Portland, OR (Sept. 26, 2025) — A Portland man has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to groping a 10-year-old child inside a Fred Meyer store last summer.
Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Benjamin Souede sentenced 43-year-old Adam M. Caldwell to 48 months in prison for Attempted Sexual Abuse in the First Degree, a felony offense. Caldwell will also be required to register as a sex offender following his release.
The crime occurred on June 20, 2024, when Caldwell entered the Fred Meyer at SE 38th and SE Hawthorne and approached the victim—a young girl—while she was shopping with her family. Surveillance footage showed Caldwell following the child down an aisle, shifting his grocery basket to free one hand, and then grabbing her buttocks. The act was interrupted by the child’s older sibling, who screamed, drawing attention from their father. Caldwell fled the store immediately.
Police initially struggled to identify Caldwell, but video from the parking lot captured him leaving in a white Subaru with Oregon Evergreen plates. After a public appeal for help, authorities identified Caldwell with assistance from community members, including some of his own family and friends. He was arrested without incident on July 30, 2024 at his home.
Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Afton Coppedge, who prosecuted the case, described the act as “brazen sexual violence” and praised the victim and her family for their courage.
“Mr. Caldwell… changed the lives of one family forever and put our community at risk,” Coppedge said. “I hope that this sentence sends a message to offenders that our community is determined to speak up against violence and hold them accountable.”
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office also thanked Portland Police Officers Brahy, Yoo, and Bernard for their work on the case, as well as Victim Advocate Alie Aguilera for her support of the family.
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The second Boeing 737 MAX airplane being built is on the assembly line in Renton, Wash., on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
(AP) – Boeing is getting back the ability to perform final safety inspections on 737 Max jetliners and certify them for flight more than six years after crashes of the then-new model killed 346 people, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday.
The FAA said it decided to restore the aerospace company’s authorization to issue airworthiness certificates for Max and 787 Dreamliner passenger planes starting Monday following “a thorough review of Boeing’s ongoing production quality.”
Federal regulators took full control over 737 Max approvals in 2019, after the second of two crashes that were later blamed on a new software system Boeing developed for the aircraft. The FAA ended the company’s right to self-certify Dreamliners in 2022, citing ongoing production quality issues.
Going forward, Boeing and FAA inspectors will take weekly turns performing the safety checks that are required before aircraft are cleared for delivery and declared safe to fly. The FAA said the arrangement will free up more of its inspectors to conduct “rigorous” quality checks on the production line at Boeing plants.
The Associated Press sent emailed requests Friday to Boeing for comment.
The company’s stock price was up about 4% in afternoon trading, as the FAA announcement coincided with news about Boeing securing two more orders from foreign airlines.
Turkey’s flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, said Friday that it planned to buy 75 Dreamliners and wants to eventually buy up to 150 more 737 Max jets. Boeing said the Max purchase would be the largest single order for its best-selling aircraft, if the deal is finalized.
Norwegian Group, the aviation company that operates Norwegian Air Shuttle and regional airline WiderN�also placed an order for 30 Boeing 737 Max 8 planes, Boeing said Friday.
Since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House this year, his administration has made Boeing a focus of its plans to revive U.S. manufacturing. A number of international airlines have signed sales agreements with Boeing in recent months.
Some Boeing critics have questioned how meaningfully the company has reformed its culture and processes to ensure the passenger planes it produces are safe.
The FAA announced earlier this month that it was seeking $3.1 million in fines from Boeing over alleged safety violations between September 2023 and February 2024, including a blowout of a paneled-over exit door on a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight.
After the January 2024 Alaska Airlines incident, the FAA capped Boeing’s production of Max jets to 38 per month. In practice, the production rate fell well below that ceiling last year as the company contended with investigations and a machinists’ strike that idled factories for almost eight weeks.
The company said in July that it reached the monthly cap in the second quarter and would eventually seek the FAA’s permission to increase production.
The FAA said in a Friday statement that if Boeing requests an increase, “onsite FAA safety inspectors will conduct extensive planning and reviews with Boeing to determine if they can safely produce more airplanes.”
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A woman is facing second-degree animal neglect and other charges after 41 dogs were seized from her Monmouth residence earlier this week, authorities announced.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has revealed that the Oregon Humane Society helped the agency during a mission to rescue animals from 12900 McCaleb Rd. at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday. The operation came after someone called Deputy Jodi Whiting to report they had discovered a stray puppy “in poor health” in the area on Sept. 11.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, the animal control officer had already encountered a woman named Jeanette Case with dogs of a similar breed several times over the years. Investigators then determined that the suspect held a “lack of standards of care for the animals in her possession.”
Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Oregon Humane Society conducted a rescue operation in Monmouth. (Courtesy OHS)
Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Oregon Humane Society conducted a rescue operation in Monmouth. (Courtesy OHS)
Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Oregon Humane Society conducted a rescue operation in Monmouth. (Courtesy OHS)
Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Oregon Humane Society conducted a rescue operation in Monmouth. (Courtesy OHS)
Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Oregon Humane Society conducted a rescue operation in Monmouth. (Courtesy OHS)
Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Oregon Humane Society conducted a rescue operation in Monmouth. (Courtesy OHS)
When deputies and OHS arrived at Case’s residence, they rescued 41 large guardian mixed breed dogs. They also found several one-day-old puppies “discarded in random areas.” While several puppies are in good condition after receiving immediate care, officials reported that one of the pups was found deceased at the scene.
“At this time the surrendered dogs will be evaluated and placed in accordance with OHS policy and after being released by the district attorney, the rehoming of these animals will be handled by OHS,” the Sheriff’s Office said.
A forensic veterinarian, behavior specialists and animal handlers were among the 12 OHS team members who helped with the operations, according to the organization. Some of the rescued animals are receiving care at its Portland campus.
Additionally, authorities noted they had granted a search warrant at Case’s property prior to this week’s operation, but she cooperated with officials.
The District Attorney’s Office is now reviewing her charges.
Portland first adopted the Vision Zero approach to ending traffic fatalities and serious injuries on city streets in 2015. In the decade since, hundreds of people have died in traffic crashes in Portland, and many more have been gravely hurt.
But Portland isn’t giving up on Vision Zero. At least, that’s what City Council indicated last week, when they unanimously voted to reaffirm the city’s commitment to the program, and set up a more collaborative, cross-bureau approach..
Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane, who brought the resolution to City Council, said she wanted to make it clear to her fellow councilors—and Portlanders in general—that giving up on Vision Zero isn’t an option.
“I think some people only look at the numbers and see the number of deaths are not going in the right direction. It’s important to explain that Vision Zero is not a model, it’s a goal,” Koyama Lane told the Mercury. She says Portland should remain steadfast in its belief that no one should die while trying to get around the city.
“Getting to that number zero is a holistic goal that we can never give up on,” Koyama Lane said.
That doesn’t mean it’ll be easy. In 2024, 58 people died in traffic crashes on Portland’s streets. This marked a decrease from the year prior, when the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) reported 69 people were killed in traffic crashes. But it’s a good deal higher than zero.
Koyama Lane’s resolution sets out to reaffirm its commitment to the Vision Zero Action Plan, which guides the city’s actions on traffic safety. It also sets out to convene a cross-bureau task force to oversee the city’s Vision Zero work, led by the deputy city administrators of Public Works, Public Safety, and Community and Economic Development, and including staff from across the city.
The recent City Council conversation about Vision Zero demonstrated a significant shift in how Portland leaders talk about traffic violence on city streets. Several councilors, including Koyama Lane, have made transportation and traffic safety a key part of their political agendas. At the September 17 meeting, they talked about the issue with urgency and bluntness.
One particularly notable comment came from Councilor Sameer Kanal, who co-sponsored the resolution. Kanal acknowledged the role city leaders have played in upholding a system that allows so many people to die on Portland’s streets, and equated it to political violence.
“Political violence…is almost never reacted to appropriately when it’s people in suits that do it at a dais like this one, but it should be assessed as such,” Kanal said. “We bear responsibility when we, through our actions or our inactions, let people die.”
Such direct statements have not been typical of previous city councils, especially in regard to traffic crash fatalities. But transportation safety advocates want to ensure their words lead to change.
“This is going to take political leadership. It’s going to take political capital. It’s going to take actual capital, real money,” Zachary Lauritzen, executive director of Oregon Walks, said at the September 17 meeting. “I hope you vote ‘yes’ with the understanding that it’s going to take some real energy and effort from all of us, you included, to make the changes that are necessary to eliminate traffic deaths on our streets.”
Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane speaks at a rally before the Vision Zero vote. taylor griggs
In some ways, the Vision Zero resolution is a largely symbolic representation of the city’s traffic safety goals. But it does call for cross-bureau collaboration, which is in line with what Portland transportation leaders have said is needed to make Vision Zero effective. Since its rollout in 2015, the program has largely stayed in PBOT’s domain, even though other bureaus may have been able to contribute to the work.
“Vision Zero demands that we break down silos, prioritize high crash corridors, and protect the places where our loved ones walk, bike, drive, ride transit,” Koyama Lane said before the City Council’s vote last week. One of Koyama Lane’s earliest steps to elevate Vision Zero outside of PBOT took place during the budget development process earlier this year, through an amendment that moved the Vision Zero policy manager role into the administrative office for the Public Works Service Area.
The need to re-tool some aspects of Vision Zero was also evident in an audit released last year by the City Auditor’s Office. In response to the audit’s findings, PBOT and Public Works leaders Millicent Williams and Priya Dhanapal told the Auditor’s Office the traffic violence crisis requires citywide collaboration through “leadership, investment, and commitment from partners beyond PBOT.”
