Yamhill Valley News-Register

According to Oregon State Police, a Gaston-area man died Monday night in a single vehicle traffic crash on Highway 47 just south of Gaston. Alfred L. Spry, 62, was southbound on wet Highway 47 when his 2003 Ford F-150 pickup went into the ditch, then rolled. Full Story »

The predicted freezing rain and snow didn’t hit Yamhill County this weekend, but the weather wasn’t pleasant either. Drizzly rain and fog froze on the roads at night, causing at least one traffic mishap. Full Story »

Jesus Anibal Arriaga, 14, of 753 S.W. Agee St., McMinnville, was reported in fair condition Monday morning at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland after he and another boy were hit by a sport utility vehicle Friday morning in McMinnville. Full Story »

Hundreds of people lined Third Street in downtown McMinnville Friday afternoon for Santa's Parade. Full Story »

Willamina schools are running two hours late this morning. Additional information will be posted here as it becomes available. Full Story »

A creative mind and a head for business are among the attributes Ginger Emrick brings to the family firm, Western Oregon Waste. Friendly and cheerful, with an entrepreneurial spirit, she seems the perfect fit for the position of marketing director. Full Story »

Oregon’s Indian gaming industry, which features the Spirit Mountain Casino in Grand Ronde as one of its centerpieces, fell prey to a national trend of slow to no growth in 2008, according to economist Alan Meister, who recently released his annual Indian Gaming Industry Report for the year. Full Story »

According to the Oregon Department of Transportation, a jackknifed semi truck trailer rig is blocking Highway 18 at Milepost 25, three miles east of Valley Junction. Full Story »

I’m dreaming of a white... elephant? Bruce and Sarah Christensen of McMinnville have turned a way of interacting with distant family at Christmas into a source of supplemental income. Full Story »

HOW TO HELP: A trust account called the Raymond Family Fire Fund has been established at First Federal to help David and Patricia recover from an uninsured fire. Contributions made be made at any branch. Full Story »

The driver of a tractor-trailer rig that rear-ended a mobile restaurant at Highway 18 and Christensen Road last December, killing the other driver, has been found guilty of the Class B felony of criminally negligent homicide by Yamhill County Circuit Judge John Collins. Full Story »

Rep. Jim Weidner of Yamhill, the freshman Republican representing most of Yamhill County in the House, announced his candidacy for re-election Friday. Full Story »

Editor's Note: Area meteorologists did an about-face after first predicting severe ice and moderate snow conditions throughout northwest Oregon for much of Saturday. Weather reports said "computer models" changed dramatically Friday night to a condition of "wintery mix." Full Story »

The Oregon Department of Transportation reports icy conditions on Highway 99W between McMinnville and Amity, causing vehicles to lose traction. Icy conditions also reported on OR 240, OR 18 and OR 22. Full Story »

Yamhill County residents should burrow indoors this weekend, because a hodgepodge of bad winter weather threatens outdoors. Full Story »

Yamhill County will join the state as a whole Monday in beginning to make H1N1 flu vaccine available to the general public, Public Health Manager Mike McNickle announced Friday. Full Story »

Two teenage boys were hit by a car Friday morning in McMinnville; one of them escaped injury, but the other was hospitalized at Legacy Emanuel trauma center in Portland. Full Story »

Oregon college students will get smaller financial aid checks next year unless the Legislature provides additional funding because the state awarded more money than it has available. Full Story »

Today, Alfred Hassel and his family celebrate Christmas with a mixture of German and American traditions. They buy a tree for their Carlton home a week or two before Christmas, rather than waiting for Christmas Eve, as he did in his native Germany. Full Story »

Upon returning home from a chilly Saturday stint in the McMinnville Kiwanis Club's cheese wagon, downtown in the US Bank Plaza, former club president Eric Wright heard his aging furnace emit a loud noise and realized the fan had stopped spinning. So began a very cold weekend for Wright. Full Story »

Linfield College senior Melissa Grace Davaz said she had been drinking when she read a newspaper account about a suspicious object found on campus Nov. 29. It attracted Oregon State Police Bomb Squad attention, but turned out to consist of nothing more than a plastic milk jug filled with concrete. Full Story »

Both John Brodniak and his dog, Mary, have had tumors. But their experiences have differed in some major ways. Hers invaded a leg; his invaded his brain. Hers was removed expeditiously; his remains a ticking time bomb. Full Story »

When Muriel Dresser sits down at the piano on Sunday at Willamina's Free Methodist Church, she says, "I'm playing for the Lord." But decades ago, as a young girl, she performed for pay - big pay. Full Story »