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Xavier Mitchell Courtesy: Washington Co. Sheriff's Office Washington County deputies arrest ed Sunday three of four men suspected of robbing a Rock Creek apartment and beating the renter unconscious. Deputies were called to the apartments at NW 185th Avenue and NW Rock Creek Boulevard at around 11:49 p.m. Friday to find that four men had unlawfully entered the home through an unlocked sliding glass door . The 20-year-old victim, who was home alone, told deputies he was beaten unconscious and then woke up to find the men stealing property from his residence. Among the items stolen Stanley Armitage Courtesy: Washington Co. Sheriff's Office were marijuana and electronics. The victim told deputies he knew three of the four intruders. Within seven hours, deputies tracked down and arrested Xavier Mitchell and Kei-Jian Buckley, both 18 and from Hillsboro, along with Stanley Armitage , 18, from Beaverton. All three were booked at the Washington County Jail on charges of robbe...

View Comments When it comes to fighting crime in Lake Oswego, there's no call too small for the LOPD ACCIDENTS 8/15/17 12:17 p.m. A driver was cited for failure to yield the right of way after a two-car collision at Kruse Way and Kruse Oaks Boulevard . 8/15/17 12:41 p.m. A driver was cited for failure to avoid a parked vehicle after leaving the scene of an accident on Centerpointe Drive. 8/16/17 6:26 p.m. A driver was cited for failure to avoid a stopped vehicle after a two-car crash at Stafford Road and Sunny Hill Drive . 8/17/17 6:26 p.m. The driver of a Jeep Cherokee was cited for failure to drive to the right of an approaching vehicle after a collision with a bicyclist at Boones Ferry Road and Kruse Way. THEFTS 8/16/17 7:49 a.m. Sunglasses were taken from an unlocked Toyota Highlander overnight on Greentree Road. 8/16/17 8:30 a.m. A backpack, a MacBook Pro and a wallet containing credit cards and a driver's license were taken from an unlocked Jeep Rubicon on Park Road...

As rents climb across the U.S., more people are being driven into homelessness. In some of the country’s hottest housing markets , rent increases have a strong connection with upticks in the homeless population , according to a study released this week from real- estate website Zillow . In New York City, a 5% rent hike would lead to nearly 3,000 more people becoming homeless. In Los Angeles, the same increase in rent would leave around 2,000 people without a place to live. To produce the report, Zillow created a model that analyzed different variables, including how population growth and changes in rent affect the homelessness rate. The model also considered the accuracy of homeless counts. Zillow then passed Census population figures , homelessness counts and its own rental data through the model to determine the relationship between rental prices and homelessness in different cities. The Census population numbers also take into account people who move in or out of a city, inclu...