Multnomah County News

PORTLAND, Ore. It's a dreadful feeling getting pulled over while you're driving and getting a ticket.

The last of three men accused in the drug-related shooting of a Gresham resident was sentenced to prison today.

Bruce McCain wants to be Multnomah County's next sheriff. Yet McCain also took $25,780 in an early retirement package from the sheriff's office in April in which he agreed not to return to work for the county for two years.

Voting patterns on statewide initiatives and referendums tell us something about the strength of Washingtona s progressives and conservatives, and the results of 2009 balloting are quite similar to elections of 2007 and 2008.

Court documents say a 32-year-old Portland man is accused of pouring bleach on his girlfriend's cat, then punching the woman in the face when she asked him where the cat was.

Officers spent four days during the first week of October working with informants who bought heroin, cocaine and other drugs under surveillance to help Portland Police identify 31 drug crime suspects in Old Town, at Waterfront Park and along the Eastbank Esplanade.

Gay rights backers plan to ask Oregon voters to reverse their ban on gay marriage.

PORTLAND, Ore. - A Beaverton woman has been accused of stealing more than $560,000 from an elderly woman by withdrawing large sums of money from the now-95-year-old woman's retirement accounts between 2006 and 2009.

Multnomah County wanted to be sure to relay the most recent information possible regarding the H1N1 vaccine clinics, so they emailed: Oregon vaccine planners as recently as late September were anticipating initial shipments to be small and then ramp up through the end of October, reaching a point where the vaccine would be widely available to the ...

None of the 16 branches has working security systems either, leading to hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost materials each year -- nearly $300,000 in the last six months alone.

The city has withdrawn from the Multnomah County Tax Supervision and Conservation Commission, joining Fairview and the Centennial School District in opting out of the commission's jurisdiction.

Steep program cuts, employee wage freezes and the new motor vehicle registration tax appear to have averted Multnomah County's potential budget crisis and should lead to a stabilization of the county's finances over the next five years, according to a new budget office report.

The Multnomah County commissioners never seem short of resolutions to pass and proclamations to make, but today's unanimous vote to support the federal Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act was particularly emotional for both the commissioners and the audience who came to support it.

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A shortage of swine flu vaccine has forced Multnomah County to cancel its weekend clinic planned at the Asian Health and Service Center.

Multnomah County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Corbett man after he allegedly threatened five teenagers with a handgun for what he called erratic driving on Wednesday, Oct.

The state's two teachers unions filed suit today against prolific initiative author Bill Sizemore and his biggest financial backer, Nevada millionaire Loren Parks, alleging they conspired to hide and misuse money to get four ballot measures before voters in fall 2008.

About 47,000 doses of H1N1 flu vaccine are expected to arrive in the Portland area next week, more than triple this week's shipment, health officials confirmed Thursday.

Beverly Mathews Simms was asked by Multnomah County Animal Services officials to clean up her breeding facility or risk losing her animals.

For years now, stealing from the Multnomah County Library has been an easy feat.