Councilors at the September 17 meeting also brought up the intersection of homelessness and traffic crash deaths. When Portland began tracking the housing status of traffic crash victims in 2021, the city discovered homeless people were disproportionately represented among those killed while walking on city streets. Data continues to show unhoused Portlanders are more likely to be the victims of traffic violence. PBOT says in 2024, 12 people were unhoused at the time they were killed in traffic crashes, with the majority of those being pedestrian deaths.
Last week, Councilor Eric Zimmerman led an effort to amend the resolution to analyze why people experiencing homelessness are at such greater risk of being killed while walking in Portland. The amendment was accepted, but not without some councilors expressing concern that the amendment could be used to further criminalize homelessness.
Vision Zero in action
The cross-bureau collaboration could come in various forms. Street trees, managed by the Urban Forestry department in Portland Parks & Recreation, have been shown to slow drivers and improve pedestrian safety. The Bureau of Environmental Services’ green streets initiative includes stormwater treatments that can double as traffic calming measures.
There’s also the matter of traffic enforcement. Portland Police Bureau (PPB) Chief Bob Day wrote a letter in favor of Koyama Lane’s resolution, laying out the role of the Bureau’s traffic division in reducing crashes. PPB’s traffic division has only been back in action for a little more than two years, after the Bureau effectively disbanded it in 2020 due to budget and staff constraints.
Though the move came in the wake of a major nationwide reckoning about racist police violence, the city didn’t cite concerns about racial profiling in traffic stops as a key reason for rolling back traffic enforcement services. Several years later, PPB Sergeant Ty Engstrom admitted to BikePortland that the decision to drastically reduce traffic enforcement was part of a strategy to “create a stir” to get more funding from the city.
Despite this history, Councilor Dan Ryan suggested at the September 17 meeting that PBOT staff played a role in PPB’s decision to disband its dedicated traffic enforcement team, and that the decision contributed to an increase in traffic crash deaths. PPB Assistant Chief Amanda McMillan seemed to support Ryan’s suggestion, saying that the bureau “did pull back resources in the wake of everything that was coming out of 2020 and 2021.”
“At that time, the numbers in traffic fatalities rose,” McMillan said. “We’ve reconstituted our traffic unit. We have those resources redeployed, and we’ve seen a reduction. I don’t know exactly how that worked, but maybe there’s a correlation there.”
That correlation would be difficult to prove or disprove, given the changes occurred within a relatively short time frame.
Other potential traffic safety solutions that came up during Council discussions: traffic cameras. Research supports the use of these cameras, and PBOT has embraced them in recent years, particularly at certain high crash intersections. But those cameras are currently dark as the city switches traffic camera contractors. PBOT says they’ll be up and running again by November, but that leaves road users vulnerable in the meantime.
Overall, Koyama Lane said she felt the Council’s unanimous vote last week helped pave the way for bolder future investments in traffic safety projects.
“I’ve been trying to help every councilor see that there’s a place for them to care about the lives and safety of everyone in this city. Whatever your lane, let’s make this tent as big as possible,” she told the Mercury. “There was a lot of excitement and celebration, and then also a deep understanding from everyone that the work is just beginning, and we have a lot more to do. This is an important step, but it’s not the only step.”
MONMOUTH, Ore. — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says 41 dogs have been rescued from unsanitary conditions at a property west of Monmouth.
On Sept. 23, deputies, assisted by a 12-member Oregon Humane Society team, removed the animals from a home on McCaleb Road. Officials said the dogs showed signs of neglect and poor socialization. Several newborn puppies were also found in unsafe areas. Three survived, while one was discovered dead.
The Oregon Humane Society transported the dogs to its Portland campus, where they are receiving medical treatment and behavioral evaluations. Officials said the animals are not currently available for adoption.
The property’s owner, Jeanette Case, was charged with second-degree animal neglect. The sheriff’s office said additional charges may be filed after review by the Polk County District Attorney.
Tillamook Rock off the Oregon coast, 1982. (AP Photo)
PORTLAND, Ore. – The National Weather Service in Portland is warning beachgoers of a high sneaker wave threat along the Oregon coast through Saturday.
Forecasters say powerful waves may run farther up beaches than usual, potentially sweeping people off their feet and pulling them into the ocean.
“Never turn your back on the ocean,” NWS Portland posted on social media. “Avoid climbing on rocks, jetties or logs, as waves can be unpredictable and dangerous.”
Sneaker waves are especially hazardous because they can strike with little warning, often catching visitors off guard during otherwise calm conditions.
Beach visitors are urged to use extreme caution and remain well back from the surf zone.
The Oregon Nurses Association disputes President Trump’s claim about acetaminophen and pregnancy. Acquired Through MGN Online on 04/08/2020
PORTLAND, OR – The Oregon Nurses Association has issued a statement condemning President Trump’s recent comments advising that pregnant women “avoid Tylenol at all costs” and announcing plans for the Food and Drug Administration to require new warning labels against the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy. ONA said the president’s claims are not supported by scientific evidence and risk undermining public trust in evidence-based care.
“The President’s statements appear to be yet another ideologically driven attack on public health designed to score cheap political points,” they said.
