Springfield News

A stabbing victim was taken to the hospital early Thursday morning, but police had few details to release early this morning because the witnesses were intoxicated.

By Gia Vang A July 7, 2009 A SPRINGFIELD, Ore. -- Lane County Sheriff's Office released a sketch of a suspected rapist Tuesday.A Detectives are asking for your help to catch him.

Fans and cynics can't help being bombarded by the media attention surrounding Michael Jackson's death and memorial -- but who's paying attention to the coverage? While thousands of fans gathered at Staples Center in Los Angeles Tuesday morning, Springfield's International House of Pancakes also served as a venue for the King of Pop's service.

By Gia Vang A July 6, 2009 A SPRINGFIELD, Ore. -- Springfield City Council voted Monday to move forward with filling out the necessary paperwork to make Pioneer Parkway, Martin Luther King Jr.

A woman with a loaded 9mm handgun ignored orders from police officers to drop the weapon early Monday morning after an armed robbery at a veterinary hospital, telling officers "to just kill her," according to Springfield police.

They are barbecuing in Yoncalla at the rodeo . The Veterans of Foreign Wars in Springfield plan to cook up chicken to raise money for veterans.

A body recovered in a forested area near Dorena, south of Wicks Road, has been identified as that of Thomas Davis, 40, a missing Springfield man.

The body of a Springfield man missing since May was found dead in a heavily wooded area of Marion County, according to the Lane County Sheriff's Office.

A Springfield man accused of beating a puppy to death has been charged with felony animal abuse.

With his blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit and fresh from a fight at a strip club, Matthew N. Ellmers climbed behind the wheel of his red Isuzu Rodeo and drove off, turning south down Bertelsen Road towards West 11th Avenue, investigators believe.

As firefighters arrived on the scene of a house fire Monday, they saw flames coming from the first and second floors -- and heard neighbors scream that their was an elderly woman inside.

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The Oregon Secretary of State's office is investigating Springfield Mayor Sid Leiken on allegations he benefited financially from campaign donations.

Police are looking for a person who was almost carjacked in Springfield . The incident happened Wednesday just before officers caught a man suspected of stabbing another man outside a Springfield motel.

After the state Democratic party filed a complaint, the Oregon secretary of state's office has asked Republican Mayor Sid Leiken of Springfield for records of campaign filings.

By Kaitlyn Bolduc A June 23, 2009 A A A Springfield, Ore.--The Springfield area continues to mourn the death of a 5-year-old girl killed just last week on Interstate 5, near Creswell.

An EmX bus parked at Eugene Station. Not a single reader gave me a tip to take a ride on the EmX bus in Eugene/Springfield. But what do readers know anyway? I couldn't miss taking a ride on the EmX, because it's like traveling through time.

Police arrested the driver of an RV that crossed into oncoming traffic on Interstate 5 last Wednesday and hit a car head-on, killing a passenger in the RV and a 5-year-old Springfield girl in the car.

Secret House Vineyards ran into Oregon's emerging water shortage when it sought irrigation for 16 acres outside Eugene.

By Heather Hintze June 19, 2009 A SPRINGFIELD, Ore.--A When Heather Mulgrave died in a car crash on West 11th a few months ago, she left behind her dance studio, Body and Soul.