Category Public Safety
Troopers find human skull on I-5 near Salem
State police responded after corrections crews found a backpack containing an adult woman's skull on the highway near milepost 260.
UPDATED: Salem police locate missing teen
Kaylee Lien Brooks, 17, went missing from her south Salem home shortly before 6 a.m. Thanksgiving and was last known to be in the Josephine County area, police said.
Salem woman struck, killed by passenger train Tuesday
Police say a passenger train struck and killed Judith Araceli Mojica Abarca, 47, Tuesday night in northeast Salem.
Grand jury finds Salem officer justified in using deadly force against carjacking suspects during shootout
The Marion County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Tuesday that Cpl. Joshua Buker fired back at three suspects after one of them shot at him. Vincent Nesbitt, 19, was charged Monday with attempting to murder the officer.
Gun shop owners face brisk sales amid questions about Oregon’s gun control law
Measure 114, which passed by a narrow margin, will require safety training that’s yet to be defined.
Marion, Polk County sheriffs to hold back on enforcing new gun control law as effective date approaches
Local sheriffs said they’re awaiting guidance on how to implement the permitting system required under Measure 114, which Oregon voters narrowly passed in November.
4 arrested in string of of violent carjackings in Salem
Police reports show Salem officers responded to at least three separate carjackings between Nov. 9 and 12.
Salem man charged with stabbing man sleeping in car
Police arrested KC Blunt, 31 of Salem, ten days after a man reported he had been sleeping in his car and awoke to another man stabbing him.
Pedestrian killed in fatal crash on I-5 early Sunday morning
Police say Michael Summers, 38 of Salem, had struck a barrier with his car and was chasing his dog on the freeway when a driver struck and killed him.