Washington County News

Brett Matthew Johnson, 49, is accused of robbing a Wells Fargo Bank on Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway Thursday afternoon.

Nancy Morrice, who lives in Tualatin's Fox Hills neighborhood, is upset about losing her library privileges in Multno-mah and Clacka-mas counties.

A 10-acre fire in the Forest Grove fire district was brought under control this morning, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry.

The case: Twenty-three people were arrested on May 19 in connection with a drug-trafficking ring in Portland and Washington County.

A Washington County man who shot a horse in the head and left it to die has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and five years probation.

The case: A Beaverton man was arrested last June under accusations of sex abuse of a minor.

The road into Harney County's largest city rides like butter, an asphalt welcome mat unfurling for miles across a vast desert.

The case: Several individuals were arrested for an armed robbery of a Tigard home in February.

Four more suspects have been arrested in the burglary at the home of former Portland Trail Blazer Cliff Robinson.

Four Tualatin teenagers have been accused of breaking into unlocked cars over a two-month period, taking more than $12,000 worth of items, and then reselling the stolen items on Craigslist.

When Sylvia Barajas-Everson found out that two of the Washington County college students she mentored through high school were chosen to participate in a national Latina leadership conference in Washington, D.C., she was ecstatic.

Multnomah County Sheriff's Office deputies confiscated nearly five pounds of methamphetamine last night from a suspected drug dealer in Washington County.

A witness who saw a man breaking into his neighbor's car early Monday morning tackled the thief and held him until he was arrested, deputies said.

On Monday, June 15, 2009, at around noon, the Westside Interagency Narcotics team served a search warrant at a Hillsboro residence in the 1800 block of SE Hanover Street.

A 62-year-old woman drove her Subaru Forester backwards into a neighbor's Beaverton house this afternoon, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said.

A woman accused of cutting a fetus out of another woman after they met during a search for baby clothes on the Internet has been indicted on aggravated murder charges in Oregon.

The case: An Aloha man was arrested in December and accused of robbing the Rite Aid pharmacy at 20225 S.W. Tualatin Valley Hwy.

Close to two-dozen department heads sit around a table and discuss their budgeting priorities each spring: which county programs should be cut, and which programs should be saved? That's the way the beginning of Lincoln County's budgeting process works.

Phillip Abrary, David Van't Hof, Roy Rogers and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. inspect the first ton of fertilizer from the Durham Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility.

Some say new homes cropping up in Forest Grove, like these row houses on Williams Street, are signs of a slowly improving market.