Month: June 2017

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The suspect charged with fatally stabbing two Portland men who tried to stop his anti-Muslim tirade against two teenage girls built a life around hate speech and his right to use it. Jeremy Joseph Christian, who has spent much of his adulthood behind bars, littered social media with erratic and menacing

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – Jack Anderson and KJ Harrison each homered and No. 1 national seed Oregon State pulled away with a six-run sixth inning for an 11-0 victory over Yale at the Corvallis Regional on Saturday night. It was the 18th straight win for the Beavers (51-4) . Luke Heimlich (11-1) pitched seven innings,

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Gwen Svekis hit a two-run homer to help Oregon defeat LSU 4-1 in a Women’s College World Series elimination game Saturday night. Megan Kleist (21-4) , who got the save earlier in the day against Baylor, earned the win against LSU. She struck out nine with no walks in a five-hitter.

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office issued a seasonal warning Saturday to residents and visitors alike who hit the water, trails, parks and other summer outdoor fun spots — make sure your gear and valuables are locked out of sight or otherwise secured. “As summer is approaching, our public lands and recreational areas are receiving heavy

A southern Oregon man faces murder, kidnap and other charges in the fatal shooting of a former La Pine man and abduction of his girlfriend and their 10-month-old baby, Oregon State Police reported Saturday. OSP detectives, part of the Douglas County Major Crimes Team, charged Troy Russell Phelps, 34, with murder, first-degree kidnapping, menacing, felon

A health advisory was issued Friday by the Oregon Health Authority for Detroit Lake, located 46 miles southeast of Salem in Marion County, due to potentially harmful toxins from blue-green algae.. Water monitoring has confirmed the presence of blue-green algae and the toxins they produce in Detroit Lake. These toxin concentrations can be harmful to

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Two more men have pleaded guilty to charges connected to the stabbing death of a homeless man at a Eugene park. The Register-Guard reports (http://bit.ly/2qLyWqm) that 46-year-old John Marque Javelet pleaded guilty Friday to murder as well as dealing methamphetamine and having sex with a 15-year-old girl. Also on Friday, 48-year-old

BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) – A 21-year-old Beaverton man has been sentenced to prison for attempting to blackmail a woman to get nude photos and for tricking a juvenile into sending him nude photos of herself. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says Sean Spaulding was sentenced to 30 months in prison Friday. He pleaded guilty in

If conditions remain favorable, fuels specialists will ignite a prescribed burn four miles southwest of Sisters on Monday . The area slated for burning is approximately 200 acres and is situated between Forest Road 15 and Forest Road 1513, east of Trout Creek Butte. The project was designed to decrease hazardous fuel accumulations adjacent to

Oregon will be the first state where you can view the total solar eclipse crossing America Monday, August 21 . For about two and half hours, daytime will gradually yield to dusk — and to darkness for about two minutes — as the moon passes in front of the sun . ODOT is planning ahead

Rep. Greg Walden (R-Hood River) announced Friday that Shannon Hoyer, a freshman at Mountain View High School in Bend, has been selected as a regional winner for Oregon’s Second Congressional District in the 2017 Congressional Art Competition. Let’s Look Up was ranked highly by a panel of local judges. Shannon’s art will hang in Walden’s

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police have arrested a man accused of stealing a backpack and wedding ring from a victim of last week’s triple stabbing on a light-rail train in Portland. Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson says the ring and backpack belonged to Ricky Best, a 53-year-old man who was killed while heading home from

(Update: Adding comment from party official) Oregon Government Ethics Commission investigators have determined that state Rep. Knute Buehler may have violated state ethics law by not listing his payments as a St. Charles Health System board member in his first year of office, but rejected the other two claims filed by the director of the

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police say a Portland light-rail train operator was assaulted when he told a man who was yelling about First Amendment rights to get off the train. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (https://goo.gl/ufzT20) 24-year-old Steven Caldwell was arrested Friday. Portland Police spokesman Sgt. Chris Burley says first told Caldwell over the loudspeaker to quiet

(Update with comments from victim, utility, sheriff’s office) The owner of a Redmond car lot is out $600 after he was scammed by a person posing as a Pacific Power employee on Thursday. Ross Hall, the owner of Hall Truck and Auto Sales, told NewsChannel 21 on Friday the caller told him his power was

An illegal Prineville “butane honey oil” lab raided this week, with two arrests, is just the latest in a growing list of concern to Central Oregon law enforcement. “We are seeing it more and more, said Redmond police Lt. Curtis Chambers. ” We are running across extract, and people in possession of extract, that was

A La Pine woman was sentenced Friday to 2 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to identity theft, computer crimes and impersonating a public official. Janell Welch, 39, was indicted last year on more than 40 counts of computer crime, ID theft and second-degree forgery. She was accused of accessing personal information from her

Do you know the correct rules on navigating a roundabout? If not, then you’re in luck! A Bend woman is launching her own website, roundaboutstour.com . The site is designed to help drivers, pedestrians and cyclists know the rules of the road and to safely maneuver a roundabout. The website was started by Kenna Sneed,

The Deschutes and Willamette national forests are proposing new visitor management strategies – including limited-entry permit systems — to tackle the increasing problems of trash and damage left behind by a rising visitor count in the Central Oregon Cascades’ five wilderness areas. The two forests in documents posted on Wednesday proposed new visitor use management

Oregon State University-Cascades recently welcomed six new members to its advisory board, now named the Advocacy and Advisory Board. The members were appointed by Vice President Becky Johnson and will serve a three-year renewable term. Members advise the vice president and advance the institution’s goals. The new board members are: Scott Allan, General Manager, Hydro