Jennifer McConnon was sentenced on Thursday to three years of supervision after pleading guilty to being part of an international drug trafficking organization along with her daughter, Sydney Sleight, whose case is still pending.
Dangerously hot temperatures are expected in the Salem area starting on the Fourth of July and reaching triple digits by the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Police on Saturday arrested a teenager accused of shooting and killing a cat on May 10 in southeast Salem.
Michelle Vlach-Ing, a criminal defense attorney, parenting time coordinator and pro tem judge for the city of Salem, is ahead in the four-person race to fill the seat left by retiring Marion County Circuit Court Judge Donald Abar.
Salem police are investigating a Thursday afternoon shooting in Bush’s Pasture Park that left one person dead, two boys injured, a high school and hospital in lockdown and chaos in one of the city’s most storied parks.
A Marion County Circuit Court judge on Thursday sentenced a Silverton man to 17 years in prison for killing a pedestrian in Keizer as he led police on a car chase that ended with a shootout in a northeast Salem parking lot in 2021.
A McNary High School counselor has been charged with sexually abusing a minor for nearly two years.
Prosecutors charged Todd A. Bobeda, 46 of Dallas, on Wednesday in Polk County Circuit Court with four counts of third-degree sexual abuse, two counts of first-degree official misconduct and harassment, according to court documents.
The driver of a pickup truck involved in a fatal accident in March sped through a Salem neighborhood and drove through a stop sign without stopping before colliding with a cyclist, according to witness accounts and video obtained by Salem Reporter. The cyclist was killed.
Kevin Cameron wants a third term as a Marion County commissioner but Andrew Dennis, a state policy analyst, believes it’s time for a change.
Cameron faces Dennis in the race for Position 1 on the Marion County Board of Commissioners in the Nov. 8 general election.
Federal authorities say they found this large indoor marijuana operation in September 2021 in a home outside of Independence on Rickreall Road. (U.S. Attorney’s Office Portland) Federal authorities say a Texas man organized a sophisticated illegal trafficking operation that turned…