News Ken Mieske, a racist skinhead whose 1988 baseball bat killing of an African-American man in Southeast Portland shocked and galvanized the city, and led to a civil trial that riveted the nation, died Tuesday, reportedly of complications from hepatitis C. He was 45 and was serving his sentence at Oregon State Penitentiary.Mulugeta Seraw was a 28-year-old Ethiopian immigrant and student at Portland ... More
