DALLAS, Ore. (AP) — The Polk County sheriff’s office says it’s checking missing persons cases as it tries to identify the body of a man found in the Willamette River.
The body was found about 6 p.m. Sunday by a boater, along a flooded tree line about a half-mile northeast of the Salem Yacht Club.
The dead man appeared to be in his 20s.
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