Summary: Charles ``Bing'' Harris had been accused of bank fraud stemming from documents forged from 1989 to 1991 by his former chief financial officer A federal district court jury has acquitted the former owner of the Cypress Inns chain of...

Friends and political colleagues of former GOP consultant Jerry Kroon said they are stunned and saddened by news that he will go to prison for an act many consider unthinkable: robbing a bank. “I’m sick. I could hardly believe it,”...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s former personal secretary and two other ex-leaders of the guru’s Oregon commune were sent to federal prison in California Friday for crimes ranging from food poisoning to arson. Ma Anand Sheela, 36, the Bhagwan’s...

A judge today ordered the return of documents siezed from a lawyer’s client file last week by Portland police. Presiding Multnomah County District Court Judge Philip T. Abraham ruled the seizure violated the traditional protection accorded attorney-client communications. The Oct....

Click here to read the Oregon Supreme Court opinion in State of Oregon v. Neil Clair Rathbun.