Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:26 PM EDT
A tip from hunters led police to a marijuana growing operation stretching across about a mile of a remote ravine on public land, leading to a raid that netted six arrests and more than 91,000 marijuana plants.
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Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:09 PM EST
Portland's police chief has stepped back from criticism officers leveled at a Portland hospital where a 61-year-old man was dying in a parking lot last week and officers were told to call 911.
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Tue Dec 7, 2010 1:09 PM EST
The son of one of the highest-ranking CIA officers to betray his country dodged a prison sentence Tuesday after making a deal with prosecutors to help build their case against his father.
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Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:59 AM EST
Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said.
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Sat Nov 27, 2010 8:29 AM EST
Undercover agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van full of what he believed were explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, federal authorities said.
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Sat Nov 27, 2010 6:43 AM EST
Undercover agents in a sting operation stopped a Somali-born teenager from blowing up a van full of explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, federal authorities said.
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Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:21 AM EST
Undercover agents in a sting operation stopped a Somali-born teenager from blowing up a van full of explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland on Friday, federal authorities said.
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Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:13 PM EDT
The birth parents of 7-year-old Kyron Horman marked the eighth week of his disappearance by saying they are still holding out hope that he is alive.
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Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:07 PM EDT
The mother of an Oregon boy missing for 53 days tearfully addressed her son during a Tuesday news conference, telling him not to give up hope, while investigators doubled a reward for information in the case.
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Tue Jun 8, 2010 9:24 PM EDT
A federal judge has ruled that grazing on public land in the Malheur National Forest has led to degradation of steelhead streams that the U.S. Forest Service failed to protect.
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Wed May 26, 2010 4:33 AM EDT
His war hero grandfather and namesake fought the Nazis, his parents are respected scientific scholars in Bulgaria, and a former Reagan administration lawyer and his physician wife helped raise him as a teenager, all predicting a bright future.
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Wed May 12, 2010 5:45 PM EDT
Portland Mayor Sam Adams fired the city's police chief Wednesday, a day after the city agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a mentally ill man in police custody.
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Tue Apr 20, 2010 5:07 PM EDT
An Oregon jury's decision to award a man $18.5 million in punitive damages in his case against the Boy Scouts of America will likely be the first of many financial hits the Scouts will take as it prepares to defend itself against a series of sex abuse lawsuits.
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Sat Apr 3, 2010 2:38 AM EDT
A former Portland archbishop and current top Vatican official once returned a priest accused of sex abuse to administrative duty in Oregon on the condition that he be barred from direct contact with children or teenagers.
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:24 AM EDT
The Boy Scouts of America showed reckless indifference to protecting young Scouts when it kept confidential two decades worth of files on suspected molesters among its troop leaders, a psychologist testified Wednesday as part of a $14 million lawsuit against the organization.
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Thu Feb 18, 2010 4:21 AM EST
Aaron Campbell had been drinking at his apartment and was upset about the death of his brother after a long illness when he found himself exchanging a text message with a Portland police officer.
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Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:47 PM EST
The unemployment rate in Oregon remained flat at 11 percent in December but there was a small sign of job growth.
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Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:19 AM EST
With less than two weeks to go before a special election, more than $8 million has already gone into the political battle over a pair of tax measures that would boost rates for corporations and wealthy Oregonians.
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Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:17 PM EST
Oregon's unemployment rate barely budged in November as the state headed for the end of 2009 with hopes for a recovery but some job losses in key industries.
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Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:22 AM EST
At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" — a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana. Glass jars hold donations of dried, milky-green weed, and the cafe serves up meals and snacks for the hungry.
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Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:16 PM EST
The collapse of a Bend real estate development company has resulted in charges against 13 people in what prosecutors say is the largest Oregon fraud case to emerge from the national real estate boom and bust.
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Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:06 AM EST
The unemployment rate in Oregon did not change last month, suggesting the recession may be easing, although economists also warned it is too early to tell.
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Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:42 PM EST
Survivors of a van crash on an icy Oregon freeway that killed two young people from Colorado and left two others critically injured say they are trying to come to grips with their loss.
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:04 AM EDT
Two Oregon teacher unions have gone back to court against political activist Bill Sizemore to accuse him again of racketeering, this time in the 2008 elections.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:09 PM EDT
A predicted national shortage of nurses in the next decade could be made worse by a shortage of the experienced nurses who train them at community colleges and universities around the country.
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