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NORTHWEST NEWS

'Bomb Cyclone' Kills 1 and Knocks out Power to Over Half a Million Homes Across the Northwest US

A major storm was sweeping across the northwest U.S., battering the region with strong winds and rain. The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks through Friday and hurricane-force wind warnings were in effect. 

'Bomb Cyclone' Threatens Northern California and Pacific Northwest

The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks beginning Tuesday and lasting through Friday. Those come as the strongest atmospheric river  that California and the Pacific Northwest has seen this season bears down on the region. 

More Logging Is Proposed to Help Curb Wildfires in the US Pacific Northwest

Officials say worsening wildfires due to climate change mean that forests must be more actively managed to increase their resiliency.

Democrat Janelle Bynum Flips Oregon’s 5th District, Will Be State’s First Black Member of Congress

The U.S. House race was one of the country’s most competitive and viewed by The Cook Political Report as a toss up, meaning either party had a good chance of winning.

NEWS BRIEFS

Portland Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery Showcases Diverse Talent

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Oregon Announces New State Director and Community Engagement Coordinator

“This is an exciting milestone for Oregon,” said DELC Director Alyssa Chatterjee. “These positions will play critical roles in...

Multnomah County Library Breaks Ground on Expanded St. Johns Library

Groundbreaking marks milestone in library transformations ...

Janelle Bynum Statement on Her Victory in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District

"I am proud to be the first – but not the last – Black Member of Congress from Oregon" ...

Storm dumps record rain and heavy snow on Northern California. Many in Seattle still without power

FORESTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A major storm moving through Northern California on Thursday dropped heavy snow and record rain, flooding some areas, after killing two people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands in the Pacific Northwest. Forecasters warned the risk of flash...

A growing number of Oregon cities vote to ban psychedelic mushroom compound psilocybin

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Drug reform advocates hailed Oregon as a progressive leader when it became the first in the nation to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the compound found in psychedelic mushrooms. But four years later, voters in a growing list of its cities have...

Missouri hosts Pacific after Fisher's 23-point game

Pacific Tigers (3-3) at Missouri Tigers (3-1) Columbia, Missouri; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tigers -19.5; over/under is 149.5 BOTTOM LINE: Pacific plays Missouri after Elijah Fisher scored 23 points in Pacific's 91-72 loss to the...

Missouri aims to get back in win column at Mississippi State, which still seeks first SEC victory

Missouri (7-3, 3-3 SEC) at Mississippi State (2-8, 0-6), Saturday, 4:15 p.m. ET (SEC). BetMGM College Sports Odds: Missouri by 7.5. Series: Tied 2-2. What’s at stake? Missouri sits just outside the AP Top 25 and looks to rebound from last...

OPINION

A Loan Shark in Your Pocket: Cellphone Cash Advance Apps

Fast-growing app usage leaves many consumers worse off. ...

America’s Healing Can Start with Family Around the Holidays

With the holiday season approaching, it seems that our country could not be more divided. That division has been perhaps the main overarching topic of our national conversation in recent years. And it has taken root within many of our own families. ...

Donald Trump Rides Patriarchy Back to the White House

White male supremacy, which Trump ran on, continues to play an outsized role in exacerbating the divide that afflicts our nation. ...

Why Not Voting Could Deprioritize Black Communities

President Biden’s Justice40 initiative ensures that 40% of federal investment benefits flow to disadvantaged communities, addressing deep-seated inequities. ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE NEWS

Pathologist disputes finding that Marine veteran's chokehold caused subway rider's death

NEW YORK (AP) — For roughly six minutes, Jordan Neely was pinned to a subway floor in a chokehold that ended with him lying still. But that's not what killed him, a forensic pathologist testified Thursday in defense of the military-trained commuter charged with killing Neely. Dr....

New Zealand police begin arrests for gang symbol ban as new law takes effect

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A ban on New Zealanders wearing or displaying symbols of gang affiliation in public took effect on Thursday, with police officers making their first arrest for a breach of the law three minutes later. The man was driving with gang insignia displayed on...

New study shows voting for Native Americans is harder than ever

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (AP) — A new study has found that systemic barriers to voting on tribal lands contribute to substantial disparities in Native American turnout, particularly for presidential elections. The study, released Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice, looked at 21...

ENTERTAINMENT

From 'The Exorcist' to 'Heretic,' why holy horror can be a hit with moviegoers

In the new horror movie, “Heretic,” Hugh Grant plays a diabolical religious skeptic who traps two scared missionaries in his house and tries to violently shake their faith. What starts more as a religious studies lecture slowly morphs into a gory escape room for the two...

Book Review: Chris Myers looks back on his career in ’That Deserves a Wow'

There are few sports journalists working today with a resume as broad as Chris Myers. From a decade doing everything for ESPN (SportsCenter, play by play, and succeeding Roy Firestone as host of the interview show “Up Close”) to decades of involvement with nearly every league under contract...

