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HOUSTON (AP) — Seattle’s Cal Raleigh hit his 57th home run of the season Saturday night against the Houston Astros to pass Ken Griffey Jr. for the single-season franchise record.

The Mariners led 2-0 in the third inning when Raleigh smacked a 95.5 mph sinker from lefty Framber Valdez into the bullpen in right-center field to make it 3-0 and pass the mark Griffey reached in both 1997 and 1998.

Raleigh lifted his right arm in celebration as he rounded second base and raised the trident the Mariners use for their home run celebration skyward after J.P. Crawford handed it to him just before he entered the dugout.

Raleigh, who leads the majors in home runs, has already surpassed Mickey Mantle’s MLB record for home runs by a switch-hitter of 54 that had stood since 1961. He’s also set the MLB record for homers by a catcher this season, eclipsing the 48 Salvador Perez hit in 2021.

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KRISTIE RIEKEN, Associated Press

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A driver from Independence, Missouri was killed after a short pursuit and crash on I-5 when he ran from the crash scene and was hit by an oncoming car, Kelso police said in a release.

The incident began just after midnight when an officer spotted the driver of a Nissan “driving erratically within the city limits of Kelso.” The officer tried to pull the Nissan driver over, but then sped off onto northbound I-5, authorities said.

The officer followed for a short period and spotted the Nissan try to pass a semi-truck on the left shoulder. But the Nissan collided with the truck near Milepost 42 and ended up in the median between the north and southbound lanes. When the officer got to the crash, no one was in the Nissan.

But southbound traffic had slowed and the officer spotted the driver laying in the center lane. Police began emergency treatment but when crews from Cowlitz 2 Fire and Rescue arrived, the man had died.

The 27-year-old driver has not been publicly identified at this time.

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Tim Steele

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Portland Police Bureau is actively investigating an officer-involved shooting in the Mill Park Neighborhood.

Police responded to reports of a disturbance in the 8400 block of Southeast Foster Road at 8:45 a.m. Saturday, according to a press release.

Officers learned a man allegedly threatened a service station employee with a firearm before fleeing the scene, according to the release. Thirty minutes later, the suspect was located at a different service station near the intersection of Southeast 122nd Avenue and Southeast Division Street.

Police said they conducted a high-risk traffic stop when the officers and the suspect exchanged gunfire. Officers rendered aid and the suspect was transferred to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

None of the officers were injured, but a police vehicle as well as one bystander’s vehicle were struck. The officers have been placed on administrative leave in accordance with standard protocol.

Police are also conducting an interval review of the incident, as is required. Anyone with information is asked to contact homicidetips@police.portlandoregon.gov and reference case number 25-259271.

There is no danger to the public, police said.

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Amanda Rhoades

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – One person is dead and another seriously injured after a crash on Interstate 84 early Saturday.

Emergency responders were called to an accident involving two vehicles on Interstate 84 near milepost 24 at 3:45 a.m. Saturday, according to a press release from Corbett Fire. One vehicle was fully ingulfed in flames when crews arrived.

One occupant was pulled from a vehicle near the burning car, and transported to a nearby hospital with serious injuries. The driver of the other vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene.

The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.

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Amanda Rhoades

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Between 2023 and 2024 the median household income grew just 1.3% in the United States, but Portland fared much better.

Out of 50 U.S. cities, Portland ranked 22 for income growth according to a new report from SmartAsset.

Overall, household income in Portland grew 6.30%, from $86,057 in 2023 to $91,478 in 2024, according to the analysis. Family income reached $134,839 in the Rose City while senior income was $62,083.

Portland outperformed cities like San Diego, where wage growth was 4.97%, and Los Angeles where growth was 3.21%.

Nashville, Austin, Raleigh, Seattle and Denver all saw small declines in household income. In Miami, median income dropped 3.35%. The city with the worst income growth was Minneapolis, where household income declined more than 4%.

Despite overall earnings declining in Seattle, seniors there saw their household income increase 24.1% percent, to $80,550. Raleigh seniors also experienced similar gains, with their income increasing 18.2%, to $69,882, despite the overall decline.

