Marion County Courthouse (File/Salem Reporter) John N. Bishop, a former sheriff and until recently executive director of the Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association, pleaded guilty to first-degree theft Friday in Marion County Circuit Court. According to court records, Bishop, of Sublimity, faces 24 months of probation and must pay $13,014 restitution[Read More…]

Police blocked off the West Salem Goodwill parking lot after an officer-involved shooting Wednesday afternoon. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) The Salem Police Department on Friday identified Scott Gabriel Spangler, 43, of Dallas, as the man shot and killed earlier this week at the West Salem Goodwill. Officer Darren Buchholz of the Dallas[Read More…]

Police blocked off the West Salem Goodwill parking lot after an officer-involved shooting Wednesday afternoon. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) A police officer shot and killed a man inside the West Salem Goodwill, 585 Edgewater St NW, on Wednesday afternoon around 1:45 p.m. The man was being investigated by the Polk County[Read More…]

Robert Dailey (Courtesy/Marion County Sheriff’s Office) Police arrested a man they said fled into a southeast Salem neighborhood with a gun after several hours of searching Thrusday afternoon. Lockdowns at four Salem-Keizer Schools were lifted before the man’s arrest. All sports and other after-school activities at Houck Middle School are[Read More…]

Crews from the Salem Fire Department and other agencies were still mopping up the fire at 11 a.m. after the early morning fire broke out in an industrial park on Northeast Salem Industrial Drive. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) UPDATE: Firefighters were able to save all the buildings at Oregon Pallet and[Read More…]

A 40-year-old woman was shot to the death and another man was shot in northeast Salem at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, according to Salem police. In a news release, the agency identified the woman as Jennifer Black of Salem. It didn’t identify the man. Police said they were called by[Read More…]

The Salem Police Department identified 16-year-old Ishaq Saleem as the person fatally shot at Englewood Park early Sunday morning. Police said Wednesday that Saleem is a resident of Keizer. The agency added that no more information about the victim nor the investigation will be released at this time. It remains[Read More…]

Smoke seen from the July 29 fire off Reed Road (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Update 6 p.m.: Forward progress of the 30-acre grass fire has stopped and crews are securing lines and putting out fires within the fire area. Original story below. Salem-area firefighters are battling a brush fire that started[Read More…]

A plane landed in a field after catching fire Tuesday afternoon. (courtesy Marion County Sheriff’s Office) This article was updated at 5:45 p.m. with more information. A plane crashed into a field 10 miles southeast of Salem Tuesday afternoon after its pilot made an emergency landing, Marion County Sheriff’s Office[Read More…]

A man collapsed at a McDonalds in northeast Salem Wednesday night after being shot, according to a press release from the Salem Police Department. Passersby were helping the victim in the drive-thru area when officers arrived at the fast food chain in the 1500 block of Hawthorne Ave. N.E. around[Read More…]