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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

FBI Uses AI to Identify Reed College Graduate Accused of Attacking Agents at Portland ICE Protest

Lucille McNamara Aug 18, 2025

PORTLAND, Ore. — FBI agents utilized artificial intelligence to identify a suspect involved in a protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland on June 14. Robert Hoopes, who recently graduated from…

News

Porch Pirates Push Oregon Into the Top 10 States With the Highest Rate of Home Thefts

Lucille McNamara Aug 17, 2025

Online shopping, with its advantage of front-door deliveries, has created a new genre of thieves. Known as porch pirates, this category of theft has pushed Oregon into the Top 10 States with the highest rate of home thefts. Research…

Crime & Courts

Judge Rules Portland Not Liable for Noise Complaints From ICE Protest Encampment

Lucille McNamara Aug 17, 2025

PORTLAND, Ore. — A handful of people, protesting the Trump administration's immigration laws, who are camped outside the ICE facility in Portland, were instrumental in a lawsuit filed by a resident to force the City of Portland to enforce…

News

U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi Warns Oregon Sanctuary Policies Could Violate Immigration Laws

Lucille McNamara Aug 16, 2025

Oregon is reeling after the most recent development to ‘eradicate sanctuary policies’ by the U.S. Attorney General, Pamela Bondi. Posting on X, Bondi states that ‘any sanctuary jurisdiction that continues to put illegal aliens ahead of…

Crime & Courts

Police Find Roseburg Burglar Enjoying Breakfast After Breaking Into Stranger’s Home

Lucille McNamara Aug 16, 2025

ROSEBURG, Ore. — After stealing a phone, a charger, and a small quantity of marijuana, a 33-year-old Roseburg man cooked himself a hearty breakfast before police arrived and took him into custody. The home owners 17-year-old son alerted…

Crime & Courts

Texas Duo Who Posed as DEA Agents During Oregon Marijuana Raid Sentenced to Prison

Lucille McNamara Aug 16, 2025

MEDFORD, Ore. — Two men from Texas, in their early twenties, have been sentenced to federal prison for posing as Drug Enforcement Administration agents during an armed robbery in Oregon, involving the attempted theft of more than 200 pounds…

Crime & Courts

Oregon Man Arrested in $1 Million Mobile Shopping and Cryptocurrency Fraud Case

Lucille McNamara Aug 15, 2025

An Oregon man is among eight individuals from four states indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday for stealing more than $1 million in a nationwide scheme to defraud two mobile shopping service companies. Abdulkadir Mohamed Ali (31)…

Crime & Courts

Oregon Woman Gets Seven Years for Setting Ex-Boyfriend’s Parents’ Porch on Fire

Lucille McNamara Aug 15, 2025

EUGENE, Ore. — A woman from Eugene will spend more than seven years in prison for setting fire to the home of a former boyfriend’s parents. Jasmine Wright was found guilty on five counts of first-degree arson and multiple other charges…

Education

Klamath Community College Lands Major Federal Grant to Support Future Oregon Tech Talent

Lucille McNamara Aug 14, 2025

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — High-achieving, low-income students studying Cybersecurity and computer engineering at the Technology Department of the Klamath Community College (KCC) will receive financial support from a generous National Science…

Construction Boom in Oregon Fails to Offset Steady Climb in Unemployment

Lucille McNamara Aug 14, 2025

The construction industry rebounded impressively in July with the addition of 2,900 jobs, according to the Oregon Department of Employment. Although this gain augers well for the construction industry, the 112,700 people employed are…

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