2014 favorites

January 2, 2015

Throughout 2014 I’ve worked in two countries and three states. There were lots of adventures, but I am definitely looking forward to 2015 and settling in more here in Oregon. I’m excited to start more long term stories here as I learn more about Salem.

Desire Mateo Valverde, 15, feeds her daughter, 4-month-old daughter, a bottle after just getting her back a few minutes before. The baby’s father sometimes takes the infant, with no intent of taking care of her, but just in an effort to cause mental angui

Friends Lisa Tolle, left, and Mandi Hall, both of Fishers, blow bubbles before the start of the 21st annual Navigate Indy This Evening, or N.I.T.E. Ride, at Carroll Stadium at IUPUI in Indianapolis on Saturday, June 28, 2014. Thousands of cyclists rode th

Families ski and snowboard at Mount Hood Meadows on Friday, Dec. 26, 2014. Friday is the first night of night skiing for the season and more snow is expected on Saturday.

Gracie Straus, 7, moves her tower for her feeding tube and oxygen around the living room so she can set up a board game in her family’s home in Dallas, Ore., on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. Gracie lives with an undiagnosed disease that the family is working to get managed by doctors and hospitals all over the country.

Cade Smith is named the Statesman Journal All Mid-Valley football player of the year. Photographed at West Salem High School on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014.

Smoke plumes from a fire as seen from the San Clemente Municipal Golf Course on Friday, May 16, 2014.

Rosmeri Aguero Lorenzo, 16, watches her daughter, Rosmeiry Custodio, 2, and her younger brother, Robinson Aguero Lorenzo, 9, in her grandmother’s home in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Jan. 4, 2014. Rosmeri, her grandmother and her mother all had th

York’s Joshua Garner (88) and his teammates celebrate their overtime victory of the Ralston vs. York Class B quarterfinal prep football game at Levitt Stadium in York, Neb., on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. York won the game 42-41 in overtime.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers patrol Broad Ripple from Friday night through early Saturday morning.

Simeon Bowling, 8, gets his goalie gear put on during youth hockey night on the rooftop of Englewood Christian Church in Indianapolis on Thursday, July 24, 2014.

Firefighters work a fire in a vacant apartment building on the 2400 block of Hobart Road in Indianapolis on Monday, July 28, 2014.

Azalea Sevcik, 6, of Irvine, wades among ducks and geese at North Lake Park in Irvine on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014.