Kaylee Tornay

3 weeks ago | salemreporter.com | Alan Cohen |Kaylee Tornay |Alex Baumhardt

Patrick Hennessy, a registered nurse, remembers being attacked by a patient while working at a homeless shelter in Maryland. The shelter was understaffed and he was the only medical provider present. After he declined to provide nutritional supplements to a patient who was not directed to take them, the patient got increasingly aggressive and attacked Hennessy.

3 weeks ago | malheurenterprise.com | Kaylee Tornay |Julia Shumway |Steven Mitchell

The tales of illicit cannabis operations were coming from all corners of Oregon, and by 2018 — four years after the state voted to legalize recreational weed — lawmakers were feeling the pressure to act. Workers on unlicensed grows just miles north of California were sleeping in shipping containers and being held on site by armed guards.

3 weeks ago | salemreporter.com | Kaylee Tornay |Alex Baumhardt |Nick Budnick |Nigel Jaquiss

This story was originally published by InvestigateWest, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to change-making investigative journalism. Sign up for their Watchdog Weekly newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The tales of illicit cannabis operations were coming from all corners of Oregon, and by 2018 — four years after the state voted to legalize recreational weed — lawmakers were feeling the pressure to act.

3 weeks ago | highway58herald.org | Mathias Lehman-Winters |Amy Kelley |Sean Nealon |Kaylee Tornay

Sam Oseroff moved his life across the country to work in Oakridge, only to be fired after getting his dream job with the Forest Service By MATHIAS LEHMAN-WINTERS/for The Herlad  — Sam Oseroff, 34, didn’t grow up in Oakridge, but he did fall in love with it. In 2023, Oseroff and his fiancé left their home on the East Coast and embarked on a four-month road trip throughout the West, quickly developing a deep appreciation for the abundance of public lands. “I was always into the outdoors.

3 weeks ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Kaylee Tornay

A bill to make Medicaid pay available to parents for providing certain care to their minor children with severe disabilities cleared its first major hurdle in the Oregon Legislature this month, passing out of the Senate Health Care Committee with unanimous support. It was an encouraging step forward for families and lawmakers leading the push to pass Senate Bill 538, or “Tensy’s Law,” named after 10-year-old Tennyson Ross from Sherwood.