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Dear editor, I was conned by the AM/PM ARCO station in Woodburn yesterday when they pumped gas for me. I was speechless when I saw my gas gauge had moved barely a quarter of a tank after I ordered $20 of unleaded regular. Then I discovered it was $6.69 for a gallon of regular. There were no posted signs (showing this price). ...

Woodburn Police on Wednesday identified the victim in a fatal shooting on Sunday at Mega Foods. Police said 39-year-old Noel Orozco Romero was shot at the grocery store on Mt. Hood Avenue and died at the scene. The shooting happened at 4 p.m. Sunday, according to police. It was not...

A man’s death Wednesday in St. Paul has been ruled a homicide and an investigation is underway, the police department announced Thursday. It happened in the 1100 block of White Bear Avenue. Police said they will release additional information later this afternoon.

MARION COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - A Salem man was arrested Wednesday after a “high speed pursuit” through the Salem and Keizer area, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said they attempted to make a traffic stop but the driver fled. They did not say where...

A man was arrested Wednesday night after menacing two women at a Salem park, police said.

Night construction will cause some delays and new traffic patterns on Interstate 5 this month near Woodburn and Donald. Oregon Department of Transportation is replacing two weigh-in motion scales, used to weigh semi-trucks while they're still in motion, and will be working from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Sunday through Thursday in June.

An Oregon man went missing after going to spread a loved one's ashes, only for his body to be found days later, a local sheriff's office announced.

Hoodview Church of God in Woodburn is hosting a large, one-day rummage sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 10, 1530 Mt. Hood Ave., Woodburn. The sale will benefit the church's upcoming short-term mission trip to Mexico. It features many household items, furniture, and a large supply of floral crafting items. The sale will be held indoors in the church gym. Three churches in the Willamette Valley are partnering together in this biennial project to build a home for a family through the “Welcome Home Outreach” ministry in Vicente Guerrero, Mexico. They will travel August 13-19. For more information, call 503-981-1660.

EUGENE, Ore. — Back on January 3, 2023, a woman was struck W. 6th on Lincoln, by a vehicle that fled the scene. The woman sustained a broken arm due to the vehicle-pedestrian crash. Several months later, the Eugene Police Major Collision Investigation team made an arrest in the...

Parents of disabled children rally in Salem for caregiver funding bill. On Thursday, parents of disabled children across the state gathered at the State Capitol in Salem to urge lawmakers to advance policies and funding for parents to be paid caregivers to their extremely disabled children. Updated: 5 hours ago.

Nick Hunter had just finished his baseball career as a pitcher at Willamette University when he joined the Marion County Sheriff’s Office as a reserve deputy. He had to beat out as much competition to be chosen as Marion County’s next sheriff Wednesday. ...

Turner Road SE in southeast Salem will be closed for two weeks starting June 12, between Kuebler Road and Deer Park Road SE due to construction work. Northbound traffic will be detoured to Deer Park Road SE, while southbound traffic will remain open south of Kuebler Road.

WILSONVILLE Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) - A woman in Oregon who was sentenced to life in prison for throwing her two children off of a bridge died Sunday, according to authorities. KPTV reports 45-year-old Amanda Stott-Smith was found dead in her cell at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville Sunday morning. The facility did not say how she died.

Whether it’s helping to direct traffic and park cars or chipping in with concessions help, the St. Paul Rodeo has always been an all-hands-on-deck, community affair; there is pretty much a role for everyone regionwide. Perhaps no role is more appreciated than that of the hundreds of volunteers with the St. Paul Catholic Church, who ensure that rodeo attendees have the famously tasty barbecue chicken on hand. St. Paul Rodeo...

Woodburn Police say one person died in a shooting at a Woodburn grocery store on Sunday afternoon and the suspect has been arrested. Police officials said the shooting took place at the Mega Foods supermarket around 4 p.m.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Boulder City has issued a silver alert for a missing woman who told her family that she was driving to Oregon days before the alert was issued. Christina Donner, also known as Christina Wegner, last spoke with her family four days ago, on June 4, 2023. She told them she was driving from Boulder City to an unknown friend’s house in McMinnville, Oregon.

From Salem area events to things to do around the Mid-Valley, here are some of the top events happening around the area this weekend. To submit a future event for consideration, email JCWilliams1@gannett.com with information about the event. Here are five things to do in the area this week. Open...

Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office May 25 Ana Carina Rivas Ordaz, 30, of Newberg, was arrested on a hold from Washington County. No bail was set. May 26 Jolene Lynn Boger, 38, of Newberg, was arrested attempted assault of a public...

Terry Brown’s murder trial began Wednesday with the aftermath of the mass shooting at the Seventh Street Truck Park bar in St. Paul. In a St. Paul police officer’s body-camera video, people are seen huddled over the wounded. Some are yelling for help, others moaning in pain. “It...

Like many other high school freshmen learning about a new virus sweeping the globe, Antonio Guadarrama Hernandez didn’t think that he would be out of school for that long. He remembers his science teacher at Newberg High School saying in March 2020 that students were simply being given an extra week of spring break. “At first it was a week or two, and then that week was a month,” the 18-year-old recalls. “And then it turned out that COVID was spreading super rapidly so nobody...