Lawsuit: Man finds semen in Red Robin salad after alleging racism

A Black man claimed a Red Robin restaurant employee put semen in his salad in retaliation for alleging racism at the restaurant.

Oregon man cashes in forgotten lottery ticket, wins $8.9M

Wilbur Brown of Oregon purchased his winning multi-drawing lottery ticket on Christmas Eve in 2021 and forgot about it until February 2022. That’s when he found out he won the $8.9 million jackpot.

Ex-prison nurse charged with sexually assaulting female inmates

Tony Daniel Klein, 37, is charged with several counts involving sexual assault at Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon’s only women’s prison.

Oregon St. implodes part of football stadium

Oregon State brought down part of its football stadium Friday, making room for its stadium renovation project.

Medford plane crash kills pilot and passenger, cause remains unknown

Medford police in Oregon said the plane went down Sunday around 4:52 p.m. local time near the parking lot of the Airport Chevrolet car dealership near Rogue Valley International Medford Airport.

Oregon school custodian accused of planning 'mass casualty event,' police say

Kristopher Clay, a former custodian at an Oregon high school, is accused of making “significant steps to carry out a mass casualty event,” police said.

Bipedal robot becomes 1st ever to run 5K, university says

A robot named Cassie became the first machine of its kind to run a 5K footrace — and she did it in one charge.

Bootleg fire: Dangerous 'fire clouds' form over Oregon

Smoke and heat from the massive wildfire in southeastern Oregon are creating so-called fire clouds over the blaze.

Northwest heat wave impossible without climate change, study says

The deadly heat wave in the Pacific Northwest was “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, a new scientific analysis found.

Pacific Northwest heat wave may have killed hundreds, officials say

Hundreds of deaths in Canada, Oregon and Washington may have been caused by the historic heat wave that baked the Pacific Northwest and shattered all-time temperature records in usually temperate cities.

Mass shootings on the rise again as progress is made on ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

After a year of pandemic lockdowns, public mass shootings are back. For many, the fear of contracting an invisible virus is suddenly compounded by the forgotten yet more familiar fear of getting caught in a random act of violence.

4 people being monitored in Oregon for Ebola after returning to US from West Africa

Four people are being monitored by Oregon public health officials after potentially being exposed to Ebola while on a recent visit to Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to an Oregon Health Authority news release.

‘Today is day 353’: Woman takes 189 pills a week nearly 1 year after COVID-19 diagnosis to combat symptoms

March 15 will mark one year since Amy Watson, a preschool teacher from Oregon, first began suffering with COVID-19 symptoms, and she still has a fever. “Today is day 353,” said Watson on March 3.

Oregon health workers vaccinate drivers while stranded by snow

Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event went car to car injecting stranded drivers before several of the doses expired.

Report: Portland mayor pepper-sprayed man out of fear of safety, contracting COVID

Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler pepper-sprayed a man who confronted and videotaped him and a former mayor as they left a restaurant Sunday evening.

Supreme Court rejected appeal to limit transgender students

The Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal from parents in Oregon who want to prevent transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender with which they identify.