Crime & Courts

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“She was a very caring person. Really cared about her clients and always gave everything to her work,” a friend and former coworker said.

The state has been first or second on that list for a decade.

Sniffen became the state’s acting attorney general in 2020 following a sexual harrassment scandal involving his predecessor, Kevin Clarkson, who resigned as a result of a different ADN and ProPublica investigation.

Johnson was issued a formal reprimand on his teaching license from the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission in 2014.

State spokesman says investigating MMIP remains a ‘top priority.’

According to the charges, the coach “chastised the juvenile for the player’s manner of playing and refused to let the juvenile go after this juvenile told him to let go.”

Several deaths in the past few years took place within days or weeks of being taken into custody.

A grand jury indicted Tallon Westlake on charges of first-degree murder — that is, for allegedly acting with intent in killing his father — and second-degree murder, under the alternate theory that he showed “extreme indifference” to his father’s life.

Timmerman said he is “looking at” moving out of town at the end of the summer tourism season.