Month: October 2016

Rain or shine, Justin Grell, the owner of Bend Mountain Dogs, is in the heart of downtown, selling food. But he is serving much more than hot dogs from his food cart to the Central Oregon community. “I’ve donated over one thousand dogs to homeless people I see going through the trash can,” Grell said.

An investigation into drug and stolen property sales and delivery led to a raid on a southwest Redmond home and charges against six people, including weapons charges against one of them, police said Wednesday. Detectives with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit and the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team served the search warrant

STEVENSON, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say the body of an Oregon man who hadn’t returned from a hike in the Columbia River Gorge has been found. Skamania County Sheriff Dave Brown says search crews located the body of 31-year-old Melvin Burtch of Beaverton, Oregon, at about 5 p.m. Wednesday at the base of Table Mountain

The Deschutes National Forest will close Forest Road 400, the road that accesses Sparks Lake, for two weeks beginning Thursday. The closure will allow for deconstruction of a temporary bypass road that was built to detour traffic off of Cascade Lakes Highway while a new bridge was installed to improve fish habitat in Soda Creek.

A 22-year-old Redmond man who refused to pull over for a traffic stop early Wednesday morning led police on a pursuit, then ran from the car. That prompted a search that brought citizen tips of a man on a home’s roof, leading to his arrest on numerous charges, including parole violation, officers said. Around 4:40

Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel is challenging a judge’s “gag order” prohibiting discussion about the Edwin Lara murder case, claiming it violates freedom of speech and infringes on his ability to consult with the family of victim Kaylee Sawyer about possible plea negotiations. In an objection filed Monday, Hummel said Circuit Judge Michael Adler’s

A two-vehicle, reportedly head-on crash closed Highway 97 south of Juniper Butte in Jefferson County Wednesday afternoon, closing the highway in both directions for a time, authorities said. The crash was reported shortly before 3:30 p.m. near milepost 107, about nine miles north of Terrebonne. One of the vehicles was reported on its top, with

Bend-La Pine Schools announced Wednesday it had completed a broader round of lead testing at sinks and drinking-water facilities and had stopped use of drinking fountains at two schools out of “an abundance of caution.” Here’s the full announcement from the district: In June, Bend-La Pine Schools began testing the water supplies at all school

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s top civil rights lawyer has filed a federal lawsuit against state Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and others in her department over allegations of racial profiling. Erious Johnson’s lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Eugene alleges an investigator at the Oregon Department of Justice created a secret profile of

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A South Korean man flown to the U.S. 37 years ago and adopted by an American couple at age 3 has been ordered deported back to a country that is completely alien to him. The National Korean American Service & Education Consortium says a federal immigration judge in Tacoma, Washington ordered

According to new data released Wednesday by CoreLogic, 1.8 million single-family homes across 13 states in the western U.S. are currently designated as Extreme or High risk of wildfire damage, representing a combined total reconstruction cost value of almost $500 billion. An additional 27 million properties, with an estimated RCV of $6.7 trillion, fall into

A 30-year-old wanted fugitive was followed in a car to the Redmond Fred Meyer parking lot Tuesday evening, where he was arrested after putting up a violent struggle that left him and two detectives with minor injuries, authorities said Wednesday. Detectives with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit and with the Central Oregon

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon surfer who was attacked by a shark earlier this month says the huge animal felt like “grainy sandpaper” as he struggled to free his leg from its mouth. Joseph Tanner told KOIN-TV on Wednesday (http://bit.ly/2ewbNFa) that his entire leg was in the shark’s mouth and he punched its gills

Larger, more frequent wildfires across the Great Basin have contributed significantly to a decline in greater sage-grouse, according to a new study that also indicates that if this trend continues unabated, it could reduce the population of this indicator species to 43 percent of its present numbers. The culprit, researchers say, is the influx of

A La Pine man engaged in a pursuit and violent confrontation with an Oregon State Police trooper Saturday night, showing little impact from two Taser deployments and pepper spray as he punched the trooper and tried to take his rifle, OSP said. The man ran after the weekend incident and eluded searching police, but was

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal authorities want to add more hatchery-raised fish to the 28 Pacific Coast salmon and steelhead stocks listed under the Endangered Species Act. The National Marine Fisheries Service, in a document made public Friday, says 23 hatchery programs could produce fish genetically similar to their wild but struggling cousins and should

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A member of the Oregon Board of Forestry is pushing for the extension of streamside no-logging buffers in Jackson and Josephine counties. The Medford Mail Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2dIMMaE ) that the buffers would be similar to those already proposed for the rest of Western Oregon. They are meant to keep salmon

BEND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon senators are asking for the public’s opinion on possibly expanding the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. The Bulletin reports (https://is.gd/i0z0Ey ) that Oregon Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, both Democrats, have asked the U.S. Department of the Interior to expand the monument’s border by about 50,000 acres. Most of the expansion

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A judge overseeing the trial of seven defendants who took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon has dismissed a juror after questions arose about his impartiality during deliberations. U.S. District Judge Anna Brown in Portland dismissed the juror Wednesday and replaced him with an alternate. The jury will not resume

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A former pre-med student at the University of Oregon will spend time in jail for dealing drugs after another student overdosed at his campus-area apartment. The Register-Guard reports (https://is.gd/ZqgLGr ) that 25-year-old Kevin Post on Tuesday was ordered to serve 20 days in jail and two years of probation after previously