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An Oregon woman is suspected of killing a young pregnant woman and stuffing her in her home’s crawl space. While it’s unclear how the baby was delivered, the accused killer, Korena Roberts, was trying to pass off the baby as her own after telling neighbors she, herself, was pregnant when she wasn’t.

“Doctors at the hospital were not able to revive the baby,” said Sgt. David Thompson of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office in a news release. “They also discovered that Ms. Roberts had not delivered a child at anytime in the recent past.”

Deputies returned to the home, where they found the body of 21-year-old Heather Snively in the crawl space under the kitchen, Thompson said.

Authorities learned Snively had been pregnant at the time she was attacked, and they determined she was the mother of the infant.

A father took his two young children, ages 7 and 6 on a “hiking trip” and shot them by rapid fire, killing both and then turning the gun on himself because he was sad.

Our country REALLY needs to stop coddling these jerk parents who are “depressed”. This excuse needs to stop. These child murderers are nothing more than selfish people that want to take the helpless who cannot protect themselves along with them because they see it as unfair that their own personal lives suck, so they want to make sure everyone else is miserable too.

What a coward. What a weak, small, ugly human being. Rot in hell James Gumm.

HILLSBORO, Ore. — A 45-year-old father found dead with his two children along a hiking trail is believed to have shot them before killing himself, police said.

The body of James Gumm, 45, of Hillsboro was found at a nature preserve Friday along with that of 7-year-old Tyler Gumm and 6-year-old Kylie Gumm.

Another good reason for parents to review their kid’s homework.

Four Oregon children were left by themselves for days, after their parents died in what police think was a murder-suicide.

Investigators believe the couple, Hannah Crowe and Julian Wallulatum, had been dead for days before three of the children knocked on a neighbor’s door and asked for help.

The oldest one, who’s eight, said he couldn’t wake his mom up.

When the neighbor forced his way into a locked bedroom, he says his knees wobbled and he almost fainted. Next to the dead couple was their 9-month-old daughter. She was crying, and wearing a shirt stained with their blood.

The neighbor says he’d seen the children playing outside Thursday and Friday and nothing seemed wrong.

The baby is in protective custody now and the other kids are with relatives.

Here’s a thought, if you hate children so much perhaps you should refrain from having 9 of them.

The home of an Oregon couple charged with abusing nine of their children looked like something out of a horror movie, the prosecution said during opening statements of the trial.

Marion County prosecutor Sarah Morris told jurors that the children of Graydon and Robyn Drown were beaten with 2-by-4 boards, metal and plastic pipes, spoons and whips.

The children, who range in age from infant to 16, hadn’t seen dentists or doctors and didn’t go to school, Morris said.

The children were taken by state welfare authorities after the Drowns were arrested June 19 at their rural home. Each parent faces a 25-count indictment of assault and criminal-mistreatment charges.

Diane Downs, the Oregon woman who rose to infamy in 1983 after shooting her three children, has had her parole request denied. Good.

One of the most famous child killers in American history, Downs cried several times — burning through a stack of Kleenex — as she answered questions via closed-circuit television from the Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, Calif..

The three-member Board of Parole struggled to keep Downs on topic during the nearly three-hour hearing that ranged from sad to bizarre. At one point, Downs said she was now married, but later retracted the statement. She talked about her astrology sign and offered alternative ways she could have gotten rid of her children — had she wanted to.

A 1-year-old girl in Woodburn, Oregon started a frantic search after going missing at her grandparents’ house, and was found a couple hours later in an unusual spot.

The girl’s uncle, Tim Higgins, said the family feared the worst.

“We were like, ‘She couldn’t have went anywhere. She can’t walk,’ ” he said. “‘She’s gotta be here unless somebody came in and took her.’ ”

About 15 officers arrived and were involved in an intense search of the house and the surrounding area but the baby could not be found, police said.

At 7:30 a.m., an officer heard the child coughing in the bedroom but still couldn’t locate the girl, police said.

They realized that the child had managed to climb underneath the flooring although they couldn’t figure out how the child had gotten below the floor, police said.

A hole was found but it didn’t appear to be big enough for a child to fit through, officers said.

A 5th grader who was hit in the throat with a football during recess later died from his injury.

“They were just playing football — it was caught in the wrong spot and his friend went down,” said Benjamin Crofut, a parent volunteering at the school Tuesday afternoon.

A teacher on the field used a walkie-talkie to call for help and Crofut said paramedics responded immediately. Emergency crews performed CPR on the boy for more than 20 minutes.

