A Portland man Monday was sentenced to 25 years in prison for dealing counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl that led to an overdose death , five years after his prior 20-year sentence for cocaine distribution was commuted.

Brett Pruett is charged with murder in the deaths of Elmer “Eddie” Hughes, his fiancée Tashia Cobb and their friend Larry Murphy.

Cliff Asmussen, 76, and Joseph Arnold, 52, the two Burns-born gun owners who filed suit challenging Oregon’s gun control Measure 114, were among the first witnesses to testify at a trial that got underway Monday in Harney County on whether the new regulations meet muster under the state constitution.

Conservation groups in Oregon are suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency over its flood-insurance program, which they say puts fish, orcas and people at risk.

You have one more month to try some of Portland's most beloved cakes and chocolates.

“Thankfully, the jury spoke for the community, and said all life has value," said Attorney Scott Lucas, who represented the daughter who filed a wrongful death suit against the garbage company.

The company calls the plant a "RoboFab."

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Firefighters battled the blaze at the Miles Fiberglass warehouse at 8855 S.E. Otty Road early Saturday morning.

The Eastern Oregon Counties Association, which represents 15 eastern and central Oregon counties, and the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation subsequently filed a joint motion to also be heard as “friend of the court” parties in their opposition to the measure.

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