Noelle Crombie

“The department's put a major effort into getting more people off site and closing those timelines down, which is going to help with some of the quality and concerns complaints from the system,” a corrections administrator told lawmakers Tuesday.

“We got this,” Kotek said she told the president. “We are good. We are doing fine.”

Randy Blazak, 61, said he worked as a part-time instructor teaching sociology both in person at the Rock Creek campus and online.

Nicholas McGuffin served nine years in prison for the Leah Freeman killing, though he was never tied to the crime through DNA, physical evidence or eyewitnesses.

Investigators this year turned to findagrave.com and found the Oregon City cemetery where the woman known as Oak Grove Jane Doe was buried in the early 1950s after her dismembered remains were found in the Willamette River.

Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated arts reporter chronicled Portland's classical music scene for nearly three decades.

“He has something that you can't teach people,” one treatment provider said of Ron Ross, who connects people accused of low-level drug crimes in Clackamas County with treatment and housing. "He has that special X factor, where he naturally can just engage people."

Now, five decades later, the woman long known by investigators as Swamp Mountain Doe has a name: Marion Vinetta Nagle McWhorter.

Child deaths have plagued Followers of Christ members for decades. The latest case involves a newborn whose parents did not call for help when he had trouble breathing.

Cherie MacDougall of Salem is also accused of providing the youth with vaping devices, such as pens, cartridges and puff bars, according to the indictment.