Boardman News Archives

A House agriculture subcommittee held its third hearing of the month on the crisis facing the nation's dairy farmers, but didn't come any closer to consensus on what - if anything - to do to protect farmers from a long, deep slide in milk prices.

John Cole Carlgren, whose blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit, had four previous DUII convictions Umatilla County District Attorney Dean Gushwa and Attorney General John Kroger announced today that a repeat drunk driver who killed four people in a crash near Pendleton last year received a 43-year prison sentence.

A repeat drunk driver was sentenced today to 43 years in prison for an alcohol-related crash near Pendleton last year that killed four people.

Carrie Atiyeh of ZeaChem gave a presentation to the Mayors and City Managers of Morrow County during May's meeting in Boardman.

A 47-year-old Carlton man is expected to plead guilty this morning to four counts of first-degree manslaughter in connection with a fatal highway wreck last fall that left four dead.