CORVALLIS, Ore. - On any given Saturday morning, you'll find Bill Starnes tinkering with his game at Highland Bowl in Corvallis.

"I bowl 4 or 5 days a week," Starnes said.

The 69 year-old has been bowling ever since he could pick up a bowling ball at his father's bowling center.

"I've been bowling a lot of years, I've thrown a lot of bowling balls," Starnes said.

But when Starnes bowled an 814 series at the Northwest Senior Tour tournament, that landed the veteran bowler a spot in the U.S. Record books.

This makes Starnes the only bowler in the United States to score an 800 series in six consecutive decades.

"It's really quite humbling because there have been many great bowlers who for whatever reason were not able to do that," Starnes said.

This is not the first time the bowler of 52 years has been recognized for his bowling abilities.

Starnes was a star bowler at the University of Oregon in the 1960s.

He was even given the chance to go professional, but turned that opportunity down.

CORVALLIS, Ore. - A suspicious device found outside a gas station early Saturday morning proved to be a hoax.

Employees at the Safeway Fuel Station, 5270 SW Philomath Blvd., called police just after 5 a.m. after finding what appeared to be a homemade explosive device.

Police closed Philomath Boulevard for public safety as the Oregon State Police Bomb Squad responded to the scene. Bomb techs neutralized the device on the scene and later determined the item was a hoax device and not explosive.