News Briefs - Page 24

NEWPORT – Expect long delays on U.S. Highway 101 in the Beverly Beach area north of Newport on Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 7-8 as the highway is reduced to a single lane to make more repairs. The Oregon Department of Transportation announced Monday afternoon that motorists driving between Newport and Depoe Bay should expect long delays as flaggers limit traffic

Newport officials say they’re working as fast as they can but it may be a month before a leak that’s diverting treated wastewater into Yaquina Bay can be fixed. Nearly 1,500 gallons of effluent wastewater a minute has been pouring into the bay since Dec. 28. The pipe runs between the East Science Drive area near the Hatfield Marine Science

Lincoln County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stayed at 4.8 percent in November, unchanged from October’s rate but half a percentage point higher than the year before and higher than Oregon’s statewide rate of 4.1 percent. The national rate was 4.2 percent in November. Seasonally adjusted nonfarm payroll employment increased by 30 in November to 18,680 jobs, said regional economist Shaun

NEWPORT – Investigators announced Monday that a 53-year-old Lincoln County jail inmate found dead in his cell Dec. 22 died of natural causes related to a chronic medical condition. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said last week that Steven P. Riley of Lincoln City was found unresponsive in his single-occupant cell about 11:45 a.m. Dec. 22 during routine meal service.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and Lincoln City Police Department continue to ramp up their child luring stings of local men during online decoy operations this month. Seiji M. Button, 28, of Newport is being held in the Lincoln County jail on $200,000 bail after his arrest Dec. 11 on charges of luring a minor and online sex corruption of

A second winter overnight homeless shelter operated by Lincoln County opened at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23 in Lincoln City after weeks of renovations needed to make it habitable. The county changed locations for its first shelter in Lincoln City, deciding not to remodel a warehouse-like building it purchased in the Oceanlake area and instead buying a building in a