A new bill before Oregon lawmakers would give judges more discretion in sentencing juveniles charged with a sex offense that’s often connected to teen “sexting.”
Police said a missing 4-month-old boy was found in the front yard of a Northeast Portland home Tuesday morning. Kabriana Harper, the cousin of the boy's mother, has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree kidnapping.
A man arrested Saturday on charges that carry a 7 1/2 year mandatory minimum prison sentence was released Monday from the Lane County Jail without having to post bail due to a lack of jail beds.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said the suspect, who was caught on security cameras, held a large silver knife to a woman's throat and demanded cash from a teller during the robbery at a KeyBank Branch on SE 82nd Avenue. The woman was not injured.
A man arrested Saturday on charges that carry a 7 1/2 year mandatory minimum prison sentence was released Monday from the Lane County Jail without having to post bail due to a lack of jail beds.
Eugene Police arrested convicted sex offender Michael Eastman last week and charged him with rape. KVAL News has learned Eastman had recently been let out of jail on different charges.
Inmates arguing: probably not the most unusual occurrence at the Oregon State Penitentiary. But inmates arguing whether the United States should grant amnesty to foreign-born children of illegal immigrants is not what one might expect to hear on a...
EUGENE, Ore. - The Lane County Jail is bracing for big changes and we're just learning more about the impacts of shutting down nearly 100 jail beds. It's a jailbreak that authorities are dreading.