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A Multnomah County jury on Thursday found former Portland journalist Mike Bivins guilty on all 11 charges in his bias crime trial, including charges for felony crimes of arson and criminal mischief.

A Multnomah County jury heard opening arguments July 8 in the bias crime trial of Mike Bivins, a former freelance journalist accused of a spree of crimes targeting people for their race and religion.

One asylum seeker was arrested 10 minutes into his drive home from the courthouse. Another was arrested on a routine drive to the gym.

Last month, Emma Gilliland’s dachshund Penny relieved herself on a Sellwood-Moreland lawn—and the tenant of the nearby home responded by smearing the dog’s feces through Gilliland’s hair, according to a police report.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents clashed with demonstrators for a third consecutive evening Monday, making at least three arrests on the doorstep of the agency’s South Portland headquarters, which has become ground zero in an escalating standoff over deportations.

A protest at the ICE facility turned chaotic, with federal agents deploying tear gas and less-lethal rounds as demonstrators shattered the glass of the building’s entrance and formed shield walls in the street.

Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez says he will pursue charges against 10 people arrested Thursday night outside ICE headquarters, as well as anyone else who damages federal property.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested two more asylum seekers outside Portland Immigration Court this morning, bringing the total arrests in the past week to four.

Federal immigration lawyers disclosed the woman’s location Tuesday afternoon in response to U.S. District Court Judge Amy Baggio.

In a federal legal filing, attorneys say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a woman from Mexico outside her asylum hearing Monday morning in downtown Portland.

The 12-person jury found that Wilson’s workplace was racially hostile and the city’s hiring process for a 2023 fire inspector specialist position was skewed against Wilson. But it stopped short of finding that the bureau intentionally blocked him from advancement because of his race.

Three more families are suing over the June 2024 malfunction of the AtmosFEAR pendulum ride.

Polling conducted last month on behalf of business interests shows more than two-thirds of Portland voters would support a ballot measure requiring the city to maintain a police force at the same scale as other large U.S. cities.

Nearly half of Oregon Humanities' $2.46 million budget in 2024 came from the National Endowment for the Humanities—and therein lies the rub.

Preschools are not included in the definition of “school” when determining proximity-related drug charges. Rep. Tawna Sanchez hopes to change that.