A 20-year old Wilsonville man has been arrested for the alleged rape, sodomy, and sexual abuse of two teenage girls he befriended on MySpace.com, deputies reported yesterday. Clackamas County Sheriff’s deputies said that Kyle James Green is believed to have specifically targeted underage girls on the internet, in public libraries, and through introductions from acquaintances.    Kyle James Green - CCSO photo Green was taken into custody on June 25 and lodged in the Clackamas County Jail ... [full story]

Oregon Human Trafficking Task Force Refers Information Regarding Minor Victim Involved in Production of Child Pornography PORTLAND, Ore.  – Charles Ross, Jr., 25, was sentenced to 180 months imprisonment following his guilty plea to one count of Production of Child Pornography.  U.S. District Court Judge Garr M. King ordered that Ross serve a term of 5 years on supervised release following the completion of his prison term. Law enforcement officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement ... [full story]

Congressman to hold roundtable talks with Meth Action Coalition Congressman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) will visit Central Oregon for a speaking engagement with the Redmond Rotary and for a roundtable meeting with the Deschutes County Meth Action Coalition (MAC). Congressman Walden will be in the midst of a District swing during the Independence Day District Work Period. On Tuesday, July 3 he will be in southern Oregon to conduct town halls in Medford and Grants Pass. ... [full story]

Flags to be lowered Monday, July 2 and Tuesday, July 3 in honor of Spc. Joseph Kenny and Spc. Dominic Nathaniel Rodriguez Governor Ted Kulongoski has ordered all flags at public institutions be flown at half-staff on Monday, July 2 and Tuesday, July 3, in memory of Spc. Joseph Kenny and Spc. Dominic Nathaniel Rodriguez. Kenny, 20, of Veneta, and Rodriguez, 23, of Klamath Falls, both died on Saturday, June 22. Kenny died in Mosul, Iraq and ... [full story]

Si Chan Wooh, a former senior officer of SSI International, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. until 2006, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. Wooh pleaded guilty at a hearing Friday before U.S. District Judge Garr King at U.S. District Court in Portland, Ore.  Wooh has agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department ... [full story]

Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers on Friday announced the conviction of Carrie Ann Bowers on four counts of first-degree theft. Bowers was convicted in Lane County Circuit Court after a year-long investigation of diversion of prescription medications from three different Eugene long term care facilities where she had worked as a registered nurse. The investigation was prompted by a report that Bowers was fired from a facility for ordering unnecessary pain medication for residents. Allegedly, ... [full story]

A contract construction worker was killed Sunday night from injuries suffered when he was pinned between a backhoe's stabilizer landing gear and the rear bucket while working in a highway construction project on Interstate 205 just north of Interstate 5. The victim's name is withheld pending next of kin notification.   A 47-year old employee of Oregon Mainline Paving was killed Sunday night when he was pinned between a backhoe's stabilizer landing gear and it's rear bucket ... [full story]

The driver of a motorhome was transported by air ambulance with critical injuries, and four others were taken to the hospital by ambulance after the driver ran a red light, crashed into two vehicles, then ran into a Pizza Pit and another parked car, police reported.   The driver of this motorhome received critical injuries in a crash that sent four others to the hospital after the RV ran a red light - OSP photo Just before ... [full story]

Fire investigators are still working to determine the cause of a small brush fire that burned ¼ acre in Tumalo State Park in north Bend on Sunday. Bend Fire & Rescue dispatched one water tender and two wildland companies, who were able to quickly extinguish the blaze.  No structures within the popular campground were threatened. “Remember we have very dry conditions at this time,” Captain Scott Wyman said. “Use extreme caution when outdoors.” [full story]

GAZA - Hamas officials Monday arrested the spokesman for the Army of Islam, which has claimed it is holding BBC journalist Alan Johnston hostage. The BBC said spokesman Khattab al-Maqdisi was arrested along with several other members of the Palestinian militant group on Monday by security forces after negotiations for Johnston's release broke down. "The arrests were carried out after all negotiation attempts ... failed to free the abducted journalist," a Palestinian Interior Ministry statement ... [full story]