Rick Anderson

Will Jeff Sessions come after legalized marijuana, a drug ‘only slightly less awful’ than heroin?

August 22, 2019 at 5:26 a.m.

With thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at stake, it's a burning question: Is Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions preparing to mess with voter-approved sales of recreational marijuana? It's a...

Feds deny doctoring document central to case of Seattle ‘Dreamer’ facing deportation

August 22, 2019 at 3:29 a.m.

Sounding a bit annoyed, U.S. immigration and Justice Department attorneys deny that federal officers erased or changed a statement written by a Seattle "Dreamer" who is fighting to avoid deportation....

The University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Ore., in November.

University of Oregon censures law professor for wearing blackface at her Halloween party

August 22, 2019 at 2:27 a.m.

A University of Oregon law professor and former chair of her department's diversity committee violated university anti-racial-harassment policies by wearing blackface at her Halloween party, an investigation has found. The...

Satanic Temple of Seattle founder Lilith Starr at home.

Yes, an after-school Satan Club could be coming to your kid’s grade school

August 22, 2019 at 1:36 a.m.

Lilith Starr, a devil's advocate in every sense, is in a rush to get her After School Satan Club started. As founder of the Satanic Temple of Seattle, she's under...

A heroin user prepares to shoot up in New London, Conn., an area hit hard by the surging heroin problem.

Seattle plans to give heroin addicts ‘safe sites’ to shoot up

August 22, 2019 at 1:12 a.m.

Seattle officials are moving forward with a controversial plan for what would be the nation's first supervised heroin-injection clinics — government-financed shooting galleries that supporters say can save lives but...

A sign is posted on the door of the visitor center at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters Jan. 5, 2016, near Burns, Ore.

Leaders of Oregon wildlife refuge occupation go on trial

August 22, 2019 at 1:01 a.m.

For weeks in Oregon's rugged backcountry, the two brothers were the face of the armed occupation of a wildlife refuge — two men dressed in flannel and cowboys hats with...

Ammon Bundy, the leader of an anti-government militia in Oregon, carried a copy of the U.S. Constitution in his pocket.

After Khan dust-up, Constitution climbs bestseller list — but not the version you’d think

August 22, 2019 at 12:33 a.m.

Though Donald Trump's ongoing feud with the father of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq is being credited with boosting sales of a pocket edition of the Constitution, the version...

Debtors prison a thing of the past? Some places in America still lock up the poor

August 21, 2019 at 11:41 p.m.

Unemployed and fighting to stay clean, Jayne Fuentes had few options when a judge offered her a particularly unappealing choice – go to jail or spend her days on a...

Some of Portland's estimated 2,000 homeless people.

Cities watch as Portland allows homeless to sleep on sidewalks and camp in public spaces

August 21, 2019 at 11:26 p.m.

Leaning back on a bench, William Wheaton had his cowboy hat pulled down over his eyes and appeared to be dozing. One hand was looped through the straps of his...

U.S. Route 395 is blocked at Seneca between the communities of John Day and Burns, Ore., by Oregon State Police officers the evening of Jan. 26, 2016. Authorities say shots were fired during the arrest of members of an armed group that has occupied a national wildlife refuge in Oregon for more than three weeks.

Oregon wildlife refuge occupier arrested on weapons charge

June 21, 2019 at 7:51 a.m.

Three months after the surrender of the last armed militants who took over an Oregon wildlife refuge in January, federal agents have arrested a self-styled journalist who had embedded with...

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