Benton County News

For the last five years, Corvallis has kicked off winter in style, thanks in part to the annual festive downtown celebration, Winter's Eve.

Today last day of Civil War Blood Drive is on OSU campus with OSU currently beating UO in overall score By Lauren Sigel The Daily Barometer Sometimes bloodshed has to occur if a war is to be won.

Courtesy of 2nd Lt. Chad raney ROTC cadets line up in the MU Quad during last year's Veterens Day ceremony.

A man shot in the leg while looking for cans in an alley behind an Oregon State University fraternity when he was homeless says he feels the student who shot him got too light a sentence.

Arrests: 9:14 p.m., Monday, Nov. 2 - Angela Rachele Finn, 35, of Corvallis, was charged for a warrant out for her arrest after she was discovered in a parking lot on Northwest Highland Drive.

The 60-thousand dollar grant is from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It will allow Benton County to complete a two-year project aimed at identifying wetland and riparian areas.

Arrests: 4:44 p.m., Monday, Oct. 26 - Scott Edward Nelson, 56, of Corvallis, was charged with menacing, unlawful use of a weapon and disorderly conduct after he allegedly threatened to kill another man while he was in the public bathrooms located at Northwest 1st Street and Van Buren Avenue.

If you're getting pulled over by the police and don't know what to tell the officer, just pull out your iPhone.

REACH Air Medical Services and members of the Corvallis Fire Department, along with the Monroe Rural Fire Protection District were recognized at the 2009 State Emergency Medical Services Awards Banquet in Portland on October 2, 2009 for their exemplary performance of collaborative duties under adverse conditions.

An Oregon woman has been charged with trying to kidnap a baby from an Albany hospital.

This is a press release courtesy Oregon State University Law enforcement officials, volunteers, businesses and individuals who participated in the search for Brigham Young University student Brooke Wilberger will be recognized at an appreciation ceremony on Oct.

Police charged a 63-year-old man with bludgeoning to death with a ball-peen hammer a 78-year-old woman with Parkinson's disease who was confined to a wheelchair.

Bid Date/Time: Oct. 13, 2009, 2 p.m. The Benton County Fairgrounds, at 110 S.W. 53rd St.

Authorities have completed the recovery of Brooke Wilberger's remains, which were found off an abandoned logging road west of Philomath.

The United States will spend $2.5 trillion this year on health care, according to government estimates, and one reason costs are skyrocketing is because some patients receive too much care, local health experts said.

BLODGETT, Ore.--A People who liveA in Benton County and in the Oregon Coast Range can't believeA the remainsA of Brooke Wilberger are so close.A A Some residents near the town of Blodgett say, although the news of where Joel Courtney killed Wilberger is shocking, they still feel safe in their homes.

Joel Courtney agreed to the plea bargain that would put him in prison for the rest of his life for killing Brooke Wilberger but spare him from the death penalty because it included a provision to allow him to serve out his sentence near his family, an attorney for Courtney said Tuesday.

More than five years after she was abducted from Oregon State University and presumed killed, the remains of Brooke Wilberger have been found and her suspected killer has pleaded guilty.

Most of the remnants of Camp Adair are hidden by more than six decades of natural growth.

Police used a Taser to take a mentally challenged man with a foot-long steel bolt into custody after he allegedly threatened a Dari Mart clerk and demanded money.