Salem police in the 1990s began to crack down on drug users. At times, their efforts turned deadly, and regularly targeted people of color in the mostly white city. Fatal police shootings led to the ...

October 8, 2025 — The hit investigative podcast “Hush,” produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), returns today to all podcast platforms with a new season that examines a young woman’s unexplained ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jesse Lee Johnson, 62, walks free in September 2023 from Marion County Jail, just hours after prosecutors agreed to dismiss his ...

A new investigative podcast from Oregon Public Broadcasting is shining a light on the case of Jesse Lee Johnson, a Salem man formerly convicted of murder and placed on death row for 17 years, only to ...