Maxine Bernstein

The child’s father told investigators he purchased an ounce of fentanyl for a friend and an eighth of an ounce for himself as payment. Both parents used some of the drug afterward, an affidavit said.

Washington County sheriff's detectives tracked their suspect in a quintuple homicide by pinging his cellphone to a city nearly 200 miles away in Washington state.

Investigators identified 26 women who were targeted from Oregon, California and Washington states, according to a federal affidavit.

U.S. Attorney Scott Bradford announced Tuesday that federal prosecutors will expand efforts beyond downtown to focus on dealers operating in public housing and outside drug treatment clinics.

The man smuggled close to 10 pounds of heroin under his helmet as he rode his motorcycle across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Donald Leroy Smith Jr. will serve three years of supervision with 60 days of home detention after leaving a death threat at a senator's Washington, D.C. office in November 2025.

The lawsuit challenges Oregon's 2013 Tuition Equity Act, which allows undocumented immigrants to access in-state tuition rates at public universities and community colleges.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived a First Amendment retaliation claim and sent the case back to district court.

“It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country," the judge wrote.

The state tells the 9th Circuit that a district judge micromanaged prison administration by mandating housing reviews based on gender identity for all transgender women in custody.