Multnomah County News

A man who split his time between Northeast Portland and Salem sits in the Multnomah County Detention Center, charged what police are calling a love triangle shooting earlier this month.

A Portland Police officer investigated in the death of James Chasse has been placed on administrative leave after shooting a 12-year-old girl in the thigh with a beanbag gun during an incident at a MAX stop Saturday night.

Parking and traffic violations fines are going up in downtown Portland. Parking fines were raised by $10. The Multnomah County Circuit Court also approved a new violation and fine for the vehicle lane on the new transit mall, officials said Wednesday.

A terrible bombshell of a case dropped into Multnomah County courts today: lawyer Kelly Clark is suing the Church of Latter Day Saints for $5 million on behalf of a local Mormon man who says a church leader in the 70s sexually abused him, causing severe emotional and psychological damage.

The attorney at the center of a number of high-profile cases against the Mormon church plans to file another round of lawsuits Monday.

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A 27-year-old man is accused of holding his girlfriend captive, strangling her unconscious and then sexually assaulting her after he became angered that she had smoked his marijuana, according to court records.

PORTLAND - Sen. Ron Wyden is proposing a new bill to boost protection for girls who become sex trafficking victims and tougher prosecution for the men who exploit them.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski test-drives a Mitsubishi electric car, which could hit the streets of Portland soon.

Washington County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a missing man in the Lee Falls area of western Washington County.

More than 11 years after Jeremiah Hartman died of a gunshot wound to the head in front of his girlfriend and 3-month-old son, a Multnomah County jury found a former meth addict responsible.

Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton today requested a state review of a top sheriff's officer who violated police certification requirements.

PORTLAND, Ore. It's a dreadful feeling getting pulled over while you're driving and getting a ticket.

The last of three men accused in the drug-related shooting of a Gresham resident was sentenced to prison today.

Bruce McCain wants to be Multnomah County's next sheriff. Yet McCain also took $25,780 in an early retirement package from the sheriff's office in April in which he agreed not to return to work for the county for two years.

Voting patterns on statewide initiatives and referendums tell us something about the strength of Washingtona s progressives and conservatives, and the results of 2009 balloting are quite similar to elections of 2007 and 2008.

Court documents say a 32-year-old Portland man is accused of pouring bleach on his girlfriend's cat, then punching the woman in the face when she asked him where the cat was.

Officers spent four days during the first week of October working with informants who bought heroin, cocaine and other drugs under surveillance to help Portland Police identify 31 drug crime suspects in Old Town, at Waterfront Park and along the Eastbank Esplanade.

Gay rights backers plan to ask Oregon voters to reverse their ban on gay marriage.

PORTLAND, Ore. - A Beaverton woman has been accused of stealing more than $560,000 from an elderly woman by withdrawing large sums of money from the now-95-year-old woman's retirement accounts between 2006 and 2009.