Washington County News

The Washington County Museum invites the public to attend an opening reception today at 6 p.m. to celebrate the arrival of two new exhibitions - "Oregon is Indian Country" and the "Print Arts Northwest Holiday Show and Sale." The free event will feature hors d'oeuvres, wine sponsored by Robinson Reserve, desserts sponsored by Beaverton Bakery and ...

Washington County Circuit Court Judge Gayle A. Nachtigal will be inducted Friday into the National Center for State Courts' Warren E. Burger Society during the organization's annual recognition luncheon in Washington, D.C. The Warren E. Burger Society honors individuals who have volunteered their time, talent and support to the organization in ...

A Tualatin man was indicted Nov. 13 in Washington County court on burglary, attempted sex abuse and sodomy charges.

Three Washington County high schools and an elementary school were among 61 in the state to be tagged "in need of improvement" on their state report cards this year.

UPDATE: Police confirm that the deaths are a murder-suicide. Three bodies have been found in a home in the Bethany area, Washington County spokesman Dave Thompson says.

Our current Rogue of the Week , the Washington County District Attorney's Office , drew ire from two prominent Oregon politicos over the decision to charge a teenage driver with felony domestic violence.

Oregon Public Health has activated our H1N1 emergency operations center fulltime, which coordinates Oregon's response to the flu.

A 9-year-old Forest Grove boy wearing nothing but a couple T-shirts and jeans was found wandering in rural Washington County nine hours after he went missing, police said.

Three bodies were discovered Wednesday in a Bethany-area home in what deputies are calling a suspected murder-suicide. Washington County Sheriff's Office detectives were called at about 11:30 a.m. to a house at Oak Creek Drive and Laidlaw Road in northwest Portland.

Kathy Lehtola, director of Washington County's Department of Land Use and Transportation, is planning to retire in February.

All Washington County school-based flu vaccine clinics for the H1N1 virus have been put on hold until the vaccine supply increases, county health officials announced today.

Authorities say a suburban Portland man suspected of fatally shooting his wife and 9-year-old son before killing himself had financial problems and suffered from depression.

BETHANY, Ore. One day after a Gladstone man killed his wife and himself in a terrifying Tualatin lab shooting, Washington County Sheriff's Office reported that another murder-suicide in Bethany had left dead an Indian family.

Authorities in Washington County were investigating an apparent murder suicide Wednesday in the Bethany neighborhood that left three dead.

Searchers are looking for a Cherry Grove man who went on a walk with his dogs on Sunday and never returned home.

A pregnant woman was repeatedly beaten with a collapsible police baton before a "cutting instrument" was used to slice open her abdomen and remove her fetus, a detective testified Tuesday.

A man and a woman were killed in a shooting at a Tualatin drug testing center Tuesday, according to Tualatin Police Department.

A 30-year-old man was injured in rural Washington County Sunday when his truck left the road and hit a tree head-on. David Law, who lives in Washington County, was take to Oregon Health & Science University Hospital where he was listed in serious condition.

Oregon police have charged a man with drunk driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher couldn't understand him because he was vomiting while on the road.

A jewelry store owner returned home from work only to be forced by armed robbers to drive back to his Beaverton store Wednesday night, deputies said.