PSYCH WARD <<A federal agency has ordered the Oregon State Hospital to make immediate changes to the way it transports patients two weeks after a shackled patient stole a hospital van then eluded police for more than a day. The Oregon Health Authority disclosed late Friday that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services found …
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9/15/2023 News Roundup
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 …
8/27/2023 News Roundup
THE FASH <<What started out as a request to remove or reshelve 11 books for children and young adults, which some residents deem pornographic and obscene, has now morphed into the potential dissolution of the county’s only library. If this happens, current librarians said everything that’s not nailed down goes to the State Library, from …
8/26/2023 News Roundup
SHOOTING <<Oregon State Police are investigating a shooting involving Grants Pass police officers that occurred in Josephine County on Thursday around 8:52 a.m. According to officials with OSP, officers found Dennis McGuire, 69, armed with a firearm after locating the victim, 63-year-old Robert Mills near the M Street Market at 1000 SE M Street. Details …
8/25/2023 News Roundup
THE FASH <<In early 2021, Sammich Schott-Deputy was living in a Safe Rest Village not far from the Multnomah County Courthouse in Portland, wearing a GPS ankle bracelet as part of court-ordered probation. Inside the same courthouse that kept records about Schott-Deputy’s whereabouts and their upcoming court hearings, attorneys for far-right blogger Andy Ngo argued …
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 …
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 …
6/15/2023 News Roundup
PRIVATE COPS <<A new religious organization has hit the streets of Northwest Portland, offering the homeless food and access to shelter. Barely a year old, it’s already winning public grants, philanthropic checks, and nods from city leaders. Loving One Another, while registered as a 501(c)(3), is not your typical nonprofit. It was created by Alex …
4/20/2023 News Roundup Part 2
TEAR GAS <<Portland police blanketed downtown in tear gas at concentrations more than 50 times what federal regulators consider “immediately dangerous,” The Guardian reported yesterday. The first-of-its-kind analysis was performed by Forensic Architecture, a company that investigates human rights abuses. At one location, it concluded that concentrations were 2,000 times the federal limit on the …