The Hawthorne Bridge reopened to traffic Friday morning after a man who’d climbed up a bridge tower the previous evening finally descended. The man — later identified as 44-year-old Rashawn L. Anderson — had climbed up the west tower toward the 400-ton counterweight mechanism on the downtown end of the bridge around 5 p.

A man was arrested on Friday morning after he spent over 18 hours in the Hawthorne Bridge tower structure, the crisis response for which halted traffic overnight, authorities said. Portland police said a man in his mid-40s was arrested and accused of multiple charges,