Heppner News

Doctors and nurses at Kadlec Regional Medical Center have been seeing double and even triple lately as new mothers gave birth to six sets of twins and a set of triplets in a week.

In my continuing quest to run at least one race in each of Oregon's 36 counties, Morrow County in north-central Oregon has been one of the most stubborn.

In dismissing the complaints, Bersin wrote that neither complaint provided evidence that either Democrat had violated ORS.

She faces 1 count of aggravated murder, 4 counts of manslaughter, a criminal mistreatment charge and abandonment of a child.

Once again, political ideology got in the way of economic reality at the Oregon Capitol.

Araceli Velasquez Espain will be arraigned on Tuesday, June 16th. - Morrow County District Attorney Elizabeth A. Ballard and Attorney General John Kroger today announced that a grand jury has indicted Araceli Velasquez Espain on multiple counts for the death of her infant son.

Greg Smith of Heppner isn't someone who gets his name in the paper a lot. But the Republican state representative from Morrow County has been all over the news this week for something unusual he did in the Oregon Legislature.

A woman accused of dumping a newborn baby in a port-a-pottie near Hermiston will be treid in court in Heppner.

Until he died at 85 and received a tribute from President Barack Obama, Jim Norene was better known in isolated Heppner as "Doc," the only veterinarian for miles.

HEPPNER - Though he knew he might not return, World War II veteran Jim Norene made one final visit to the beaches of Normandy.

"As we face down the hardships and struggles of our time and arrive at that hour for which we were born," Obama said, "we cannot help but draw strength from those moments in history when the best among us were somehow able to swallow their fears and secure a beachhead on an unforgiving shore." With a new era of threats gathering, Obama and the ...

In 1953, two babies were born in the small Oregon town of Heppner - DeeAnn Angell of Fossil and Kay Rene Reed of Condon.

When two women who were accidentally switched at birth at a Heppner, Ore., hospital 56 years ago finally met this spring, they joked their story seemed suited for a soap opera or talk show.

Kay Rene and Dee Ann outside the hospital where they were given to the wrong mothers in 1953.

A 19-year-old woman was killed after she collided with another car along River Road with so much force that it sliced her car in half.

In a May 12 story about two women who had been switched at birth, The Associated Press erroneously reported that one of their mothers, Marjorie Angell, was also the mother of Bobby Reed.

Kay Rene Qualls, left, of Heppner, Ore., and DeeAnn Shafer, of Richland, Wash., pose for a photo in front of the Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner, Ore.

On a spring day in 1953, two babies were born at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in the Eastern Oregon town of Heppner - DeeAnn Angell of Fossil and Kay Rene Reed of Condon.

Rep. Greg Smith of Heppner, Oregon Courtesy: leg.state.or.us - Rep Greg Smith today supported a grant request directing federal stimulus dollars to a state program that promotes youth employment on public and private forestlands.

A Heppner man was found dead Saturday night after wrecking his vehicle on Willow Creek Road in Heppner.