Washington County

A Mexican national was yesterday sentenced to 11 years and three months in a federal prison for conspiring to distribute drugs in Oregon and to launder money through his fiancée’s beauty salon in Tualatin. Huge Amounts of Drugs…

Eric Lappin died in May 2024, but his corpse remained in a bedroom for another five months while his mother, Melissa Lappin (44) of Beaverton, collected his state benefits amounting to nearly $24,000. Eric Lappin was 26 when he died. He…

HILLSBORO, Ore. — Responding to reports from a kayaker that they had found a body part in the Tualatin River on Friday, Washington County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) searchers found another body part the next day. Deputies went to…

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. — A lawsuit claiming $23 million was filed in the Multnomah County Circuit Court by a Washington County sheriff’s deputy who was shot seven times, blinding him in the left eye, when he attempted to serve a tenant…

A certified Oregon nursing assistant has been charged with stealing the bank cards of two elderly people in her care to go on a spending spree in Washington and Columbia Counties. Jeanette Lynn Collins (58) of Lafayette was taken into…

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. — In an effort to preserve $135 million in federal funding, the Washington County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution. It approved guiding principles on Tuesday that comply with the Trump administration's…

TIGARD, Ore. — Kevin Eugene Irvine (34) was yesterday sentenced to federal prison for 17 years and one month after he was found guilty of shooting an Oregon postal delivery worker on Christmas Eve in 2022. Irvine, of Tigard, was found…

Following the unsettling news last week that the Intel Corporation planned to lay off over 500 workers, the tech giant later indicated that the number is about 4.5 times this, as almost 2,400 Intel workers will be laid off in Oregon.…

The Intel Corporation announced yesterday that over 500 employees in Oregon will be laid off, with the first round of terminations slated to happen over 12 days, starting July 15. The Tech giant said 523 employees at four facilities in…

47-year-old Jack Patrick Hauser of Hillsboro was handed a two-year jail term on Friday for coercing a 26-year-old man with developmental disabilities into servitude. Responding to reports from community members that Hauser had been…