Peggy Anderson of Brookings has admitted her involvement in the theft of several thousands of dollars from Tidewater Contractors in Brookings, Sheriff John Bishop said Monday.

The 50-year-old woman, who has worked for the company as the accounts receivable clerk for six years, said last Thursday during an interview with investigators that she took the money over a period of time.

Investigators have tentatively identified the bones of a man found in a Port Orford trailer park as those of Charles Owen Starks — and they have arrested his son, Corey Theodore Starks, on charges of hiding the body.

Stark also faces possible federal charges of collecting his father’s social security checks since his father death. 

CRESCENT CITY — In Rikuzentakata, a coastal Japanese town where the March 2011 tsunami took the lives of 10 percent of the people and only three buildings constructed before the disaster still stand, everyone has learned to live with loss.

To recover anything lost in the tsunami that surged 50-65 feet high is cause for celebration — even a high school marine science program’s small boat that washed up on South Beach in Crescent City on Sunday.

The Brookings-Harbor School District refinanced a General Obligation Refunding Bond this year, in order to lower the interest rates and save the taxpayers in Brookings $333,282 over the next seven years.

“The reason we were able to get lower rates is based on our solid credit rating,” Don Sweeney, director of fiscal services, said. “Our finances are stable.” 

PORTLAND — The proposed 2013 ocean salmon seasons announced by the Pacific Fishery Management Council this week include good news for sport and commercial anglers off the Oregon Coast.

Recreational and commercial troll Chinook salmon fishing on the central and south coast looks especially good thanks to strong returns to the Sacramento and Klamath rivers. Anglers on the north coast also can expect good returns of Chinook to the Columbia River but quotas will be similar to last year. 

Officers from different agencies draw guns Tuesday during a training scenario at an abandoned school.

I knew he wouldn’t shoot me, but rather the “bad guy” standing next to me.

I was laying on the floor of a classroom at the abandoned Cape Blanco Elementary school in Langlois on Tuesday, taking photographs of Watson and other law enforcement officers participating in an “active shooting” training session.