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Published 12:00 am Saturday, November 15, 2014

Wrong-way driver — State police say a woman driving the wrong way on Interstate 5 in southern Oregon has died in a head-on crash with a tractor-trailer rig. State police said they started getting calls Thursday night reporting a white 2011 Mazda MZ 3 driving north in the southbound lanes. Several drivers said they had to swerve to avoid the car. The car finally hit the oncoming truck a couple miles south of Canyonville, blocking traffic for hours. The name of the woman was not released because her family had yet to be notified. The truck driver, 41-year-old Jose Garcias of Compton, California, was taken to a hospital in Roseburg with a broken arm.

Fatal trail shooting — Authorities said a man has been shot to death along a state trail through Klamath Falls. District Attorney Rob Patridge said Friday that investigators had made no arrests in the death of 39-year-old Tyler Devore Nelson and were asking the public for information. Officers were called about 9 p.m. Thursday to the OC&E trail in the south part of Klamath Falls. The trail is a former railroad line converted for non-motorized uses, such as biking, hiking and horse riding. One terminal is in the city. It stretches 105 miles east through Klamath County to the community Bly.

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Fugitives arrested — Washington County sheriff’s deputies and officers from other agencies helped the U.S. Marshals Service arrest two fugitives. The sheriff’s office said 32-year-old Shawn Michael Stock of Beaverton and 33-year-old Cory Nathaniel Johnston of Hillsboro were in a car that sped off Thursday when deputies tried to stop it in Bethany. It crashed into a curb. Deputies tracked and arrested Stock with the help of a police dog. The sheriff’s office said Johnston carjacked a car from an apartment resident and was chased at high speeds through Aloha until he crashed. Officers used a Taser to arrest him. Johnston is charged with multiple crimes, including bank robbery and failing to register as a sex offender. Stock is charged with attempting to elude police and parole violations for theft and forgery crimes.

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