A North Portland man who killed his wife with a single bullet to her neck was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison due to a defense that is rarely found to be successful: He was too drunk at the...

Melissa Bowerman, a former Madras High School track coach, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual abuse Monday and was sentenced to five years of probation, according to court records. Bowerman, the 45-year-old daughter-in-law of late Nike co-founder Bill...

A 17-year-old Lake Oswego High School student breathed a sigh of relief Monday when a judge threw out the felony case against him for his sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl in a Portland International Airport restroom last year. The...

Just when you thought Portland Police couldn’t look any worse in the Thai Gurule case, Daryl Turner opened his mouth. Turner, the president of the police union, decided to weigh in on the trial of Gurule, a Roosevelt High School...

A Washington County judge has found Dave Dahl guilty except for insanity on charges related to his ramming patrol cars during a mental health crisis that ended with the cofounder of Dave’s Killer Bread in handcuffs. Dahl, 51, is known...

Dave’s Killer Bread’s co-founder is out of the Washington County Jail after posting bail amid new charges from a November 2013 police chase that injured three county deputies. Dave Dahl, 51, posted 10 percent of his $520,000 bail late Friday,...

Colt Lyerla is headed to jail. Once he’s done there, he’ll head to Las Vegas. He wants the next stop after that to be an NFL city. Lylera, a former Oregon tight end, took the first step Friday when he...

As she struggled to control her emotion, Teena Marie Porter looked at the doctor who caused her mother’s death and unleashed her anger. “You have done so wrong in every oath that you’ve taken,” Porter said to Soraya Ann Abbassian...

A doctor who attempted to perform a late-night tummy tuck on an employee who later died has dodged jail time. Dr. Soraya Abbassian, 45, yesterday plead no-contest to criminally negligent homicide over the death of 59-year-old Judith Ann DesMarets in...

Source: The Bulletin A Bend man will serve 90 days in jail for fleeing the scene of the crash that killed Anthony “Tony” Martin 21/2 years ago. In a statement to the court prior to sentencing on a charge of...