Portland

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The arrest during a Portland, Oregon protest of a Black woman who became a leading activist in the racial justice movement after she was assaulted by a white supremacist three years ago has galvanized local and national Black Lives Matter groups. Demonstrators took to the streets again Monday night and police […]

Tyrone Lamont Allen has numerous tattoos on his face that witnesses aren’t sure they saw. Portland authorities claim an unidentified man is responsible for four bank and credit union robberies and the stick up of a bar in 2017. Since the string of robberies, police named Tyrone Lamont Allen as a suspect. Now, investigators are […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A scramble has produced homes for virtually all of the hundreds of African asylum seekers whose arrival flooded shelters in Maine’s largest city. A coalition of groups steered more than 200 of the new arrivals to homes ahead of Thursday’s deadline for closing a temporary emergency shelter set up at a […]

Protesters question the official version of a fatal Portland police shooting of a Black man.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman with 19 years of experience at the Oakland, California, police department was chosen Monday to serve as Portland, Oregon’s next police chief. Danielle Outlaw, who has served as deputy chief in Oakland since 2013, was appointed by Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. Outlaw, 41, will take command […]

The mayor of Portland, Oregon, on Monday urged U.S. officials and organizers to cancel a “Trump Free Speech Rally” and other similar events, saying they are inappropriate and could be dangerous after two men were stabbed to death on a train as they tried to help a pair of young women targeted by an anti-Muslim […]

Jeremy Joseph Christian is in police custody following a stabbing incident on a light-rail train in Oregon.

We’ve heard of the occasional freak-out occurring on a plane, but we’ve never heard of anything like this. A man on a JetBlue flight heading…

We’ve heard of the occasional freak-out occurring on a plane, but we’ve never heard of anything like this. A man on a JetBlue flight heading…

What you see above is a map of Detroit. The small colorful dots represent people, plotted to show where they live and their race. Whites are…

News research from the Wes Coast finds that drivers show a clear racial bias against black pedestrians, failing to yield for them at crosswalks. Seems like…

PORTLAND, Ore. — A year ago, two Portland police officers (Officer David McCarthy and Officer Matthew Huspek), investigating a fight at a youth club came…