Crime

The gathering commemorated the life of a Black teenager who was recently killed in Ashland. A white man has been charged with second-degree murder in Ellison's death.

Louisiana, Oregon and Puerto Rico could be forced to retry hundreds or thousands of people if the court’s decision were to be made retroactive

Oregon police are seeking help in tracking down the people behind “a frenzy” of poaching cases, including one in which a black bear was found decapitated in October.

The number of bias crimes reported in Eugene in 2019 was about even with the year before, but the city received fewer reports of non-criminal incidents.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative becomes a major new source of money for the Oregon initiative that also would shift millions of dollars in cannabis tax revenues toward drug treatment.

Just hours after an interview was posted online in which Michael Forest Reinoehl took responsibility for the fatal shooting of Patriot Prayer supporter Aaron J. Danielson, Reinoehl has been killed in an attempted arrest in Lacey, Washington, near Olympia.

Police arrested Marquise Love, who is suspected of assaulting a man.

For decades, fingerprints have been used as irrefutable evidence linking a person to a crime. But recently, science has found the way fingerprints are collected and analyzed is subject to error.

Eugene documented 70 percent more reports of hate and bias activity in 2017 compared to the year before, and race remains the leading motivating factor behind such activity.

Fires, earthquakes and hurricanes ... we hear about a different potential disaster: Portland's old levee system. Also, we learn about a group that helps people get rid of tattoos, and we get analysis from our news roundtable.