Live Updates: National Guard activated after widespread violence in Portland, NYPD arrests about 50 protesters

After being faced with a difficult rescue, a Coast Guard crew in Oregon was happy to report a successful mission. An injured outdoorsman was rescued from rough terrain by the North Bend sector of the U.S.

Some lawmakers are criticizing Oregon's limits on group activities so close to the Thanksgiving holiday while proponents of the measures stay quiet on the nightly riots in Portland involving hundreds of people. Gov.

Also on this day: Elizabeth I accedes to the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary, beginning a 44-year reign.Congress holds its first session in the partially completed U.S. Capitol building.The Suez Canal opens in Egypt.The Union Pacific Railroad Co.

The editorial board of The Sacramento Bee blasted California Gov. Gavin Newsom for attending a party as the state continues to battle the coronavirus outbreak.  The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Friday that Newsom attended an outdoor birthday celebration for political adviser Jason Kinney with at least a dozen attendees at the French Laundry, an upscale restaurant in Napa Valley.

A 44-year-old man has been arrested in Oregon in the cold case murder of a young woman in Arkansas 16 years ago. William Miller was taken into custody over the weekend and charged with killing 22-year-old college student Rebekah Christian Gould in 2004 in Guion, a small town on the White River in Izard County, police said.They announced the arrest Monday.

Police departments in some parts of the country are cracking down on street racing – otherwise known as “laying drag” – in the wake of a spurt of such crimes in recent days. At least 400 drivers took to the streets of Portland, Ore., to partake in “speed racing events” on Sunday night in the area of Northeast Airport Way and Northeast 122nd Avenue.

The home of a Portland, Ore., city commissioner was targeted by protesters this week over his refusal to support $18 million in cuts to the police budget.  A group of around 60 people marched in the rain Thursday from Arbor Lodge Park to Commissioner Dan Ryan's home. Once there, they smashed a window, broke a flower pot and threw burning flares and paint-filled balloons at the home, authorities said.

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Three days after the polls closed in the US Presidential Election, the winner has still yet to be declared.Joe Biden, the Democrat candidate, is tantalisingly close to the victory line having secured 253 of the 270 electoral college votes needed to secure the White House.Taking Pennsylvania would win the election - as would winning Nevada and Arizona, or one of those two states along with Georgia. Mr Biden is ahead in all these states but Pennsylvania where he is making gains.

The union that represents Portland, Ore., police officers filed a grievance Thursday challenging a voter-approved measure to create a civilian oversight board.  The Portland Police Association, which represents 850 officers, contends that matters related to discipline, discipline standards, due process, personnel files and criminal and administrative investigations must be negotiated with the city.  "The city's conduct to evade its contractual obligations through voter enacted Charter changes is

Voters in cities and counties across at least six states passed police reform measures this week that toughen oversight and allow for more public access to body- and dashboard-camera recordings.  Many areas in which there were massive protests after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis -- such as Seattle; Portland, Ore.; and San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego and Sonoma County in California -- voted to create oversight committees that investigate police misconduct and the use of deadly force

Emergency services in Portland had to be rerouted and were even temporarily blocked by crowds overnight, as hundreds of demonstrators left a trail of damage downtown following Election Day. A video by KOIN and retweeted by the Oregon State Police early Thursday showed law enforcement officers holding the line preventing a large crowd from entering an intersection in Portland.

The Oregon National Guard was directed to place its members on standby ahead of potential election unrest in Portland, Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday.  Brown said she is also exercising her executive authority to create a joint incident command structure in Portland, with the Oregon State Police and the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office co-managing the police response in the city.

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NEW YORK — Denial is not just a river in Egypt, as the ancient joke goes. It’s the Democrat/media/Left’s comprehensive response to the nationwide riots that rage on, seven weeks after the funeral of police-brutality victim George Floyd.

Zachery Ty Bryan was released on bail one day after being arrested for allegedly strangling his girlfriend on Friday, October 16.The Home Improvement alum, 39, spent the night at Lane County Jail in Eugene, Oregon, and was booked for a felony charge of strangulation, a misdemeanor charge of assault in the fourth degree and a misdemeanor charge of interfering with making a report.

Home Improvement star was arrested on October 16 in Eugene, Oregon, for allegedly choking his girlfriend.The sitcom star, 39, was booked at 1 a.m.

Zachery Ty Bryan, the actor who played the oldest son on the long-running 1990s sit-com Home Improvement, was arrested in Oregon and faces charges of strangulation and assault. The Eugene Police Department said officers were dispatched to a North Eugene apartment Friday night on a report of a physical dispute.