A water main burst in downtown Corvallis, Ore., and flooded some streets for about two hours. The Gazette-Times reported a four-block section will be without water a day or longer while crews dig up and repair the damaged 20-inch iron …
A grieving Portland woman hopes Oregon will establish a statewide alert system to find hit-and-run drivers. It would operate similar to the Amber alert system for missing children. Kristi Finney-Dunn lost her 18-year-old son, Dustin Finney, three years ago when …
Oregon’s emergency management agency may not be well equipped to recover from a major disaster because of a history of leadership problems and an incomplete plan to handle emergencies, according to an audit released Monday by the Secretary of State’s …
The parents of a young boy are suing Oregon Health & Science University over a surgery that rendered the child’s testicles useless. The Oregonian reports that opening statements in the trial began last week in a lawsuit that seeks $1.5 …
A 19-year-old Oregon woman who drove an SUV into a pile of leaves that concealed two girls has been found guilty in the fatal hit-and-run case. A Washington County jury took less than two hours Wednesday afternoon to find Cinthya …
Federal inspectors have found 17 violations of worker safety codes at a Veterans Affairs medical facility in Southern Oregon. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday that 10 of the violations at the Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinics …
Christmas Eve is usually a night of anticipation and excitement, of big-eyed kids wondering what the morning will bring. That same sense of anticipation sparkled in the northern Lake County community of Silver Lake in 1894, when between 160 and …
The family of an 18-year-old who was shot and killed after brandishing a knife at two Medford police officers has filed a $2 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Oregon city. Family members called police in January 2012 when a …
Jurors awarded more than $101,000 to a Happy Valley, Ore., woman who was a victim of identity theft and wrongly arrested by Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies. The Oregonian reports jurors deliberated less than two hours before reaching a verdict upholding …
Traffic stops hold a unique place in Oregon law. They are, technically, “temporary seizures” that allow police to investigate a violation, identify a driver and issue a citation. At that point, the stop is over. But what if the driver …