The Oregon Supreme Court has vacated the conviction of a former Bend doctor who was sentenced to 25 years for raping a woman he met on a dating website. The high court found the trial judge erred in failing to...

Click here to read the Oregon Court of Appeals opinion in State of Oregon v. John Douglas Lulay.

A man who groped a 13-year-old girl aboard a flight to Portland is expected to be released from jail next week and placed on home detention for six months while he participates in an outpatient treatment program for severe opiate...

The former special ed teacher and drug addict sat in a Clackamas County courtroom last Wednesday morning, waiting for her name to be called. Brynne Fletcher was hopeful about the plea deal she’d worked out with the district attorney’s office...

A 68-year-old driver who authorities say was drunk when he killed a pedestrian crossing U.S. 26 near the Vista Ridge Tunnel was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail. Brent McCune kept driving but called police from his Beaverton home...

The Portland City Council will consider Wednesday a $90,000 settlement proposal to prevent a lawsuit from a teen who was roughed up by police in 2014. The City Council’s agenda item shows Thai Gurule and his attorney, Stephen Houze, could...

Herbert “Howard” Sahnow, owner of The Elms Retirement Community in Forest Grove, was ordered to serve two days in jail, spend five years on probation, register as a sex offender and pay $1,200 in fines for multiple charges of sexual...

The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the right of a man convicted of rape to defend himself outweighs the privacy right of his accuser to keep the contents of her computer hard drive secret. The decision could have...

A U.S. postal inspector and Portland police had no legal authority to intercept a package headed to a Southeast Portland home just because they had a hunch it contained contraband and a police dog later alerted to it, the Oregon...

The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a blow to the practice by Portland police and U.S. postal inspectors of pulling packages from the mail stream to investigate them for drugs or drug money. It’s long been recognized locally and...