Benton County News

Cory Michael Papp, 33, formerly of Benton County, Oregon, pled guilty today in federal court to knowingly possessing computer disks and computer generated media that contained visual depictions of actual minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Jennifer Shim, one of the students taking part in the high school journalism camp, checks out the Benton County Historical Society and Museum in Philomath.

Search and rescue crews started combing the countryside near the Luckiamute River at 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning looking for a man who went fishing Wednesday afternoon but never returned.

The Willamette Community and Grange Hall south of Corvallis. It seemed like a bonus tip.

After six years without 24-hour Oregon State Police patrols in the Linn and Benton county areas, the OSP Albany Area Command office will resume around-the-clock coverage on Sunday.

It's been more than a month since KVAL News last talked to Isaiah Cavanagh, a 13-year-old boy at the center of an alleged hate crime.

This Warning is for: South Willamette Valley, Northern Oregon Cascade Foothill, Northern Oregon Cascades Courtesy: putnam-fl.com - The National Weather Service in Portland has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Northeastern Benton County, West Central Linn County until 4:00 p.m. At 3:09 p.m. a weather spotter reported estimated 70 mph winds ...

Severe thunderstorm warning for Northeastern Benton County and West Central Linn County.

A 19-year-old Portland man was arrested at an Oregon State University campus concert on Sunday after police found illegal fireworks in his backpack.

Here's the good news: manufacturing jobs are down 12 percent in Benton County. That's good news? "Normally that wouldn't be good," said labor analyst Pat O'Connor with the Oregon Employment Department, "unless you were comparing it to Lane County where it's down 26 percent." The overall unemployment rate in Lane County hit 13.6 percent in April, ...

A judge has ordered a Corvallis man to be placed under the supervision of the state Psychiatric Security Review Board after he was arrested following a police standoff.

Gregory Sako, a graduate of Hillview Middle School and Menlo-Atherton High School, was sentenced Tuesday, May 19, in Benton County, Oregon, to eight years and four months in state prison after a jury trial in which he was convicted of first-degree rape, according to the prosecutor in the case.

Sako, a former OSU student, will next be evaluated to decide whether he will be placed in a medium or high security prison The man convicted of rape and sexual abuse in the first degree last Friday was sentenced Monday morning at the downtown Corvallis Benton County Courthouse.

The Bureau of Land Management announced $32.4 million to fund 60 projects throughout Oregon and Washington under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Authorities in Benton County are looking for some suspects who targeted a teenager.

AIRLIE - A leisurely back-road traveler frequenting Polk County will likely regard Maxfield Creek Road, shared with Benton County, as one of the more scenic strips in the Mid-Willamette Valley - perhaps even inspiring.

An Oregon State University student was convicted Friday of raping a woman during a 2008 Halloween party at a fraternity.

A Benton County jury has convicted an Oregon State University student, 20-year-old Gregory Sako of rape and sexual abuse in connection with a fraternity party last Halloween.

A prosecutor says he's not ruling out the possibility of hate crime charges if authorities can collar whoever burned a cross in the yard of a Benton County woman.

A white woman who moved with her adopted African-American son to the small town Alsea in Benton County says she's shocked someone burned a cross on her lawn.