An Oregon woman lost $750,000 in an Internet romance scam with a con artist posing as a member of the U.S. military, the Oregon Attorney General said Tuesday.
A continuing distinct partisan divide is present in the gay marriage cases at the Supreme Court, even though a brief on behalf of more than 100 prominent Republicans calls for marriage equality. The split is most in evidence in legal briefs filed...
Investigators have found six ballots that were potentially altered by an elections worker in Clackamas County, but the full extent of the alleged ballot tampering was still under investigation, Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown said late Tuesday.
Police in Salem are investigating the case of a 51-year-old state Justice Department employee found dead in her home. Authorities say another employee has been placed on administrative leave after being interviewed by police.
When Ellen Rosenblum walked into a gathering of some of Oregon's most ardent medical marijuana advocates, the new attorney general was greeted like an old friend.
Ellen Rosenblum became Oregon's first woman attorney general Friday, breaking through one of the last remaining glass ceilings in Oregon politics a century after the state first allowed women to vote.
Oregon's new attorney general said she's interested in reforming public records law but is likely to take a less sweeping approach than her predecessor.
Ellen Rosenblum promises to bring a cautious and deliberative approach to the office. That's in contrast to the style of John Kroger, the hard-charging former New York mob prosecutor she's replacing on Friday.
Barring a dramatic upset in the attorney general's race in November, two women will occupy the top two places in Oregon law enforcement by early next year, an unprecedented feat for women in a state with a good track record for putting women in leadership positions.
The proliferation of dispensary-style medical marijuana operations in Oregon concerns the state's new U.S. Attorney, and she said drug trafficking organizations have made headway into the state's medicinal marijuana system.
Entering the Democratic primary, former federal prosecutor Dwight Holton looked like he was going to walk into the Oregon attorney general's office. But then a late poll showed him trailing former appeals court judge Ellen Rosenblum badly.
Dwight Holton says his rival, Ellen Rosenblum, is wrong to say she'll make marijuana enforcement a "low priority" after taking money from pro-marijuana interests.
Oregon attorney general candidate Ellen Rosenblum has a commanding lead over her rival, Dwight Holton, according to a KATU News/SurveyUSA poll released Thursday.