EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A University of Oregon faculty member is recovering from arm burns and some cuts suffered in a chemical explosion in a lab at a campus science building. The man was treated at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield. The university says the explosion was […]

     CHICAGO (AP) – Another man whose family feared had become a victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy has been found alive, this one in Oregon. Cook County deputies say Theodore Szal (ZAWL) went missing from the Chicago area in 1977 at age 24. His case bore enough similarities […]

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – Oregon State Police say a California man and an injured pedestrian he stopped to help along an Oregon highway have suffered serious injuries after they were struck by a drunk driver. Police have arrested 20-year-old Chet Newell, of Klamath Falls, on  investigation of assault, drunk […]

FIVE RIVERS, Ore. (AP) – To help restore coho salmon in Benton County, fish biologists are turning to the fish’s bushy-tailed ally: beavers. The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports beavers are critical to coho habitat by giving young salmon cover while they bulk up before setting out to sea for a year […]

AP-OR–3rd NewsMinute,275 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Five people have been sent to a hospital in critical condition from a three-alarm apartment fire in Salem. KGW reports two adults and two children were rescued from one unit and one adult from […]