According to ONA statement, there is no causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, and that suggesting otherwise spreads misinformation, creates unnecessary fear among pregnant patients and families, and may lead to the undertreatment of pain and fever during pregnancy, which can create health risks for mothers and babies.
“We call on President Trump, his allies in Congress, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to respect science, protect public health, and support the frontline caregivers who care for patients and families across the country,” ONA officials wrote. “Spreading unsubstantiated claims on issues as sensitive as maternal and child health is not good for patients, not good for caregivers, and not good for Oregonians.”
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The event promises a celebration of small-batch chocolate makers, sustainable sourcing and the vibrant community of craft chocolate lovers.
Event organizer and founder of Ranger Chocolate Company George Domurot joined us on AM Extra’s Foodie Friday to help us melt into a sweet preview of the inaugural festival.
Watch the full interview in the video player above.
Good Morning, Portland: Ladies and Gorms and Gills and Loons we are hitting those mid-70s this weekend. This is it! This is peak Portland weather. Snuggle into that hoodie that smells like basement, we are so back. Let’s hit the news.
IN LOCAL NEWS: • Two Portland residents are currently crewing vessels, part of a flotilla civilian boats in the Mediterranean Sea. They join hundreds around the world sailing en route to Gaza in an attempt to deliver aid to Palestinians. Mercury contributer Kevin Foster reached them while the small fleet was docked in Tunisia, and they shared some of their reasoning and story.
• Yours truly appeared on City Cast PDX again to talk about the Fall Arts Issue and my endless yearning fire for tote bags. In this episode you will hear two separate instances of me saying “I have a lot of tote bags, and I want more.”
I am once again on City Cast PDX this morning—today we discussed @portlandmercury.com Fall Arts Issue stories, like the opening of PAM’s Rothko Pavilion, a wholesome local zine-maker meetup group, and improv comedy show Punchlines & Piledrivers. portland.citycast.fm/podcasts/pam…
• Now who’s ready for the Rapture? No, not the New York alarm-dance band from the ’00s—the religious one! NO, NOT HOW YOU FELT WHEN LISTENING TO the New York alarm-dance band from the ’00s! Surely the next best thing to being raptured—aside from the hit track from the New York alarm-dance band from the ’00s—is Wm. Steven Humphrey’s rapture-topic Pop Quiz PDX! Click over and test your might!
• Another heavenly experience brought to you by the Mercury—check out this wonderful review of One Battle After Another from critic and god’s favorite Dom Sinacola. Sometimes I editor-ponder about the idea that Sinacola’s reviews are more enjoyable to me than the films themselves, but I have decided that we can allow it. For cinema!
• • It’s Friday morning, and new concert tickets are about to drop, including New Year’s Eve with Eagles of Death Metal… holy fuck, is it time to get NYE tickets? [throws Halloween candy at calendar] Check the whole list via EverOut’s round-up!
We don’t have 500 followers on here, yet. But we’re breaking our silence to alert all the cool kids that we’ll be screening this as a special late night show on Thursday, Oct. 2. Tickets on sale soon at cstpdx.com.
IN NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL NEWS: • Who’s ready for the hot. new. tariff drop? Uh. Not imported pharmaceuticals, heavy trucks, and furniture, all of whom find themselves soon to be sticky with the President’s promised tariff fees, starting October 1. This new chaos is certainly part on the ongoing zone-flooding, meant to misdirect folks from the next story.
• A grand jury voted to indict former FBI Director James Comey Thursday, via an indictment that, according to NPR, is “very bare-bones,” and “not even two full pages long.” The move follows the White House’s choice to force out a career prosecutor leading the US attorney’s office last week because that prosecutor expressed reservations about the strength of the case. President Trump then hired an insurance lawyer with no experience as a prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan to lead. It’s goofy; it’s naked political retribution. I’m at the combination goofy nude political retribution. Comey responded with “I’m innocent, so let’s have a trial,” which is all fine and good, but not everyone can just have a trial—trials are their own forms of punishment in our legal system, unfortunately.
• NPR reports that there’s a HOT NEW PENTAGON MEDIA POLICY on the books, Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman saying that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring a pledge from journalists covering news there. The reporters must agree not to report on classified or even unclassified material until something is released by the Pentagon. And reporters who don’t agree will be barred not only from the Pentagon but all US military bases. I wish to remind you that President Trump actually broke two stories about the murder of right wing influencer Charlie Kirk two weeks back. He likes ‘good TV,’ and by that I mean this guy seems to like state controlled media.
• Katie Couric putting Sydney Sweeney on blast to encourage people to get screened for colon cancer is really one of those ain’t that America moments. Like sometimes we are fun and good and kind of “oh snap” weird, you guys. [takes of hat, gazes at flags, and weeps a little]
Katie Couric spoofed Sydney Sweeney’s controversial denim ad to draw attention to colon cancer awareness.
• Other tech mogulith Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations that it duped users into paying for Prime memberships. Doesn’t really seem like that much, and it’s unlikely users will see any of it.
