Oregon

A police K-9 in Oregon was in pursuit of a suspect when the dog encountered a porcupine that pierced him with over 200 quills, authorities said Monday.

A county in Oregon has agreed to pay a former employee a $100,000 settlement after she sued the county for racial discrimination because a co-worker had posted a “Blue Lives Matter” flag in an office in support of local police.

An Ohio father was sentenced to over two years in prison after leaving his one-year-old son in the Oregon woods with a broken leg, cracked skull and meth in his system last year.

A gunman who authorities say shot and killed a sheriff's deputy in rural Washington state was the half-brother of a man who killed an Oregon police chief eight years ago.

An Oregon high school custodian who was arrested Wednesday on child pornography charges allegedly had more than 7,000 photos of abused children between the ages of four to 12, a report said.

It's not what the dog dragged in, but who snuck through a dog's door that's drawn the attention of authorities in Oregon.

Deputies in Oregon were prepared with guns drawn when a woman said someone was in her bathroom — but what they found was nothing of the sort.

A former manager at a Portland, Ore., Taco Bell restaurant received a sentence of three years probation Friday for choking a pregnant co-worker during an argument over a food order last year. 

A woman on an Oregon beach was seriously injured Saturday after she was sitting on a large log that was struck by a "sneaker wave," according to officials.

Wayne Seifer, the man who hid Diane Downs, the mother who was convicted of murdering her daughter, after she escaped the Oregon Women’s Correctional Center in 1987, said he “should’ve turned her” in to police.