UPDATE 1:44 p.m.: Roads are open following the crash. Original story below. A Salem resident died while trying to cross Front Street in front of Riverfront Park just before 11 a.m. Wednesday, according to Salem Police Department. Northbound Northeast Front and Commercial Streets will remain closed up to Chemeketa Street while[Read More…]

The deployment of a Taser and a fight with police led to the death of a man at a restaurant in Salem in late September, an autopsy revealed Allen James Pitts, 49, died after a struggle with Salem Police officers at the Best Little Roadhouse on 1145 Commercial St. S.E.[Read More…]

Police blocked off the West Salem Goodwill parking lot after an officer shot and killed a man inside on Sept. 18, 2019. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) A Dallas police officer said he shot a suspected drug dealer he was struggling with in a Salem Goodwill store because the man had a[Read More…]

Police blocked off the West Salem Goodwill parking lot after an officer shot and killed a man inside on Sept. 18, 2019. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) The Dallas man shot and killed inside a Salem Goodwill last month had a gun in his hand, aimed at an officer during a struggle[Read More…]

Salem Reporter is continuing to publish monthly call data from public safety agencies in Marion County. This is a snapshot of August numbers compared to the same time last year. The data came from the Salem Police Department, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Salem Fire Department and Marion County Fire[Read More…]

Police blocked off the West Salem Goodwill parking lot after an shot and killed a man inside on Sept. 18 2019. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) A Polk County grand jury determined that Dallas police officer Darren Buchholz acted in self-defense when he shot and killed Scott Gabriel Spangler in the West[Read More…]

Oregon State Police on Monday identified Allen James Pitts as the man who died in Salem police custody on Saturday. Pitts, 49, reportedly died after fight with Salem police at the Best Little Roadhouse on 1145 Commercial St. S.E., OSP said in a news release. The state police said managers[Read More…]

One 16-year-old girl is dead and another is injured after the 1996 Chevrolet Blazer they drove rolled over Saturday night, police said Monday. Oregon State Police said the incident occurred around 8 p.m. as the girls drove north on Highway 14 near Forest Ridge Road, southwest of Silverton. Police confirmed[Read More…]

Update 9/30 3:09 p.m.: Police identified the man as Allen James Pitts, of Salem. A man who resisted police efforts to arrest him Saturday night at a Salem restaurant died hours later at Salem Health, according to a Salem Police Department press release. The man’s identity and details on the[Read More…]

A Dallas man was shot and killed in Goodwill store in west Salem on Sept. 18. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) The Dallas man shot and killed by police in a busy Goodwill store in west Salem last week apparently struggled with methamphetamine while facing a string of charges in recent years,[Read More…]