Seattle is ahead of us! Indivisible there has weekly protests re Sinclair’s refusal to air Jimmy Kimmel in that market (www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/850025/). Portland, with KATU as another ABC Sinclair station, hasn’t reacted similarly. Let’s write, phone, or even protest now (see https://katu.com/station/contact)! Then check out recent Kimmel youtube episodes to up online viewership and consider subscribing too to show support (& I did the same for Colbert). The Mercury’s sister paper, the Stranger, reports that ad dollars are leaving Seattle’s ABC station (www.stranger.com, “Katie Wilson Boycotts KOMO…”) To paraphrase Niemoller’s poem for our times: “First they came for the federal workers…then they came for the immigrants…and then they came for late night talk show hosts.” Who will be the next target? Niemoller’s poem of remorse over what he didn’t do during the Nazi era asks us to speak out early in such a chain of repression.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims was commemorated on Thursday with dozens gathering at Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver to remember those who lost their lives to violence.
Hosted by the National Women’s Coalition Against Violence and Exploitation (NWCAVE), local leaders, lawmakers, and those close to murder and abuse victims came forward to speak.
Baylee Gonzales was at her first National Day of Remembrance for Murdered Victims event. She attended to honor her “soul sister” as she recalls the worst day of her life.
KOIN 6 News Reporter Ariel Iacobazzi spoke to her more than a year ago, just days after her best friend, Carissa Larkin, was shot and killed by Kyle Palmer. Palmer was Larkin’s estranged partner against whom she had a restraining order for previous abuse. Vancouver police ruled it a murder-suicide.
Baylee gave a speech during an emotional but very important night for many families of the dozens of people murdered in Clark County.
“I didn’t realize how big of an issue it is. And it’s horrible,” Gonzales said. “I think we as a community need to come together. We need to unite, especially like that was Carissa’s biggest thing was to unite groups.”
Also there was Danielle Mikinka; her best friend was Monica Murrah, better known as ‘Star’ Monica. She died after being brutally stabbed to death by her husband in front of their 8-year-old son. Her killer, Michael Murrah, was found not guilty but insane. A Clark County judge said he should be kept in the state mental hospital.
“The justice system, what they put us through, the delays and just the constant like back and forth, that we were just victimized over and over again. And so being here today, though, helps bring awareness and that helps keep our loved ones’ memories alive,” Mikinka said.
On Thursday, Mikinka also shared some good news.
“Today was actually a victory because her sister was able to legally adopt him. So, he’s secure and safe now. And that’s what matters most,” she said. “Her sister is doing so well with him. He could not be in a better place. Obviously, the best place would be with Star. But since he can’t be with her, he’s in the best place that he can be.”
It was also a chance for local lawmakers to highlight what they call injustices in the legal system. Some are domestic abuse survivors themselves, like Washington state representative Lauren Davis.
“There is no lobbying group for homicide victims. And so, I came here tonight to meet all of you and to ask for your help. And your willingness to come engage with the legislature and tell your stories,” Davis told vigil attendees during her speech.
Baylee now wears a special necklace, holding the ashes of her “soul sister,” Carissa.
She hopes to give a voice to the voiceless in abusive situations.
“I think as a community, we need to build on that. We need to come together and fight for justice,” Gonzales said.
Vancouver mayor Anne McEnerney declared September 25th ‘National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims’ in the City of Vancouver.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The clock is ticking toward Tuesday’s midnight deadline to fund the federal government.
Without a deal, a shutdown could begin, threatening services and impacting thousands, including federal workers in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is currently in Oregon during the congressional recess and is actively pushing for key revisions before approving any funding legislation.
He told KOIN 6 News’ Anthony Kustura that his focus remains on reducing the cost of living for Oregonians.
“My focus is on words that relate to people’s bills, medical bills, health insurance bills, electric bills, all of those kinds of things that relate to costs,” Wyden said.
Data estimates that nearly 30,000 federal employees in Oregon and 3,700 in Clark County, Washington, could be affected if the government shuts down.
While some programs like Social Security, Medicare, and air traffic control would continue running, a long shutdown could disrupt benefits like SNAP (food assistance).
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has blamed Democrats for the impasse, accusing them of wanting to “give money away to illegals” and criticizing Portland as a city in chaos.
“I don’t know how anybody lives there. It’s amazing but it’s anarchy out there and that’s what they want,” Trump said during remarks in the Oval Office Thursday.
The Trump administration has also threatened increased federal intervention in Portland, including possible deployment of the National Guard, though no formal deployment has been confirmed.
Senator Wyden strongly refutes the president’s characterization of Portland.
“I want Oregonians to know loud and clear; I think that is a fable that misrepresents what our city is all about, and we could go to all kinds of neighborhoods tonight and it would prove that the President is wrong about that,” Wyden said.
Congress remains adjourned with no votes scheduled before the shutdown deadline.
