Scappoose News

What started out as a heated scrap between Mark Gift and his son-in-law escalated into a story of bad blood involving the Oregon State Police, the use of a Taser in an attempt to bring Gift down and, finally, a grand jury indictment for attempted murder.

A Scappoose attorney was suspended from practicing law after the Oregon State Bar found he had misrepresented information to the Oregon Department of Human Services while working as a senior deputy district attorney in Washington County.

The widow of a northeast Portland man who was shot to death by members of a Scappoose-area family said she is considering legal action against the family and Wheeler County officials who spearheaded the shooting investigation.

The project consists of improvements to the Scappoose wastewater treatment plant and includes the replacement of the headworks comminutor with a vertical fine screen.

Whitaker/Ellis Builders Inc. crew members use Campbell Crane equipment to place one of 68 tilt-up panels for the new Petersen Elementary School in Scappoose.

Last month, the Scappoose School Board voted 4 to 2 to approve supplementary materials for teaching human sexuality to seventh and eighth graders.

A Wheeler County homicide case involving a Scappoose family is expected to go to grand jury later this week, said an Oregon State Police captain who is investigating the case.

St. Helens' Jen Johnston and her 4-year-old son, Logan, join Scappoose's Kellia Meharry and her son, Quinn, 2, in a less congested patch of grass at the Columbia Health District office on Gable Road last Friday as others held their place in line.

If I were a rich man, I would have my shoes custom-made. Comfortable feet are like water in the well: you don't miss the water until the well runs dry.

A St. Helens police officer and his K-9 were not injured Tuesday evening when their patrol car was rear-ended by a vehicle at the scene of a non-injury crash on Highway 30 west of St.

Boora Architects designed the K-12 school that Vernonia School District hopes to build.

Killed in a 2008 crash with a log truck at Highway 30 and Bennett Road in Warren.

The Wheeler County Sheriff's Office says the Oct. 7 shooting death of a 61-year-old Portland hunter came during an altercation with a Scappoose family.

Pieces of the pandemic - An instructional pamphlet, nasal applicator for the Flumist H1N1 live-culture vaccine and a pair of latex gloves are part of the health care providers arsenal for battling back the H1N1 flu bug.

The Columbia Health District's bid to bring a hospital to South Columbia County hit a serious block on Oct.

Scappoose Police Officer Shaun Barrett pleaded not guilty to criminal trespass and harassment charges in Polk County Circuit Court on Oct.

Two looming tax referendums that could suck millions out of anticipated school funding and fast-sinking state reserves has Scappoose Superintendent Paul Peterson thinking hard about ways to trim his already lean budget.

Miss Oregon CC Barber told old war stories at Scappoose Middle School, Petersen Elementary and Scappoose High School last week.

Property owners, be on the lookout for your 2009-2010 property tax statements, which will soon be in the mail.

The pilot of an experimental single-engine plane was Kenneth Turpen, a Bainbridge Island resident and pilot for United Air Lines out of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, crashed mid-morning on his way to Scappoose, Ore.