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The Oregonian | By Jonathan Bach | December 20, 2024 Paulette Twiss still finds herself lying in bed at night worrying about mice. She left the Eastmont Villa Apartments at Southeast 162nd Avenue and Powell Boulevard last year, after seven years as a tenant. But she recalls hearing the rodents scurry about in her former apartment when they’d hear traffic outside. Now, “the slightest thing will wake me up,” said Twiss. A Multnomah County jury this week awarded Twiss more

KATU 2 News | By Christina Giardinelli | December 2, 2024 Nearly one year after Oregon’s Housing Stability Council made a seemingly empty threat to withhold almost $44 million in public funds from one of the state’s largest low-income developers due to habitability issues at Milepost 5, a KATU investigation found many of the issues persist. “Sometimes I end up sleeping through the day when I should be working, just because if I keep all the lights on at night,

Albany Democrat-Herald | By Cody Mann | November 18, 2024 A civil lawsuit has been filed in federal court against an Albany man and business owner who was recently charged in two criminal cases. The lawsuit, filed against 46-year-old Joel James Dahl of Dahled Up Construction, alleges assault, battery and negligence involving a 17-year-old who lives out of state. Last week, Dahl was arraigned in Albany Municipal Court on two counts of harassment and an assault charge, all misdemeanors, related

The Oregonian | By Austin De Dios | November 12, 2024 A Multnomah County interim division director and former deputy chief of staff to Chair Jessica Vega Pederson is suing the county, alleging that she was retaliated against after she raised concerns about public records violations within the chair’s office. Tabitha Jensen, who currently runs the county’s Youth and Family Services Division, first brought her concerns to county officials in May 2024, after she was allegedly asked to use Vega

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | October 22, 2024 The estate of a MAX commuter who was on his way to his Gresham home from downtown Portland when he was stabbed to death by a stranger who was reportedly hallucinating filed a $1.66 million lawsuit Tuesday against TriMet. The suit over the death of 51-year-old Michael Matthew Brady faults TriMet for allegedly failing to provide adequate security, failing to staff adequate mobile crisis teams to deter violence and failing

The Oregonian | By Zaeem Shaikh | September 10, 2024 The city of Portland is poised to appeal a $1 million award to the family of a man shot and killed by police while he was experiencing a mental health crisis in 2021. The City Council in a 3-2 vote last week approved the city attorney’s request to appeal the civil court judgment. Although the appeal has not yet been filed, representatives from the office said they believed it’s necessary

Oregon Public Broadcasting | By Troy Brynelson | September 03, 2024 The city of Portland will consider appealing a jury verdict that found a police officer acted negligently three years ago when he shot and killed a man in the middle of a mental health crisis. City Attorney Robert Taylor has asked Portland City Council for the OK to challenge the verdict from a Multnomah County Circuit Court jury earlier this year. Family members of the man, Michael Ray Townsend,

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | August 23, 2024 The first of what’s expected to be at least several lawsuits was filed Friday against the Beaverton School District, faulting it for employing a head football coach who allegedly downed four oversized beers and then slapped or grabbed a dozen sleeping teens in the middle of the night at a sports camp this summer. The suit claims the district ignored “several red flags” about then-Westview High School coach Jamal Jones.

KGW 8 News | By Kyle Iboshi | August 06, 2024 The Portland lawyer responsible for dozens of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuits is being sued by her former client for legal malpractice. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Multnomah County, Conner Slevin alleged his former attorney Jessica Molligan made legal arrangements, sent communications and negotiated settlements without his knowledge. The lawsuit alleged Molligan concealed her behavior for her own personal financial gain. Portland attorney Michael Fuller filed the

The Oregonian | By Mike Rogoway | July 11, 2024 When CenturyLink began offering high-speed internet service in Jeff McCulloch’s neighborhood two years ago, the Albany resident said he was intrigued by the idea of fast service from someone other than the cable TV company. CenturyLink was especially appealing because it made him a promise: “Price for Life.” The company said it would never charge McCulloch more than $70 a month, so long as he kept the same internet plan