Multnomah County News

Counting calories at your local restaurant may soon be a requirement in Multnomah County.

A Portland police officer may be fired for lying about weight loss surgery despite privacy protection for medical procedures.

Multnomah County Commissioner Jeff Cogen has helped forge a third-party arrangement to finance the biggest solar installation in the Pacific Northwest.

Deputies arrested one man today and searched for another in connection with an armed robbery on the Fourth of July in Wood Village.

On a computer flash drive looped on a key chain that he takes every day to work, Jeff Joslin keeps his testimony.

Dr Jayant Patel remains on track to arrive in Australia within days, although in a surprise move one of the 14 charges against the surgeon has been dropped.

A former Bend doctor has pleaded no contest to groping and sex abuse charges involving 12 of his patients.

Indian American surgeon Jayant Patel has been moved to a federal jail in Los Angeles on his way to Australia, where he faces numerous criminal charges, and his extradition is expected to be complete by Monday.

A ceremony was held to swear in the new -- and old -- Multnomah County Sheriff on Thursday.

THE family of former Queensland surgeon Dr Jayant Patel say they're disgusted they weren't told he was being secretly moved "like a terror suspect". Friend Dr Vijay Mehta said this morning Dr Patel's wife ...

SILICON VALLEY/MELBOURNE: US authorities on Wednesday began extradition of Indian American surgeon Jayant Patel, facing manslaughter charges in Australia linked to the deaths of three patients.

A man was arrested Tuesday by Oregon State Police on charges of selling stolen lottery tickets.

A 21 year-old man has been arrested after a road rage altercation in Southeast Portland last night.

A 34-year-old former Portland firefighter who called the Oregon Poison Center pretending that he was responding to a patient who had overdosed, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of initiating a false ...

A Portland man charged with posing as a doctor and sexually abusing a Milwaukie woman in her 90s is in custody today after a tip from a Multnomah County probations officer, according to the Clackamas County ...

Police have arrested an accused sex abuser, that they say posed as a doctor. 44-year-old Kenneth Eugene Sinclair allegedly molested a 92-year-old woman last May, claiming he was conducting an at-home physical ...

Multnomah County deputies arrested a counselor with the county's corrections office Tuesday.

A man who sheriff's deputies said posed as a physician in order to sexually abuse an elderly woman was arrested and charged Wednesday.

MCSO Corrections Counselor Dennis Allen, 57, of Portland, a 19 year employee with the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, was arrested Tuesday evening.

A 19-year-old man drowns Tuesday night at Oxbow Park, when he was unable to cross the Sandy River.