Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized A four-alarm fire hit downtown Mt. Angel early Saturday, Oct. 9. Four buildings were damaged or destroyed. (Mt. Angel Fire Department photo) A spectacular blaze erupted in downtown Mt. Angel early Saturday morning, destroying a grain elevator and several businesses. The fire was discovered at 12:48 a.m. by Mt. Angel[Read More…]
An aerial view of a grass fire burning near the 4100 block of Vitae Springs Road South near Salem on Monday, Sept. 13. (Courtesy/Reader photo) UPDATE: Evacuations as of 6 p.m. were reduced to a Level 2 status, meaning residents must prepare to leave at a moment’s notice. A grass[Read More…]
Uncategorized Demonstrators gather outside the state Capitol on Sunday, May 31, to protest police violence. The protests in Salem were among those that occurred across the country in response to the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis man who died while being taken into custody by police. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Fellow[Read More…]
Uncategorized A family places sunflowers at a monument on I-5 where Oregon State Police Sgt. John Burright, Trooper Maria Mignano and Albany police officer Jason Hoerauf were struck by a car in 2001. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) A procession of public safety cars traveled from Albany to Salem Wednesday morning to mourn[Read More…]
Soksan Korm, center, with family (Courtesy/Aniqua Korm) Breanna Schoene noticed Soksan Korm jumping off the dock at Turner Lake for more than an hour on a recent Sunday afternoon. She had gone to the lake south of Salem on Aug. 8 after wildfire smoke had canceled her family’s plans for[Read More…]
Uncategorized A Salem police vehicle. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) A Marion County grand jury on Tuesday unanimously found a Salem officer who fatally shot a Salem man was justified in using deadly force. Salem police officer Nathan Bush shot Arcadio Castillo III four times on July 9 as Castillo III rushed toward[Read More…]
Uncategorized A screengrab from Joe Smothers Facebook Live during the July 13 event. Salem police arrested an Aloha man accused of using physical force to steal a handgun from a Salem man during a clash in front of Salem’s Planned Parenthood on July 13. Gordon Welsey Cronk Jr., 30, was arraigned[Read More…]
Uncategorized The fireworks on the Fourth of July in 2019. (Ron Cooper/Special to Salem Reporter) Fourth of July has come and gone and despite Salem not instating a fireworks ban, call data shows it was a quieter year for illegal fireworks displays. Cities across Oregon and in southwest Washington banned the[Read More…]
Uncategorized Investigators from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office process the scene of a shooting in the Four Corners area of southeast Salem on March 24, 2021 (Courtesy/Marion County Sheriff’s Office) Levi Herrera-Lopez lives just a block from the southeast Salem elementary school where a 17-year-old was fatally shot in late March.[Read More…]
The stop in Salem was only to be brief for the 16 seasonal workers. They had worked all day loading Christmas trees into delivery trucks at a Corvallis farm and now, at week’s end, they were on their way to homes they shared in Woodburn and Gervais. First, though, it[Read More…]