Was it the Mouse King? ‘Nutcracker’ props stolen from a Michigan ballet company

CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Did the Mouse King strike? A ballet group in suburban Detroit is scrambling after someone stole a trailer filled with props for upcoming performances of the beloved holiday classic “The Nutcracker.” The lost items include a grandfather...

U.S. & WORLD NEWS

In a board game, climate experts work to save the world, which diplomats at COP29 try in real life

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Activists and experts who are pushing world leaders to save an overheating planet...

Australia rejects Elon Musk's claim that it plans to control access to the internet

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian Cabinet minister on Friday rejected X Corp. owner Elon Musk’s...

India's Adani Group shares show some recovery despite uncertainty over US bribery and fraud charges

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian tycoon and one of Asia's richest men, Gautam Adani, may be facing his biggest challenge...

Emperor penguin released at sea 20 days after waddling onto Australian beach

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia was...

New Zealand police begin arrests for gang symbol ban as new law takes effect

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A ban on New Zealanders wearing or displaying symbols of gang affiliation in...

UN nuclear agency’s board condemns Iran for the 2nd time this year for failing to fully cooperate

VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board on Thursday condemned Iran for failing to cooperate fully with...

Lisa Loving of The Skanner

The police shooting Jan. 29 of Aaron Campbell has attracted the attention of national civil rights advocates Al Sharpton, as well as Rev. Jesse Jackson, who will speak Tuesday, Feb. 16 at the Maranatha Church from 6 to 8 p.m.
A news conference is scheduled at 6 p.m., with a rally to follow inside the church, organized by the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform.
Sharpton, who will not be traveling to Portland, nevertheless will be looking into the case, according to a local chapter of his organization, the National Action Network.
Campbell was unarmed and dealing with an acute emotional crisis over the death of his younger brother that morning from heart problems. He shot in the back with an AR-15 rifle by Officer Ron Frashour, one of dozens of police called to the scene over concerns of an armed, suicidal man.
Portland Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman and Police Chief Rosie Sizer expressed regrets over the killing at a press conference Friday afternoon, where Saltzman announced a new directive for mental health counselors to work more closely with officers in mental health callouts.
"We are still pressing, with District Attorney Mike Schrunk, for the release of the transcripts of the Grand Jury investigation," Saltzman said.
He added that he has ordered an independent investigation by outside experts into the tactics and policies followed by officers at the Campbell scene and "also to look further into how our officers are trained to handle these difficult situations."
Saltzman said he has ordered the bureau to begin use of "ballistic shields" that would allow then to check on wounded people at shooting scenes, "so that we won't have this situation of having to wait 20 to 45 minutes to assess the medical situation of somebody who's been shot."
After a nearly 90-minute standoff with police at his girlfriend's apartment, including negotiations with a crisis counselor, Campbell was shot with beanbag rounds, attacked by a police dog and killed by a single shot to the back within one minute of exiting the apartment with his hands on his head.
He bled to death on the wet pavement of a parking lot after being left without medical care for more than 20 minutes, as police say they were unable to determine whether he was a danger. No gun was found on or near his body.
His girlfriend and her three small children, who had been in the apartment with him but apparently were never held hostage, had all left the building previously and were unharmed.
The incident came on the heels of three other recent high-profile police callouts that have raised public ire, including:
-- On Jan. 27, the self-immolation of a mentally ill man in downtown Portland, in which the responding officer accidentally emptied a large canister of pepper spray on the man to try dousing the flames, thinking it was a fire extinguisher;
--The Jan. 28 custody and injury of Portland Community College basketball player Delease Carter, allegedly stopped by Officers Scott Broughton and Derrick Foxworth Jr. because she was walking in the middle of North Michigan Avenue with two friends. Carter, whose case has already been forwarded to the Independent Police Review Committee, was thrown to the ground by the officers who said she was noncompliant. She then was cuffed, placed in a patrol car, and released without charge. She says she missed PCC's game against Lane Community College that weekend because her coach thought she might have a concussion.
--As first reported by the Portland Mercury, the Dec. 7 arrest of Jamal Green, who is developmentally disabled and was inexplicably Tasered and by both Beaverton Police Officer Keith Welch and then again by Portland Police Officer Jack Blazer for not taking his hands out of his pockets. Green, who says he did not understand the officers' commands and "just wanted to go home," was booked at the Justice Center and released, then walked the five miles home in the freezing weather because he didn't know he had the right to call his grandmother.
More than 100 supporters joined a picket line in front of the Justice Center Thursday morning for Campbell
Meanwhile, Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk made public an open letter of protest written by the members of the grand jury that this week exonerated the officer of criminal wrongdoing. The letter reveals new details of the incident that contradict previous statements by law enforcement in the case.
Schrunk's office confirmed that the issue of releasing to the public the entire transcript of the grand jury's investigation is pending before a judge next week and should be decided by Thursday, Feb. 18.

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