For more on Senator Wyden’s remarks, watch the full interview this Sunday on Eye on Northwest Politics on KOIN 6.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man whose “heinous and brazen” crime spree ended in a shootout with Portland police in 2024 was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The Multnomah County DA’s office explained the events leading up to the shooting, including what they described as a multi-day “crime spree” by West.
“On September 13, 2024, Mr. West stole the vehicle of an 84-year-old man visiting from Texas. He subsequently used that vehicle to engage in additional criminal conduct, including a Measure 11 Robbery 1 involving the stealing of a vehicle at gunpoint with an assault rifle, and in a separate incident, carjacking a woman after crashing into her,” the DA’s office said in a press release.
Then on Sept. 26, 2024, police officers were conducting an investigation of the crimes believed to be committed by West when they spotted him at a house on Northeast 17th Avenue and Northeast Bryant Street. The Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT) then responded and planned to make an arrest.
“As they moved in to arrest West, he jumped into a stolen Subaru in front of the house. SERT team members used a speaker to tell West he was under arrest, that they were Portland Police, and that he should surrender. When he did not, a member of the team shot out the darkened back window of the vehicle with less than lethal rounds,” the DA’s office said. “West returned fire from inside the car, with lethal rounds, shooting six times. SERT team members returned fire and West was hit. He was taken to the hospital and survived his injury. No SERT team members were injured during the shooting.”
Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Branden Meadows, who prosecuted the robbery charges, released the following statement on the sentencing:
“For a two-week period, Jesse West terrorized members of our community, including those visiting our beautiful city. Nobody deserves to be the victim of a crime, especially in such a heinous and brazen manner. Mr. West will serve every day of his 20-year sentence, and the community will be safer as a result.”
West was convicted of four counts of first-degree attempted murder with a firearm, two counts of unauthorized use of a vehicle, first-degree robbery with a firearm, second-degree assault and third-degree robbery.
PORTLAND, Ore. — 17-year-old Anna Burmen from Milwaukie grew up skating at Oaks Park. She first hit the rink when she was 6 and tells KXL’s Brett Reckamp she fell in love with skating right away.
It turns out, Anna was pretty good from the start too. Someone noticed her natural skating ability and took began encouraging Anna to keep coming back and working on the sport known as Artisitic Roller Skating. It’s essentially ice figure skating only on roller skates.
Anna worked with USA Roller Sports to make it into competitions, quickly rising up the ranks. She’s won a number of national championsips and has represented her country in quite a for World Championships as well.
In October, she’ll do it again, making her way to China to compete. Anna says she does it for the love of the sport. She and her family have to pay for most everything including equipment, training, rink time and most importantly, travel. She says she works hard completing a lot of college courses in an online school. She works part time for Oaks Park which is where Brett ran into her while working for the station at Oktoberfest.
Anna’s dad set up a go fund me account to help pay for some of her expenses as she makes her way to China to take on some of the top artisitic roller skaters in the world from power houses like Portugal, Italy and Spain.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Ice Cube and his touring crew are safe after a fire occurred on the exterior of his tour bus in Portland earlier this week.
The incident occurred after the rapper and movie star stopped at the Moda Center for a performance on Monday.
Portland Fire and Rescue confirmed that on Tuesday, the front passenger tire of a charter bus caught fire near Southwest Oak Street and Southwest Broadway.
“We extinguished the fire and used a fan to ventilate the smoke from the bus,” said Rick Graves, a PF&R spokesperson.
Graves added that the cause of the fire is under investigation. He also said he was not aware of who was using the bus.
KOIN 6 News reached out to an individual representing Ice Cube, saying the artist’s crew is safe and sound after the incident.
“I’m not taking this incident as a personal attack,” Ice Cube said in a statement. “A coward like that would burn anybody’s property that was out there at the time.”
Lebanon, Ore. – A small-town Oregon high school is a top 25 finalist in a national competition that could result in a million dollar stadium upgrade.
Lebanon High School was named a finalist Thursday in T-Mobile’s Friday Night 5G Lights competition. Athletic Director Kraig Hoene says Heath Stadium is in desperate need of upgrades. It was built in 1957, “And it’s a concrete structure. It’s been a great facility for years. But the concrete’s failing and it’s at the end of its useful life.” And, he says, it’s more than just a football field, “This facility is used by our community, 24/7. We don’t have a rec center; we don’t have that. We have people walking our track at midnight. The turf field provides baseball and softball opportunities to practice.”
More than 2,000 small-town schools entered T-Mobile’s contest. Lebanon is the only finalist in Oregon. Hoene hopes that will help rally the entire state to vote for LHS, “We just want to win this for Oregon.” Click HERE to vote.
As a finalist, the school receives $25,000 towards future renovations. But Hoene has his eye on the million dollar prize, “The reality is, we need those votes. Everybody can vote once a day from their email.” He adds, “It’s all about votes right now.”
