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The FBI is offering up to $25,000 for information in the unsolved March 2023 shooting that killed Eskender Tamra, 17, Babu Daudi, 19, and Patrick Johnson, 20, in their car on North Foss Avenue in Portland's Portsmouth neighborhood.
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View More2nd person dies in Multnomah County jail custody in 1 week
A 48-year-old man died at the Multnomah County Inverness Jail on Thursday, Aug. 20, after a medical event in his cell, marking the second in-custody death in seven days and the third at county facilities in 2026.
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View MoreTwo theories emerge for Centennial Mills blaze
Portland fire investigators have not determined what caused the Aug. 2 Centennial Mills fire, but two neighborhood theories have emerged — homeless squatters and possible anti-ICE arson — as a Friday, Aug. 14 demolition deadline nears and K9 teams have flagged likely human remains in the rubble.
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View MoreMan sentenced to life in prison for 2021 TriMet bus shooting
A Multnomah County judge sentenced Wayne Conrad Thompson to life in prison with a 25-year minimum for the 2021 shooting death of Adrian Richardson aboard a TriMet bus on SE Hawthorne Boulevard; Thompson's defense plans to appeal.
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View MorePortland police say 3 drug operations netted fentanyl, meth seizures
Portland Police Bureau announced three drug enforcement operations on Thursday, Aug. 6, that resulted in multiple arrests and seizures of fentanyl and methamphetamine, the latest in a series of major narcotics busts the bureau has conducted across the city in 2026.
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View MorePortland father sentenced to 75 months in prison for death of 4-year-old son
Multnomah County Judge Melvin Oden-Orr sentenced Marquavious Dovontae Ware, 23, to concurrent prison terms totaling 75 months for second-degree manslaughter in the death of his son Jahorden Clay, whose autopsy revealed cigarette burns, broken ribs, and severe malnutrition. The case has renewed scrutiny of Oregon's Department of Human Services, which closed an abuse report two weeks before the boy died.
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