Trooper dragged — An Oregon State Police trooper was dragged down Interstate 5 when a suspect fled a traffic stop that netted a brick of cocaine. Giovanni Dante White, 24, allegedly jumped back into his car while a drug-sniffing dog was searching it and fled. The trooper grabbed the steering wheel and was dragged down the freeway with his body partly in the vehicle before he jumped out. The trooper caught up with White, of Lynnwood, Washington, after the car crashed. White faces multiple drug charges, a charge of assault on a police officer and other counts.

Weighmaster murder — A man convicted of shooting at Los Angeles police officers in late 2014 has pleaded guilty to killing an Oregon heavy truck weighmaster months before the California shootout. Dirck White pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder in the February 2014 death of Grady Waxenfelter, 47. White, 44, fatally shot the Clackamas County assistant weighmaster during a traffic stop near Boring, according to court documents. Waxenfelter saw White hauling a trailer without a license plate. Waxenfelter, whose duties included issuing traffic citations, pulled White over. During the stop, White shot Waxenfelter three times and drove off, according to the documents. In 2016, a Los Angeles County jury convicted White of multiple felony charges. He was sentenced to at least 38 years in prison. White is expected to be sentenced in Oregon next week.

Boardman pollution — A natural gas-fired power plant in Boardman run by Portland General Electric would be allowed to emit over three times more carbon monoxide and eight times more smog-causing pollution if a new permit is approved. PGE can emit 99 tons of carbon monoxide a year at the Carty plant under the Department of Environmental Quality current air-quality permit. The new permit would increase that to 324 tons a year. PGE spokesman Steve Corson says the plant would still be within federal air-quality standards. Corson says the manufacturer of the plant’s turbine found that starting and stopping the machine emitted more pollution than projected.