Month: December 2016

SEASIDE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State Police investigators say they believe speed might have been a factor in a crash that killed two young women near Seaside. Troopers say the women, both of Cornelius in Washington County, were in a 2006 Chevrolet Equinox that crossed the centerline on Highway 26 and struck an oncoming pickup

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s craft beer industry is slowing down after a decade of explosive growth, but a state economic analyst says the outlook is good for neighborhood microbreweries. The Capital Press reports that Josh Lehner, of the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, gave that outlook in remarks to the annual meeting of the

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Seattle energy consultant accused of forgery in connection with a major Oregon solar power project is seeking to have the charges dismissed on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct. Martin Shain was the lead consultant on Oregon’s $24 million “Solar by Degree” project. Prosecutors say he created a fake invoice from a

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — Pacific fishers have declined on the West Coast over the decades, but the forest-dwelling, weasel-like mammals are slowly making a comeback in Washington state. Officials released 10 Pacific fishers into the forest of Mount Rainier National Park on Friday as part of a multiyear effort to restore them

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL Centennial 63, Sunset 44 Corvallis 93, Eagle Point 56 Douglas 43, North Douglas 42, OT Forest Grove 79, Grants Pass 48 La Grande 58, Vale 33 Lebanon 75, Redmond 48 Mountain View 63, Milwaukie 43 North Bend 69, Coquille 65 Philomath 47, Marshfield 35 Putnam 64, Bend 41 South Medford 78, McKay

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Taylor Kalmer and Sydney Wiese had 15 points each Saturday night and No. 24 Oregon State beat BYU 65-56 in the championship game of the inaugural Maui Jim Maui Classic. The Beavers (5-1) pulled away with a 10-1 run — Kalmer and Katie McWilliams hit back-to-back 3-pointers followed by back-to-back jumpers

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard scored 19 points and CJ McCollum added 17, including a pair of key late baskets, to rally the Portland Trail Blazers to a 99-92 victory over the Miami Heat on Saturday night. Hassan Whiteside led all scorers with 28 points and 16 rebounds for the Heat, who missed out

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jon Davis scored eight of his 22 points in the final three minutes as Charlotte held off Oregon State 69-66 in a wild see-saw game Saturday night. It was a game of runs on both sides, Oregon State going up 47-38 after a 19-2 run midway through the second half only

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Tyler Dorsey scored a career-high 29 points, Dillon Brooks had 22 and No. 23 Oregon set a school scoring record in a 128-59 victory over Savannah State on Saturday. The Ducks (7-2) eclipsed their previous high of 121 points against Portland in 1970 and had seven players score in double figures

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The University of Oregon will be paid $6.9 million to fix concrete floor slabs in a student dormitory that are tilted, uneven and cracked. The Register-Guard reports (http://bit.ly/2h5VAZA ) that the settlement, approved Friday by the UO Board of Trustees, ends a four-year legal battle over issues with the $55 million

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 90-year-old man who struck and killed a pedestrian in a Portland crosswalk has pleaded guilty. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (http://bit.ly/2h5PacO ) that Edmond Pomroy Balding on Friday was sentenced to 60 months of probation and a permanent loss of driving privileges after pleading guilty to criminally negligent homicide in the death

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Eugene man twice convicted for sex-related crimes has been charged in a new 2015 attack after Eugene police say they matched his DNA to skin cells collected from the alleged victim’s fingernails. The Register-Guard reports (https://goo.gl/xWsYUN ) that 53-year-old Ricky LeVasseur is in Lane County Jail. He has pleaded not

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Six months after a train hauling Bakken crude oil derailed along the Columbia River Gorge, state and other officials are still tabulating a bill to send to Union Pacific Railroad. Union Pacific said in a statement that it is committed to absorbing all the costs incurred as a result of the

The Bend Park and Recreation District is about proceed with winter work modifications to improve safety and performance in the whitewater and passageway channels at the Bend Whitewater Park. Beginning Monday , river access will be closed at 8 a.m. due to construction activity. The winter work will include modifications in the whitewater channel to

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Sydney Wiese scored 19 points and No. 24 Oregon State clamped down on Idaho down the stretch for a 60-49 win Friday night in the Maui Jim Maui Classic the Beavers are hosting. Idaho, which led by as many as 14 in the second quarter, made just three field goals in

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL Banks 79, Molalla 47 Beaverton 67, Lincoln 48 Benson 64, Gresham 60 Crescent Valley 70, Marist 63 Crook County 68, Sisters 34 Dayton 62, Regis 44 Elmira 51, Siuslaw 44 Estacada 73, Stayton 61 Glencoe 37, Dallas 32 Hood River 66, Redmond 37 Jesuit 85, Clackamas 76 Kennedy 48, Scio 33 Lebanon

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office is in the spotlight once again. Sheriff Shane Nelson is being accused of discrimination by a female deputy. Crystal Jansen filed a complaint with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries on Oct.19, alleging Nelson has discriminated against her the past three years because she is a woman. Other allegations

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The former Portland police chief who resigned after he was indicted for shooting a friend during an off-duty trip is challenging the negligent wounding charge as unconstitutionally vague. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (https://goo.gl/xuFbHy ) former chief Larry O’Dea’s lawyer Derek Ashton appeared on behalf of O’Dea in Harney County Circuit Court Friday,

The local American Red Cross in Oregon and Southwest Washington has deployed four disaster responders to assist people affected by wildfires and severe storms in Tennessee. Two responders from Beaverton, one from Monmouth and one from Bend, Theresa Grimes, are heading to Tennessee to provide disaster recovery assistance and health and mental health services. The

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The state of Oregon has eased up temporarily on testing requirements for marijuana. The change comes two days after people in the business warned that new rules would cause a drop in state tax revenues, an increase in black-market sales and layoffs in the industry and dispensary closures statewide. The Oregon