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The last thing they wanted
“During my career, I’ve seen hundreds of deaths,” Astoria police's deputy chief said. “Accidents, murders, suicides. I’ve never seen anything play out the way this did.”
Liv Osthus’ memories of Portland’s glory days fuel the beloved stripper’s longshot mayor run
She wants to bring back the buoyant, striving, look-at-me city that lured her here in the 1990s, and she believes she knows how to do it.
Protesters who took over Portland State library stock up on supplies, wonder what police will do
Pro-Palestinian protesters broke into the university’s main library Monday night, prompting the school to ask for help from Portland police.
Did a ‘masked man’ murder Harry Agee in 1921, or did Portland’s ‘tawny’ Lady Macbeth? The mystery remains
Louise Agee said she woke to her husband's shouts and found him gushing blood, his throat slashed.
Favorite D.B. Cooper suspect resurfaces, leading to claim that FBI is reopening case
The FBI said Richard McCoy was “ruled out" as a suspect years ago "because he didn’t match the nearly identical physical descriptions of Cooper provided by two flight attendants.”
Fire chief’s death shocked Portlanders in 1911; his memorial – and heroism – now fades from view
Fire chief, man about town, boxing phenom, David Campbell had been a local celebrity for years in Portland.
How a Portland cop’s 1990s autobiographical novel showed the city’s brutal past – and foresaw its future
Kent Anderson's "Night Dogs," dedicated to a murdered police officer, captures a grimy, brutal 1970s Portland that will feel very familiar to today’s denizens.
D.B. Cooper identity remains ‘enduring mystery,’ but release of investigative files builds case for FBI effort
CooperCon, the annual D.B. Cooper convention, gets underway in Seattle on Friday.
Off-duty pilot accused of trying to crash Horizon plane over Oregon says he thought he was dreaming or dead
“Am I dead? Is this hell?” Joseph Emerson said he wondered before he attempted to shut off the plane's engines.
How Terry Schrunk emerged from 1950s bribery, perjury allegations as Portland’s ‘virile and popular mayor’
The accusations Schrunk faced enraged his supporters, who called them a “frame-up.”
Effie Entezari murder mystery heats up as victim’s daughter names suspect in her mom’s killing
The civil suit alleges that Vancouver resident Viktor Pell shot daycare owner Effie Entezari to death in 1989.
Police shoot and kill armed-robbery suspect in dramatic gun battle in Vancouver
The suspect died at the scene. No other injuries have been reported.
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