Month: July 2013

A 14-year-old girl staying at a large homeless camp with her mother just east of Bend has been cited in connection with Thursday’s brushfire after investigators determined it’s likely a fire pit near her tent was not properly extinguished the night before, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said late Sunday night. The teen, who authorities did

BEND, Ore. (AP) — A title company asked to verify the claims of a family that purports to own the land beneath Mirror Pond said this week it cannot do so. For the last year, officials have said the land beneath the pond belongs to the heirs of Clyde McKay, who moved to Bend in

BEND, Ore. (AP) — A title company asked to verify the claims of a family that purports to own the land beneath Mirror Pond said this week it cannot do so. For the last year, officials have said the land beneath the pond belongs to the heirs of Clyde McKay, who moved to Bend in

BEND, Ore. (AP) — A title company asked to verify the claims of a family that purports to own the land beneath Mirror Pond said this week it cannot do so. For the last year, officials have said the land beneath the pond belongs to the heirs of Clyde McKay, who moved to Bend in

BEND, Ore. (AP) — A title company asked to verify the claims of a family that purports to own the land beneath Mirror Pond said this week it cannot do so. For the last year, officials have said the land beneath the pond belongs to the heirs of Clyde McKay, who moved to Bend in

BEND, Ore. (AP) — A title company asked to verify the claims of a family that purports to own the land beneath Mirror Pond said this week it cannot do so. For the last year, officials have said the land beneath the pond belongs to the heirs of Clyde McKay, who moved to Bend in

A 20-year-old Prineville woman was killed Sunday when she lost control of her SUV on a forest road in central Idaho and it overturned, throwing her to the ground, Idaho State Police said. Megan M. Lyle died of her injuries while en route to the hospital after the crash of the 1987 Toyota 4-Runner, troopers

The scattered wildfires already fought around Oregon this late spring and summer could multiply this week after expected thunderstorms break out over Central and Eastern Oregon on Tuesday, peppering the dry region with lightning, forecasters warn. The National Weather Service in Pendleton on Sunday issued a fire weather watch for Tuesday morning through late Tuesday

A driver was cited for a dangerous left turn after she struck a motorcyclist on Highway 20 near Cooley Road Sunday morning, sending one of two riders to the hospital with serious injuries, Oregon State Police said. Traffic was slowed on the highway west of Bend. Troopers said around 10:30 a.m., an SUV driven by

A driver was seriously injured and a truck driver was cited after a two-vehicle crash Friday morning along Highway 97 south of Crescent in Klamath County, shutting the road for hours, Oregon State Police reported. The highway was blocked over two hours and one lane was open for area traffic by the afternoon until the

A pickup truck left state Hwy. 22E late Saturday night, plunged into Detroit Lake and sank, killing the Salem man at the wheel, Oregon State Police reported. The victim was identified by troopers Sunday afternoon as Michael Joseph Fischer Jr., 35. OSP is continuing its investigation into the cause of the crash. Shortly before midnight,

Firefighters were called in to douse two small wildfires in Central Oregon Saturday, the largest about an acre in size in Crook County and a smaller one in the Three Sisters Wilderness Area. The Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center in Prineville reported the fire burning north of the Ochoco Reservoir was burning actively but was

A Terrebonne-area resident shot and killed a 100-pound cougar in a juniper tree Friday morning after a neighbor spotted it in her front yard while her young son played nearby, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies were dispatched around 9:20 a.m. regarding a cougar shooting at 7525 Northwest Way, said Sgt. Troy Gotchy. A homeowner

As technology continues to change, so do the ways scammers try and get your money. Kathy Larson of Bend says earlier this week, she got a call from a man claiming to be from from the Social Security office. He told her the government agency was changing the way it processed Social Security money. “He

Grease left heating on the stove unattended sparked a fire that caused about $10,000 damage to a southwest Redmond home Friday night, firefighters said. Redmond Fire & Rescue crews responded around 8:25 p.m. to the report of smoke coming from a home at 3056 SW Quartz Avenue and arrived to find and quickly extinguish a

Given favorable conditions, Ochoco National Forest fuels specialists will use prescribed fire to burn about 200 acres next week on the east side of the Crooked River National Grassland, in a project area known as “North Cyrus.” Ignitions are expected to occur over one day, tentatively Wednesday, July 17th. The North Cyrus project is located

Housing Works, the leading affordable housing provider serving the tri-county Central Oregon region, said Friday it has secured an additional 15 federally funded vouchers to aid homeless veterans obtain quality housing. “These vouchers will improve lives in the most fundamental way – providing safe, clean, permanent, affordable housing for homeless veterans,” said Kenny LaPoint, Housing

A Bend bicyclist suffered head injuries and was cited Thursday morning after she failed to stop at a stop sign and was struck by a car in northwest Bend, police said. Police responded shortly before 11 a.m. to the crash at the intersection of NW Broadway Street and Colorado Avenue, said Lt. Chris Carney. An

Oregon State Police on Friday identified a Washington state mother and son who were killed Wednesday afternoon when the man’s car pulled into the oncoming lane on Highway 97 in Sherman County to pass a semi truck and was struck by another, oncoming semi. Jacques Robert Gordon, 21, of Burien, Wash., was at the wheel

A brushfire broke out just east of Bend Thursday afternoon at a transient camp and quickly put up a tall smoke plume as winds pushed it to the south, area roads were closed and firefighters protected homes as it burned nearly four acres before being doused. Eight transients, one a juvenile, were evacuated from the