Month: August 2011

Bill Friday of Bend says it was around Thanksgiving 1971 when he was visiting his brother and his sister-in-law at their farm on the Lewis River in southwest Washington state, when all of a sudden, a convoy of National Guardsmen began searching the woods, something Friday says made him believe they were searching for D.B.

A split Bend City Council voted 4-3 Wednesday night to go along with a citizen committee?s recommendations and not send voters a city charter amendment that would have the mayor elected directly, instead of being chosen among councilors for the post. Councilors also agreed to proceed with a $5.6 million hydroelectric project on the major

Oregon Attorney General John Kroger was in Central Oregon for official business but he also had some fun while doing it. Kroger was seen paddling the Deschutes River but it was for a purpose. It’s all part of a series of visits for the attorney general to important Oregon waterways. While he was on the

Bend police called to a report of a N. Highway 97 motel robbery Tuesday night learned instead that the gas station next door had been held up by a man with a gun, who eluded an extensive police search of the area. Officers were dispatched about 10:05 p.m. to the report of a robbery at

After watching lawmakers go back and forth in Washington for months, a debt ceiling decision was finally made Tuesday. Now many people are wondering what comes next. Many Redmond seniors said Wednesday they’re relieved to get their Social Security check, but worried about the long-term effects of the budget cuts. NewsChannel 21 financial analyst Bill

An Oklahoma woman claims she’s certain one of her uncles was famed hijacker D.B. Cooper. Marla Cooper of Oklahoma City tells ABC News she believes her uncle Lynn Doyle Cooper was the man who hijacked a Northwest Orient plane, parachuted from it with $200,000 and never was caught. She says she was only 8 at

If it turns out, texting while driving played a role in last week’s deadly Reed Market Road crash, the question arises: Could a tougher ban on cell phone use while driving have helped prevent what happened? The Oregon Legislature passed a stricter bill earlier this year that doesn’t take effect until next year. In 2009,

Police called to a possible fight at a northeast Bend apartment complex Monday afternoon said they instead learned that one resident had chased and caught another who allegedly tried to steal a landscaper?s truck but instead crashed it into a sign pole, then ran. Alcohol was a factor in the crash, which left behind more

The Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team released more details Tuesday of last week?s raid on two Bend business locations and a Culver home, also identifying three suspects arrested on drug charges as agents seized two pounds of methamphetamine worth $40,000. The locations raided last Thursday were identified as Rico?s Groceries at 226 NE Third St.,

A Portland woman missing for three nights in the Mount Hood Wilderness was found and rescued by helicopter Tuesday and was reported in serious condition at a Portland hospital. A Legacy Emanuel Medical Center spokeswoman told The Oregonian ( http://bit.ly/oRO3xU ) that 28-year-old Pamela Salant of Portland was being held for evaluation. Hood River County

Normally cars usually go through fast food drive-thrus, but turning an apartment into one is never a planned development. Police said Monday evening, a pickup truck driving on Rimrock Way in Redmond crashed into an apartment building, located across from Redmond High School. The red pickup appeared to go through the patio door and landed

St. Charles Health System laid off three workers last week and has imposed a hiring freeze as it struggles to deal with a $9 million budget shortfall, fueled by rising Oregon Health Plan patient counts and falling state reimbursements, a hospital official said Monday. “Last week, we laid off three people as one of the

“I drive this road at least once a day, or bike it at least once a day,” avid Bend cyclist Tad Hodgert said Monday. Hodgert, a dentist, has been riding bikes for nearly four decades, and most of it is spent going up and down Skyliners Road from his home to work or vice versa.