Underemployment suggests Oregon economy worse off

KGW-TV Portland - Sat Nov 07

Underemployment figures for Oregon suggest the state economy may be in even worse shape than indicated by a jobless rate of 11.5 percent.

Oregon teen survives tire to the skull

KVAL-TV Eugene - Sat Nov 07

A bicycle helmet helped an Oregon teenager survive without serious injury when her head was run over by a car following a collision.

Special Education Advisory Council meeting Monday

Statesman Journal - Sat Nov 07

Procedures for sending communications to schools for inclusion in their newsletters, and parent and diversity training ideas, will be topics of the Special Education Advisory Council's next meeting.

Rather ill DUII driver calls 9-1-1 to say someone stole his weed

KATU-TV Portland - Fri Nov 06

Oregon police have charged a man with drunken driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher couldn't understand him because he was vomiting while on the road.

Missing 87-Year-Old Found In Oregon Restaurant

KERO - Fri Nov 06

The Oregon State Police Department has confirmed that a missing 87-year-old Bakersfield man was located at a Subway restaurant in Salem, Ore.

City of Keizer could finance power plant

Appeal Tribune - Fri Nov 06

The City of Keizer could own a natural-gas fired power plant proposed for construction in Keizer.

Cherriots bus donated to state police academy in Salem

Oregonlive.com - Thu Nov 05

A scene from the state police academy's "scenario village." Salem-Keizer Transit announced they are donating a bus with almost a million miles on the odometer to the state police academy in Salem, the agency announced today.

Deputies seeking suspect in Jefferson burglary

Appeal Tribune - Thu Nov 05

Deputies are looking for a suspect in a Jefferson burglary, officials said. On Saturday, Marion County sheriff's deputies went to a Jefferson home on Tanglewood Drive on the report of a suspicious person in an unoccupied home, said sheriff's spokeswoman Lt.

H1N1 vaccine appointments filled again

Appeal Tribune - Thu Nov 05

The phones were kept ringing at the Marion County Health Department Wednesday morning as another allotment of the vaccine for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, was made available to the public.

Two tossed from hood a truck

KXL-AM Portland - Wed Nov 04

Two teenage girls were injured in a crash after they climbed onto the hood of a friend's pickup truck for a ride Tuesday, police said.