Multnomah County News

Of all the unexpected results in Oregon's May 15 primary election, none was more surprising - or little noticed - than the outcome of the race between Nena Cook, Richard Baldwin and Timothy Sercombe for an open seat on the Oregon Supreme Court.

This is the shed behind a vacant home in the 7900 block of SE Rhine Street where three young children were found last Thursday morning.

Backers of a proposed private casino at the old greyhound track in Wood Village appear likely to qualify two measures for the Oregon ballot in November.

The Gresham Police Special Enforcement Team arrested two heroin dealers Thursday, May 24, through leads from an earlier arrest of a heroin user.

The Portland City Council voted 5-0 to approve Mayor Sam Adams' final budget Wednesday -- but only after a testy exchange between Commissioners Randy Leonard and Dan Saltzman over Water Bureau vacancies and discussion of several budget amendments.

Angela Kaps-Collins talks with defense attorney Gary Gedrose during her arraignment Tuesday in tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution.

Nearly two months after a Southwest Portland woman was hit and killed on West Burnside Street, Portland Police have arrested a woman believed to be the passenger in the car that left the scene.

It's that time of year again, and on Tuesday, specialists with Multnomah County's Vector Control tested local lakes and parks for young mosquitoes.

A church in Oregon wants to open its parking lot to homeless people who are living in their cars, despite concerns from critics that the proposal may lead to increased crime and noise.

Multnomah County's Annie Neal, who oversees domestic violence coordination , and Vanessa Timmons, executive director of the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence , offer advice about what you can do in domestic violence situations.

On Wedn, May 30, Noon, Oregon Area Jewish Committee will host Kathleen D. Saadat to speak On Being Black in Portland and in America- Pre and Post Trayvon Martin.

A Multnomah County Sheriff's Office deputy sergeant involved in a single car accident in Fairview on Friday has been identified as Sgt.

A Florida man was accused of attempted second-degree robbery and disorderly conduct in connection with what appeared to be an attempted carjacking late Monday, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office reported.

The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said deputies arrested one person following a report of an attempted carjacking late Monday night near Wood Village.

A Multnomah County juvenile judicial referee Tuesday granted the state's request to keep three children in foster care after they were found abandoned in a shed on a vacant Southeast Portland property last wee k. The children were discovered Thursday morning inside a shed behind a vacant home in the 7900 block of Southeast Rhine Street.

Nine members of a crime ring that pulled off its final heist at a Bend jewelry store last May are in custody and facing charges related to nearly two dozen brazen robberies across the country.

ResiliencePDX is sponsoring an emergency preparedness expo Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at King Elementary School.

The U.S. Coast Guard reports that a 15-foot boat sank in the river near Camas sometime before 10:20 a.m. Monday.

Metro has scheduled two public open houses this week to help design the Westside Trail, a 25-mile continuous pedestrian and bike path from Forest Park in Portland through Washington County to the Tualatin River near King City.

Multnomah County prosecutors have dismissed a rape charge filed last fall against a 27-year-old man who had been arrested after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her in a portable bathroom at an Old Town bar in October.