A majority of the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners voted in favour on Thursday night to move through with a plan to buy a motel close to Clackamas Town Center and convert it into the emergency shelter and other services for the homeless. The Quality Hotel on Southeast Sunnyside Road, east of Interstate 205, was […]

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office fired a volunteer deputy who told the public about an officer who had sent nude images to his coworker and others using his official government phone. With a public documents request on Tuesday, February 14th, The Forum was able to obtain a memo from January 11 in which Sheriff Jesse

William “Chris” McCollum, a former economic development official for Baltimore County and a veteran Democrat, has been indicted on 21 counts of felony theft scheme, embezzlement, and perjury for allegedly stealing from the campaigns of a former county councilwoman and a slate committee that backs the candidatures of other local Democrats. State Prosecutor Charlton T.

Rescuers are looking for survivors in Tajikistan after a series of avalanches struck the country’s mountainous east, killing at least 17 people. According to officials, the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region’s capital city of Khorog has been hardest damaged. Snow has covered dozens of homes, some of which are entirely demolished. Avalanches and rockfalls are a persistent

In a press conference on Thursday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said that while the newly elected majority of the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners did not violate the Open Meetings Act with its first hastily called meeting of the year, their actions raise concerns for government transparency. Ottawa County’s new board majority, supported by

Pickens County’s Community Alliance for Sustainable Development (CASD) has only been around for three months, but it’s already making a difference in the area. Kara Forward, a local resident, has remarked, “Living in Pickens County is a great thing, but we got to keep it and we have to work for it,”  During tonight’s CASD

Some of the most populous counties in the United States are banding together to offer guaranteed income to low-income citizens. Counties for Guaranteed Income is a collaboration of local leaders from places including Los Angeles County, Cook County in Chicago, Harris County in Houston, and others, with the goal of collecting data to push for

Brent Patterson, a spokesman for the Madison County sheriff’s office in Alabama, confirmed that there were no survivors from a military helicopter crash in Madison County. Officials told ABC News that the chopper belongs to the Tennessee National Guard. “Just as we got made the right turn, we heard this very loud like a car

On Wednesday, two American aircraft saw a meteorite above Texas, and locals reported hearing an intense explosion. Strange events have been occurring in the United States of America (USA). The American people have been experiencing a ‘real-life’ science fiction thriller, from the Chinese ‘Spy Balloon’ flying over their territory to the government waiting for it