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The Gresham Science Expo Regional Fair was held March 13 when more than 115 projects and more than 180 competitors from Jesuit, Bend Science Station, John Day, Vancouver, Catlin Gable, Tualatin, Oregon Muslim Academy, and 40 students from Gresham High School competed.

Winners from Gresham High, and qualifiers for the April 2 state competition were:

• First Place for Environmental Management - Jasmin Kennard
• First Place for Plant Sciences - Haley Schaeffer
• Second Place for Environmental Analysis - Shannon Ernst
• Third Place for Animal Science - Jordan Ellis, Kaela Meixner, and Kaylee Barcroft

Honorable mention selections were: 

Tori Sturgill, Brenna Newman, Bianka Salazar, Danika Hazard, Kylee Pearson, Lauren Laakso, Claire Palmiter, Pearly Walton and Darya Zabrodchenko.

Special awards:

• Outstanding Geoscience Project - Shannon Ernst
• Outstanding Use of the International System of Units - Jasmin Kennard
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GRESHAM, Ore. - Police have busted a shoplifting ring of 11 young men with ties to Centennial High School.

The thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of designer jeans from Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue stores. According to police, they didn't keep the stolen goods for themselves, but actually sold them for a profit.

Investigators say the men dubbed themselves, "The Mini Boys."

All 11 of the accused were arraigned on charges of first-degree theft and organized retail theft, a felony. Conviction on retail theft can carry a maximum 10-year prison term.

All five charged as adults pleaded not guilty.

Note: the mug shots above are of the adult accused, while the other six are minors.

GRESHAM, Ore. - Four young suspects have been arrested and accused for a violent break-in last month that involved firing shotgun blasts through a family’s walls.

The youngest suspect is just 11 years old and the gunman is 15.

Jeremy Knight came face to face with the gunman Friday, Feb. 26.

“And then I’m looking down a barrel,” he said demonstrating.

The suspect blasted through Knight’s kitchen wall, cabinets, and shattered part of the stove top.

The shooting sent Jeremy, his wife and their teenage daughter running for cover.

“I thought he was going to come in and kill us,” Knight said. “Smashed in the window and had no regard – just straight up fired.”

Now the family is working toward repairing the damage done by patching and painting the holes left from the shooting but covering up the fear after the violent home invasion will be more difficult.

“My wife and daughter, they aren’t sleeping,” Knight said.

While the family said it is mind-boggling the burglars were so young, those in the Rockwood neighborhood who knew the kids said it’s not all that surprising.

TROUTDALE, Ore. - A 21-year-old Gresham man is under arrest in connection with an armed robbery at a pharmacy in Troutdale.

Federico Sanchez Jr. was arrested at his home on Sunday and is now being lodged at the Multnomah County Detention Center on robbery charges.

Investigators believe Sanchez is the man who walked into the Troutdale Walgreens on Stark Street late last month and demanded Oxycontin.