The Oregon Lumber Co. has been granted a non-suit in the case in which it was sued by Harry E. Brady for damages totaling $25,000 for loss of both feet during the big storm in November, 1921.
Numerous law enforcement vehicles have been reported headed eastbound on I-84 this morning. Oregon State Police Sgt. Kaipo Raiser said at 11:45 a.m. that OSP SWAT teams are responding to mutual aid in a reported armed barricade incident in the city of Ontario in eastern Oregon.
According to OSP Lieutenant Pat Shortt, at approximately 8:25 a.m. Monday, March 16, Wasco County Sheriff's Deputies arrived at 1100 Mt. Hood St., in The Dalles, to serve civil papers on the resident living there. As deputies knocked on the door gunshots were heard from within and deputies fell back and requested additional police to respond. Officers arriving at the scene created a perimeter and attempted negotiations with the occupant. Shortly thereafter, smoke began to come from inside the residence.
BROOKINGS (AP) — The state police SWAT team was called in to arrest a suspect in a sexual assault case in Brookings after he barricaded himself in the back room of a house along U.S. Highway 101, claiming he had a gun and a hostage.
PORTLAND — A federal appeals court has ruled that a police officer who complained about his department’s safety standards is not entitled to First Amendment protection of his speech.
A gunman holding hostages inside a South Florida apartment complex killed six people before being shot to death by a SWAT team that stormed the building early Saturday following an hours-long standoff, police said.
