Author: Calista

AP Regional News

     EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Eugene police say a bus driver helped them arrest a bank robbery suspect. Officers alerted LTD bus drivers last Friday afternoon to a description of a man sought after the robbery of a U.S. Bank branch. KEZI-TV reports that one driver saw a man matching […]

DUI Arrest Up Over Last Year, Florence Police Chief Retires, and Two Governors Place A Friendly Wager

Oregon’s New Years Driving fatalities and DUI arrest up Oregon State Police troopers reported more DUII arrests around the state in comparison to last year’s New Year’s Eve night. Increased enforcement efforts by OSP troopers, county deputies and city police officers will continue through tonight during the holiday weekend national […]

AP Regional News and Sports

AZALEA, Ore. (AP) – An Azalea man brought into a local hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to the head early yesterday has died. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says Robin Brink died at Mercy Medical Center. The sheriff’s office says it has questioned one suspect and several witnesses but […]

Rose Bowl Bound

2012 Rose Bowl Oregon 45 – 38 Wisconsin  1pm – January 2nd, 2012 KCST’s Rose Bowl Broadcast Sponsors The Firehouse Restaurant Buckwald Accounting & Consulting PC 541 Designs Contractor Midgleys Stove and Fireplace Center Market Bin Furniture Terra Firma Foundation Repair BJ’s Ice Cream Beachcomber Pub N Grill On Your Feet […]

Oregon Public Employees Retiring, Whale Watch Spoken Here & Monday Morning Holiday Closures

Oregon public workers are turning in their retirement paperwork at increasing rates. The Public Employees Retirement System says more than 8,000 have filed in 2011, and that’s up 44 percent from the average of recent years.  The Salem Statesman Journal reports that officials are offering two explanations. One is that […]