Fedor Zarkhin

2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Fedor Zarkhin

Four wolfdogs jumped a six-foot-high backyard fence in McMinnville on March 7 and roamed more than a mile, killing a pet dog and two cats before they were caught. The wolfdogs’ killing spree shocked McMinnville but it didn’t necessarily surprise them. It was the culmination of a years-long standoff between city officials and Sandra Atwood, a 41-year-old resident who got her first wolf-dog hybrid mix in 2021 and, in the years since, acquired four more.

3 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Fedor Zarkhin

Two skiers this month have been injured in separate incidents on Mount St. Helens and had to be taken down the mountain by rescuers using snowmobiles. Most recently, a skier summitted the mountain Saturday and was coming down when his ski caught something, sending him tumbling and injuring his knee. That person — officials have not released his name — and the two others bandaged his knee and called for help around 3:30 p.m., according to a Volcano Rescue Team post on Facebook.

3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Fedor Zarkhin

Share When DeAnn Sullivan heard that a 1954 Ford had been found at the bottom of the Columbia River , her first thought was of her late mother. Ann Sullivan, who died in 2008 at 89, spent years thinking about what happened to a Portland family that disappeared on Dec. 7, 1958. On that day, Kenneth and Barbara Martin and their three daughters climbed into the family car and drove off into the Columbia River Gorge to collect Christmas greenery. They never came back.

3 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Fedor Zarkhin

When DeAnn Sullivan heard that a 1954 Ford had been found at the bottom of the Columbia River, her first thought was of her late mother. Ann Sullivan, who died in 2008 at 89, spent years thinking about what happened to a Portland family that disappeared on Dec. 7, 1958. On that day, Kenneth and Barbara Martin and their three daughters climbed into the family car and drove off into the Columbia River Gorge to collect Christmas greenery. They never came back.

3 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Fedor Zarkhin

A 13-year-old on an electric bike who was hit and dragged under a pickup truck Friday morning on US 99E in Albany is in stable condition, police said. The crash happened around 7:10 a.m. at 29th Avenue and Pacific Boulevard, Albany Police Department said in a statement. The child had failed to obey a traffic control device, or traffic light, police said, and was hit by the driver of a pickup truck. The juvenile was taken to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.