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An Oregon State Police trooper who was shot 12 times and critically wounded on Christmas night has been named North America’s Trooper of the Year.
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Klamath County Dep. Jason Weber was shot in the face and side around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday while conducting a traffic stop. The man who allegedly shot and seriously wounded him was arrested early Thursday, along with his girlfriend.
Read More →“Retired Sergeant John Burright passed away May 4, 2021, after a battle that started on September 4, 2001,” state police officials said.
Read More →The Oregon Supreme Court issued a decision late last week that places restrictions on officers' ability to question occupants of vehicles at traffic stops.
Read More →“I have personal and religious reasons as to why I will not take the vaccine, but also the freedom not to,” said the trooper, who Portland attorney Dan Thenell confirmed to NewsChannel 21 is Zachary Kowing, 29, an eight-year OSP trooper assigned to the Bend office.
Read More →A Mexican man who was charged in a crash that killed an Oregon sheriff's deputy in 2007 and then mistakenly released 10 months ago has been arrested again.
Read More →Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler plans to bring a new policing pilot program before the City Council to deploy non-sworn and unarmed "officers" who would be "engaged in the community in non-emergency calls, so that's things like property crimes, break-ins," he said.
Read More →On Tuesday, the Oregon Governor's Commission on the Law Enforcement Medal of Honor held an emergency meeting to consider a recommendation to award the Medal of Ultimate Sacrifice to fallen Oregon City Reserve Officer Robert Allen Libke.
Read More →There's no room in the county jail for burglars and thieves. And the sheriff's department in a vast, rural corner of southwest Oregon has been reduced by budget cuts to three deputies on patrol eight hours a day, five days a week.
Read More →Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler in August asked Kotek to send nearly 100 state troopers to downtown Portland, to assist a city police force that says it is stretched too thin.
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