Marion County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Salem man Monday morning, charging him with rape and other sex-related offenses in connection with interactions with a 12-year-old Dayton, Oregon girl.   Delfino Pacheco-Martinez - MCSO photo Deputies said Delfino Pacheco-Martinez, a 20-year old employee of Ioka Farms near Sublimity, met the girl and exchanged telephone numbers with her about a month ago at Chinook Winds Casino arcade in Lincoln City. Previously reported as a runaway out of Yamhill County, ... [full story]

HOMER, Alaska - A man and his wife in Homer, Alaska, have a new respect for grizzly bears after witnessing one killing and feeding on a large moose in their driveway. Gary and Terri Lyon told the Homer News they were awakened to the sound of deep growling early Sunday morning, and first thought it was their dog. Click here to watch the videos. However, when they saw the large bear about to finish ... [full story]

FRESNO, Calif. - A 19-year-old California State University student was in custody in Fresno Wednesday, charged with shooting three men and killing one in a video game dispute. Criminology major Jonquel Brooks, 19, was being held in lieu of $3 million bail, charged with the shooting death of Brant Daniels, also 19. Two other males, aged 19 and 22 also received minor gunshot wounds late Monday when the dispute over a Sony PlayStation arose in ... [full story]

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. - A man died after falling on his head during a Connecticut parking lot "battle dance." Police said the death of Robert Stitt, 48, appeared to be alcohol-related and accidental, the Hartford Courant reported. "He was a pretty good dancer. Back in the day he used to do flips," John Boxley, a friend of Stitt's who witnessed Monday's accident, told the Courant. "It was a bunch of older guys dancing who thought ... [full story]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Three weeks before the start of the North Atlantic hurricane season, subtropical storm Andrea was named Wednesday off the Florida and Georgia coasts. The National Weather Service in Jacksonville, Fla., said at 11 a.m., Andrea was 140 miles northeast of Daytona Beach, Fla., moving to the west at 3 mph. Andrea had sustained winds near 45 mph, and no strengthening was forecast in the next 24 hours. Tropical storm watches were posted ... [full story]

NASHVILLE - Tennessee prison officials executed a man early Wednesday convicted 25 years ago of killing a Nashville police officer during a botched restaurant robbery. Philip Workman, 53, was given a lethal injection at Nashville's Riverbend prison over a 17-minute period while strapped to a gurney, the Nashville Tennessean reported. His final words were brief prayers as Warden Ricky Bell stood at the head of the gurney. None of Workman's family attended, but relatives of ... [full story]

FBI Task Force Arrests Beaverton Cheerleading Coach for Abusive Sexual Contact Alleged Abuse Takes Place Aboard Aircraft The FBI's Innocent Images Task Force, working with the Hillsboro Police Department, arrested David Aaron Chatman, 32, on Monday evening on a criminal complaint charging him with Abusive Sexual Contact aboard an aircraft. The arrest was without incident. A federal grand jury indicted Chatman on two counts of Abusive Sexual Contact. This crime carries a maximum penalty of ... [full story]

BAGHDAD - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced visit to Baghdad Wednesday and spoke against Iraqi politicians taking a two-month summer holiday. Cheney met with the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, and also the U.S. envoy to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, CNN reported. Crocker told reporters traveling with Cheney the vice president was unhappy with parliamentary plans to recess as sectarian violence wracks the country. "For the Iraqi parliament to ... [full story]

JERUSALEM - An Israeli auditor criticized the defense, intelligence and military Wednesday for lagging on locating and destroying tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists. The audit by State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss claimed the military only began formulating a systematic plan for confronting the tunnel threat in December 2004 after a number of tunnels had been used in deadly attacks against Israeli outposts in the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post reported. In June 2006, Palestinian militants tunneled ... [full story]

BAGHDAD - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says the United States has until June to release five Iranians it captured in northern Iraq in January. The Iranians were captured in a surprise U.S. raid on an Iranian office in the Kurdish city of Irbil Jan. 11, although they were not the intended targets, The Independent (Britain) reported. The two men wanted by the U.S. military were elsewhere, but their official vehicles were parked in front ... [full story]