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Woman missing after running out of gas on highway, leaving car
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Oregon State Police was formed in 1931 to support and provide an emergency safety net to local law enforcement.
Oregon State Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a woman who went missing after getting into a person’s vehicle when she ran out of gas on Highway 22 on March 28.
Maria Linda Jade Kilmer, 28, was driving from Lyons to Salem when her car ran out of fuel near milepost 15 just west of Stayton at 9 p.m. A passenger who was traveling with Kilmer told police she left with an unidentified motorist who stopped at the scene.
Police describe Kilmer as having dark hair, blue eyes and is approximately 5-feet-8-inches tall. She weighs 180 pounds. She frequents areas in the Willamette Valley from Salem to Portland, an OSP spokesperson said, and has a piercing in the middle of her lower lip.
Kilmer left her keys, purse, identification, phone and other belongings. She has not been seen since.
Police ask anyone with information to call 911 or Oregon State Police dispatch at *677.
Eder Campuzano is the local news editor for the Statesman Journal. He can can be reached at ecampuzano@statesmanjournal.com. Find him on Bluesky at @ederc.bsky.social or Threads @ederc.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) – Guard and former Oregon Ducks player Holly Winterburn has been signed to a developmental contract with the Portland Fire, the team announced Wednesday.
Winterburn played at the University of Oregon during the 2019-20 season. The native of Northampton, England, then went back to Europe where she last played for Athinaikos in the Greek Women’s Basketball League.
Winterburn, who went undrafted in the 2026 WNBA draft, was signed by the Atlanta Dream before being waived on prior to the season.
The Fire won their first game of the season on Tuesday, beating the New York Liberty 98-96.
The Fire face the Liberty again at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Moda Center. Get tickets to the game here.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Talk about a bummer.
Oregon Ducks greats Sabrina Ionescu and Satou Sabally are sidelined for the Liberty’s only trip to Portland this season.
Ionescu and Sabally didn’t play in the Liberty’s 98-96 loss to the Fire on Tuesday night and will not play in Thursday’s rematch.
Ionescu injured her left foot in the Liberty’s preseason finale May 3 and won’t be reevaluated until early next week. Though she won’t suit up, Ionescu did make the trip to Portland.
Meanwhile, Sabally has yet to make her Liberty debut after missing the team’s two preseason games for reconditioning purposes before being sidelined with a cyst. Sabally is considered day to day, coach Chris DeMarco previously said, but she didn’t join the team on its trip to Portland.
Ionescu had been campaigning for the WNBA to bring a team to Portland for quite some time and was ecstatic when the City of Roses was granted an expansion team in September 2024.
The Fire became the WNBA’s 15th franchise and joined the Toronto Tempo in embarking on their inaugural seasons this summer.
Though Fire fans hoped Ionescu would return to Oregon like a prodigal daughter, the No. 1 overall pick in 2020 made a long-term commitment to the Liberty this offseason, signing a three-year deal that keeps her in New York through the 2028 season.
Sabally, who played alongside Ionescu at Oregon for three seasons, is signed through next season.
Ionescu did relish a homecoming a year ago when the Liberty played a preseason game at Oregon’s Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene.
But a chance to play a meaningful WNBA game in Oregon will likely have to wait another year. That would change only if the Fire were to make the playoffs in their first year, but that’s a long shot. Portland has the worst odds to make the postseason, per BetMGM.
Rebecca Allen participated in the Liberty’s shootaround Tuesday morning at Moda Center, but her season debut remains on hold as she deals with soreness in her left leg.
Allen missed both of the Liberty’s preseason games for reconditioning purposes.
Soreness in her leg flared up ahead of Thursday’s season opener.
She told reporters she thought she’d be ready by Sunday’s game at Washington, but that didn’t happen.
UMATILLA, Ore. (KATU) — The Oregon Department of Corrections reports that an inmate at Two Rivers Correctional Institution has died.
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Officials say Virgil McDougal, 83, died May 11.
“As with all in-custody deaths, the Oregon State Police have been notified,” the agency said.
McDougal was convicted of several sexual abuse crimes in Marion County in 2011 and began serving his sentence in July of that year.
His earliest release date was March 2028.
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