It had been a quiet Mother’s Day afternoon at the Harvest Market Thriftway in Estacada, Oregon, until Joshua Lee Webb barged into the neighborhood grocery store, covered in blood, according to police. In one hand, the 36-year-old man held a kitchen knife, police said. In the other, they said, he held a severed human head. […]
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Claire Marie Angers
1955 – 2016 MONMOUTH, Ore. — Claire Marie Angers, 60, passed away Tuesday, March 15, at her home in Oregon. She was born in Lewiston on July 3, 1955, daughter of the late Leonard and Jacqueline (Maynard) Angers. She was a 1974 graduate of Lewiston High School and continued her education at the University of […]
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Last 4 holdouts surrender to FBI in Oregon
BURNS, Ore. — Surrounded by FBI agents in armored vehicles, the last four occupiers of a national wildlife refuge surrendered Thursday, and the leader of a 2014 standoff with federal authorities was criminally charged in federal court. The holdouts were the last remnants of the group that seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. […]
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Feds keep distance from armed group occupying Oregon refuge
BURNS, Ore. — An armed anti-government group took over a remote national wildlife refuge in Oregon as part of a decades-long fight over public lands in the West, while federal authorities are keeping watch but keeping their distance. The group came to the frozen high desert of eastern Oregon to contest the prison sentences of […]
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The roots of violent behavior
After reading the Sun Journal article, “Profile of a murderer” (Oct. 3), one might think that if a family member or associate of Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer had some education and understanding of mental health, Harper-Mercer might have received care and the mass shooting murders might not have taken place. That situation seems to be the […]
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‘We began to run’: Umpqua students describe horror of shooting
ROSEBURG, Ore. — Armed with multiple guns, a 26-year-old man walked into a morning writing class at a community college in this rural Oregon town and opened fire, hitting some students with multiple gunshots. One witness said the attacker demanded to know students’ religion before shooting them. Students in a classroom next door heard several […]
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A golfing gift from one generation to another
JAY — Twenty years ago, when former Jay resident Bill Benedetto and his wife, Barbara, moved into a retirement community in Oregon, he bought her a brand new set of golf clubs so she could learn how to play the game. Now, those very same clubs have helped the Wilsonville High School girls golf team rapidly […]
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Elliott K. Hale Jr.
1923 – 2015 PLYMOUTH, N.H. — Bud Hale passed away in the comfort of his home in Plymouth, N.H., on Friday, July 17. He was born in Lewiston, the second of three sons of Geraldine Rideout Hale and Elliott Kidder Hale. They were raised in Lisbon Falls, where his father managed the Worumbo Woolen Mill. […]
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‘Death with Dignity’ advocate dies
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Brittany Maynard stuck by her decision. The terminally ill woman who revived a national debate about physician-assisted suicide ended her life Saturday by swallowing lethal drugs made available under Oregon’s law that allows terminally ill people to end their lives. She would have been 30 on Nov. 19. Maynard had been […]
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Great Dane has a great appetite for 43½ socks, needs surgery
PORTLAND, Ore. — The 3-year-old Great Dane was miserable and retching when its owners rushed him to a northwest Portland emergency animal hospital. It was something he ate! X-rays showed a stomach full of “a large quantity of foreign material.” Nearly two hours of surgery later, Dr. Ashley Magee had the answer — the dog […]