PORTLAND, Ore.  - A former guidance counselor at Troutdale Elementary School was sentenced Monday morning to 97 months’ imprisonment and was ordered to pay a $15,000 fine following his pleas of guilty to one count of receiving child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography.  United States District Court Chief Judge Ancer L. Haggerty ordered the fine remitted to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a non-profit agency located in Alexandria, Virginia, ... [full story]

A Marion County man was arrested yesterday after he was found a short distance away from his ex-wife’s apartment, covered in the blood of his former spouses’ boyfriend whom he allegedly beat with a baseball bat as the man lie sleeping. Marion County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Salem apartment of Luz Nicholas, 27, at 4493 S. Newcastle Circle NE just before 8 a.m. on June 5.    Ismael Quiroz-Santos, MCSO photo According to a news ... [full story]

An 18-year old Bend man was arrested and charged with burglary after he was observed leaving a local bowling alley by police responding to an alarm at Lava Lanes in the early morning hours on Tuesday, police reported.   Jordan J. Bilyeu - DCJ photo According to Lt. Ken Mannix with the Bend Police department, officers assisted by Deschutes County Sheriff’s deputies responded to an alarm from Lava Lanes Bowling at 1555 NE Forbes about 1:40 a.m., ... [full story]

Officials have released few details into the ongoing investigation of an “armed and dangerous” man who sped off when a deputy attempted to stop his pickup for a traffic violation last night.  Deputies say the driver sped away, leading deputies and police officers on a vehicle pursuit throughout north Bend before he ran off the road into an embankment, then fled on foot through the woods armed with a rifle. According to a news release issued ... [full story]

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - The Group of Eight leaders meeting in Germany have a lot of work to do to meet the commitments made at their 2006 meeting, a report released Wednesday said. The report from the G8 Research Group said the group has complied with 46 percent of its priority promises since its summit in St. Petersburg in July. "In the three areas of focus at the St. Petersburg Summit -- energy security, health and ... [full story]

Serbia - A mass grave suspected of holding the bodies of hundreds of ethnic Albanians killed in the Kosovo War has been found in an abandoned quarry at Raska, Serbia. "Forensic teams are in the field and an investigation has been opened," Bruno Vekaric, a spokesman for Serbia's special war crimes prosecutor, told the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. More than 10,000 people were killed during the 1998-99 war. The mass grave reportedly may hold 300 ... [full story]

CAMDEN, N.J. -- Five suspected terrorists were formally charged Tuesday in New Jersey in an indictment alleging they were inspired by al-Qaida. The group allegedly planned an attack on Fort Dix in an effort to kill U.S. soldiers training to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan or had returned from the fight. A sixth man is charged with aiding and abetting the group by supplying them with firearms. "The defendants ... were inspired by, among others, ... [full story]

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Most Republican presidential hopefuls defended the U.S. invasion of Iraq in a New Hampshire debate but criticized how the war has been handled. "I'm going to give you a little straight talk. This war was very badly mismanaged for a long time," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said in response to a question from a woman whose brother died in the war, CNN reported. The debate Tuesday was the first in Republican debate ... [full story]

WASHINGTON -- A poll released Tuesday showed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., pretty much tied for the Democratic presidential nomination. It was the first USA Today/Gallup Poll in which Clinton wasn't the leader among Democratic presidential hopefuls, USA Today reported. Obama led Clinton 30 percent to 29 percent if former Vice President Al Gore was in the race, but Clinton led Obama 37 percent to 36 percent if Gore was not ... [full story]

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Police in Kansas were looking for a "person of interest" in the abduction of an 18-year-old woman from a Target parking lot. Overland Park, Kan., Police Chief Jim Weaver on Tuesday night released video of a truck that entered the Target parking lot where Kelsey Smith was last seen. "We think this is a connection," Weaver said at a news conference, The Kansas City (Mo.) Star reported. "We need to know ... [full story]