Detectives Stephanie Winter and Devin Rigo of the Hillsboro, Oregon, Police Department had never encountered a crime scene like the one they encountered in January 2023. Natalie Morales: How would you two characterize this case when you first got it? What did you think? Det. Stephanie Winter: You know, I just thought that it’s a…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, ruling Saturday in a lawsuit brought by the state and city. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued the order pending further arguments in the suit. She said the relatively small protests the city…
A federal judge in Oregon has issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from sending the National Guard to Portland after the president said he would send troops to the city to handle “domestic terrorists.” U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, issued the temporary restraining order, which is set to expire…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has directed his team to review federal aid to Portland, Oregon, that can be cut as his anger with the city’s anti-government and anti-fascism protesters mounts, the White House said on Friday. “We will not fund states that allow anarchy,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters. She gave…
Detective Devin Rigo knew the clock was ticking as he raced to a metal scrapyard just north of Portland, Oregon. Rigo, with the Hillsboro Police Department, had just learned about the discovery of a maroon minivan he believed contained evidence connected to the murder of 56-year-old Kenneth “Kenny” Fandrich, a contract pipe fitter. On…
New Mexico lawmakers are to open a special session Wednesday to boost funding for food assistance and rural health care — actions the Democratic governor contends are needed to “minimize the damage from President Trump’s disastrous bill” cutting federal taxes and spending. The special session follows one in Colorado, where the Democratic governor asserted Trump’s…
The remains of a woman who was found dead in 1946 were exhumed in Oregon this week as officials try to solve the state’s oldest unidentified person case. The remains of “Oak Grove Jane Doe” were discovered in a burlap sack along the Williamette River in April 1946, according to a news release from the…
When you are talking about Blondie frontwoman and style icon Debbie Harry, nothing is predictable. Since crashing onto the rock ‘n’ roll scene with the new wave and genre-bending band Blondie in 1970s New York – and throughout her career – Harry has not shied away from risks. From being the first musician to rap…
Authorities this week said they discovered a man who had been living for some time in the crawl space of a condo near Portland, Oregon, that had been outfitted with various items, including lights, chargers and a bed. He also appeared to have changed the locks on the doors of the space. According to the…
For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones. But a team of biologists working near the California-Oregon border do, and they’re using them to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” movie clips and live human voices at the apex predators to shoo them away from cattle in an…