Volunteers work to remove graffiti on a monument at the Capitol on Sunday, May 31. Protesters tagged the monuments and several locations at the Capitol during a demonstration in Salem on Saturday, May 30. (Joel Zak/Special to Salem Reporter) UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect a decision by[Read More…]
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Salem attorney wins citation for focusing on helping those with convictions move into mainstream
Kimberley Mansfield, the director of the De Muniz Legal Clinic. (Jake Thomas/Salem Reporter) A remark by a kid in a juvenile detention facility planted a seed for Kimberley Mansfield. While visiting a maximum-security juvenile detention facility with a church group years ago in Boston, she remembers an incarcerated teenager turning[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem man arrested for manslaughter, DUI, accused of killing a pedestrian
A 23-year-old Salem man is charged with manslaughter and driving under the influence in connection with the death of a pedestrian in northeast Salem Saturday. Javier Luevano-Plascencia told police he was trying to pass a car on Northeast Hawthorne Avenue, a two-lane road separated by a double yellow line, near[Read More…]
Gunman opens fire outside bar, kills one; police planning to boost Salem patrols
A Salem police evidence marker indicates a possible bullet hole from an early Sunday shooting on Aug. 18 on Northeast Pine Street that killed a woman and hospitalized a man. (Salem Reporter/Aubrey Wieber) Nearly 12 hours after a fatal shooting, several eyewitnesses stood out front of Pine Street Pub, directly[Read More…]
