A terrible bombshell of a case dropped into Multnomah County courts today: lawyer Kelly Clark is suing the Church of Latter Day Saints for $5 million on behalf of a local Mormon man who says a church leader in the 70s sexually abused him, causing severe emotional and psychological damage. The case in Multnomah County […]
Crime
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Gunman in Tualatin—Four Shot
The Oregonian is reporting that police have responded to a shooting in Tualatin. I’m headed out there to see what’s going on. Update, 1:32pm: The Mercury just spoke with Joe Dennis, an office worker who is barricaded inside the building across the street. “We had somebody outside and the police said go inside and lock […]
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Cops and Robbers!
Traffic was snarled Wednesday at the intersection of NE Sandy and East Burnside when Portland police nabbed an alleged bank robber after he robbed the HomeStreet Bank at NW 23rd and Burnside. Sgt. Mike Marshman says the male suspect went to the Albina Community Bank at NE 56th and Sandy after the earlier HomeStreet robbery. […]
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Drunk Driver Convicted of Killing “Quality” Dan Baldwin Sentenced to One Year and One Day in Prison
The Oregonian is reporting that Vancouver resident Anthony Wesley Miller was sentenced to a mere one year, and one day, prison sentence for striking and killing “Quality” Dan Baldwin of local band Power of County. Both Miller and Baldwin were over the legal limit when the accident occurred on March 28th, as Miller’s SUV struck […]
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Yam Yam’s Was A Drug Front?!
Yam Yams: Gives whole new meaning to “Ribs and Coke, please!” The Oregonian has the news from Portland Police today that tasty but shabbily-decorated North Portland barbecue place Yam Yam’s was possibly a money-laundering front for a “coke kingpin.” North Portland resident James Ray “Lonnie” Yoakum is charged with running a $300,000 a month cocaine […]
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I Watched A Homeless Man Get Beaten Up
Last night, I was walking back to my car when I saw something horrible. Right in front of me, I saw about a half-dozen young men attack a homeless man. I didn’t think much was happening at first: just some kids yelling, maybe they were drunk, maybe just excited. But then I saw a taller […]
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Bears? Ha! The Turtles Are Out to Kill You!
They are the world’s most fearsome fighting team! Turtles: slow, armored, old, and deadly. Sure, you might find it “cute” the way they bumble along, scritch-scritch-scritching across lake-bound logs with their tiny little claws. You might coo at them as they blink at you slowly from the terrarium with heavy-lidded eyes. You might giggle as […]
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Have You Seen this Man Suspected of Being an Awful Human?
The Portland Police are looking for a suspect in a sexual assault that occurred early Wednesday morning. From the police: Click the image to zoom On October 7, 2009, at approximately 12:30 a.m., a woman was attacked after getting off a Tri-Met bus at the intersection of Southwest Capital Highway and Southwest Sunset Boulevard. The […]
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Three Awarded $175,000 In Cop Lawsuit
The Oregonian reported today that a jury awarded three men $175,000 in a civil suit against the city on charges of assault, battery and false arrest. The men were returning to their car in a parking garage when police followed them, thinking they had been involved in an altercation on the street. When one of […]
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SPIDER-MAN IS THE LIZARD! AN EXCLUSIVE DAILY BUGLE EDITORIAL BY J. JONAH JAMESON
THOUGHT YOU COULD OUTSMART US FOREVER, DIDN’T YOU, SPIDER-MAN? Or should I say: THOUGHT YOU COULD OUTSMART US FOREVER, DIDN’T YOU… THE LIZARD!? For too long, New York has been menaced by social malcontents in children’s costumes who play willy-nilly with the lives of this city’s fair and honest citizens! For too long, the public […]
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Chasse Protester Arrested
Geigle at the Justice Center following her arraignment Chantilly Geigle, a Catholic Worker at the Dorothy Day House, was arrested Thursday as part of a protest at Portland City Hall after she allegedly splashed red paint in the entrance to the building. According to the Oregonian and a posting on the Portland Independent Media Center, […]
