Families cutting food budgets to fill gas tanks

Local families say they are cutting back on food budgets to pay for the recent increase in gas prices

Car crashes into Keizer home

Three people ended up in the hospital when a car went off a road and straight into a home in Keizer.

Reservists return home after saving lives in Afghanistan

The Air Force Reservists spent the past four months providing medical support to almost 200 combat missions in Afghanistan.

Investigation pulls up the mat on runaway Toyotas

A local woman with serious safety concerns about Toyota and Lexus cars said: "I had a fleeting thought that this may be the day I die," she told KATU news. Her case appears to be part of a string of crashes that caused the maker of both types of cars, Toyota Motor Sales, to initiate a recall of nearly 4 million Toyotas and Lexuses in early-October.

The Portland driver of this Lexus ES 350 said she had to crash it into a parked car to keep it from accelerating: "How many more people have to be injured or killed [by Toyota's cars] before something is done?"