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Oregon Coast Waterways to Become Safer With New Patrol Boat

The new patrol boat is designed for all weather conditions.

(LINCOLN CITY, Ore. ) - The Pacific Ocean, rivers and lakes near Lincoln City will soon be safer as the Oregon State Marine Board helped the Lincoln County Sheriff secure a new marine patrol boat.

A 22-foot, full cabin boat, manufactured by River Wild, located in Grants Pass, Oregon, will replace a 1982 Monark and a 1997 safe boat.

Outrage in Egypt After String of Sexual Assaults on Women

Authorities investigating other reports of sexual assaults were examining a dozen videos from security cameras. Warning: This Story Contains Graphic Video!

(CAIRO) - A string of sexual assaults on women during celebrations of Egypt's presidential inauguration — including a mass attack on a 19-year-old student who was stripped in Cairo's Tahrir Square — prompted outrage Monday as a video emerged purportedly showing the teenager, bloodied and naked, surrounded by dozens of men.

Seven men were arrested in connection with the assault and police were investigating 27 other complaints of sexual harassment against women during Sunday's rallies by tens of thousands of people celebrating Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's inauguration.

Oregon State Police Searching for Missing Keizer Man

His family told police his behavior is out of character and that he recently began taking newly prescribed medications.

(KEIZER, Ore. ) - Oregon State Police are asking for the public's help in locating a man missing from Keizer.

53-year-old Robert Allen Knupp was last seen Saturday evening and his vehicle found unoccupied at the Santiam Rest Area along Interstate 5 south of Salem.

Man Who Escaped From Oregon Prison Back Behind Bars

Clinton Swearingen was arrested Friday near the Pioneer Courthouse in downtown Portland.

(PORTLAND, Ore. ) - An inmate who escaped May 4, from Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in Madras, Oregon is now in custody in the Multnomah County Detention Center.

Law enforcement officials arrested 31-year-old Clinton Orvill Swearingen II on Friday evening at approximately 7:36 p.m. on charges of disorderly conduct in the second degree, failure to obey a police officer, and resisting arrest.

FEMA Approves Aid for Bend, Oregon Wildfire

The fire presents a major threat to the city’s surface water supply due to its proximity to a municipal watershed.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley announced on Monday that the state’s request for fire management assistance to help fight the Two Bulls fire in Deschutes County was approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on June 8th.

The funds that Merkley announced can be used by local officials for equipment and supplies, emergency work (such as evacuations and sheltering), an emergency operations center, firefighter health and safety, and mobilization and demobilization costs.

Want to Quit Smoking? Try Texting

More than 75,000 people in the United States have enrolled in the Text2Quit program through quit lines and enrollment is on the rise. Study Finds Texting May Help You Quit Smoking

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - More than 11 percent of smokers who used a text- messaging program to help them quit did so and remained smoke free at the end of a six- month study as compared to just 5 percent of controls, according to a new report by researchers at Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.

“Text messages seem to give smokers the constant reminders they need to stay focused on quitting,” says Lorien C. Abroms, ScD, MA, an associate professor of prevention and community health at Milken Institute and the lead author of the study.

Outrage Grows as Ireland`s Top Doctor Warned Leaders About Infant Mass Graves

Dr. James Feeney, the health board’s Chief Medical Officer, visited Bessborough to investigate the horrific death rate in the home, where 100 out of 180 babies born there had died.

(DUBLIN, Ire.) - As the anger over the treatment of unmarried mothers and babies in Tuam, County Galway where 800 babies ended up in a mass grave has increased, other unmarried mother institutions are again being examined.

The doctor who shut down the unmarried mothers home run by the Sacred Heart nuns in Bessborough, County Cork in 1951.

20 Indian Students, 1 Professor Feared Dead After Dam Release

Whether warning signals were sounded before the dam released water is a matter of dispute.

(NEW DELHI) - Indian rescuers were searching on Monday for 20 students and a professor swept away by waters released from a dam while the group was bathing in a river in the mountainous northern state of Himachal Pradesh.

Rescuers found four bodies and officials say prospects of finding the rest alive are bleak after the students, who were on a college trip from southern India, were swept away when the waters of the river Beas spiked dangerously high on Sunday.

Hundreds Forced From Their Homes, Thousands on Alert, as Bend Wildfire Grows

The fire is now 6,400 acres and remains uncontained with no estimate of containment at this time.

(BEND, Ore. ) - Firefighters again today will be tackling hot temperatures and strong winds as they battle and try and get the upper hand on the Two Bulls fire west of Bend.

Fire crews focused heavily on the eastern and southern portions of the fire on Sunday. A Oregon Department of Forestry spokesman says good progress was made and night shift crews will continue to secure that area Sunday night. Aerial water and retardant drops on Sunday helped fire crews dig preliminary containment lines.

Salem Area Weekly Road Construction Report

Inattentive drivers are the most common cause of work zone crashes. Find this information online now every week ONLY on Salem-News.com.

(SALEM, Ore. ) - The City of Salem Public Works Department wants Salem area drivers to Be Aware! of Salem area road construction projects taking place this week.

Remember to slow down when you see orange signs, barrels and barricades. Speeding is the second most common cause of work zone crashes.