Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek will appoint a prominent fourth-generation Portlander to the Multnomah County Circuit Court bench and ...

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“Sanctuary counties are illegal under Iowa law,” Bird said in a statement announcing the lawsuit filed in Polk County District ... so far by working with judges to ensure that when a detainer ...

From this vantage point, Bill Wilson watches as Chinook helicopters, spotter planes and air tankers launch an aerial fight against the Black Cove and Deep Woods fires in Polk County. Looking out ...

Three Monmouth police officers were injured while trying to take the man into custody in February, according to the police ...

A 39-year-old man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for assaulting three Monmouth police officers as they were arresting ...

Perez, 31, punched Polk County Jail deputies and grabbed a female deputy inappropriately, making vulgar comments.

A man was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Monday for an attack against corrections officers at the Polk County Jail last March.

After nearly two hours of argument, a judge agreed the issue was moot under New Jersey criminal law — upholding all of the charges against the driver, including manslaughter and vehicular homicide.

Perez, 30, of Albany, has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison following his conviction for initiating a verbal and ...

With citrus growers fleeing Florida amid disease, hard freezes and increasingly damaging storms fueled by the changing climate, a Polk County farmer chose to swap out his orange trees for a grove ...

A federal judge is siding with the Trump administration in allowing immigration agents to conduct enforcement operations at houses of worship despite a lawsuit filed by religious groups over the ...