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Oregon man fired from Home Depot after trying to stop apparent kidnapping
A Portland man says he was fired for doing the right thing — jumping to action when he thought a child was in danger at his store. On the Friday night before Mother’s Day, Dillon Reagan was working at the Home Depot at Mall 205 when he heard a pounding on the door. “It ended up being one of our lot associates and he looked panicked and said ‘I need to know where the phone is, I need to call police,’” Reagan said. Then he raced out to the parking lot.
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Portland could hit 108 degrees this week, breaking all-time record
A brutal heat wave is scorching the Northwest. Following previous punishing heat waves in the Southwest and East, folks in northern California and western portions of Oregon and Washington are enduring blistering temperatures, some of which are shattering records.
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Chunks of a Portland Man's Exploded Hand Struck a Federal Officer. He's Charged With Assault.
When he set off an explosion during a traffic stop, authorities say parts of Jason Schaefer's mangled left hand struck a federal officer. Now, Shaefer faces a charge of assaulting that officer. The bizarre detail emerged today, in an unsealed probable cause statement filed along with federal charges against Schaefer, 26. Beyond the assault charge, he's also accused of using and carrying an explosive to commit a felony.
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Anti-fascist group plans downtown rally, says claims of planned violence 'a hoax'
Robert Brown, lead organizer for the Portland event, dismissed the claims of planned violence as "nonsense" and a "hoax" intended to scare people from participating in the march. A national spokesman for the group sponsoring the protests, Refuse Fascism, also denounced claims of any attacks during any of the demonstrations.
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Minimart owner gave $100 cash for every $200 of food stamps, is headed to prison
A Southeast Portland convenience store owner who paid customers 50 cents for every dollar that they had coming to them in welfare benefits has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison. Investigators said Nasr Iskander operated his minimart at a Shell gas station on Southeast Powell Boulevard like an ATM by allowing card-carrying recipients in the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to receive cash instead of food.
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Vancouver to Seattle ultra-high-speed rail announcement scheduled for Friday
A fast train to Seattle looks to be a step closer to reality. On the heels of the Washington state legislature voting to move forward on further study of high-speed rail in the region, the B.C. government has announced Premier John Horgan will be joined in Downtown Vancouver on Friday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to make an announcement regarding ultra-high-speed corridor service connecting Vancouver with Seattle and Portland.
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Family: Man stabbed 17 times after telling homeless man not to camp in neighborhood
An Oregon man was stabbed nearly 20 times and left for dead Sunday night. His daughter says he was just was trying to protect his neighborhood. KPTV reports emergency crews were called to a northeast Portland area just after 6 p.m. They discovered Kasey Lebechuck suffering from severe and life-threatening injuries.
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Riot in Portland as far-right marchers clash with anti-fascists
Police use pepper spray and non-lethal ammunition on rival protesters after rally
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Portland prepares for right-wing, anti-fascist rallies
Portland, Oregon, is bracing for what could be another round of violent clashes between a right-wing group and self-described anti-fascist counter-protesters who have pledged to keep Patriot Prayer and other affiliated groups out of this ultra-liberal city. A rally organized Saturday by Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson was expected to be the third to roil Portland this summer. Two previous events ended in bloody fistfights and riots, and one counter-protester was sent to the hospital with a skull fracture.
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Portland mom arrested after her gun goes off in school cafeteria, police say
A Portland mom was arrested Thursday after her gun apparently fired by accident in a Northeast Portland elementary school cafeteria while she was picking up her child, police say. No one was injured in the shooting at Jason Lee Elementary School on Northeast 92nd Avenue. The shooting occurred around 4:35 p.m. and the woman, who hasn't yet been identified by police, was gone with her child by the time officers arrived.
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Office Tour: Simple Office Expansion – Portland
Hacker has continued a sense of home for Simple in their recently completed office expansion, an online banking company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Like the design for phase one of the TI for…
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Portland Bans Discrimination Against Atheists And Agnostics
The Portland, Oregon, City Council has approved a measure extending civil rights protections to atheist, agnostic and other nonreligious residents. The council’s unanimous vote on Wednesday ensures that nonreligious people are explicitly protected from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation. “By passing this ordinance, we’re sending a message that we value nonbelievers and affirm that protections of our civil rights code extends to them,” Commissioner Amanda Fritz said during the council meeting.
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Deputies Are No Longer Responding to Calls in Portland
Portland just lost a huge chunk of its police presence. On Friday, Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts wrote an email to his deputies, stating his concern for their safety. “I will not place you at unnecessary personal and professional risk,” the email read.
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Uncertain future for 'super' seaweed after court ruling
Maine’s seaweed business has grown like a weed in recent years, with proponents touting it as both a “superfood” and an economic generator for the rural state — but the industry is now facing sticky new restrictions.
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Young people suing U.S. government over climate change get their day in court
A lawsuit by a group of young people who say U.S. energy policies are causing climate change and hurting their future faces a major hurdle Tuesday as lawyers for the Trump administration argue to stop the case from moving forward.
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The Wild Story Behind the Military Plane Inside Vagabond Brewing
The Salem-based brewery expanded to Portland in February—and promptly got an annoyed visit from the US Air Force.
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A Navy veteran says he was beaten and pepper sprayed by authorities while attending his first protest in Portland
Protests in Portland, Oregon have been a nightly occurrence for more than 50 days, but one man hadn't attended any until Saturday night. Navy veteran Chris David, 53, told CNN over the phone Sunday that he had never been to a protest, but felt "enraged" when he saw federal officers on the scene and wanted to ask them what they were doing there.
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Order Temporarily Blocks Feds From Targeting Press And Legal Observers In Portland
A federal judge has temporarily blocked federal law enforcement officers deployed to Portland, Ore., from targeting journalists and legal observers at the protests against police violence and racial injustice that have intensified in recent days.
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Portland protesters throw fire bombs at officers on 100th day of demonstrations
Protesters in Portland threw fire bombs at police on Saturday night and at least one person was injured, police said, on the 100th day of demonstrations in the Oregon city over racial injustice and police brutality. Police described what they called “tumultuous and violent conduct” by protesters on the city’s Southeast Stark Street.
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Scientists Identified a Green, Poisonous Gas Used by Federal Agents on Portland Protesters
By July, Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland had become accustomed to the gray, black, and colorless tear gas that wafted through the city streets every night. But that month, they started seeing plumes of an unusual green smoke, too. Puddles of greenish residue seeped into the city’s storm drains. Human rights advocates and conservationists called on the local government to investigate the environmental impact of these chemical weapons, which had been deployed by the police, but no new chemicals were identified to the public.
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