Month: November 2016

People from across Oregon and te United States continue flocking to North Dakota to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. Now, many more are showing their support without ever having to leave their homes. Standing Rock check-ins are flooding Facebook feeds. It started when a site user said authorities were utilizing the site to track protesters,

New testing of fountains and faucets at two Bend-La Pine Schools due to slightly elevated lead levels have led to a planned restoration of water service Wednesday at La Pine Middle School. But students and staff at Bend’s Amity Creek Magnet School will be sticking to bottled water until one classroom’s fixtures are replaced over

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 24-year-old man who molested three foster children has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (https://goo.gl/MK8ACU ) Jared White of Portland was sentenced Tuesday. Court records say White targeted the children, one as young as 6, while they were living at his grandmother’s home from 2007 to

A 29-year-old Bend man faces DUII, reckless driving and other charges after his SUV crashed into and wedged under the foundation of a mobile on Bend’s south end, police said Tuesday. Officers responded shortly before 9:30 p.m. Sunday to the report of a vehicle under a home at 61280 Parrell Road No. 20, said Lt.

ARLINGTON, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon State Police seeks the public’s help as it investigates the death of a man whose body was found next to his vehicle near Interstate 84 west of Arlington. The agency says it’s believed the 36-year-old man from Vancouver, Washington, died Thursday from a self-inflicted gunshot. Callers, however, reported seeing

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland excavating company has been fined nearly $150,000 for violations stemming from a trench collapse that killed a worker in May. Oregon OSHA announced the penalty Tuesday, following an investigation that found five violations. Casey Holland had been part of a crew installing a sewer line for a home in

An injured driver was taken to St. Charles Bend early Tuesday after he encountered black ice on Highway 97 near Lava Butte, south of Bend, causing his pickup to slide off the road and overturn, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies were dispatched around 4:40 a.m. to the reported single-vehicle rollover crash on the highway

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials say a program to return land on American Indian reservations to tribal control likely will run out of money before millions of eligible acres are addressed. The Obama administration is spending almost $1.6 billion on a tribal land buyback program initiated under a 2009 legal settlement. Officials use the

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) — A man has been accused of stealing items from a memorial site dedicated to three children who were struck and killed by a pickup truck in Springfield. The Register-Guard reports (https://is.gd/hGvaEU ) that the 35-year-old man is being held in the Springfield Municipal Jail on misdemeanor charges of abusing a memorial

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — The search for Oregon Tech’s next president is down to two finalists, and one of them is visiting. The Herald and News reports (https://is.gd/dvs6qC ) that Nagi Naganathan was at the Klamath Falls campus Monday, speaking to students and faculty. He visits the Wilsonville campus on Tuesday. Naganathan now serves

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — A Seaside man has been found guilty of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter and injuring her sons. Randy Lee Roden was convicted of murder, murder by abuse, manslaughter, assault and criminal mistreatment. Jurors Monday found Roden not guilty of aggravated murder, a charge that could have led to the death penalty.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The family of a 77-year-old man who died after falling while trying to step onto a deck has agreed to settle its lawsuit against a Seaside vacation condominium. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (https://is.gd/vxX0cg ) that the family of David Lloyd Roach dropped its $4.3 million lawsuit in exchange for $37,500. The civil

BEND, Ore. (AP) — Wildlife officials in Oregon are researching a bacterial species that can lead to pneumonia in bighorn sheep. The Bulletin reports (http://bit.ly/2evyQwW ) that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has collared dozens of wild sheep and is documenting mortality and completing blood and genetic testing. The department plans to collar

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The leader of a federal wildlife refuge takeover in Oregon says his group will “continue to stand” after he and six others were acquitted last week of charges in the case. Ammon Bundy told The Oregonian/OregonLive (https://goo.gl/lmyEHm ) in a phone call from the Multnomah County Detention Center Monday that it

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A Kaizer man who was arrested after a 13-year-old girl reported that he had been following her and taking photos of her has pleaded guilty to child porn charges. The Statesman Journal reports (http://stjr.nl/2dXmpha ) 23-year-old Trevor Highsmith pleaded guilty Monday to 10 counts of encouraging child sex abuse. Five additional

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Lane County Jail inmate serving time for burglary has been sentenced to an additional five years for his role in another inmate’s stabbing. The Register-Guard reports (http://bit.ly/2ehtQ1h ) that 22-year-old Cody Zane Brittain, of Springfield, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to felony charges of weapon possession by an inmate

The approach of Veterans Day is a good time to remind our friends and family who served their country in the military that veterans are a special target for some kinds of frauds and cons, warns AARP Oregon. In the “how low can you go” category, scammers often target veterans — either in direct scams

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 59-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for drugging and raping a homeless woman at a Portland motel in 2013. The Portland Police Bureau says Kevin Levi Scott was sentenced Friday to life without parole after a conviction in September of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy. Police say