Two Oregon legislative leaders on Monday urged the new FBI director to open an investigation into the 1989 stabbing death of Oregon prisons chief Michael Francke, now that the conviction of Frank ...

Dave Baden has been appointed acting superintendent of the Oregon State Hospital following the resignation of interim superintendent and chief medical officer Dr. Sara Walker, the governor's office ...

Francke was stabbed to death outside his office in Salem. Then-Gov. Neil Goldschmidt had hired Francke, a former judge and ...

In a bipartisan effort, Oregon House of Representatives leaders Ben Bowman and Christine Drazen have asked the FBI to open a ...

Top lawmakers of both parties in the Oregon House of Representatives asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to get to the bottom of the 1989 murder of Michae ...

Jamison Wagner is alleged to have set fires at a Tesla showroom on Feb. 9 and vandalized several vehicles in the parking lot with phrases including "Die Elon." ...

The 1989 murder of Michael Francke, then the director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, is back in the news.

Oen Nicholson, 34, was sent immediately from jail to the Oregon State Hospital after a Coos County judge found him guilty except for insanity.

Thomas Patrick Healy was arrested in November 2022, months after the fatal shooting at Geer Park in north Salem.

It’s a case that sent shockwaves through the Bay Areafour people murdered on the morning of June 18, 2021, and investigators ...

Community celebrations being planned to commemorate the nation's 250th anniversary next year are at risk of being ...