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A group of vandals smashed the windows and doors at the Adidas headquarters in Democrat-led Portland in protest of the shoe company's support of the World Cup in Qatar.  Nine people from Abolition Media were responsible for the vandalism that occurred at the headquarters on November 20 around 1.48am, police said. The group wore ski googles and masks as they smashed about 50 windows and doors,...

Multnomah County’s top prosecutor Monday released a list of the cases of nearly 300 people who have had charges dismissed against them this year because no public defenders were available to represent them. People accused of car theft, fleeing police and illegally carrying guns were most likely to walk free, according to the list. But dropped cases also include accusations of lower level assaults,...

New data shows Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt is prosecuting less than half of all misdemeanor theft cases sent to his office by police. "When there's not prosecution for shoplifting — that's a big problem," said Steven Lien, owner of retail store UnderU4men in downtown Portland.  The numbers come at a time when Portland business owners complain retail theft ha...

A California elementary school will introduce an "After School Satan Club" to its curriculum. Students at Golden Hills Elementary School will soon be able to attend the club, sponsored by the Satanic Temple and Reason Alliance, ABC 33/40 reported. The temple is a non-theistic religious group, not to be confused with the Church of Satan. The group describes its program as "self-direc...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was swiftly ridiculed for decrying the mass shooting in Colorado, while her own city is plagued with gang violence and fatal shootings. The Democratic mayor responded to the deadly shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado, where five people were killed and dozens of others were injured, by saying that it made her "sick." "I’m sick of this s---. How many p...

A business manager in Madison, Tennessee, said he is tired of the theft, harassment and aggressive panhandling in his area of the Nashville suburb. Mena Girgis, who manages Carlos Wireless off Gallatin Pike Road in Madison, said crime has been a major problem for months and is hurting the local economy, according to local Fox affiliate WZTV. "They’ve been out there harassing people that are c...

The head of a Chicago violence interruption group wants to make it illegal for people to wear ski masks outdoors in Chicago and across Illinois. “If a person is not going skiing anywhere here in Chicago, which we do not have any ski slopes in Chicago, it’s time to ban full-face ski masks,” Tio Hardiman, Executive Director for Violence Interrupters, said in a YouTube video Friday. “Today I’m coming...

A wedding photographer fought off a brazen daytime attack by two armed men in San Francisco to save the filmed memories of his clients. The attack happened right in front of the horrified bride and groom. And it was one of two separate assaults on photographers on the same day at the same location - San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts. Both incidents were caught on video. One photographer fro...

Oregon Homeless: The members of the City Council in Portland, Oregon, postponed a vote on a contentious budget measure that would finance the construction of designated camping areas for homeless people after residents voiced strong opposition during public testimony. The measure in question would provide funding for the construction of such areas. It has been proposed by Mayor Ted Wheeler that $2...

A wedding dress and other crucial things from a couple’s wedding were stolen in Portland just two days after they exchanged vows. After Abby Paterson and David De Leon got married in Napa, Calif. last week, they decided to turn their 1200-mile journey back home to Vancouver, British Columbia into a mini honeymoon. “It was our dream come true, everything came together, and it was perfect,” Abby sai...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is taking a beating on social media — from cycling enthusiasts and their City Council champions — for allowing her bodyguard detail and security tail car to park both SUVs in a bike lane so she could run into a North Side doughnut shop. During the pandemic, Lightfoot was accused of do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do hypocrisy for getting her hair cut at a time when beauty parlors were sh...

Target stores are getting looted, and it's taking a huge bite out of profits. The discount retailer told reporters on a call to discuss its third quarter earnings results that inventory shrinkage — or the disappearance of merchandise — has reduced its gross profit margin by $400 million so far in 2022 compared to 2021. "At Target, year-to-date, incremental shortage has already reduced ou...

Thousands of text messages from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s city-issued iPhone and the phones of other top officials are missing from the public record, including texts he sent after former President Donald Trump directed federal agents to the city to quell nightly racial justice protests. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that the city uses specialized software to capture text messaging on city...

