Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with aurora www.salem-news.com 2010 A head-on motor vehicle crash sent one driver to the hospital by helicopter earlier this evening. Marion County Deputies responded to a call received at 5:07 p.m. and located the crash in the 18000 block of Fobert Road NE, between Hubbard and Aurora. Investigation revealed that eighteen-year-old Ian L. Beyers of Canby was traveling southbound in his 1994 Jeep Cherokee when he lost control of his car as it started up an incline on the gravel road. http://salem-news.com/articles/november052010/fobert-headon.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november052010/fobert-headon.php Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:47:00 PDT As much as I enjoy and use technology I can't say that I've ever heard of, much less seen, a computing scale. That's because the technology (believe it or not) is a bit before my time. I still don't exactly know what it is or what it does. It looks incredibly steam-punk, but in a way that steam-punk only pretends at. http://salem-news.com/articles/july032010/your_city_aurora.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july032010/your_city_aurora.php Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:18:00 PDT Police are publicizing the conviction of an Oregon woman this week who filed what turned out to be a false report, stating she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted over a three day period by an unknown assailant. I am not questioning the court's verdict, but I will cut to the chase and say that publicizing this story gives future rape and sexual assault victims the wrong message. If the woman in question made the story up then she needs some kind of help, and media publicity is not likely it. http://salem-news.com/articles/january172010/heavy_metal_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january172010/heavy_metal_tk.php Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:30:00 PST An innovative new airplane designed specifically to support missionaries, humanitarian organizations and others in remote areas of the world will be on display at two locations in Oregon. The KODIAK plane is operated by MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship), a faith-based, nonprofit ministry that serves missions and isolated people around the world with aviation, communications and learning technologies. http://salem-news.com/articles/august062009/new_bush_plane_8-6-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august062009/new_bush_plane_8-6-09.php Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:22:00 PDT Oregon coastal communities are taking part in a simulated tsunami beginning Friday, and the Oregon Civil Air Patrol will be a participant in this unique exercise. The statewide disaster drill is called Cascade Peril 09. Tom Traver with the Oregon CAP says it deals not only with the tsunami, but with the underlying 9.0 Megaquake that caused it. http://salem-news.com/articles/april242009/oregon_cap_4-24-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april242009/oregon_cap_4-24-09.php Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:55:00 PDT Marion County Sheriff's deputies responded to the Fuel N Mart/Circle K store on Delores Way in Aurora last night at 7:30 PM, over a report of an Armed Robbery that had just occurred. http://salem-news.com/articles/december082008/aurora_robbery_12-8-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december082008/aurora_robbery_12-8-08.php Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:12:00 PST Just before 7:00 AM Tuesday, Aurora Fire Department responded to a car crash in front of Fir Point Farms on S. Arndt Road. Upon arrival the rescue crews realized they had multiple vehicles and multiple victims. The crash scene was scattered into two grouping of vehicles. One cluster was a two-vehicle entanglement involving a Chevy Pickup and a Honda SUV. The other was a four-car in-line crash, involving a Ford Focus, a Honda Accord, a Chrysler Voyager, and a Chevy 4X4 Pickup. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152007/aurora_crash.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152007/aurora_crash.php Tue, 15 May 2007 10:48:00 PDT At about 9:30 AM this morning deputies recieved a call from Loy Russell, owner of Russell's Nursery Inc, who reported that someone had taken 600 plants from one of the greenhouses at his nursery located at 22241 Boones Ferry Rd NE, Aurora. The plants were assorted varieties of grafted Japanese Maple trees ranging in size from about 16" to as tall as 28". The trees had either green or purple leaves. http://salem-news.com/articles/may072007/nursery_theft_050707.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may072007/nursery_theft_050707.php Mon, 07 May 2007 15:07:00 PDT At about 5:40 PM, Canby Firefighters responded to a report of a car hit by a train at 99E and S. Barlow Road. When Canby Fire Units arrived they transferred the shaken driver into their medic unit to further evaluate the 72-year old gentlemen from Aurora. He told the firefighters that he misjudged the road. He apparently started to cross the railroad tracks and his vehicle became stuck, or high centered on the tracks. http://salem-news.com/articles/january092007/train_010907.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january092007/train_010907.php Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:18:00 PST Marion County deputies responded to the scene of a fatal car crash at Whiskey Hill Rd NE east of Fobart Rd NE on the Marion/Clackamas County line near Aurora early Wednesday morning. Marion County Sheriff`s Office Spokesman Kevin Rau says the crash was apparently a head on collision between a tandem dump truck with one occupant traveling westbound and a pickup with three occupants traveling eastbound on Whiskey Hill Rd NE. It is reported that one of the occupants of the truck died at the scene. The other two occupants of the truck were transported by Life Flight to Portland area hospitals for treatment of serious trauma injuries. http://salem-news.com/articles/april062006/fatal_dumptruck_4506.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april062006/fatal_dumptruck_4506.php Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:35:00 PDT An Aurora man was arrested Tuesday morning north of Salem on Interstate 5 after an Oregon State Police (OSP) trooper in an unmarked ADEP (Aggressive Driving Enforcement Plan) patrol car observed him operating his motorcycle in a reckless manner at speeds in excess of 125 mph. This was the third driver arrested by the trooper using the unmarked patrol car during the last week driving 115-mph or faster. On April 4th at approximately 9:20 AM, OSP Trooper Sean Swisher was patrolling southbound on Interstate 5 near Woodburn when he spotted a 2003 Suzuki SV1000 motorcycle approaching from behind at a high rate of speed. After the motorcycle passed the unmarked OSP Chevrolet Camaro ADEP patrol vehicle, Trooper Swisher allegedly paced it at speeds in excess of 125 mph. http://salem-news.com/articles/april052006/osp_unmarked_4506.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april052006/osp_unmarked_4506.php Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:56:00 PDT An Aurora man faces numerous charges after allegedly smashing an `86 Chevy Nova with five people inside with the bucket of a tracked backhoe. Marion County deputies say 65-year-old Joe Wendal Schmidt of Aurora, used the backhoe to smash the car in the roadway in front of his residence at 12277 Donald Rd NE near Aurora. The occupants of the car told investigators that they were driving on Donald Rd when they came upon a backhoe tractor blocking the roadway. They say the man operating the tractor, Joe Schmidt, began yelling at them saying he believed they were there to kill him. http://salem-news.com/articles/february252006/Backhoe_operator_smashes_car.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february252006/Backhoe_operator_smashes_car.php Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:46:00 PST