THE FASH <<The State of Oregon has taken legal action against the Board of Directors overseeing Fox News, alleging that the media company disseminated misinformation related to the 2020 election. The Oregon Attorney General’s office has accused Fox Corporation of knowingly propagating false claims, characterizing it as a high-stakes pursuit of profits. In an official …
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9/1/23 News Update
JAIL DEATH <<Allen Walker died on a Multnomah County jail cell floor after more than six cups of blood poured into his stomach through a tear in his throat, records show. Walker, 31, died May 13, the second of six people to die this year in the county’s custody — a sharp increase from past …
7/23/2023 News Roundup
SHOOTING <<Gunfire erupted inside Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Northwest Portland Saturday morning, leaving one security guard dead in the aftermath. After an hours-long search for the shooter, the suspect died in an officer-involved shooting in Gresham. The incident began around 11 a.m. when the shots were fired on the 5th floor of the Irving …
7/22/2023 News Roundup
HOMELESSNESS <<Urban Alchemy describes itself as a job-creation program for formerly incarcerated people. It was cofounded in 2018 by Lena Miller, a PhD in psychology who has spent decades on a mission to heal the affliction of violence in urban communities. She says that the traumas that the formerly incarcerated have experienced increase their emotional …
7/15/2023 News Roundup
HOMELESSNESS <<A 48-year-old man was indicted this week for shooting at three people at a southwest Portland homeless camp in March, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney on Friday. Ryan S. Fardreamer was indicted by a grand jury on Monday for 12 charges that include attempted murder, assault and robbery.>> <<Witnesses told police that …
6/22/2023 News Roundup
STREET RESPONSE <<Portland Street Response is both widely popular and politically embattled, thanks to a city commissioner, Rene Gonzalez, who’s reducing its funding and a firefighters’ union that remains unfriendly to it (“Flame War,” WW, May 31). But the dispute over involuntary holds shows other tensions that threaten the program’s long-term prospects. WW reviewed correspondence …