On Saturday night a 28-year-old woman called her family and told them she had been kidnapped and was being held inside of a building, police officials said.

A prostitute walked passed an entrance to the Salem Police Department and uniformed officers to an unmarked door at police headquarter to make contact with a "John" she met online, police said.

One of Salem's Top Ten Most Wanted - a man who has been on the run for nearly a year - was shot following a police pursuit on Wednesday.

Police are asking for the public’s help finding four wanted registered sex offenders in Marion County.

Sgt. David Peterson and another law enforcement officer were shot on Aug. 11 while searching for Demecio Cardenas, who ran into heavy brush after crashing a stolen car just south of the Benton-Polk county line, authorities said.

Police in Salem are searching for six or seven suspects who they said stabbed one man several times and assaulted another in a parking lot Friday night.

Mark Edward Brown was arrested at a Tigard hotel room early Tuesday morning for the murder of Bryan John Lee Knorr, who was shot in the Walmart parking lot in Southeast Salem early in the morning on Sept. 3.

A Salem man is dead after he was shot leaving a Walmart store Monday morning, the Salem Police Department said.

A Benton County sergeant, Salem Police Department corporal and a trespassing suspect are all in local hospitals after a Saturday night car chase through south Salem ended in a shootout, the Benton County Sheriff's Office said.

Fire crews responded to a house fire in Salem at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. While fighting the fire, crews discovered the four bodies in the home. The children's father was later found dead in a car near Cottage Grove.