MEDFORD, Ore.- The Portland Division of the FBI is encouraging Oregonians to report hate crimes. According to the FBI’s 2022 Hate Crimes Report, 60% of hate crimes in Oregon were race related. The majority of the time, black citizens were ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission just released a report with data from 2021 regarding hate crimes in the state. The report found the Oregon DOJ Bias Response Hotline got the most reports in its history with ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNN) – The House of Representatives has approved legislation to combat anti-Asian violence that has increased since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act passed by a vote of 364 to 62. All of ...
CHICAGO, Ill. (NBC) – Charges against Jussie Smollett have been dropped. Prosecutors in Chicago dropped all charges against the “Empire” actor just weeks after he was indicted on 16 felony counts related to making a false report that he was ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) – An Oregon jury found a man guilty of intentionally running over and killing a black teen in 2016. Russell Courtier is now awaiting sentencing. According to police, he got in a fight with 19-year-old Larnell Bruce ...
Ashland, Ore. – Earlier this week, NBC5 told you about an assault in Ashland that police say started because two men were making homophobic comments towards a gay man. After that report, another Ashland man is coming forward to say that ...
PORTLAND, Ore. – A man who is accused of a racially motivated attack at a Portland Iraqi restaurant is an active duty Marine who reportedly has post-traumatic stress disorder. KGW reports the owners of DarSalam in Northeast Portland said two ...
Ashland, Ore., — “That’s enough, it’s sick.” That’s the response Mary Beth Howell gave after looking at the Twitter account of a man accused of putting up hate posters around Ashland. “I think that kind of thing creates fear, and ...
Medford, Ore.- A Klamath Falls man who admitted to threatening his neighbors because of their Vietnamese heritage was sentenced Friday in Federal Court. Jon Vangastel entered a guilty plea in May. Friday, a judge sentenced him to five years probation. ...