Gillian Flaccus, Author at Valley News

This undated photo provided by the Portland, Ore., Police Bureau on Saturday, May 18, 2019 shows Angel Granados Dias, 18. Police said the Parkrose High School student was tackled after reportedly bringing a gun into a classroom on Friday. (Portland Police Bureau via AP)

Police ID Oregon gunman

by Gillian Flaccus Associated PressMay 18, 2019

PORTLAND, Ore. — Police released the identity Saturday of an 18-year-old student who was tackled after reportedly bringing a gun into classroom at an Oregon high school.The Portland Police Bureau said Angel Granados Dias had been booked into the…

A vehicle drives through smoke from a wildfire near Pulga, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Wildfire Death Toll Rises

by Gillian Flaccus Associated Press, and Andrew Selsky Associated PressNovember 12, 2018

Hospital beds and other equipment sit in a parking lot outside the Feather River Hospital Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, in Paradise, Calif. Patients were evacuated from the hospital before a massive wildfire swept through the area, Thursday. One building was burned in the fire, but firefighters were able to stop the blaze before it did more damage. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Wildfire Obliterates Calif. Town

by Gillian Flaccus Associated Press, and Don Thompson And Paul Elias Associated PressNovember 10, 2018

Fire Retardent is dropped on the Substation fire near where the Deschutes and Columbia Rivers meet along I-84 and SR 15 on Thursday, July 19, 2018, east of Portland. Ore. (Mark Graves/The Oregonian via AP)

Oregon Wheat Farmers Try to Stop Fire That’s Consuming Crops

by Gillian Flaccus Associated PressJuly 20, 2018

Ursula Le Guin American author of novels, children's books, is seen in a Sept. 9, 2001 photo at home in Portland, Ore. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books, died peacefully Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, in Portland, Oregon, according to a brief family statement posted to her verified Twitter account. She was 88. (Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian via AP)

Ursula K. Le Guin, Best-Selling Science Fiction Author, Dies

by Gillian Flaccus Associated Press, and Hillel Italie Associated PressJanuary 23, 2018

In an April 29, 2017 photo provided by John Rudoff, Jeremy Joseph Christian, right, is seen during a Patriot Prayer organized by a pro-Trump group in Portland, Ore. Christian, who police say fatally stabbed two men who tried to shield two young women from an anti-Muslim tirade on a Portland light-rail train Friday, May 26, 2017, makes his initial court appearance in Portland Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Police officer at left is unidentified. (John Rudoff via AP)

Stabbing Suspect: ‘No Safe Place!’

by Gillian Flaccus Associated Press, and Steven Dubois Associated PressMay 31, 2017

Defendant Shawna Cox speaks outside federal court in Portland, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. A jury exonerated brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five others of conspiring to impede federal workers from their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Jury Acquits Standoff Leaders

by Steven Dubois Associated Press, and Gillian Flaccus Associated PressOctober 27, 2016