News A healthy 50-pound male pit bull died last month after Portland cops shot it repeatedly with taser stun-guns, the city's first canine fatality involving the weapons. Police insist the tasers didn't ki ... More
DOG DIES AFTER TASER SHOCKS
News A healthy 50-pound male pit bull died last month after Portland cops shot it repeatedly with taser stun-guns, the city's first canine fatality involving the weapons. Police insist the tasers didn't ki ... More
CRUSADER FAILURE?
Prominent anti-crime activist slapped with restraining order.
News A prominent Portland businessman and anti-crime advocate faces a judge's restraining order on charges that he abused his wife.Jim Jeddeloh's legal problems, which also include a 2004 arrest for drunk ... More
BOSS HOG
Sheriff Bernie Giusto wants more of your money to lock up bad guys. Don't fall for it.
News Few local officials have been in the news more this year than Bernie Giusto. In dozens of newspaper and television reports, the Multnomah County sheriff has carpet-bombed citizens with a single messag ... More
A SLICE OF STRIFE IN THE SUBURBS
Stats justifying Beaverton annexation dealt a blow.
News One of Beaverton's key arguments for grabbing in neighborhoods now outside the city is taking a beating.At a Beaverton City Council meeting last December, Police Chief David Bishop said city police re ... More
LESLIE STEVENS
Cop defender gets ready to turn cop watchdog.
Q & A Next month, Leslie Stevens will become the new director for Portland's Independent Police Review division, a job that will require her to balance oversight of cops with fairness to those same officers ... More
THE STICKER SHOCK TO COME
MultCo faces questions ahead about what to do when county income tax ends.
News The just-ended battle over the Multnomah County budget will seem tame next year when the county income tax ends, eliminating more than $100 million a year in money set aside for schools, services and ... More
A CHIEF CHECKUP
WW takes stock of Police Chief Derrick Foxworth.
News It's not Derrick Foxworth's birthday, and his one-year anniversary as police chief passed months ago with little fanfare.But we thought the 46-year-old chief deserved a checkup anyway, as he deals wit ... More
Diane Linn
Multnomah County Chair in battle with colleagues and budget.
Q & A Another day, another problem for Multnomah County Chair Diane Linn, now in a standoff against three fellow commissioners, this time over the county's $320 million budget and how best to keep inmates i ... More
And the Beat Goes On
Latest protester settlements cost city $545,000.
News The city of Portland will pay $545,000 in attorneys' fees arising from two lawsuits alleging police misconduct during protests in 2002 and 2003.Finalized this week, that settlement comes on top of the ... More
WHERE'S THE ART?
A Portrait of a Dead Artist, a Desperate Widow and Her Scheming Suitor
News Margaret Rosenborg, 82, sits in her apartment surrounded by her late husband's paintings. She runs a hand over her nest of slate-colored hair and shakes her head. "I wanted something too badly," she s ... More
Top Articles from Angela Valdez
Meth Madness
How The Oregonian manufactured an epidemic, politicians bought it and you're paying. Curing Jamie Handley
One Portland family pushes a fix for the autism "epidemic." Our Gangs
Sure, Portland has gang violence-but read this before panicking. AFTER HOURS
Inside Portland's illegal club scene. Night & Day
A photo essay of the most dangerous 'hood in Portland Meth, Sex and Murder
Prosecutors believe Mark Lee Hudgens tried to cash in after his friends killed a prominent local lawyer. The King Of Cons
Skillful Davis charmed desperate women into passing millions in forged checks. The Killer Next Door?
How a churchgoing amateur soccer player ended up in the middle of three brutal murders. DOG DIES AFTER TASER SHOCKS
CLUB DEAD
Twenty-year-old downtown Princeton Athletic Club closes abruptly.
How The Oregonian manufactured an epidemic, politicians bought it and you're paying. Curing Jamie Handley
One Portland family pushes a fix for the autism "epidemic." Our Gangs
Sure, Portland has gang violence-but read this before panicking. AFTER HOURS
Inside Portland's illegal club scene. Night & Day
A photo essay of the most dangerous 'hood in Portland Meth, Sex and Murder
Prosecutors believe Mark Lee Hudgens tried to cash in after his friends killed a prominent local lawyer. The King Of Cons
Skillful Davis charmed desperate women into passing millions in forged checks. The Killer Next Door?
How a churchgoing amateur soccer player ended up in the middle of three brutal murders. DOG DIES AFTER TASER SHOCKS
CLUB DEAD
Twenty-year-old downtown Princeton Athletic Club closes abruptly.
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