Hillsboro News

Korena E. Roberts of Beaverton will stay in jail pending her trial for the June 5 murder of a pregnant Tigard woman and her newborn son.

A Hillsboro man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today in federal court for his role in a drug trafficking operation, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.

Darci VandenHoek never used to get a break. One of two Hillsboro Police Department evidence technicians, she and her partner are responsible for processing the roughly 20,000 items in the police property room.

The case: At 2:30 a.m. on June 25, one vehicle rear-ended another on westbound Tualatin Valley Highway, flipping the front car off the road and killing the driver, Onesimo Ortiz-Giron, 43, of Hillsboro.

Hillsboro Fire Department Chaplain Steve Brodehl was named 2009 Fire Department Chaplain of the Year for North America last month.

In case you missed it ... A school in Hillsboro, Ore. is teaching people how to grow pot.

Medical marijuana advocates have opened a school where people can learn how to grow and use pot to manage illness, KPTV in Portland, Ore., reported.

PORTLAND, Ore. - At least three structure fires tested firefighters in the Portland metropolitan area Wednesday.

A tree fell on a Hillsboro home early Thursday morning, waking up the man inside.

A two-act comedy, "A Magical Melodrama," will be presented Nov. 13 and 14 at The Venetian Theater in Hillsboro.

Tim Nguyen keeps more than 100 species of corals and a small school of vivid fish and anemones in his 300-gallon display tank at Westside Aquarium in Hillsboro.

A large oak tree limb fell into a Hillsboro home early this morning, prompting fire officials to declare the home unfit for occupants.

Hillsboro Fire Lieutenant Jerry Jostens helps remove water from a printing business in Hillsboro damaged by fire early Tuesday evening.

In a sign that talk of an economic recovery has yet to soothe a recession-battered nation, consumer confidence fell in October and came in well below what analysts were expecting.

A mid-morning crash south of Hillsboro today seriously injured two women and closed Oregon 219 for more than five hours, the Washington County Sheriff's Office reported.

Chip-maker Allvia Inc. has acquired the 178,000-square-foot Hillsboro manufacturing plant once operated by Etec Systems Inc.

Vandals have struck the farm of the family of little people that star in a popular reality show.

Allvia's new Hillsboro chip factory. Allvia, a California-based chip manufacturer, said today that it's purchased a factory building in Hillsboro and plans to begin making chips there sometime next year.

Police have arrested a man after a woman was sexually assaulted in her own home in Forest Grove , just west of the Portland suburb of Hillsboro.

The Hillsboro Airport will hold an open house Saturday to discuss potential environmental consequences of building a third runway.