Silverton's Kai Buckley is the Salem-area high school girls soccer player of the year, as voted by Statesman Journal readers. A senior, Buckley earned 5A first-team all-state and first-team Mid ...

Anastasia Mason recently joined the Statesman Journal newsroom as the newspaper's state government reporter, covering the executive branch of Oregon government including state agencies.

and E.S. Fentress, founder of Newspaper Inc. and publisher of the Waco Times-Tribune, now known as the Waco Times-Herald, owned the new American-Statesman. The two had purchased the American in 1919.