Jim Patterson, who took over as Sherwood's city manager this month, said he understands what draws families to the city and wants to keep them coming.

My apartment complex has an excess-rainwater ditch in back of my apartment. There is wildlife there, but people seem to think it is the place to dump their garbage and I don't mean a can or two, I mean whole ...

Loran Wade Bray hoped ex-girlfriend Stephanie Pekarek would die of injuries he inflicted in a vicious February assault, but knew that would get him into serious trouble, prosecutor Erin Greenawald told Yamhill ...