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A case before the Oregon Supreme Court this week could have major implications for social media privacy laws.

OPB’s Troy Brynelson leads off today’s newsletter with a look into how and why defense attorneys in a Salem-area murder case are seeking data from Meta.

Also this morning, we have the latest on the man who drove a vehicle laden with explosives through the front of the Multnomah Athletic Club this weekend.

Here’s your First Look at Monday’s news.

— Bradley W. Parks

An Oregon murder case could reshape social media privacy

On a directionless summer night, two teenage boys crossed paths on the outskirts of Salem. One fatally shot the other. Two teenage girls saw it happen.

Cellphones carried by all four had orbited the scene, tracing the teens’ movements and logging their messages and phone calls.

And somewhere in that data may lie the shooter’s best hope to beat a life sentence.

It’s undisputed that David Ayon-Urbano killed Hector de Jesus Gonzalez Mendoza. The contents of the cellphone messages may or may not prove defense attorneys’ theory that Ayon-Urbano acted in self-defense and that one of the witnesses orchestrated the shooting.

To prove that, they need to compel one of the biggest companies in the world, Meta, to hand over users’ private social media data. (Troy Brynelson)

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3 things to know

• The Multnomah Athletic Club will remain closed for at least a week as staff work to repair damage caused when a man drove an explosives-laden vehicle through the front of the clubhouse building. (Joni Auden Land, Conrad Wilson and Courtney Sherwood)
• Incumbent BOLI commissioner Christina Stephenson and Chris Lynch, with the Oregon Occupational Health and Safety Administration, are vying to lead the state’s labor law enforcement agency as it struggles to shrink a longstanding backlog of claims. (Kyra Buckley)
• Chef Greg Higgins of Higgins Restaurant in Portland wants to hang up his chef whites, but not before shepherding in a new owner for the restaurant. (Crystal Ligori)

Portlanders are feeling nostalgic about Lloyd Center as closure approaches

After 66 years, Lloyd Center is scheduled to close for good this summer. We spend this episode looking back on the Lloyd Center’s storied history and hearing some of your memories of the mall. (Julie Sabatier)

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Northwest headlines

• Fans cheer on Portland Fire in first home WNBA game in more than two decades (Kyra Buckley)
• It’s peak bird migration season. Here’s how to help them survive (Anna Marie Yanny, KNKX)
• Why this tribe is buying up hundreds of acres of farmland — and flooding it (John Ryan, NPR)
• How cryptocurrency is ‘like subprime, but dumber.’ A new documentary showing in Portland offers some insight (Lillian Karabaic)

Listen in on OPB’s daily conversation

“Think Out Loud” airs at noon and 8 p.m. weekdays on OPB Radio, opb.org and the OPB News app. Today’s planned topics (subject to change):

• Amazon is planning more, smaller distribution centers in communities around Oregon
• What difference will 8 new immigration laws make for immigrants in Oregon?

This family created an apple ‘paradise’ in the shadow of Mount Hood

If you ask Randy Kiyokawa what it takes to grow the perfect apple, he’ll tell you the three ingredients. “You have to have the right soil, the right weather and a lot of luck.”

Kiyokawa should know. His orchard in Parkdale, just south of Hood River, Oregon, was once named “best apple orchard in America” by USA Today.

Each fall, visitors flock to the large fruit stand and u-pick area at Kiyokawa Family Orchards for its 125 varieties of apples — plus a cornucopia of pears, cherries, peaches, plums, pluots (a plum-apricot hybrid), pluerries (plum-cherry hybrid) and grapes.

But it’s the apples that are Kiyokawa’s signature fruit. This story was first published on Feb. 19, 2025. (Jeff Kastner)

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