Jessica Porter

Local & Regional Dad searching for daughter: 'I still have no idea where she is' (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Jessica Porter Published: Apr 24, 2013 at 8:33 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 24, 2013 at 8:33 AM PDT

Steven Colbert said he wont come home to Cottage Grove until he finds his 5-year-old daughter Fela.

Local & Regional Want to buy an old church? Read the fine print (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Jessica Porter KVAL News with KVAL.com staff Published: Apr 10, 2013 at 2:31 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 10, 2013 at 4:20 PM PDT

First, the city planned to put a road through the church, demolishing a place of worship for 121 years in the process. The city no longer plans to demolish the church. They still want to get rid of it. So the City of Albany has put the old church up for sale with one key suggestion: Move it.

Local & Regional 'It was such a relief when they got it off of me' (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Jessica Porter KVAL News with KVAL.com staff Published: Apr 10, 2013 at 1:47 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 10, 2013 at 4:10 PM PDT

Jeff Smith's foot slipped off the tractor clutch. A moment later, he had a 3,000 pound tractor on his chest, pinning him to his garden.

Local & Regional 'If you move one more foot, this gun is going off right in your chest' (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Jessica Porter KVAL News with KVAL.com staff Published: Mar 26, 2013 at 5:53 PM PDT Last Updated: Mar 27, 2013 at 11:44 AM PDT

Miriam Brazel woke her husband Jim after hearing metal rattling in their farm workshop. Jim grabbed a firearm. Miriam grabbed a serious-looking farm implement. In their bathrobes, the couple set out to confront the intruder.

Local & Regional Should Oregon require $10 registration fee for bicycles? (Video)

By Jessica Porter KVAL News with KVAL.com staff Published: Mar 6, 2013 at 8:41 AM PDT Last Updated: Mar 6, 2013 at 12:16 PM PDT

An Oregon lawmaker proposed a bill that would require bicyclists pay a $10 registration fee.

Local & Regional Friends say police blamed birthday boy after officer lost control of Taser (Video)

By Jessica Porter KVAL News with KVAL.com staff Published: Feb 25, 2013 at 5:57 PM PDT Last Updated: Feb 26, 2013 at 10:21 AM PDT

Friends and family showed up in court to support a man accused of resisting arrest and turning a police stun gun on an officer over the weekend.

Local & Regional 'My son would not have a father if it wasn't for her' (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Jessica Porter KVAL News with KVAL.com staff Published: Feb 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM PDT Last Updated: Feb 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM PDT

Charles Fields suffers from a disease that causes severe pain in his face called trigeminal neuralgia, also known as the suicide disease. He said that 15 months ago, he was ready to take his own life.

Local & Regional Pot plant stolen when rain drives grower inside to sleep (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Jessica Porter KVAL News Published: Oct 18, 2012 at 10:53 AM PDT Last Updated: Oct 18, 2012 at 10:53 AM PDT

A medical marijuana patient had been sleeping in a tent in his backyard for days to guard his legal marijuana plants when a storm drove him inside Sunday. Someone took the opportunity to grab his mature plant.

Local & Regional Old cat's barn is on the move, E I E I O! (Photo Gallery)

By Jessica Porter and KVAL News Published: Oct 7, 2012 at 8:00 PM PDT Last Updated: Oct 7, 2012 at 9:17 PM PDT

Like the proverbial chicken, a barn in Tangent was moved across a road... to be re-established on a neighboring farm. The barn was bestowed to a cat by its owner after he passed away in the 80's.

Local & Regional Coos Bay motel standoff ends in suicide

By Jessica Porter and KVAL.com Staff Published: May 29, 2012 at 7:43 AM PDT Last Updated: May 29, 2012 at 7:43 AM PDT

An armed man that barricaded himself in a motel room at the Edgewater Inn at Coos Bay Monday morning took his own life in a standoff, police said.