Month: January 2017

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) – Mikayla Pivec scored a career-high 19 points and No. 16 Oregon State won its 11th straight with a 66-56 win over No. 20 California on Friday night. The Beavers (14-1, 3-0 Pac-12) had their largest lead at 50-35 with 3:12 left in the third quarter and absorbed a 13-5 run from

The frigidly cold calm between snowstorms turned even colder across the High Desert Friday morning, again delaying some classes and slowing some school buses, while thousands in the Sisters area were hit by an untimely power outage — all this before more snowfall arrives over the weekend. NewsChannel 21 viewers reported bitterly cold readings Friday

Saying he is “committed to growing the economy and protecting small businesses in Oregon,” Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said Thursday he supported bills passed by the House this week to rein in costly, burdensome and overreaching federal regulations. Below is a transcript from Walden’s video release applauding the legislation: “Regulations imposed about $15,000 per household

MILWAUKIE, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say the body of a missing Clackamas woman has been found in the trunk of her car. Sgt. Brian Jensen of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said the Kia Optima that belonged to 68-year-old Merrilee Cooley was spotted by police Thursday night at an apartment complex in Milwaukie. Detectives responded

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The attorney for Ammon Bundy has pleaded not guilty to accusations stemming from a scuffle with federal marshals at the end of last fall’s ranching standoff trial. A team of officers wrestled Marcus Mumford to the ground shortly after jurors found his client not guilty on charges related to the armed

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Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,introduced a bill Wednesday requiring President-Elect Donald Trump to release his recent tax returns, in order to give the public honest insight into the President-Elect’s actions, values and foreign business dealings. “The fact that the president-elect refuses to release his tax returns is a tragic failure of transparency,

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined their fellow West Coast senators in introducing the West Coast Ocean Protection Expansion Act this week to permanently ban offshore drilling on the outer continental shelf of Oregon, Washington and California. The legislation, first introduced in 2010, would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently

Housing Works announced Thursday that the waiting list for the Housing Choice Voucher Program, formerly known as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Section 8 program, will open Monday, January 9th at 8:00 am and remain open through January 13th at 5:00 pm. This program is open to low-income qualified residents of

Bobby Newby surveyed the damage Thursday after heavy snowfall collapsed her greenhouse roof at Little River Nursery in La Pine. “I feel like I lost a friend,” she said. “I went into shock, and I made a little video of it and said, ‘Well, I guess I’ll have to retire.’” It was the same story

TOLEDO, Ore. (AP) – A landslide has closed U.S. Highway 20 just west of Toledo, and removing the debris was taking longer than expected. The state Department of Transportation said both lanes were blocked Thursday morning and the highway will be closed much of the day. Later Thursday, they said the highway likely would remain

Oregon’s newest public university campus, Oregon State University-Cascades, will open its first student residence hall and dining facilities ready for the start of winter term next Monday and ready for its transition to a residential campus that ultimately is expected to serve the needs of 3,000 to 5,000 students. “The new residence and dining facilities

Central Oregon will be seeing sub-zero temperatures into the weekend, and that has many people preparing for the freezing weather. From shoveling snow off the roof to repairing busted pipes this cold weather is keeping businesses around Central Oregon busy. Northwest Roofing Quality was inundated with calls from people requesting snow removal from their roofs

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – Oregon State has named Jason Phillips its passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach, and John Rushing its safeties coach. Phillips, who played at Houston before five seasons in the NFL, spent last season as wide receivers coach at Kansas after three years as the co-offensive coordinator at SMU. Rushing spent

CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN, Wash. (AP) – The ski patrol at Crystal Mountain says it found a woman’s body after she was killed in an avalanche while back-country skiing outside the resort. Ski patrol director Kim Kircher says the woman was a 64-year-old Seattle resident who had been skiing at Crystal for 50 years. She parked in

The remains of two adults and three children were found in the burned rubble of a house fire that investigators said Thursday was intentionally set near Hubbard. KGW reported that Marion County Sheriff’s Office detectives confirmed Thursday the bodies of a man, woman and three children were found, but said they planned to wait for

Central Oregonians awoke to bitterly cold temperatures — well below zero in many places — but no new snowfall Thursday, allowing the dig-out from a major snowstorm to continue and most schools to resume normal schedules, although there were some delays and other cancellations. Redmond was among schools returning to regular schedule, and had this

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – A charge of animal neglect has been filed against a 29-year-old Corvallis man after police found his dog suffering from open and bleeding sores. Police said Mark Weber was arrested after officers responding to a disturbance found a white Staffordshire terrier that was unable to stand, had rough and red skin,

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A Salem man has been charged with attempted murder for driving into a crowd of people early on New Year’s Day. The Statesman Journal reports (https://is.gd/SUNCFH ) that the 31-year-old man, Logan Alphonso Boucher, was arrested Tuesday after striking and injuring three people around 2 a.m. Sunday. Police say a fight

Redmond police said Wednesday they are investigating an assault in an area of homeless camps on the city’s east side that has left a 29-year-old man in critical condition at St. Charles Bend. Shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to St. Charles Bend after Deschutes County 911 dispatchers got a call from someone saying