ST. HELENS, Ore. — The judge for the trial of St. Helens High School teacher Eric Stearns has recused himself this week to "avoid any further undue delay" in the case, where Stearns faces 18 ...

Steven T. Webb took on the superintendent role after the St. Helens School District was rocked by a sexual abuse scandal involving several educators and administrators. The acting superintendent ...

ST. HELENS, Ore. (KATU) — The judge overseeing the sex abuse case against a St. Helens teacher has taken himself off the case. The teacher in question is Eric Stearns. Police arrested him last ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The St. Helens School District has been plagued with scandal since staff members were first removed from its high school on sex abuse allegations in November 2024.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A teacher accused of sexually abusing students at St. Helens High School has been arrested for a second time on new allegations of abuse, police announced. The St. Helens Police ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A St. Helens High School teacher is back behind bars on 11 new sex abuse charges, according to local authorities. Police told KOIN 6 News Eric Stearns, 46, was arrested ...

Police have once again arrested Eric Stearns — the St. Helens High School choir teacher facing a slew of sexual abuse charges — this time for additional charges stating he allegedly abused ...

ST HELENS, Ore. (KATU) — St. Helens High School teacher Eric Stearns was in court on Monday afternoon after being arrested over the weekend on 10 new sexual abuse charges. Stearns, the school ...

St. Helens High School choir teacher Eric C. Stearns, who is in jail on multiple sex abuse allegations, resigned quietly in lieu of firing from another Oregon school district after complaints of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A house fire in St. Johns led to an explosion that left one wall “completely blown off the home” late Wednesday morning, according to Portland firefighters.

The State St. Substation in Brooklyn — the subway power room that blew up last month and stranded several trains underground for hours — will soon be back up and running, according to MTA ...

Police and firefighters responded to The Oxford Medical Center in Troy around 8 a.m. Friday for a report of a hyperbaric chamber explosion. When emergency responders arrived at the facility ...