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Written by By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press

Published: 27 October 2022

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The head of the U.S. Forest Service has denounced the arrest by an Oregon sheriff of a Forest Service employee after a planned burn in a national forest spread onto private land.

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Written by By Steve Law Portland Tribune

Published: 26 October 2022

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Barely one year after the reconstituted KKK expanded operations into Oregon, the Klan claimed 14,000 members here, 9,000 of them in Portland.

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Written by By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press

Published: 25 October 2022

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Amid the boom, dense city neighborhoods are rapidly becoming pressure points in the patchy transition to electrification.

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Written by By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press

Published: 24 October 2022

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The two candidates also discussed immigration, gun control, and the insurrection in their only scheduled debate before the Nov. 8 election.

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Written by By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press

Published: 21 October 2022

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The election of either candidate would be historic: McLeod-Skinner would be Oregon’s first openly gay congressional delegate, while Chavez-DeRemer is aspiring to be the first Oregon Latina elected to Congress.

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Written by By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press

Published: 21 October 2022

 

A school board member and his 20-year-old stepson turned themselves in last week to face charges of assaulting and interfering with police during the insurrection.

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Written by By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press

Published: 20 October 2022

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Oregon's proposed change repeals its exception clause while adding language allowing a court or probation or parole agency to order alternatives to incarceration as part of sentencing.

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Written by By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America

Published: 20 October 2022

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A population boom made Oregon one of just six states to gain an additional seat in the U.S. House following the 2020 census. The state’s population jumped by more than 10% in the past decade

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Written by Associated Press

Published: 19 October 2022

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Walters, who became the first woman to serve as chief justice of the Supreme Court in 2018, is the second justice this month to announce a retirement

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Written by Associated Press

Published: 19 October 2022

Bullet holes are marked as evidence on the outer wall of Jefferson High School gym. (Photo/PPB) 

Police said officers received reports that two teens wearing face masks fled after the shooting in a car that crashed nearby.