One student dead, two others injured in column collapse on Lewis & Clark College campus

Portland leaders and others in the metro area and Oregon joined a nationwide chorus Friday to condemn the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols as Memphis police released a video of his savage attack by officers.

Portland police on Friday identified Arthur Earl Jones, 19, of Portland as the man found dead in a car in the Arbor Lodge neighborhood. Jones died of a gunshot wound, police said. Officers found him in a car in the 6900 block of North Curtis Avenue about 2:30 a.m. Thursday.

Police have publicly identified the victim in a fatal January 19 shooting in Northeast Portland’s Cully neighborhood. Dazani S. Roberts, 19, was shot to death shortly before midnight near Northeast 42nd Avenue and Prescott Street. The shooter or shooters fled the scene before officers arrived on the scene, police said.

Barbara Shorten of Oregon City remembers her lawyer brought a beautiful bouquet of flowers to her hospital room when she was paralyzed from the waist down after her car was rear-ended and thrown off the road into a pond in August 2015. Shorten considered the flowers a kind gesture by...

Police found a man shot to death in North Portland Thursday morning. Officers arrived at the scene in the 6900 block of North Curtis Avenue at around 2:30 a.m. and discovered the victim in a car, the Portland Police Bureau said. Paramedics soon arrived and concluded that the man was dead.

Portland leaders joined a nationwide chorus Friday to denounce the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police and brace for protests as officials in the Tennessee city released body camera footage of the killing. Mayor Ted Wheeler urged Portlanders outraged by the “shocking and appalling” footage to remain peaceful,...

Late last week Hopewell House, a Southwest Portland hospice center forced to closed three years ago, reopened and admitted its first new resident. “This monumental,” said Lesley Sacks, the executive director. “We put in a lot of energy to get to this day. And now the real work begins again.”

Clark County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a man after responding to a call at the Sunnyside Motel in the Salmon Creek area Friday night where one man died. A 911 caller reported a disturbance in a motel room room at 12200 NE Highway 99 in Vancouver shortly after 9 p.m. Deputies found two men who appeared to have been fighting in the room. One of them was unconscious with substantial visible injuries, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.

Defense lawyers this week accused Multnomah County prosecutors of deliberately botching a murder trial for a Portland man charged with fatally shooting two men and trying to kill a third in 2020. After a week of pre-trial wrangling and juror selection, the jury listened to just 20 minutes of the...

A 37-year-old Portland man faces murder charges in the 2011 shooting of Leonard “L.J.” Irving. Irving, a 34-year-old father of three, was shot in the back four times outside a bar on Northeast 82nd Avenue on June 26, 2011. Irving reportedly had broken up an argument between Lamar Hill, his nephew, and another man. As he and Hill walked to their minivan across the street, Irving was shot and killed. Hill also was shot in the neck, but he survived.

Willie Richardson, a longtime champion for minority education and respected voice for racial equality in Oregon, has died. She was 74. Family members told the Statesman Journal that Richardson, of Salem, died Wednesday. Close friends and family members said Richardson had been dealing with ongoing health issues. “Willie was a...

Officials are preparing to open severe weather shelters and working to get resources and information to people living outside with temperatures in the Portland area expected to drop into the 20s at night this weekend. However, officials in the tri-county area have been slow to announce the exact locations and...

Two Portland area infants developed lead poisoning after using an over-the-counter eczema cream found to have more than 1,000 times the amount of lead allowed for cosmetics under federal law, Oregon health officials said at a news briefing Thursday, asking that Oregonians not use or sell the product for the time being.

Is it a little odd that panuchos have emerged as the dish most associated with Yucatán in Portland? They’re not exactly easy to prepare, with their hand-pressed tortillas puffed up on a comal, carefully opened, stuffed with a black bean puree then gently fried. And that’s all before you get to a colorful toppings list that can include meat, lettuce, cabbage, avocado, cabbage, pickled red onion and more.

When the Portland Trail Blazers traded Norman Powell to the Los Angeles Clippers in 2022, they lost a player who brought intensity and toughness to the court, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive reporter Aaron Fentress. The high-powered scorer and solid defender, who was only on the team for a year, left...

Marijuana producer Curaleaf announced Thursday it plans to shutter operations in Oregon, California and Colorado as it seeks to shore up its business with $60 million in cost cuts. Curaleaf also said it will reduce its workforce by about 4% companywide but didn’t comment on the future of its Oregon...

Health experts want the public to know the risk of injury from inhaling second-hand smoke from vaporized fentanyl is extremely low. The advisory follows a Jan. 18 report that a Yamhill County sheriff’s deputy exhibited symptoms of a possible overdose after encountering fumes from what may have been counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl in a bathroom at Willamina Middle School. The deputy visited the school on a separate case and went into the bathroom at the request of a staff member who smelled something suspicious, the sheriff’s office wrote in a press release.

Over the past couple of years Mayor Ted Wheeler and various city commissioners have encouraged the public to come downtown and encouraged businesses to remove plywood from their storefront windows. That’s all great, but what seems to be missing is action from government itself. Years after the riots, some government buildings are still boarded up or have fences surrounding the premises. Perhaps if government took a leadership role and did what it asks of others, private enterprise would follow.

Federal narcotics agents armed with a warrant burst into a room at a Budget Inn in Portland this week and seized more than two kilograms of rainbow-colored fentanyl and eight guns wrapped in tin foil to be shipped to Honduras, according to an affidavit unsealed in court Wednesday. They arrested...

For Johnny Sullivan, moving to Portland has been like stepping on a series of rakes. Three months after taking over Northeast Alberta Street’s Vita Cafe at the end of 2019, the pandemic forced the former New York City chef to close. His pop-up pivot, Marble Queen, found success at the Portland Farmers Market, until someone complained about his grill. After losing his spot at the market, Sullivan poured what remained of his savings into a new venture, taking over the former MF Tasty food cart on Northeast Williams Avenue.