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SALEM -- A jury found both Bruce Turnidge and his son Joshua Turnidge guilty of all aggravated murder and related charges in the December 2008 Woodburn bank bombing. The two men did not show any emotion as Marion County Circuit Judge Thomas Hart read "guilty" aloud 18 times for the 18 counts of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, assault and other charges. The jury, which started deliberations Tuesday afternoon, took less than a day to reach its verdict, which was announced to a standing-room-only courtroom packed with victims' family, police officers and the co-defendants family members. The jury was...

Stephanie Yao/The OregonianJoshua Turnidge, left, appears with his attorney Steven L. Krasik for arraignment in Salem today. Turnidge, 32, was held on multiple charges, including murder, in a bombing last Friday at a West Coast Bank branch in Woodburn that killed two law enforcement officers and critically injured a third. SALEM -- Authorities mistakenly believed the bomb that detonated at the Woodburn West Coast Bank on Friday was a hoax device that could be moved and taken apart inside the bank, according to the probable cause statement against Joshua Abraham Turnidge, arraigned today on aggravated murder charges. Instead, the...

SALEM -- Bruce Turnidge was arraigned this morning on multiple murder charges for his alleged involvement in last week's Woodburn bank bombing that killed two police officers and seriously wounded a third. Turnidge and his 32-year-old son, Joshua, both face aggravated murder charges, which could bring the death penalty. Bruce Turnidge wore a blue sleeveless "suicide smock" in his brief appearance before Judge Joseph V. Ochoa at the Marion County Court Annex in southeast Salem, where earlier that morning sheriff's deputies patrolled, searching for anything suspicious in bushes outside the building. Inside the courtroom, Turnidge, 57, listened silently, eyes sometimes...

WOODBURN, Ore. (AP) - A bomb exploded inside a bank here late Friday afternoon after explosives experts arrived to check on a suspicious object and authorities said at least one person was killed by the blast. Oregon State Police said the explosion at the West Coast Bank caused "serious injuries" and that police officers were in the area when the device detonated. They did not say how many police officers were injured. A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told The Oregonian at least one bomb technician had been injured. Marion County deputy medical examiner Rodge...