News Portlander Kyle Ritter has admitted to blogger Jack Bogdanski that he's behind pdxmugshots.com and its various sister sites throughout the country.WW on Wednesday published an article about the mug shot sites, which was charging people $39 to remove...   More

News WW's exposure of a web site that charges people to stop having their mug shots put on the web has apparently compelled the web site's operators to stop the practice—at least for now.

As do many sites, pdxmugshots.com scrapes booking photos from law enforcement web...   More

News The way Richard Felley sees it, his son has already paid the price for his crimes. Felley, who lives in Nehalem,   More

News Award-winning reporter Melissa Navas will leave The Oregonian to join Multnomah County's communications staff in mid-September. She joins a long list of journalists going to work for government PR offices, as WW has shown.
Newsroom cutbacks and changing priorities have sent many veteran reporters out of their newsrooms and into the arms of public agencies. Our    More

News A group of former Papa Murphy's employees plans to picket Friday outside the store at Northeast 15th Avenue and Fremont Street, where the group alleges managers discriminated against workers by denying them breaks, underpaying and using offensive language to refer to employees. Organizers say they will present the restaurant with a petition signed by about 300 supporters that states "workers often...   More

News Jonah Edelman, the chief executive of Stand for Children, a national education reform group based in Portland, has been forced to eat his words after bragging in a June 28 video about outfoxing Illinois teachers’ union leaders and legislators earlier this year.
Stand ...   More

News The U.S. Department of Justice has declined to comment to WW whether and how the shooting of an apparently mentally ill person by a central precinct police officer last week will affect a recently launched DOJ investigation of the Portland Police Bureau.

Neverthele...   More

News The Central Precinct officer cops say mistakenly fired five shotgun rounds instead of beanbags at a man disobeying police orders Thursday was involved in a 2008 incident where a video camera recorded him aggressively rousting suspected drug dealers.
The officer, Dane Reister, also ticketed the cameraman, though the Multnom...   More

News After a Friday afternoon press conference with Mayor Sam Adams and Police Chief Mike Reese, plenty remains unclear about why a Central Precinct officer on Thursday shot a 20-year-old man with a gun that under police rules should never carry lethal ammunition.
Police bureau managers suggested Officer Dane Reister violated several safeguards when he fired four live rounds from a bright-orange sh...   More

News Two of the city’s public-housing agencies have told their tenants they cannot smoke medical marijuana in their apartments and houses. The warnings from REACH Community Development and Home Forwa   More