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Lillian Mongeau is a Senior Editor overseeing the Western Bureau of The Hechinger Report, a national non-profit education news agency. You can follow her on Twitter @lrmongeau.

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Closing date set for 200-bed Portland overnight shelter beset by neighbor complaints Original

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By Lillian Mongeau Hughes Verified
| The Oregonian Verified
One of the largest and most controversial overnight-only shelters opened under Portland Mayor Keith Wilson’s plan to end unsheltered homelessness will close Sept. 18, almost exactly a year after it opened. The Northrup Shelter in the Pearl District, operated by The Salvation Army, provides 200 overnight-only beds to homeless Portlanders.
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Oregon officials keep eye out for dangerous new opioid found in other parts of the country

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By Lillian Mongeau Hughes Verified
| Yahoo Verified
This story mentions highly addictive drugs. If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, call 988, the national mental health crisis help line, for free assistance finding treatment. Overdose deaths in Oregon were down in 2025, although 1,100 people still lost their lives to drugs, according to preliminary data from the Oregon Health Authority. That's the second year in a row of declining deaths since the grisly 2023 peak in the state's fentanyl crisis when 1,833 people died.
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Family says patient who died was ‘tortured’ at Oregon State Hospital. Now they’re suing

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By Lillian Mongeau Hughes Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Sierra Hass, the sister and legal guardian of a patient who died at the Oregon State Hospital last year, is suing the state, her brother's doctors and other hospital employees for "extreme neglect and abuse" that her lawyers argue directly caused his death. Kenneth Hass had been at the state hospital for nearly three years when he died, more than a year of which he spent alone in a locked room, according to the lawsuit.
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