Portland protests drive powerful Dem's Oregon district toward young Republican rival

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 activated in Portland, Ore., on Wednesday night in response to widespread violence in the city, authorities said. Portland Police declared a riot amid a wave of destruction in the city that saw people smash storefront windows of local businesses in the downtown area. At least 11 rioters were arrested.

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.

Who plagiarizes a divorce announcement?! Apparently, Zachery Ty Bryan!

Kate Aurthur editorBravo has greenlit “Top Chef Amateurs,” to be hosted by longtime “Top Chef” judge Gail Simmons. Production on the show will begin later this month in Portland, Ore., where the next season of “Top Chef” has been filming under COVID-19 protocols.

Oregon’s 4th District congressional race has turned into a competitive and high-spending affair, as a Republican anti-terrorism hero takes on a 34-year Democratic incumbent. Alek Skarlatos, 28, a former Oregon National Guardsman, and political novice, was one of three Americans who famously thwarted a terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train back in 2015.

During this summer of madness in Portland, Ore., and sadness over COVID-19, two below-the-radar events occurred implicating the insatiable appetite of the United States government to spy on everyone in America. Regular readers of this column know that the feds have been wearing away at our privacy rights using a multitude of means.

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.

A Portland man has filed a $350,000 racial discrimination lawsuit against a local gas station after claiming that an attendant refused to sell him gas over the summer because of his race. Dominique DeWeese, who is Black, said in the lawsuit filed last week that he went to Jay’s Garage in July to fill up a gas canister for his lawnmower.

Former “Home Improvement” star Zachery Ty Bryan was arrested in Oregon on Saturday, accused of trying to strangle his girlfriend, according to reports. Police in Eugene, Ore., went to Bryan’s residence Friday evening following a report from a neighbor of a “physical dispute.” Bryan, 39, was found outside an apartment while his girlfriend, 27, was inside a neighboring one, according to E News.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsActor Zachery Ty Bryan has been arrested.

arrested. The former star is in custody at Lane County Jail in Eugene, Oregon.