SHOOTING <<Law enforcement officers in Lane County shot and killed someone who allegedly stole a vehicle Thursday morning. Oregon State Police say they received a call about a stolen vehicle around 9:10 a.m. Thursday. In their press release, OSP did not say where the vehicle was reported stolen nor the kind of vehicle it was …
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9/10/2023 News Roundup
HATE CRIMES <<A Multnomah County grand jury indicted Adrian Austin Cummins Friday on 12 charges, including attempted murder, stemming from the Sept. 2 stabbing that injured two 17-year-olds on a MAX train in Southeast Portland. The charges are one count of attempted murder in the second degree, one count of assault in the first degree, …
9/9/2023 News Roundup
HATE CRIMES <<Sean Milligan said he was on a walk with his dog near a restaurant in Northwest Portland’s Slabtown district when he heard a man shout “I hate Asians!” at a group of Asian people who had just scurried inside. The man followed that up by throwing patio chairs, dishes and drinking glasses at …
9/7/2023 News Roundup
HATE CRIME <<The man accused of stabbing two Black teenage boys in a racially motivated attack at a MAX stop in Southeast Portland was released by police just days before the alleged attack, despite a judicial order to hold him in custody. Portland police arrested Adrian Cummins on August 30, carrying out an arrest warrant …
8/24/2023 News Roundup Part 2
HOMELESSNESS <<Deschutes County is contracting armed security guards to patrol rural homeless encampments north of Bend. The contract — worth a maximum of $25,000 — would require Compass Security and Investigations to visit the encampments in Juniper Ridge twice a day, checking on county-provided toilets and hand-washing stations. Guards carrying firearms would also assess potential …
8/5/2023 News Roundup
HATE CRIME? <<A vandal appears to have broken a granite piece off one of the bronze lion statues at the gateway to Old Town Chinatown and carried it more than a quarter of a mile to the Lan Su Chinese Garden before chucking it through the window of the garden’s beloved teahouse late Thursday night …
7/14/2023 News Roundup
DEATH SQUAD <<A federal lawsuit alleges police in Washington state had no plan other than to use deadly force against a fugitive who was on the run in 2020 after shooting a supporter of a far-right group during clashes between supporters of then-President Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter in the streets of Portland, Oregon. …
7/2/2023 News Roundup
LEGALIZATION <<Thorne cites a half-dozen hurdles for anyone trying to make a living with psilocybin: competition from physicians if psilocybin wins Food and Drug Administration approval (it’s in Phase 3 trials); opposition from pharmaceutical companies that are working to get those approvals; high costs for running a psilocybin service center; black-market competition; and growing religious …
7/1/2023 News Roundup
POLICE SHOOTINGS <<A man fatally shot by police after firing at them in a Vancouver Safeway parking lot in May was carrying a 9mm handgun and a handwritten robbery note and had a wig, burglary tools and a pipe bomb in his car, investigators said Friday. James Wilson, 43, had active warrants for his arrest …
6/30/2023 News Roundup
SHOOTINGS <<A grand jury has found two Portland police officers justified in the shooting death of a murder suspect accused of shooting and killing a man in a Southeast Portland shop in April, the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office announced. The officers, identified as Nick Wombold and Brian Wheeler, along with Clackamas County Sheriff’s Deputy …