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• Which Oregon counties are the best places to save for retirement?

  17-09-2019 23:36 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  Where you live can determine how much you save for retirement. Here are the 10 best places to save in Oregon.        
  
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• Sunny & warmer for Sunday

  14-04-2024 08:24 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  Highs will reach around 70 degrees before seeing cooler conditions to start the week.        
  
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• 1 shot, killed by Clark County Sheriff's deputies following alleged armed carjacking by pair

  14-04-2024 08:07 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  The shooting happened in the American Legion at Northeast 20th Avenue. The Clark County Sheriff's Office said the other carjacking suspect has been arrested.        
  
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• Portland Fire, gun violence advocates raise concerns over city of Portland budget cuts for 2024-2025 fiscal year

  14-04-2024 02:51 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  Key concerns are the $11-million-dollar deficit facing the Portland Fire Bureau and gun violence, Portlanders said during the second public listening session.        
  
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• Wanted felon arrested after 6-hour SWAT team standoff in Hillsboro

  14-04-2024 02:17 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  The standoff started around 3 a.m. Friday on Southeast Washington Street and Southeast 7th Avenue and ended six hours later with a 31-year-old man in handcuffs.        
  
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• 1 arrested, at least 12 vehicles towed after Swan Island street takeover

  14-04-2024 02:16 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  Around 7:50 p.m. on Friday, North Precinct, Traffic Division and Air Support Unit officers responded to North Cutter Circle in Portland.        
  
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• Families who lost loved ones at Portland nursing home shut down after COVID-19 deaths receive settlement

  13-04-2024 23:34 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  Healthcare at Foster Creek quickly became the state's largest outbreak site, where 30 residents died from COVID-19 before the state shut it down.        
  
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• First attempt to rescue stranded orca calf in Canadian lagoon is unsuccessful

  13-04-2024 23:30 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  The orca was discovered stranded in a lagoon near Vancouver Island on March 23 with its mother, who died shortly after and was found to be pregnant.        
  
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• Portland Trail Blazers first NBA team to offer fans with vision loss a way to experience the game through vibrations

  13-04-2024 08:17 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  The device translates the live ball and player movements on the court into vibrations that can be tracked through a fan's fingertips.        
  
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• Astronaut from Camas spending 6 months on International Space Station

  13-04-2024 05:22 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  This is Dr. Michael Barratt's third trip to the ISS, having previously gone into orbit in 2009 and 2011.        
  
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• Multnomah County sees several overdosing, dying from fentanyl laced with new flesh-eating drug

  13-04-2024 05:02 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  Multnomah County health department data obtained by KGW shows five people died from an overdose involving xylazine, known as "tranq," and fentanyl in 2023.        
  
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• Oregon Court of Appeals keeps gun control measure on ice but will speed up case's hearing

  13-04-2024 04:38 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  The appeals court did agree to speed up the time before it will hear arguments in the case, after a circuit court judge in Harney County struck down the law.        
  
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• 1 dead after shooting in North Portland

  13-04-2024 03:50 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  Officers responded shortly after 12:30 p.m. Friday to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and North Gertz Road for reports of a shooting.        
  
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• With deadline looming, cost of Portland water filtration plant now tops $2 billion

  13-04-2024 03:46 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  The project was initially estimated to cost around $500 million back in 2017. Delays have kept the project from breaking ground, and the price tag keeps rising.        
  
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• Pho Gabo owner intends to sue city of Portland after closure stemming from odor complaints, fines

  13-04-2024 03:33 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  An attorney representing Eddie Dong filed a tort claim on April 9, laying out claims of civil rights violations and economic damage from the closure.        
  
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• Beaverton School District breaks ground on new high school

  13-04-2024 03:04 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  The $253 million new Beaverton High School facility is expected to open in the fall of 2026. In the meantime, students will remain in the old building.        
  
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• Oregon wolf territory expands but population holds steady in 2023, report finds

  13-04-2024 02:54 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  Excluding 10 wolves that were moved to Colorado to establish a population in that state, the Oregon population remained at 178 last year, the same as in 2022.        
  
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• Interim Portland police chief Bob Day appointed as permanent chief

  13-04-2024 02:31 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  Day came out of retirement to take over when former chief Chuck Lovell stepped down last year, in what was previously described as an interim appointment.        
  
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• 'Jefferson needs to be rebuilt': Costs spike to rebuild one of Portland Public Schools' oldest schools

  13-04-2024 02:29 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  It will now cost more than $400 million for Portland Public Schools to rebuild Jefferson High School.        
  
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• Washington man pleads not guilty in connection with 2022 attacks on Oregon electrical grid

  13-04-2024 01:30 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  Charging documents allege Nathaniel Cheney broke into a substation in Oregon City on Nov. 24, 2022 and damaged a substation in Clackamas four days later.        
  
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• Second body pulled from Willamette River within 3 days

  12-04-2024 20:30 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  A body was found Thursday in the river off the east bank near OMSI. On Tuesday, another body was found in the river near the Burnside Bridge.        
  
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• Why haven't some Multnomah County Library branches been open lately?

  12-04-2024 18:27 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  A new policy, launched March 1, says every library branch needs to have a "person in charge" for the day, and not everyone wants to take on that job.        
  
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• 'My kid is your kid': Portland Public Schools considers ending school-based fundraising for extra staff

  12-04-2024 17:36 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  Right now, most money that parents raise for their kids' school stays in the building. The new model would split funding up throughout the district.        
  
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• Man tries to pick up boy near schools, Washington County deputies say

  12-04-2024 17:18 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  The man approached the boy near the Jacob Wismer Elementary and Stoller Middle School complex, and falsely claimed to know the boy's mother.        
  
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• Salem-Keizer Public Schools plans to eliminate over 400 positions

  12-04-2024 08:48 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  The second-largest school district in Oregon is preparing over $70 million in budget cuts, the "largest in over a decade."        
  
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• 'That's a $1,500 pair of jeans': Small businesses in Montavilla neighborhood struggle amid continued vandalism

  12-04-2024 08:47 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  Stores have boarded up even more windows after the latest round of vandalism to hit the neighborhood since January.        
  
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• 'I did not rape this woman': Ben McLemore, former Trail Blazer, addresses sexual assault charges in statement

  12-04-2024 05:27 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  McLemore's statement said the charges "appear to allege" that he had sex with a woman who was too intoxicated to consent, not that he used physical force.        
  
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• Multnomah County approves homeless village project in Portland's Montavilla neighborhood

  12-04-2024 04:50 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  The Montavilla Community Village will have space for 40 people with 29 sleeping pods.        
  
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• ‘Completely derailed our life’: How child care in Oregon became so unaffordable

  12-04-2024 04:44 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  A single mother in Portland moved into a homeless shelter with four children after losing state-funded child care because her income crossed over the line by $2,000.        
  
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• Her car 'mysteriously showed back up': New details in case of missing Vancouver woman

  12-04-2024 04:14 via rssfeeds.kgw.com
  
  A search warrant shows Cristina Ase may have misled her family and boss in the weeks leading up to her disappearance, as friends continue their search for her.        
  
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