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Winter storm warning remains in place for Salem
UPDATE 5 a.m. Monday — Salem-Keizer schools are closed Monday, according to the Salem-Keizer School District, but the district administrative offices will open at 10 a.m. In central Oregon, state officials have announced that all state offices in Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook counties will…
UPDATED: Police remove burglar from Summer Street home after six-hour standoff
(Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) After a six-hour standoff, Salem police Tuesday removed a burglar who holed up inside a stranger’s home on Northeast Summer Street earlier in the morning. The man is being treated for injuries, police said. No one else was hurt. The…
Buehler lands $2 million from Knight, Republican governors group in surge of fund raising.
Nike co-founder Phil Knight and the Republican Governors Association poured another $2 million into the campaign of state Rep. Knute Buehler in the past week for his challenge of Democratic incumbent Gov. Kate Brown. The $1 million check from Knight brings his overall contributions to…
8 officers hurt in inmate assault at Ontario state prison
ONTARIO — Eight employees of the Snake River Correctional Institution were injured Saturday morning in assaults involving one inmate, the state Corrections Department said in a news release. The agency said one “staff member was assaulted by an inmate” at about 10:30 a.m. but didn’t…
Buehler invested in tax credits that became state scandal
State Rep. Knute Buehler (File/Portland Tribune) SALEM —Knute Buehler stumped on the floor of the Oregon House of Representatives to decry the state’s controversial business energy tax incentives. Buehler, then a state representative and now the Republican nominee for governor, left out one fact in…