It’s always nice to see old friends, even for the first time. It’s completely understandable why some of us are confused, after all these are confusing times. My two cents is that I try to look as inward as I’m looking outward. When I’m anxious or scared, I try to cut back on the caffeine and other stuff. Understand that going straightedge and sober is a weapon and shield in the fight for reality. It’s an assertion of independence and responsibility for the health of the community. You don’t have to pretend it’s easy. The more veils we see through, the more we want to numb it, but trust me you’ll want all your senses available for what happens next. Hold your breath it gets better.
FLORENCE, Ore. – A 26-year-old man mistakenly released from the Multnomah County Detention Center earlier this week has been taken back into custody, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO).
Ty Sage, who was indicted in May on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree robbery, was arrested without incident around 1 p.m. Thursday at a gas station off Highway 101 in Florence. The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force assisted in the arrest.
Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell expressed regret over Sage’s release, which occurred Monday, September 22, after MCSO staff allowed him to post bail despite a court order indicating he should remain in custody.
“Ty Sage should never have been able to post bail,” said Sheriff Morrisey O’Donnell. “To the family of Lowgunn Ivey, the young man killed, I want to acknowledge the fear and trauma that this mistaken release has caused.”
Lowgunn Ivey was the victim in the murder case for which Sage had been indicted. His family was informed of the re-arrest Thursday afternoon.
Sage’s mistaken release appears to stem from a misinterpretation of a court order issued September 17 and filed the following day, the sheriff’s office said. Although MCSO staff sought clarification from the court, Sage was still permitted to post bail and leave custody.
“Lowgunn’s family deserved better,” Sheriff Morrisey O’Donnell added. “As Multnomah County’s sheriff, I am committed to making sure this does not happen again.”
MCSO says a full inquiry into the release is ongoing. Sheriff Morrisey O’Donnell has pledged to review and strengthen internal processes to prevent similar mistakes in the future.
Sage will be booked back into the Multnomah County Detention Center and held without bail.
Sheriff Morrisey O’Donnell also thanked the U.S. Marshals Service, the Multnomah County Circuit Court, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office, the Gresham Police Department, and the MCSO team for their efforts in locating and arresting Sage.
No further details about the arrest have been released due to the ongoing investigation.
The most relatable moments in One Battle After Another, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s 10th feature, are of Leonardo DiCaprio groaning.
Wiping his eyes, ugh-ing dramatically, hungover literally but also spiritually—as “Bob Ferguson” (the name taken when he goes into hiding with his daughter), DiCaprio lugs his body around like an overstuffed suitcase. Granted, Bob is pretty much perma-slowed by weed, wreathed in marijuana smoke, but still: Sometimes being alive feels like a battle.
One after another, even. Just the constant onslaught of happenings to navigate, of problems to helplessly confront, of stimuli to endure. Things come at you non-stop. It’s exhausting; our collective avatar is just a stoned man in a square body too tired to sit up.
Bob wasn’t always so overwhelmed by life, though. He wasn’t always Bob Ferguson, either. When One Battle After Another begins, we’re introduced to him as “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun, explosives specialist and promising terrorist. Excitable and uncontainable—yelling cliche phrases like “¡Viva la revolución!”—Pat drags a red wagon of incendiaries to his first mission with the French 75, a band of revolutionaries led by the otherworldly badass Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor).
“¡Viva la revolución!” Warner Bros. PICTURES
That first mission, an early morning rescue of immigrants from a border detention facility, proceeds with the hum and tension of an epic crime thriller. Pat is eager and wild-eyed, bursting with urges: to destroy, to revolt, to grope. He’s swiftly entranced by Perfidia, who espouses a radical Black feminist and anarchist ideology that Pat seems to only kinda understand. He hollers about how much he loves Black girls. Together and with their friends, they carve out big changes in the world.
Or at least they believe they do. Complicating Perfidia’s commitment to her cause is Col. Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn), a walking carbuncular manifestation of American imperialism with whom she shares a foul electric psychosexual connection. He offers her a deal to turn informant, which they consummate with an affair that, as sexual compulsions are typically wont to do, contradicts all taste and reason. Sad hotel rooms are haunted by Lockjaw’s grotesque O-face.
Perfidia, to her credit, seems to believe that she is actually controlling Lockjaw with her sexuality. Taylor is commanding, wielding her body, the physicality of all that Lockjaw hates, to reduce him (and likely some of the audience) to a fleshy pile of contradictory beliefs.
But Lockjaw is America, and the majority of white men in the film express their inner selves as soldiers, murderers, mercenaries, bearded fuckheads, or, like Bob, well-meaning dopes. The many Black women that populate the rest of the film—including Regina Hall as level-headed French 75 member Deanna and Junglepussy (AKA Shayna McHayle) as flamboyant French 75 member Junglepussy—exist in direct contrast to the glut of toxic masculinity.
Anderson has never been an overtly political filmmaker, and One Battle After Another’s politics are a stew of clashing ingredients, especially as Lockjaw’s ties to a secret society of white supremacists, the Christmas Adventurers, lay bare his unmitigated drive to possess Black and brown bodies.
