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She was the first female detective, sergeant, lieutenant and captain in the bureau. When she was named to lead Portland police in 1985, she was the first woman to become chief of any major police force in the country.

Ivermectin is really good at killing tiny animals called roundworms. A single dose makes your body so toxic that it kills the larval roundworms that cause African river blindness for an entire year. People are taking it daily to cure or prevent COVID-19. That's a very bad idea.

As showers approach Oregon from the west, significant rain is predicted to start falling across the northern part of the state Friday night – and one emergency management office is asking its community to be extra prepared.

The charge at heart of the ruling is called "civil disorder," and stems from a 1968 law which the U.S. Justice Department has used extensively to crack down on crimes it says were committed during last summer's protests.

The crowds were demonstrating in support of people who are accused of participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection, which left several people dead.

The harvest moon is the last full moon of the summer. This year it will appear to be full for three days with peak illumination occurring at 7:54 p.m. ET Monday.

A shift in the weather accelerated the fires in the Sequoia National Park on Friday. The flames scorched a grouping of sequoias that mark the entrance to a grove of 2,000 sequoias.

As if schools across the country didn't have enough to worry about: some middle and high school students are vandalizing bathrooms thanks to a TikTok trend called "Devious Licks."

Scientists are still studying whether the deworming medicine could have any effect on COVID-19. But the frenzy over the drug has far more to do with politics than science. Here's how that happened.

In addition to masking, the University of Oregon requires all students and employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before the start of in-person classes.