Month: February 2017

A 39-year-old Prineville man faces ID theft, drug possession and other charges in a case that began with an allegedly forged medical prescription and led to a weekend raid on his home, police said Monday. Police initiated an investigation Friday involving Travis Wade Hendrix and a forged medical prescription for 180 30mg morphine tablets, signed

(Updated with more from fire marshal; fire appears accidental, possibly propane) Redmond firefighters took one person to St. Charles Redmond with burns Monday morning after a homemade shelter caught fire at a transient camp southeast of the city. Redmond Fire and Rescue responded at 6:48 a.m. to the reported fire at a transient camp near

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Openly defying President Donald Trump’s plans to step up deportations of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, several hundred of them and their supporters staged a rally Monday next to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland. Speakers at the rally chanted that they were undocumented but unafraid. Security guards at

A bill that expands the definition of using an electronic device while driving has bi-partisan support this legislative session. House Bill 2597 expands speaking and texting on a cellphone to include using an electronic device in any manner, KGW reports. That would include use of social media, games and the Internet while driving. A workshop

Bend has been designated by the Oregon Heritage Commission as an “Oregon Heritage All-Star Community.” The commission created the All-Star program to recognize the strong efforts by communities to broadly preserve and develop heritage resources. The formal presentation of the designation will be given by Christine Curran, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, at Wednesday’s Bend

Favorable weather and wind conditions are allowing fuels specialists with the Bureau of Land Management Prineville District Office to continue with their winter prescribed burning program. Over the next several days, crews plan to burn approximately 300 acres in the Millican Road area. Beginning as early as Tuesday, February 28, fuels specialists will ignite juniper

Governor Kate Brown met on Sunday with Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly to discuss several issues of concern to Oregonians, her office said. They discussed at length how Oregon families are being impacted by recent immigration enforcement actions and the presence of Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers in county courthouses across the state. “I’m

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – Gov. Jay Inslee says that health care discussions at a weekend meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington, D.C. were “very troubling, very disturbing and not at all reassuring.” Inslee spoke with reporters by phone Monday on the last day of the gathering. He cited a consultant’s report shared with

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – A community policing initiative in the southern Oregon city of Klamath Falls has been deemed a success, as the city has reported a seven-year low in crime statistics. The Herald and News reported (http://bit.ly/2lrfjRH) Sunday that city data show a 7.4 percent reduction in crime in 2016, compared to the

A head-on crash blocked icy Highway 97 north of La Pine for about an hour Sunday afternoon and sent two teens and a Bend man to a Bend hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. It was one of several crashes around the region as snow and below-freezing temperatures made for slick roads

TORONTO (AP) – DeMar DeRozan scored 33 points, Serge Ibaka added 18 and the Toronto Raptors beat the Portland Trail Blazers 112-106 on Sunday night. The Raptors won their third in a row and wrapped up a second straight season sweep of Portland. They previously had beaten the Trail Blazers 95-91 in Portland on Dec.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Oregon transportation officials intend to seek federal approval for interstate tolls. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (http://bit.ly/2kXfeJv) the tolls would fund I-5 work. Oregon Department of Transportation Assistant Director Travis Brouwer said officials believe there will be open spots in the government’s FAST Act program and they are researching next steps. No openings

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Erica McCall had 16 points and 14 rebounds and No. 8 Stanford rebounded from a loss at No. 10 Oregon State with a 65-59 victory over Oregon in the regular-season finale for both teams Sunday. Stanford (25-5, 15-3 Pac-12) wrapped up the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye in the

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – Sydney Wiese scored 19 points and No. 10 Oregon State clinched the Pac-12 regular season title outright with a 71-56 win over California on Sunday. Marie Gulich added 14 points while Kolbie Orum had 11 for the Beavers (27-3, 16-2 Pac-12) . Jaelyn Brown came off the bench to score 21

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) – A former western Oregon teacher has been sentenced to 100 days in jail in a sex abuse case involving two girls at West Albany High School. The Albany Democrat-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2lZwFJ7) in a story on Saturday that 28-year-old James Walter Myrick was also sentenced to three years of probation. Myrick pleaded

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – A lawsuit contends a former Jackson County commissioner took cash payments for marijuana consulting while in office and bilked investors to finance a pot shop. The Mail Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2lYWXv8) in a story on Sunday that the lawsuit filed Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court contends Doug Breidenthal committed elder abuse

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL Cascade 62, Estacada 57 Tillamook 66, Ontario 49 Class 2A PlayoffsFirst RoundWestern Mennonite 79, Bonanza 38 GIRLS PREP BASKETBALLClass 6A Play-InMcMinnville 43, Liberty 39 Newberg 50, Willamette 32 Sprague 52, David Douglas 28 Tualatin 63, Roseburg 45 Class 4A Play-InDouglas 71, North Valley 52 Henley 74, Corbett 41 Madras 58, Cottage Grove

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) – Jordan Bell scored on a putback with 14 seconds left to give No. 6 Oregon its second straight nail-biting victory in a rare Bay Area sweep as the Ducks beat Stanford 75-73 on Saturday. Bell’s game-winner followed Dillon Brooks’ last-second, tiebreaking 3-pointer three nights earlier at California to give Oregon (26-4,

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Ammon Bundy, the leader of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge takeover, is back in Oregon. KATU-TV reports (https://goo.gl/yJKNCW ) that Bundy was transferred from custody in Las Vegas, where he’s been held on charges from a different standoff with government agents, to the Multnomah County Jail on Friday night. He’s expected

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say an 87-year-old man found dead inside a freezer at his home south of Portland died of natural causes. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (https://goo.gl/FhL25v ) detectives arrested 59-year-old Edward Fitchett last week after discovering the body of his father, Henry Conley Fitchett Jr., in a home in Aurora. A Marion County