Steve Benham

1 week ago | katu.com | Steve Benham

Officials in the Silver Falls School District have canceled school and home athletic events for Friday at Silverton High School out of “an abundance of caution” after an “implied threat” against the school was made. The cancellation of classes came a week after someone made an active shooter threat against the high school that authorities determined was a hoax and was a swatting incident.

1 week ago | katu.com | Steve Benham

A Washington County jury in Hillsboro found a man guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious 63-year-old woman at a TriMet MAX station in 2023. The jury found Eduardo Guillermo Madrid-Roque guilty of first-degree sexual abuse, along with other charges, on Friday, April 11. While on a plane from California to Oregon on June 14, 2023, prosecutors said the woman had a bad reaction when she drank wine, and it mixed with the prescription medication she was taking.

1 week ago | katu.com | Steve Benham

Despite an appellate court panel ruling that again allows the Trump administration to fire thousands of probationary workers in its effort to shrink the size of the federal government, Oregon and Arizona’s attorneys general tried to maintain a positive outlook about their court fight against the firings during a joint appearance in Portland last week.

1 week ago | katu.com | Steve Benham

A Multnomah County judge on Friday found a Portland man accused of killing three people in 2022 guilty except for insanity on three counts of second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder as well as other charges. Joseph Kelly Banks shot and killed 39-year-old Isaiah Hurst, 35-year-old Jeff Ramirez and 55-year-old Mark Johnson in three separate shootings in January, February and March of 2022. He also shot and wounded three more people during that time period.

1 week ago | katu.com | Steve Benham

Police arrested a 39-year-old man on Friday in the killing of a Portland woman who was found dead in a car in Vancouver, Washington with an unharmed baby, the Vancouver Police Department said Friday. Vancouver police officers found the body of 31-year-old Courtney Clinton inside a parked Ford Edge on Blanford Drive just before 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2024. An uninjured baby was also in the car. A medical examiner said Clinton died from lacerations on her neck.