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Suspect Arrested Over Police Officer Assault in Pendleton

Police say Hawk used a vehicle to strike Officer Scott Hays during a felony traffic stop during early morning hours of December 14th.

(PENDLETON, Ore.) - A woman sought since December 14th, suspected of using a stolen pickup to assault a Milton-Freewater police officer was arrested Tuesday night in Pendleton.

Around 10:35 PM, officers from Pendleton Police Department, acting on information developed by Umatilla Tribal Police, located and arrested 21-year old Marissa Belle Hawk at a Pendleton-area motel.

Brief Break in Storms with More Rain and Snow to Come

In Oregon, another strong front will push across the coastal waters late tonight and early Wednesday With main low pressure tracking into Vancouver Island during the day Wednesday.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Pacific storm slamming the West Coast today will be followed by a brief period of nice weather before the next storm arrives on Friday, weather experts say, but the train of storms is expected to continue through at least Christmas Day.

Today's storm will bring rain as far south as Southern California and heavy snow to the Cascades, Sierra and the mountains of Southern California. Tonight, the storm will begin to dissipate as it moves into Canada.

Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?

A small Gift to Salem-News Readers.

(BEND, Ore.) - What a question! Everybody does, sometimes with great difficulties, presented by complex and competing factors full of fury and firing up indecision that much more.

Finding myself in just that dilemma some years ago, I sought all the help I could get in some basic research. I was fortunate to be guided then by one of the practitioners in the then-new arts of “decisioneering” - later and better known as “systems thinking”, complete with much more complex but not necessarily more helpful plans, practices and protocol.

Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 73 - To See Ourselves As Others See Us

This is the seventy-third installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(Earth) - The people of our planet and the people of many earths across the multiverse have reached a point where their actions will decide the fate of their planet. Have they already created a system which will turn their world into another Venus? Yet bringing about the change necessary to prevent this is thwarted by corporate greed. Can't capitalist earth see that making an enormous profit will do it no good if there's no world to enjoy it in? Perhaps, as the poet Robert Burns has suggested, we sorely need the gift to see ourselves as others see us. Others, in this case, from Zeta Reticuli

Pregnant Woman Among Patients Lifeflighted From Crash in Canby

The crash happened on South Barnards Road and South Elisha Road. Of the four injured, three patients were Lifelighted.

(CANBY, Ore.) - Several people including were injured in a car crash at the intersection of S. Barnards Road and S Elisha Road in Canby this evening. A pregnant woman was among the injured. Canby Fire Division Chief Troy Buzalsky says crews were dispatched to the scene at 6:35 PM.

"When firefighters arrived they quickly triaged the scene and determined that they had four patients, two who were out of their vehicles walking, and two still in the mini-van, which was sitting in the middle of a front lawn."

Firefighters Pull Beaverton Woman from Burning Building

Firefighters rescued an adult female from an upstairs bedroom area.

(BEAVERTON, Ore.) - A one-alarm fire critically injured a Beaverton woman and heavily damaged her home Tuesday morning. Neighbors called 9-1-1 dispatchers just after 8:00 AM to report that smoke was coming from the top floor of a tri-level home at 7650 SW 141st near the corner of Kimberly Drive.

Storm Smith with Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue says firefighters from four different stations converged on the home with the first arriving engines from South Beaverton and Beaverton Main Fire Stations reporting heavy fire coming from the top story windows.

Army Identifies Officer Missing In Action From Vietnam War

Reports during the war indicated that the crew survived and were in captivity.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The return of the remains of U.S. Army aviator Major Perry Jefferson, missing from the Vietnam War, will bring closure to an American family who has waited 38 years for his identification and recovery.

But interesting circumstances surround the recovery of this officer. Contrary to what the government reported today, this story is haunted with the possibility that both men were actually captured and held prisoner before meeting their eventual deaths.

Public Policy Group Says Tax System Keeps Oregon Afloat

The Oregon Center for Public Policy says many other states drown in red ink.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - While nearly half the states in the country will face budget shortfalls next year or the year after, Oregon is projected to collect just enough revenue to stay above water, according to analysts at the Oregon Center for Public Policy.

Oregon escaped mention in a report released today identifying 24 states confronting budget problems. Of that group, 13 face a combined budget shortfall of at least $23 billion for fiscal year 2009.

Elk Poaching Investigation Underway South of Yachats

State troopers believe the elk were killed on Sunday, December 16th, at approximately 7:15 AM.

(NEWPORT, Ore.) - The Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Division is asking for the public's help to solve an elk poaching case in Lincoln County. They say this request follows the discovery of two Roosevelt elk left to waste.

Sergeant Todd Thompson with Oregon State Police says that on Monday, Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife troopers from Newport responded to the discovery of a Roosevelt cow elk and calf that were left to waste 1.8 miles east of Highway 101 on the Cape Perpetua Auto Tour road south of Yachats.

Albany Ends Photo Red Light Warning Period (VIDEO)

Albany Police say people who run the light at Queen Avenue and Geary Street will face enforcement.

(ALBANY, Ore.) - Albany Police say that since October 2007, a Photo Red Light camera has been capturing red light violations at the intersection of Queen Avenue and Geary Street.

During the months of October and November 2007, 291 warning letters were sent to registered owners of the vehicles that were photographed violating the red light at this intersection.