Seattle is also among the top 3 cities where median family income is highest. Last year, it was the only city where families earned more than $200,000. Now, median family income in San Francisco is $222,836 while in Seattle is it $221,579. In San Jose, it is $201,721.

In all other large U.S. cities, median family income is less than $140,000.

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Amanda Rhoades

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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Dante Moore threw for 305 yards and a career-high four touchdowns, and No. 6 Oregon rolled to a 41-7 victory over former Pac-12 foe Oregon State on Saturday before the rivalry goes on a break next season.

Moore was 21-of-31 passing and spread his scoring strikes to four different receivers for the Ducks (4-0, 1-0 Big Ten), who had 585 yards in total offense.

Anthony Hankerson ran for 38 yards on 14 carries and the lone touchdown for the 0-4 Beavers.

The rivalry between the two Oregon schools started in 1894, but next year it will go on hiatus because of scheduling issues. It is likely to resume in 2027.

Before conference realignment collapsed the Pac-12, the rivalry was the final game of the regular season and it often had bowl implications. Last year Oregon played its first season in the Big Ten, winning the conference’s championship game.

Oregon State and Washington State, the lone two teams left in the Pac-12, have spearheaded the league’s revival. Next year they’ll be joined by new members Texas State, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Utah State. Gonzaga joins as a non-football member.

Oregon freshman Dakorien Moore scored on the Ducks’ first drive of the game with a 22-yard touchdown reception.

For a winless team, the Beavers were surprisingly resilient early and tied the game at 7 on Hankerson’s 1-yard touchdown run late in the first quarter.

Oregon went back in front on Moore’s 23-yard scoring pass to Sadiq Kenyon and Jordon Davison added a 3-yard TD dash to make it 21-7 at halftime.

After the break, Moore found Jeremiah McClellan with a 13-yard touchdown and Atticus Sappington kicked a 24-yard field goal.

Gary Bryant Jr. caught a 49-yard touchdown from Moore and Sappington added a 28-yarder to seal it in the fourth.

The takeaway
Oregon State and Washington State struck an agreement to play Mountain West teams last season, but this year both schools are essentially independent and will play each other twice. The Cougars had their in-state rivalry on Saturday against Washington in Pullman.

Up next
Oregon State hosts Houston on Friday night.

Oregon visits No. 2 Penn State next Saturday. The Nittany Lions had a bye this weekend.

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ANNE M. PETERSON, Associated Press

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two people were injured in a shooting in Portland on Friday night.

Portland police say the two victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

The shooting took place near SE 82nd and Harrison Street among a crowd of people.. SE Harrison is closed between 82nd Ave. and 84th Ave.

No arrests have been made.

This is a developing story.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Nurses and other health professionals at Kaiser Permanente in Oregon and Southwest Washington overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike on Friday.

The Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals says after six months of bargaining over wages, working conditions and the future of care, Kaiser has been unwilling to seriously address their concerns.

OFNHP says that out of the 92% of members that voted, 97% voted to authorize the strike.

“Cutting frontline care costs is a choice—a choice that’s not in the patients’ best interest. Our choice is for Kaiser to go back to the days when it worked collaboratively in partnership with its workers on creating high-quality workplace conditions and decisions that put patients first,” OFNHP President Sarina Roher said. “The experts who provide the care must shape the care plans; that’s how patients thrive. Healthcare decisions belong in the hands of those who deliver the care, not those who balance the books.”

A strike could come any time after the contract expires at the end of the month. OFNHP says they would give Kaiser 10 days notice before a strike commences.

“We will continue to bargain in good faith, hoping that we can reach an agreement that is fair and respectful for healthcare workers and best for our patients,” Roher said.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Vancouver man who admitted to trying to murder his son earlier this year pleaded guilty to prepping numerous of fake tax returns for his clients on Friday.

Keith Altamirano, 52, who operated Integrity Investments, LLC, doing business as “Servicios Latinos,” will be sentenced for his federal crimes in December.

Between 2017 and 2021, Altamirano prepared fraudulent tax returns for dozens of clients.

