“There should be no exceptions to a ban on slavery,” said Democratic U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley following passage of Measure 112 in Oregon. Voters in Alabama, Tennessee, Oregon, and Vermont approved ballot measures Tuesday that would bar forced labor as punishment for those convicted of crimes in those states—an effort to close what some characterize as […]
On Friday a Grand Jury handed down a murder indictment against an Alaska man, Aaron Mitchell Hague, age 32, who is presently being held in a Portland jail awaiting trial in another murder that took place in that state in March of 2021. According to authorities, Hague, and his alleged victim, 61-year-old […]
ANCHORAGE – An Oregon man was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to 16 years in prison for drug conspiracy and assault of a corrections officer. According to court documents, Michael Hindman, 32, mailed multiple packages of heroin and methamphetamine to a local drug dealer in Unalaska, during 2019. In return, the […]
“Normally the weather predicts what the fire will do,” said an Oregon official. “In this case, the fire is predicting what the weather will do.” As of Tuesday morning, the Bootleg Fire had burned up more than 364,000 acres across Southern Oregon—becoming so big that not only has it bolstered the case for bold climate action, the fire […]