Cottage Grove News

The 33-year-old driver of a Ferrari died when his sports car collided with a mid-size SUV on Oregon Highway 97 on Thursday morning.

A man escaped from his burning home early Thursday morning, but the flames destroyed the house, firefighters said.

Members of Salem's Slavic community gather at the home on Fisher Road NE, in Salem, Ore, on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, to bear silent witness for the victims of an apparent murder-suicide. A woman and three children were found in a burning house, and their cause of death was ruled as homicide.

To Carel June Cody 's neighbors, she was not just the woman responsible for caring for elderly and disabled patients at her foster home in the 1990s but also the one who would physically abuse and publicly berate them.

A mother and her three children were found dead in a burned house, and the children's father was found dead later in a car, all victims of what police in this city in northwest Oregon said Tuesday appeared to be a murder-suicide. Fire crews responded to a house fire in Salem at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Firefighters found a mother and her three young children dead from "homicidal violence" in a Salem home found burning early Tuesday morning, according to Salem Police.

Carel June Cody cared for John Arnold at the end of his life - then buried his body, concealed his death and continued to collect his Social Security benefits for more than 15 years, according to federal prosectuors.

There is sartorial talent galore out Cottage Grove, and local fashion mavens, clotheshorses, slink-a-bees and sex kittens would be fools to miss Arcade Theater's 6th-annual Fashion Show , which will bring together 14 of the Grove's best threadheads for an extravaganza of design, DJing and flashing cameras.

I hear it all the time out here. And trust me: If you're constantly naming all the ways in which you're not a hippie, you're a hippie.

New business is fermenting in downtown Springfield, in more ways than one. It's going to be a new brew pub and restaurant on Main Street, and the owner said it's no gamble.

An autopsy shows that a 24-year-old man who died last weekend in the Cottage Grove, Ore., Municipal Jail died of aspiration pneumonia.

Timber barons can speculate on trees, land barons can speculate on selling properties but the West is not supposed to have water barons.

We each have our own perch from which we watch the political season play out. These days I'm just a rural geezer down here southeast of Cottage Grove in the foothills of the Cascades, watching the game from afar.

Revitalizing downtown Springfield, a Lane County business owner and others are investing their money in a new brew pub right in the heart of the city.