An Oregon man was sentenced to spend more than six years in jail after prosecutors said he tried to steal a car using a lit blowtorch. Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt said in a news release that Michael Scott Walton was sentenced to 80 months in prison for attempted robbery and attempted assault. Schmidt said that Walton attacked a man who had just picked up a DoorDash order for de...

A state administrative law judge has revoked $77,000 in fines that a Portland election official slapped on City Council candidate Rene Gonzalez for accepting a steeply discounted rent on his downtown campaign office. Susan Mottet, who oversees the city’s Small Donor Elections program, said last month that the cheap rent Gonzalez has accepted from his landlord, Schnitzer Properties Management, coun...

Violent tension between biker gangs in Chicago, Illinois, is reportedly escalating following years of relative peace. Chicago’s infamous Outlaws Motorcycle Club is warring against the Mongol Nation Motorcycle Club, a rival group that has reportedly been crowding in on the Outlaws' turf in the city, according to bikers and police sources who spoke to the Chicago Sun-Times. Multiple shootings b...

The Nike Community Store in Northeast Portland is filled with neatly folded shirts, racks of athletic apparel and rows of Nike shoes — but no customers. The store quietly closed weeks ago and the company won’t say when or if it will re-open. Nike corporate did not respond to three different emails. "Closed for the next 7 days," Nike posted on its website. The same message has appeared si...

A controversial new ordinance designed to get more homeless people into shelters in Tacoma goes into effect Monday. Those who break the new law face fines and jail time. No one will be forced out of an encampment Monday. Two-week notices will go out to encampments that are near a homeless shelter. City leaders said they are trying this approach to get more people off the streets and into housing....

Road rage incidents have been increasing in Western Washington over the past few years.  On Friday, a nine-year-old boy was shot in Renton and less than a month ago, a 24-year-old woman was shot and killed in a road rage incident in Skykomish. Law enforcement officials in multiple Western Washington counties are seeing drivers become more aggressive. “We've seen a lot of erratic behavior on o...

A national leader in setting standards for healthcare organizations handed down a "preliminary denial of accreditation" to Kitsap County’s St. Michael Medical Center. St. Michael Medical Center recently came under scrutiny after it was reported in October that a nurse in the emergency department called 911 requesting Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue crews to help with patients amid staffin...

SEATTLE, Wash. — A very popular video game store, Pink Gorilla, is opening up another shop in Capitol Hill after having several break-ins in recent months, including an armed robbery just last month. Owner Cody Spencer told KOMO that he decided to open up another store because of the recent break-ins. “We’re going to need to move quickly, this is too many too quickly and an armed robbery it’s just...

Prominent businesses in Long Beach, California, are threatening to pack up and move if issues such as crime, drug use and homelessness are not addressed, according to a local report.  "Customers don’t feel safe," District Wine owner Angela Mesna said this week, according to the Long Beach Business Journal. "My staff are afraid. We all carry pepper spray just to serve our customers o...

The Tehama County Sheriff's Office has announced that, as of Nov. 20, there will be no daytime patrols anywhere in the county.  The sheriff's office said in a statement released to the press that the drastic decision is necessary as they "manage a catastrophic staffing shortage throughout the agency." "Over the past several years, the Sheriff’s Office has had difficulties...

A Downtown San Francisco Whole Foods Market slashed its operating hours due to “high theft” and hostile people, according to one of the store’s managers. As of Oct. 24, the store—located at 1185 Market St.—is now opening an hour later and closing two hours earlier: from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. “It’s to better serve our customers, and it’s more or less because of the area and security issues,” said the st...

Chicago police issued an alert after a series of armed robberies and a carjacking in the Humboldt Park neighborhood in recent weeks. It's an alarming trend with no apparent solution in sight. A lot of stuff is senseless," said resident Curtis Nailor. Chicago Police issued the community alert after there were 15 different armed robberies on the West Side since October 21. The latest incid...