Lake Oswego fire officials said crews then took the student to Legacy Meridian Park Hospital. Efforts to save the boy’s life were unsuccessful and he died at the hospital, according to the fire department.

Kathie Amuro, whose son was on the field at the time of the incident, said the death has already been difficult for her son.

“He’s shocked,” Amuro said. “They’re at school playing a game and he’s told his friend is dead. It’s horrible. I don’t know if he can even grasp what that means.”

A baby in Portland, Oregon is on the mend after contracting a rare case of botulism.

Botulism affects about 100 babies in the U.S. each year by paralyzing their muscles and respiratory systems. It is not usually fatal.

The infant’s mother, Jennifer Perez, says she noticed her daughter, Aracelis Mora, had gone limp a day after they passed a construction site while on a stroll.

In a freak accident in Oregon, a small airplane crashed into a vacation home killing 3 children inside.

A small plane crashed into a vacation home on the Oregon coast on Monday, killing three children inside and two adults on board, officials said.

Authorities had been searching for a third child in the smoldering wreckage of the house in the popular vacation town of Gearhart, according to City Administrator Dennis McNally.

The Portland Oregonian newspaper reported late on Monday that the body had been found, according to authorities.

Police continue to search for an 11-year-old Portland boy with autism who became lost near Mount Saint Helens.

The boy, Alex Irvin of Portland, and his father, Bruce, were hiking on the Siouxon (soo-shahn) trail near Amboy when they decided to split up and meet at Siouxon Falls.

But Alex never showed up, and at about 9:30 that night, his father called the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office.

Searchers are using dogs and horses and all-terrain vehicles to scour the area for Alex.

Apparently kids don’t have to wait until high school to be tormented by cliques anymore. It’s now trickled down to the second grade.

“They started taunting and teasing her,” said Allie’s mom, Trudy Ludwig. “She was on this play structure and they blocked all of the exits and wouldn’t let her off. They started moving closer to her. Allie just freaked out. One of the girls realized it was getting out of hand and got a teacher to help.”

Bullying among adolescents has captured the attention of researchers, educators and parents alarmed by a parade of mean girls and cyber-bullies caught in mid-punch on viral video. But such aggression may not just happen in a whirl of adolescent hormones, some in the growing anti-bully movement argue.

Some older bullies were “Barbie brats” first.

Police have identified a boy who drowned in the Clackamas River in Oregon as 11-year-old Finn Terry of Portland. Terry was on a canoe trip with his Boy Scout troop.

Sheriff’s spokesman Detective Jim Strovink says the canoe carrying a man and the boy overturned in the Clackamas River near Gladstone. Both were wearing flotation devices, but they were swept away by the swift current, and the child was drawn under.

Nearby boaters were able to pull the man safely from the 43-degree water.

The county dive team recovered the boy’s body Saturday night, less than an hour after the canoe capsized.

A girl trying to make her way onto a boys sports team is the stuff of after school specials and Lifetime movies. But usually the girl isn’t wanted because she’s viewed as a weak link on the team. But for Jaime Nared, a 6 foot tall 12-year-old in Oregon, it would appear that the parents don’t want her to play because she’s kicking their sons’ collective asses.

“If she were 4-feet-9 and no good, we wouldn’t be having this discussion,” said the coach, Michael Abraham. “To appease a small minority of parents, in this day and age, is stupid. This is a decision that really targets her. She’s a well-adjusted kid who happens to be great.”

Neal Franzer, the Hoop’s director of operations, said the parents were “adamant” that it wasn’t because Nared was too good.

“They said the problem was the boys were playing differently against her because she was a girl,” he said. “They’d been taught to not push a girl, so they weren’t fouling her hard, and the focus had shifted from playing basketball to noticing a girl was on the floor with them.”

Also, it’s believed there was great concern about cooties.

Finally some good news to report around here. Two sisters who were separated from their father while hiking in the Yacolt Burn State Forest outside of Portland, Oregon, have been found after spending more than 15 hours out in the wild.

Rescuers used heat-seeking technology to search for the Vancouver, Wash., family late Sunday. They found the father and his son overnight, but the daughters — ages 7 and 10 — were missing until 10:30 a.m. Monday.

The girls were found by ground searchers with Fire District 13, also known as the Volcano Rescue Team.

The search began Sunday night when the father called 911 to report his daughters were missing. Officials said the father and son sat down to rest during their hike, but the girls carried on and disappeared.