Yamhill County News

Washington County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a missing man in the Lee Falls area of western Washington County.

Yamhill County Public Health is offering free H1N1 flu vaccinations at local daycares, pre-schools and schools, but it requires permission that many parents seem reluctant to grant.

Yamhill County Public Health has quit taking vaccination appointments for either the seasonal or H1N1 flu until it receives additional supplies of vaccine.

At the conclusion of her two-day sentencing hearing in Yamhill County Circuit Court, Traci Remington told Judge Cal Tichenor that everything spiraled out of control one day in early October 2008, and it led her to fire a round from a Glock 9mm semi-automatic handgun at her husband during an argument.

Yamhill County Public Healtha TMs first H1N1 vaccination clinic opens today , the department announced late Tuesday.

Yamhill County is continuing to receive small amounts of the H1N1 vaccine and is attempting to spread the blanket of inoculation to public school kids next, but is still unsure whether public vaccination clinics will be possible.

David Hill died while being treated for the H1N1 virus at a hospital last week.

The wife of a 44-year-old Yamhill County man who died of the swine flu wants to warn people they can die from the H1N1 virus even if they're healthy.

A late Saturday night fire heavily damaged a McMinnville four-plex and displaced 11 people a ' eight adults and three children.

Clackamas County sheriff's Sgt. Steve Hyson is haunted by a 10-year-old homicide.

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde will commemorate the completion of the $6.4 million Grand Ronde Road improvement project with a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov.

Trick-or-treating events, haunted houses and other activities are planned this weekend as children and the young at heart celebration Halloween.

Tuesday's firing of Willamette Education Service District Superintendent Maureen Casey doesn't put an end to the district's troubles.

Walking into a courtroom can be a sobering experience. Dark wood panels line the walls, a dozen or more people sit in the jury box, the gallery has pew-like benches occupied by curious citizens, and presiding over all this on a raised dais is the judge.

When Yamhill County Information Systems Director Murray Paolo came under scrutiny last month for alleged on-the-job improprieties, he answered to the full board of commissioners.

A 24-year-old man accused of murdering his father, a Yamhill Carlton School Board Chairman, first told authorities that his father shot himself while cleaning his gun, court documents show.

Andrew James Webb, who escaped Aug. 19 while being returned to the Yamhill County Jail following a court appearance, was sentenced Monday in Multnomah County Circuit Court to 15 months in prison for assaulting a sheriff's deputy while in custody at the Justice Center in downtown Portland.

The son of Yamhill-Carlton School Board Chair Rodney A. Sitton, who died Tuesday afternoon of a gunshot wound to the head, was charged today with murder in connection with the death.

A 28-year-old inmate with a history of run-ins with law enforcement was sentenced Monday to 15 months in prison for pummeling a Multnomah County sheriff's deputy after he was told to go back to his jail cell.

In the same way that military personnel returning from combat have been documented to relive traumatic experiences, or be set off by apparently harmless gestures, so too can people who've been sexually abused as children.