This is part of an on-going series answering "Why is that?" questions about Salem and the Mid-Valley. The question: Why are shoes dangling from overhead utility lines in our community? We try to ...

The mystery hangs above our streets, as much a part of the cityscape as pigeons and litter, but tangled up in urban myth: those sneakers dangling from overhead wires. Some say the errant shoes stake ...

SOUTH WHITTIER — A dozen pairs of shoes dangle from the telephone wires across from a public housing complex in South Whittier. Were they placed there as an advertisement for a local drug dealer? As ...

An e-mail sent out to the third district police listserv has touched off quite a debate pitting neighbor against neighbor, resident against cop! Everyone wants to prove their street cred. The subject: ...