Penn, in what may turn out to be the greatest performance of his career, inhabits Lockjaw as if a younger, freer version of himself—Spicoli, maybe, from Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)—is trying to escape his veiny, upsettingly muscled skin. He is repression, rage, and shame boiled in a saltless pot with stewed tomatoes. A ridiculous, pathetic, and scarily powerful man, he’s a source of humor as much as terror. His words come out like chunks of coal, rattled through the rock tumbler of his calcified esophagus.
Obsessed with both close-ups and California vistas during golden hour, One Battle After Another is as expansive as it is intimate. Filmed in 35 mm in VistaVision with Licorice Pizza cinematographer Michael Bauman, it’s meant to be seen with a crowd in front of a big, overstimulating screen. Running 35 mm stock horizontally through special cameras, VistaVision allows the film to be projected in much higher-resolution formats, like IMAX and 70 mm, without sacrificing 35 mm film’s grain and romance.
With such a vast canvas, Anderson stages car chases, robberies, and shoot-outs as generous, occasionally old-fashioned blockbuster spectacles. Likewise, he sets up undocumented internment camps as immersive environments through which soldiers, and the audience following behind, blithely walk. Seen in a theater, cages reach from the floor to the ceiling.
So, from an opening salvo of hungry energy, highlighting the exploits of the French 75, Anderson’s latest sprawling slice-of-life epic unfolds. Amidst bank bombings and attacks on the electrical grid, Pat and Perfidia fall exuberantly in love. They can’t keep their hands off each other; Perfidia’s soon pregnant.
Leonardo DiCaprioo has a broadly, deeply, understandably everyguy face. Warner Bros. Pictures
Unfortunately, the child may not be Pat’s, and Perfidia’s relationship with Lockjaw means the end of both the French 75 and her family. She leaves Pat and their daughter to go into witness protection. Knowing Lockjaw’s keeping tabs, Pat (the infant for whom he is now sole caretaker swaddled next to him in a laundry basket for a carseat) drives to northern California, the town of Baktan Cross. There he transforms into Bob Ferguson, just an aging burnout making a chill life for his daughter Willa via that Humboldt County lifestyle.
Fifteen years pass. Sanded down by decades of drugs and alcohol, his every day pleasantly dulled by the verdant mist of the surrounding coastal forest, Bob’s memory and passion for revolution have become a kind of functional paranoia.
Of course, Lockjaw returns, and the film’s plot continues to unspool, including a monastery of nuns and a benevolent karate instructor Sensei Sergio St. Carlos (Benicio Del Toro, angelic) who calmly shepherds an immigrant underground railroad. When the now teenaged Willa (Chase Infiniti) is kidnapped, Bob’s got to shake himself off the couch, cut through the fog of his past to remember the revolutionary spirit of Ghetto Pat (as well as a few of French 75’s old code words) and save her.
Inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, One Battle After Another makes contemporary Pynchon’s reality-bending yarn about ‘60s revolutionaries drying and/or hiding out in the Reagan era. Like in previous Pynchon adaptation Inherent Vice (2014), Anderson necessarily cuts out a lot.
Anderson’s always been attracted to big ensemble casts, winding narratives, and grand historical milieus (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood) like his hero Robert Altman, but in the past decade or so, he’s been especially concerned with pursuing the spirit of his other hero Jonathan Demme, holding empathy for all of his characters, however evil or destructive or self-involved (The Master, Phantom Thread). So, Bob’s journey is a farce, family drama, western myth, psychedelic road movie, and ’70s action flick wherein he meets not archetypes, but uniquely drawn personalities and people with weird names.
With all this to balance, One Battle After Another can be an odd tonal hang, the plot’s inertia shifting continuously between genres. Deftly, Anderson anchors the Pynchonian, multicultural glut in a father-daughter relationship, the bond between Bob and Willa.
In turn, DiCaprio and Infiniti are loving and wonderful together. The latest in his string of kinda-shitty white guy roles (see: Killers of the Flower Moon, Don’t Look Up), DiCaprio’s is the kind of exquisite face that must be witnessed large. The purply alcoves of his eye sockets, limned in dry, weather-beaten passages of skin, creased more than speckled by obsoletely styled facial hair, still obviously handsome and well-aged but with eyes now muddy—he has a broadly, deeply, understandably everyguy face. One built for massive movie screens and digitally upscaled details.
In that face—lined, lived in, and as sinewy as the up-and-down roads of northern California, on which One Battle After Another reaches its climax—Anderson captures the distinct anxiety of parenting, or, for that matter, of simply taking care of another person in 2025: knowing that the dangers of the world are real, and they’ll come for the people you love.
Rather than wallow in despair, Anderson magnifies that modern dread into some of the year’s most moving action-adventure. Without a salient message or call to arms, One Battle After Another is instead a spectacularly cinematic panorama of American political violence.
One Battle After Another screens on 70 mm at Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy, starting Thurs Sept 25 and in wide release Fri Sept 26, rated R, 162 minutes.
