Lynn died peacefully Saturday after a brief illness, The Andy Griffith Museum in...
Kourtney Kardashian, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker engaged
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A day at the beach turned into a proposal for Kourtney Kardashian, who is now engaged to Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. Kardashian posted two photos on Instagram of the proposal with the caption “forever.” A representative for the reality star and...
Review: Elizabeth Strout writes a 'Lucy Barton' sequel
“Oh William!” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House) Elizabeth Strout has written another voice-driven novel, the third in a series of books about the fictional writer Lucy Barton and the people she grew up with in a small town in rural Illinois. “Oh...
Biden team asks Supreme Court to pause Texas abortion law
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most...
Vaccines, masks? Japan puzzling over sudden virus success
TOKYO (AP) — Almost overnight, Japan has become a stunning, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story....
Jury selection begins in trial over Ahmaud Arbery's death
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — As jury selection got slowly underway Monday in the trial of three white men charged with...
Slovenia PM blames rising infections on virus protesters
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia's populist prime minister on Monday blamed a rise in COVID-19 infections on...
Center-left wins in Rome, elsewhere in blow to Italy's right
ROME (AP) — Italy’s center-left forces won big in Rome, Turin and several other mayoral runoffs on Monday,...
Maduro ally appears in court to face corruption charges
MIAMI (AP) — A businessman who prosecutors say was a major conduit for corruption by Nicolás Maduro's inner...
