Yamhill County News

Seventeen days after discovering the body of Lori Fitzgerald in her Forest Grove home, police say she was the victim of an apparent homicide, and that an armed-and-dangerous man authorities spent the last week looking for is a person of interest.

Area police caught up with a man tonight who had been arrested 45 times and was wanted for nearly a year on felony parole violation warrants.

Melissa Lynn, and her husband, Jason Winner, have launched a new cab company, Supercab, based in Lafayette.

Deputy District Attorney Ladd Wiles described Brian Herron as the "primary actor" in last August's armed robbery of the McMinnville 7-Eleven store.

Millstones from the old Kinney Mill were turned into a monument by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

The first of many - Kindergarten student Hailey Garber receives a nasal injection Monday morning from RN Linda Schilling at Joan Austin Elementary School.

A McMinnville woman received her first ride in a police car Friday after 105 years of being on the right side of the law.

A A Waste Not of Yamhill County, the citizen's group opposed to the Riverbend Landfill expansion, will likely argue before the state Land Use Board of Appeals that the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners improperly granted the facility a statewide land use goal exemption.

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.