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July 18, 2018 at 10:07 pm

Oregon wheat farmers try to stop fire that’s consuming crops VIEW

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Farmers rushed to save their livelihoods as a wildfire roared through vast Oregon wheat fields Thursday and crushed their hopes at...

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Just north of Upriver Drive, charred remains is all that is left of this garage that burned during Tuesday’s wildfire, Wednesday, July 18. 2018. (Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review via AP) WASPO103 WASPO103

July 17, 2018 at 5:09 pm

1 dead as latest fire points to explosive Northwest season VIEW

A small fire near the Spokane Valley prompted evacuation notices for 700 homes. Several homes caught fire and at least one structure had been completely...

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July 9, 2018 at 1:00 pm

Groups mobilize against threat to Oregon’s ‘sanctuary’ law

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Opponents of an Oregon ballot measure that would repeal the nation's oldest statewide sanctuary law on Monday launched a counter-campaign as...

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In this Wednesday, June 27, 2018, photo, a small group of stay-at-home mothers, with children at their sides, work to organize an immigration rally in Portland, Ore. The small group of mothers organizing Saturday’s rally in Portland to coincide with Families Belong Together rallies nationwide, are working almost around-the-clock to pull together an event expected to attract 5,000 people. From left to right are Kate Sharaf, Lisa Carol Stiller, Erin Conroy and Caely Barrett. (AP Photo/Don Ryan) ORDR504 ORDR504

June 28, 2018 at 11:32 pm

Portland moms outraged by family separations become protest leaders VIEW

Hundreds of marches nationwide could draw hundreds of thousands to protest U.S. immigration policies. In Portland, Oregon, several stay-at-home moms are organizing their first rally...

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June 28, 2018 at 3:26 pm

Attorney: Mother of dead baby left in hot car distraught

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An attorney for a woman who left her toddler daughter in the car while she went to her job as a...

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Joshua Webb appears in Clackamas County Circuit Court in Oregon City, Ore., on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, where he pleaded guilty except for insanity in the May 2017 killing of his mother and his dog at his home in Colton and stabbing of a grocery store employee in a neighboring town. He was sentenced to life in state psychiatric custody. (Everton Bailey Jr./The Oregonian via AP) ORPOR101 ORPOR101

June 26, 2018 at 11:58 am

Oregon man who beheaded his mother is sent to psychiatric hospital

OREGON CITY, Ore. — A man who decapitated his mother on Mother's Day and walked into a rural Oregon grocery store holding her severed head...

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June 19, 2018 at 2:29 pm

Attorneys say no access to asylum seekers in Oregon prison

Protesters have set up camp outside the Portland, Oregon headquarters of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to protest the Trump administration's policy of separating...

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June 13, 2018 at 11:24 am

Environmental, fishing groups sue Oregon over coho salmon

A coalition of environmental and fishing groups have sued Oregon for allowing logging on state forest lands, alleging that the activity is damaging streams that...

June 12, 2018 at 2:21 pm

Top US attorney in Oregon charges 9 in fraud, pot scheme

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's top federal prosecutor has charged nine people with financial and drug crimes in a scheme that involved defrauding banks and...

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June 11, 2018 at 12:13 pm

7 mayors want pot removed from federal list of illegal drugs

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mayors from seven U.S. cities in states with legal marijuana said Monday they have formed a coalition to push for federal...