Month: March 2017

HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say the search for a 57-year-old man who went missing on Tuesday while skiing on Mt. Hood has become a recovery effort. Sgt. Pete Hughes with the Hood River Sheriff’s Office told television station KEZI that after consulting with a doctor, authorities believe Steve Leavitt has not survived. Leavitt,

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – Fire crews slipped an oxygen mask over the face of a 20-pound iguana after rescuing the creature from a house fire in Oregon. Pendleton Fire Department Assistant Chief Shawn Penninger tells the East Oregonian (http://bit.ly/2mxreR2) that only an adult human and the reptile were home at the time of the fire

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Allonzo Trier scored 23 points and hit four free throws in the final 17 seconds, helping No. 7 Arizona outlast No. 5 Oregon 83-80 on Saturday night in the Pac-12 Tournament championship game. Arizona (30-4) lost a lopsided game at Oregon earlier this season on a barrage of 3-pointers by the

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Oregon senior forward Chris Boucher is out for the season with a torn ACL suffered in the Pac-12 Tournament semifinals, leaving the fifth-ranked Ducks without a key cog just before the NCAA Tournament. Boucher was injured late in the first half of Oregon’s 73-65 win over California on Friday when he

A local non-profit group focused on keeping the Central Oregon area clean of trash was busy Saturday afternoon. The non-profit is called “A Project for Humanity,” and they focus on removing abandoned trash piles and aiding the homeless with life skills. The group primarily focuses their clean-up effort on the east side of Bend and

Oregon State Police said they were looking Saturday for a van that drifted off Interstate 5 in Marion County and struck a sergeant’s marked patrol SUV parked along the shoulder, narrowly missing the officer. The collision occurred around 1:30 a.m. after the trooper had parked on the northbound shoulder of the freeway at milepost 268,

One person was found fatally shot Friday afternoon in a tent near a Corvallis highway and another was critically injured with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Saturday. Detectives said the shooting was reported around 2:30 p.m. Friday near the Orleans Natural Area along state Highway 34. One person was found beside the highway

GLADSTONE, Ore. (AP) – A 46-year-old man who shot a Gladstone police officer and held a woman hostage for two hours before being shot by a member of a SWAT team has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Jeffrey Giddings apologized to the Subway restaurant worker he took hostage in a southern Portland suburb

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A habitual sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (http://bit.ly/2mxjNJE) that 49-year-old Terry E. Iversen received the sentence Friday in Washington County Circuit Court. Iversen in January pleaded guilty to public indecency after getting caught masturbating on a MAX train in October. The charge

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A Springfield man who operated a rental property business worth $600,000 but claimed to have no income has been convicted of stealing $150,000 in welfare benefits. The Register-Guard reports (http://bit.ly/2mxl3wn) that a jury in U.S. District Court in Eugene on Thursday convicted 82-year-old Parthava Behesht Nejad of wire fraud and theft.

HERMISTON, Ore. (AP) – An eastern Oregon rancher has been indicted by a grand jury after authorities say they discovered dead and starving cattle. The East Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/2nq8Zuu) in a story on Saturday that the indictment against 55-year-old Michael Hockensmith of Hermiston includes 14 counts of first-degree animal neglect and 186 counts of second-degree

It could happen to anyone: You check your bank account one day and see charges you definitely don’t remember making. “Identity theft is a big problem,” Deschutes County sheriff’s patrol Sgt. Jayson Janes said Friday. “It’s something that we deal with every day.” And a lot of times, it happens because people are careless with

For Stephanee Bishop, each day is a new step forward, with family, friends and the community supporting her as she continues on her road to recovery. Bishop sat with NewsChannel 21 for an exclusive interview on Thursday speaking about the January night that changed — and almost cost — her life. Bishop is dealing with

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Gov. Kate Brown says her new adviser, a recently retired state lawmaker, cannot lobby lawmakers after all. This comes after a Eugene newspaper said new adviser Peter Buckley’s work in the Legislature could be hamstrung by a 2007 ethics law that Brown chiefly sponsored. The Register-Guard reported ( http://bit.ly/2mvcouh ) that

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL Clackamas 78, West Linn 71 Jefferson PDX 63, Beaverton 54 Class 5A TournamentFourth PlacePendleton 50, Summit 42 Third PlaceParkrose 76, La Salle 69 Class 4A TournamentConsolation SemifinalBanks 60, Henley 53 Gladstone 61, Philomath 59 SemifinalSeaside 67, North Bend 55 GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL Class 6A TournamentConsolation SemifinalSt. Mary’s Academy 65, South Medford 55

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Tyler Dorsey had 23 points, Dylan Ennis scored on a key three-point play with 22 seconds left, and No. 5 Oregon outlasted California 73-65 Friday night in the Pac-12 Tournament semifinals. Top-seeded Oregon (29-4) played most of the second half without leading scorer Dillon Brooks due to foul trouble, but increased

College winter sports athletes from across the nation have converged on Mt. Bachelor for this year’s Collegiate National Ski and Snowboard Championship. According to The U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) the numbers are record-breaking. USCSA president Andy Rangen said Friday the competition has drawn 550 athletes who have traveled from all over the

The Oregon DUII Multi-Disciplinary Training Task Force has selected Deschutes County Deputy District Attorney Kari Hathorn as the 2016 DUII Prosecutor of the Year. The task force is a non-profit organization that provides training and consultation to state, local, community and professional partners involved in the deterrence of impaired driving. Hathorn began her legal career

Late next week, the Deschutes National Forest will host two public open houses to discuss wilderness management, visitor trends and resource impacts in our Central Oregon Wildernesses. The open houses will highlight how the public can engage in a new planning process, which will consider management strategies for these wildernesses, that the Deschutes and Willamette

An investigation into cocaine dealing prompted a raid early Friday morning on a southeast Bend home that led to the arrest of two Bend men and seizure of drugs, cash and two guns, authorities said. Members of the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team, assisted by Bend police, executed a search warrant around 6:45 a.m. at