Maxine Bernstein

The criminal defense attorney's briefcase was seized in December based on suspicions that a third party tried to pass drugs through his legal mail. The FBI found nothing and returned it in May.

The Washington woman kept selling the fentanyl pills knowing that they could kill a customer "at a flip of a coin," the judge said.

Robert Jacob Hoopes, 25, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of a federal officer using a dangerous weapon, a baseball-sized rock.

“Gary doesn’t want the whole world to know,” a Gilliam County sheriff's deputy said at the scene of the stop of Umatilla County Sheriff Terry L. Rowan. He was referring to his boss Sheriff Gary Bettancourt.

“Gary doesn’t want the whole world to know,” a Gilliam County sheriff's deputy said at the scene of the stop of Umatilla County Sheriff Terry L. Rowan. He was referring to his boss Sheriff Gary Betten...

District Attorney Aubrey Olson declined comment but has filed a notice to sue the county.

Mateo Mendoza spent 13 and a half days in custody after being arrested on a rape warrant despite discrepancies in his name and birthdate. The district attorney's office says the allegations are concerning and under review.

Sha'kor Holiday, a senior Hoover gang member, hid a stolen rifle in his kitchen cabinet and a handgun on top of another, but his social media posts gave him away to federal agents.

The barrier was erected after protesters broke windows and breached the lobby, but Judge Mustafa Kasubhai says it goes too far in blocking public assembly at a site used for demonstrations since the Vietnam War era.

The case is the first to be thrown out under a new Oregon law passed earlier this year that allows those convicted based on flawed scientific evidence to return to court to challenge their conviction.