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Local & Regional Memorial remembers two sitting commissioners who passed (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Katie LaSalle Published: Jun 6, 2013 at 8:00 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 6, 2013 at 6:49 AM PDT

A memorial service was held in Coquille to honor two commissioners who had a special place the community.

Local & Regional Ore. bill would let vets use marijuana for PTSD (Video)

By Dee Dee Gatton Published: Jun 6, 2013 at 8:00 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 6, 2013 at 7:11 AM PDT

For war veterans, PTSD can be something difficult to get away from, and a bill heading for the governor's desk would allow people to use medical marijuana to help.

Local & Regional Ore. Senate passes bill to regulate tracking devices for kids

By Lauren Gambino, Associated Press Published: Jun 6, 2013 at 6:27 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 6, 2013 at 6:27 AM PDT

It hasn't happened yet in Oregon, but some lawmakers want to be prepared for the day schools replace roll call with tracking devices.

Local & Regional Oregon farmers optimistic after Hep A outbreak: 'Local produce is fine' (Video)

By Lauren Lee Published: Jun 6, 2013 at 6:26 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 6, 2013 at 6:26 AM PDT

More bags of berries linked to an outbreak of Hepatitis A were sold in Lane County than in any other Oregon county.

Local & Regional $10K reward in Post Office fire (Photo Gallery)

By News Staff Published: Jun 6, 2013 at 7:16 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 6, 2013 at 7:16 AM PDT

A suspicious fire that burned a U.S. Post Office is now the subject of a joint state and federal investigation.

Local & Regional Police: Man shot his dog after it defecated in house

By The Associated Press Published: Jun 6, 2013 at 11:11 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 6, 2013 at 11:11 AM PDT

Police have arrested an Oregon man, saying he took his little dog outside in the backyard and shot it after it defecated in the house.

Local & Regional Arrest made in Hawaii for murder of Oregon woman (Video)

By KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Jun 6, 2013 at 6:25 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 6, 2013 at 6:25 AM PDT

Ivanice Harris was vacationing in Hawaii when she disappeared last month. Police found her body along the coastline a few days later.

Local & Regional Car carrying 4-month-old struck by semi (Photo Gallery)

By Sky Muller Published: Jun 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM PDT Last Updated: Jun 18, 2013 at 2:42 PM PDT

Police say there were only minor injuries after a crash on Highway 101 Wednesday afternoon, where a car was struck by a semi truck.

Local & Regional Bring Them All Home: 43 Oregon kids still missing (Photo Gallery)

By News Staff Published: Jun 5, 2013 at 1:37 PM PDT Last Updated: Jun 18, 2013 at 3:29 PM PDT

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children lists 43 children missing from Oregon. If you have any information about any of the children shown here, you are asked to call 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST).

Local & Regional Senate passes bill requiring American flag in all Ore. classrooms

By Associated Press Published: Jun 5, 2013 at 2:04 PM PDT Last Updated: Jun 5, 2013 at 2:04 PM PDT

The Oregon Senate has passed a bill that would require charter schools to display the American flag in their classrooms, as public schools are already required to do.

Local & Regional State police: Man who left accident scene turns himself in

By News Staff Published: Jun 5, 2013 at 11:23 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 18, 2013 at 2:42 PM PDT

State police say the man who crashed an SUV down an embankment along Highway 241 Thursday night and left the crash scene when the vehicle caught fire has turned himself in.

Local & Regional Gov. Kitzhaber to sign bill giving break to some young sex offenders

By Associated Press Published: Jun 5, 2013 at 12:46 PM PDT Last Updated: Jun 5, 2013 at 12:50 PM PDT

The Oregon Legislature has narrowly approved a bill that would allow some young offenders convicted of having sex with underage partners to request the crime be removed from their records.

Local & Regional Monsanto: Genetically modified wheat was 'isolated occurrence'

By Nigel Duara, Associated Press Published: Jun 5, 2013 at 11:24 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 5, 2013 at 11:39 AM PDT

A genetically modified test strain of wheat that emerged to the surprise of an Oregon farmer was likely the result of an accident or possibly tampering, the company that developed it said Wednesday.

Local & Regional Popular goose found shot dead (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Sky Muller Published: Jun 5, 2013 at 10:24 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 18, 2013 at 2:42 PM PDT

Often times when people come to Empire Lakes, they were greeted by Stanley the Goose. Although he was just a goose, he was a friend to many.

Local & Regional Detectives seek 2nd truck from bridge collapse (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By KOMO Staff & news services Published: Jun 5, 2013 at 8:35 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 5, 2013 at 9:38 AM PDT

A Washington State Patrol spokesman says agency detectives are looking for a second commercial truck believed to have been on the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River when a section of that bridge collapsed May 23.