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Lucille McNamara

Lucille McNamara is a Daily Tidings reporter with 27 years of journalism experience, covering Oregon public safety, crime and courts, plus statewide policy and community impact stories including housing, education, health, and immigration. She previously worked at The Star.
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Crime & Courts

Springfield Domestic Violence Suspect Found Dead After Woman Escapes and Reports Gunshot

Lucille McNamara Aug 28, 2025

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — A Springfield woman, who reported hearing a gunshot from inside her home after fleeing to a neighbor’s house following a domestic violence incident, was later informed that the suspect had died. The incident took…

Crime & Courts

Oregon Man Gets 12 Years in Prison for Running International THC Candy and Magic Mushroom Ring

Lucille McNamara Aug 28, 2025

A 53-year-old career criminal and resident of Salem, found in possession of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. He must also forfeit $2 million in assets, the U.S. Attorney’s Oregon District Office…

Crime & Courts

Portland Hotel Worker Wins Case After Border Agent Pointed Gun at Him Over a Clogged Toilet

Lucille McNamara Aug 28, 2025

PORTLAND, Ore. — A judge has ruled in favor of a Portland hotel maintenance worker seeking damages after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, wearing a sweatshirt with a ‘hoodie’ over his head, pointed a handgun at his chest when he…

Crime & Courts

Fentanyl Bust in Downtown Portland Leads to Federal Charges Against Three Illegal Immigrants

Lucille McNamara Aug 27, 2025

PORTLAND, Ore. — Three Hondurans living illegally in Oregon appeared in federal court on Monday, charged with trafficking more than 83 grams of fentanyl in downtown Portland. All three defendants have been detained pending further court…

Oregon Trucking Association Backs Governor Kotek’s $6 Billion Transportation Rescue Plan

Lucille McNamara Aug 27, 2025

The Oregon Trucking Association has come out in full support of Governor Tina Kotek’s funding proposals to salvage the state’s cash-strapped Department of Transportation (ODOT). At a public hearing on Monday, the Trucking Association…

Crime & Courts

Oregon Inmate Convicted of Murdering His Wife Dies at 77 in State Custody

Lucille McNamara Aug 26, 2025

Edward Lawrence Nelson, who was imprisoned in the Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI) for murdering his wife in a domestic violence incident in 2013, died in a hospital yesterday morning, according to the Oregon Department of…

News

Oregon Governor Signs Bills to Cut Energy Costs and Hold Big Data Centers Accountable

Lucille McNamara Aug 26, 2025

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed into law four bills yesterday that will assist lower-income households with the cost of energy and ensure that large consumers, like data centers, pay accordingly. $20 Million Extra to Assist…

News

Workplace Discrimination in Oregon Jumps 233 Percent Putting the State Among the Worst in the Nation

Lucille McNamara Aug 25, 2025

Workplace discriminatory bias has risen by 233% in Oregon from 2015 to 2024, placing it in fourth position of states with the highest discrimination rate in the U.S. The study by the online HR platform, Techr, shows that Oregon has…

Crime & Courts

Portland Man With Gun Climbs Onto Neighbor’s Roof as Police Deploy Drone and K-9 in Late Night Siege

Lucille McNamara Aug 25, 2025

PORTLAND, Ore. — A man firing gunshots inside a Piedmont home late on Friday night unfolded into a dramatic police operation deploying a drone, a K-9 unit, and a negotiator to the scene in the 6100 block of North Moore Street, Portland.…

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration Threat to Strip Oregon of Sanctuary Funds

Lucille McNamara Aug 24, 2025

The Trump administration’s threat of withholding federal funds from sanctuary states, counties, and cities shielding ‘illegal aliens from deportation’ has been dismissed by a federal judge. On Friday, U.S. District Judge William Orrick…

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