Latest Oregon Headlines
All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hot, Wet Air May Cause Southwestern Oregon Flooding
Jan 28 2016 // The National Weather Service says warm, moist air from the jet stream could cause flooding in southwestern Oregon. The Mail Tribune reported that meteorologist Charles Smith of the NWS Medford office says the weather...
Oregon Resident Files Class Action Against DraftKings, FanDuel
Jan 28 2016 // An Oregon resident has filed a class-action lawsuit against two daily fantasy sports sites, claiming the businesses are operating illegal online sports betting. The Oregonian reported that Polk County resident Brandon Peck...
Oregon Wife Files $7.9M Suit After Husband Crushed by Dump Truck
Jan 11 2016 // A Medford, Ore., woman has filed a lawsuit against two construction companies after her husband was crushed to death by a dump truck in a construction area on Interstate 5 near Cottage Grove. Karee Battenfield filed a $7.9...
Oregon Woman Struck by Car Files Suit over Designer Clothes
Jan 11 2016 // A Portland, Ore. woman struck by a drunken driver in a crosswalk has filed a lawsuit seeking $4,600 for the designer clothes she was wearing at the time, on top of the cost of her medical bills. Susan Layne sued in...
Oregon Woman Stuck by Car Files Suit over Designer Clothes
Dec 29 2015 // A Portland, Ore. woman struck by a drunken driver in a crosswalk has filed a lawsuit seeking $4,600 for the designer clothes she was wearing at the time, on top of the cost of her medical bills. The Oregonian reported that...
Widow of Oregon Man Killed In SUV-Train Crash Files Suit Against Union Pacific
Dec 28 2015 // The wife of one of two people killed when a freight train struck an SUV at a rural crossing in Oregon seeks $2.7 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against Union Pacific and several workers. The suit alleges there were...
Landslide Hits Central Oregon Coast Home and Kills Woman
Dec 21 2015 // A 70-year-old woman died and her husband suffered injuries when a landslide struck their vacation home on the central Oregon coast. Officials say Dolores Miller died when the landslide struck the home near Florence at...
Oregon Wife Files $7.9M Suit After Husband Crushed by Dump Truck
Dec 21 2015 // A Medford, Ore. woman has filed a lawsuit against two construction companies after he husband was crushed to death by a dump truck in a construction area on Interstate 5 near Cottage Grove. The Mail Tribune reported that...
Oregon High Court Says Cab Company Workers Aren’t Independent Contractors
Dec 14 2015 // The Oregon Supreme Court ruled last week that a Portland taxicab company must pay unemployment insurance taxes for certain drivers because they were improperly classified as independent contractors. The case comes amid...
Fire-Damaged Oregon Forests Vulnerable to Landslides: Scientists
Dec 10 2015 // Scientists say the fire-damaged forests are more susceptible to landslides, and another week of rain and snow could heighten that risk for eastern Oregon. The East Oregonian reported that wildfires have stripped away...
New Rules to Govern Taxis, Uber, Lyft Approved by Oregon City
Dec 8 2015 // Ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft should continue to operating in Portland, Ore. after the City Council approved a new set of rules to govern taxis. The Oregonian reported that the council voted last week to allow...
Red Shield Names Tufts Underwriting Department Manager in Oregon
Dec 8 2015 // Red Shield Insurance Co. has named Kevin Tufts an underwriting department manager in Portland, Ore. Tufts has 21 years of experience in commercial lines underwriting. He started his insurance career as a workers’...
Volunteer Beaten at Oregon Women’s Shelter Seeks $675K
Dec 7 2015 // A volunteer seeks $675,000 in a lawsuit against the Gospel Rescue Mission of Grants Pass, Ore., alleging it failed to protect her from an enraged man whose wife and daughter were at a women’s shelter. The lawsuit and...
Veteran Files Suit Against Oregon College for Discrimination
Dec 3 2015 // A retired Army officer who worked in the ROTC office at the University of Portland in Oregon has filed a lawsuit claiming his co-workers discriminated against him because of disabilities he suffered in combat in Iraq and...
Volunteer Beat at Oregon Women’s Shelter Seeks $675K
Nov 23 2015 // A volunteer seeks $675,000 in a lawsuit against the Gospel Rescue Mission of Grants Pass, Ore. alleging it failed to protect her from an enraged man whose wife and daughter were at a women’s shelter. The lawsuit and...
Student Sues Pacific University in Oregon for $3M Following Rape
Nov 19 2015 // A 20-year-old Pacific University student who says another student raped her has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Oregon university. The Oregonian reported that the lawsuit says the rape occurred after both students...
University of Oregon Sued by 2 Ex-Counseling Center Workers
Nov 13 2015 // Two former University of Oregon counseling center employees say they were shunned, criticized and threatened with dismissal at the UO after they blew the whistle on superiors who had seized a student’s therapy...
After ‘Deep Cleaning,’ Chipotle Restaurants to Reopen in Seattle, Portland
Nov 11 2015 // Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. is preparing to reopen 43 restaurants in the Pacific Northwest that have been closed for more than a week after an E. coli outbreak sickened dozens of customers. No cause of the outbreak has...
Estate of Oregon Man Files Suit Against Home Care Agency in Death
Nov 2 2015 // The estate of a La Pine, Ore., man who was paralyzed from the chest down has filed a lawsuit seeking $7.5 million in damages from a Bend home health care agency over his death. The estate of Mitchell Cox filed the lawsuit...
Deputy Sues Oregon Restaurant After Being Asked to Prepay
Oct 30 2015 // An Oregon sheriff’s deputy has filed a lawsuit against the Elmer’s restaurant chain, claiming he was told to prepay for his meal at a Vancouver, Ore. establishment because he is black. KGW-TV reported Brian...
