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New coronavirus cases continued to increase in Oregon in the week ending Sunday, rising 39.7% as 53,691 cases were reported. The previous week had 38,437 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19. Oregon ranked 40th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network…
PULLMAN — A pair of challenging basketball games await Washington State men’s team as the Cougars travel south to Oregon this week. At 10-7 and 3-3 in Pac-12 play, the Cougars face an Oregon team that just swept the highly-ranked L.A. schools and an Oregon State squad that’s slowly gotten better…
Oregon State University scientists find compounds in hemp that can block COIVD-19 from infecting humans
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – State Rep. Dan Rayfield is poised to be the next Oregon House Speaker after being officially nominated by Democratic…
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Johnny Juzang scored 19 of his 24 points in the second half when No. 3 UCLA pulled away to beat Oregon State 81-65. Jaylen Clark…
SALEM, Ore. — Marion County deputies are looking for whoever was involved in a shooting Sunday in an east Salem neighborhood. The shooting took place at about 7 a.m. Sunday Deana…
Travis Boersma helped start an iconic Oregon company, and the Dutch Bros cofounder is suddenly one of the state’s wealthiest residents. But in recent months Boersma’s other passion – horse racing – is suddenly at the…
A Jan. 25, 1964 Oregon Statesman article shows the McKenzies, a Salem couple who filed Oregon’s fist civil rights suit after their application to rent a west Salem apartment was denied. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made a lasting contribution to our nation and to Oregon. He was the…
Sprague’s boys basketball team had a nice jump in the OSAA Class 6A rankings in the past week. With road wins against Bend and South Salem, the Olympians climbed from No. 31 to No. 20 in the latest rankings. Sprague has a big game at home at 7:30 p.m….
There are 400 kids on probation at any given time in the Marion County Juvenile Department. Jaleaha Wright, 18, was one of them. She entered the juvenile system last year…