“Altamirano falsified clients’ income tax submissions by listing fake medical expenses, and charitable donations for deductions, listing fake cars for depreciation and expense deductions, and by listing fabricated and inflated business expenses,” officials said. “Altamirano concealed his fraud by using ‘White Out’ and omitting his name on his clients’ filed returns. The clients did not know Altamirano falsified their tax return to get them a larger refund. Altamirano’s fraud helped build his business as customers recommended him to others to get larger refunds.”

“A statistical sampling analysis reveals that his false entries on customer tax returns cost the U.S. Treasury more than $5 million in tax loss.”

However, Altamirano confessed to more serious crimes earlier this year.

In February, Vancouver police responded to a hit-and-run involving a yellow motorcycle and a white Audi. Investigators discovered the Audi belonged to Altamirano and that his son, Chris, was seriously injured while driving the motorcycle.

According to court documents, Altamirano was not at the scene but police found thousands of dollars of the floor of the Audi. After police identified the vehicle as belonging to Altamirano, they later located him and questioned him.

“He claimed (the money) was from his business and had been in his office that day. He did not have any evidence Christopher had stolen the money but he believed it was him because he (said) Christopher was a criminal,” court documents say.

Documents also reveal a family member later told police that Altamirano “ran over Christopher with the Audi because he was upset with him.”

After his arrest, the officer said he found $10,000 and a large amount of drugs on him.

He eventually pleaded guilty to attempted murder, hit-and-run, and possession of cocaine and fentanyl.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Lawyers for an Oregon firefighter who was taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents while fighting a Washington state wildfire filed a petition in federal court Friday asking a judge to order his release from an immigration detention facility.

The Oregon man, Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez, and one other firefighter were part of a 44-person crew fighting a blaze in the Olympic National Forest on Aug. 27 when the agents took them into custody during a multiagency criminal investigation into the two contractors for whom the men were employed.

Lawyers with the Innovation Law Lab said during a press conference that his arrest was illegal and violated U.S. Department of Homeland Security polices that say immigration enforcement must not be conducted at locations where emergency responses are happening.

The Bear Gulch Fire, one of the largest in the state, had burned 29 square miles (75 square kilometers) by Friday and was 9% contained.

The Border Patrol said at the time that the two workers were in the U.S. illegally so they were detained. Federal authorities did not provide information about the investigation into the contractors.

Lawyer Rodrigo Fernandez-Ortega said they filed a petition for habeas corpus and a motion for a temporary restraining order that seeks the man’s release from the Northwest ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington.

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in an email to The Associated Press that the two men were not firefighters — they were working in a support role cutting logs into firewood.

“The firefighting response remained uninterrupted the entire time,” she said. “U.S. Border Patrol’s actions did not prevent or interfere with any personnel actively engaged in firefighting efforts.” A spokesperson for the Border Patrol declined to comment, saying they don’t comment on active or pending litigation.

Six Democratic Oregon Congressional leaders sent a press release late Friday calling on the release of the firefighter. “It’s outrageous for the Trump Administration to trample on the due process rights of emergency responders who put their lives on the line to protect Oregonians’ safety,” said Sen. Ron Wyden. Sen. Jeff Merkley and four representatives said the arrests put communities in danger and stoke fear.

After Hernandez was taken into custody in August, his lawyers were unable to locate him for 48 hours, which caused distress for his family, Fernandez-Ortega said. He has been in the Tacoma facility ever since, they said.

Hernandez, 23, was the son of migrant farmworkers, his lawyer said. He was raised in Oregon, Washington and California as they traveled for work. He moved to Oregon three years ago and began working as a wildland firefighter.

This was his third season working as a wildland firefighter, “doing the grueling and dangerous job of cutting down trees and clearing vegetation to manage the spread of wildfires and to protect homes, communities, and resources,” his lawyer said.

Hernandez had received a U-Visa certification from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon in 2017 and submitted his U-Visa application with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services the following year. The U-Visa program was established by Congress to protect victims of serious crimes who assist federal investigators.

He has been waiting since 2018 for the immigration agency to decide on his application and should be free during the process, his lawyers said.

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