Conrad Wilson
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House Bill 2572 would provide the state with new tools to prevent paramilitary activity, which has been unlawful in all 50 states, including Oregon, for decades.
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Schonely called games for the NBA team for nearly three decades, including during the team’s historic championship win in 1977.
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A federal judge upheld the decision to limit how long people charged with crimes can stay at the state’s public psychiatric facility with the goal of reducing the wait time to receive treatment.
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As health outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS have improved, the housing program has evolved, officials say.
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The lawsuit was filed on June 5, 2020, by the local advocacy group Don’t Shoot PDX and eventually six named protesters. In addition to the financial settlement, the Portland Police Bureau will "decommission all remaining inventory" of its rubber ball distraction devices, similar to flash-bang grenades. A federal judge will oversee the injunction and retain the authority to enforce it for the next 14 months. After that, the city can ask for the case to be dismissed.
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An injunction that further limits patient stays at the state’s psychiatric facility is now being questioned by district attorneys, hospital systems and others.
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Joseph Dibee, former international fugitive and supporter of the Earth Liberation and the Animal Liberation Fronts, got a shorter sentence than his co-defendants, raising questions about how the federal government prosecutes what it considers acts of domestic terrorism
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Nearly 200 people currently and formerly held in custody at the Sheridan Federal Correctional Institution had claimed cruel and unusual punishment over prison conditions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic; all claims were dismissed Tuesday
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Oregon voters are poised to approve a measure that strips language from the state’s constitution allowing for slavery and involuntary servitude when used as a punishment for a crime.
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U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Joseph Dibee, a former supporter of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, to time served and could be ordered him to pay his portion of $1.3 million in restitution. In April, Dibee pleaded guilty to the 1997 arson of Cavel West, a slaughterhouse in central Oregon that butchered wild horses as well as the 2001 arson of a Bureau of Land Management wild horse coral in Litchfield, California. Dibee was arrested in 2018 and spent 29 months in pretrial custody.