Month: October 2017

A Troutdale family of six escaped serious injury Friday night when their pickup-trailer combination flipped onto its top on Southeast Paulina Highway in Crook County, sheriff’s deputies said. They said driver fatigue is believed to be a factor in the crash. Deputies were dispatched shortly before 9 p.m. to the rollover crash at milepost 46

People in Central Oregon are also feeling the impact of the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Many locals were there and witnessed the terror first-hand. Kristy Sinsara of Bend is staying at the MGM Grand, about a mile away from Mandalay Bay, from which the gunman opened fire on a country-music festival late Sunday night.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say two people were killed when a small plane crashed in southern Oregon. Oregon State Police say a Fish and Wildlife trooper was working with a volunteer Sunday when they heard a plane that sounded as if it was having engine trouble in a remote section of western Klamath County

It was a surprise to many of their fellow mayors when Redmond Mayor George Endicott married Sherwood Mayor Krisanne Clark in late July after the close of the Oregon Mayors Association summer conference in Lebanon. But now, more than two months later, Krisanne Clark-Endicott resigned Monday as Sherwood mayor, after she and two city councilors

The Central Oregon Fire Chiefs Association announced Sunday that burn season will open at sunrise on Tuesday for many of the local fire districts regionally — though not ones like Bend where debris burning is banned. With the recent fall weather and precipitation received in areas, the fire chiefs of local fire departments, the U.S.

(Update: Sheriff’s office details Crime Stoppers reward) Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies are looking for whoever stole a forklift from a La Pine building supply business early Sunday morning and drove it to a nearby bank, where they trashed a parking-lot ATM in an attempt to remove it or get to the cash inside. Deputies responded

Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel announced Monday that he will seek a second four-year term. During his three years in office, Hummel said, the county’s crime rate has dropped 8 percent and the total number of crimes committed has gone down, even as the population and tourism continued to grow. In a news release

Student enrollment in Bend-La Pine Schools increased by 341 students this year, or 1.9 percent, to 18,375, the school district announced Monday. Enrollment has increased dramatically in the past five years — up 1,775 students since 2012. For the past three decades, Bend-La Pine Schools’ student population has grown by an average of 350 students

Here are the results of Friday’s KTVZ.COM Poll, asking whether you believe popular mountain biking trails should be closed during the 12 days of deer season: Should the Deschutes National Forest shut down mtn. bike trails during 12-day hunting season? Yes – 64% (634 votes) No – 36% (352 votes) Total Votes: 986

Fuel management specialists on the Sisters Ranger District of the Deschutes National Forest plan to conduct a prescribed burn Tuesday on a 155-acre unit located 2 miles west of Lake Billy Chinook near the junction of Forest Service roads 11 and 1170. The unit, called Flymon, is expected to be completed in one day; however,

To grow the number of critical care and inpatient beds available to care for the community, St. Charles Bend is constructing a three-story patient tower on the north side of its campus — and that’s about to mean tighter parking and reduced access for some hospital visitors. Starting Thursday, parking lot H will be closed

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court says it will not hear a challenge to non-unanimous jury verdicts in Louisiana and Oregon. With the decision Monday, Oregon and Louisiana will remain the only states to allow juries to convict most felony defendants with a 10-2 vote. Oregon does require a 12-0 vote to find people

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The father of the suspected Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock operated a Eugene-area bingo parlor after escaping from a Texas prison in the late 1960s. An Oregon Supreme Court opinion from 1981 said FBI agents arrested Patrick Benjamin Paddock – also known as Bruce Ericksen – on Sept. 6, 1978 at the

(Update: Adding McLane statement) Governor Kate Brown on Monday ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff immediately until sunset on Friday in honor of the victims of the Las Vegas shooting. “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those tragically killed in Las Vegas,” Governor Brown said. “My

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of a pastor sentenced to prison for sexually abusing a girl. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (https://is.gd/B23PhP ) the court upheld the conviction of Mike Sperou without opinion last week. In the 1990s, seven girls reported that they had been molested by Sperou, co-founder of the North

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court is declining to weigh in on conservative activist Larry Klayman’s efforts to represent state’s rights figure Cliven Bundy during a trial over the 2014 standoff near Bundy’s Nevada ranch. The court said Monday that it won’t address a dispute in which Klayman claims he was improperly prevented from joining Bundy’s

NewsChannel 21 will air a special extended edition of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt tonight from 5:30-6:30 p.m. with the latest developments on the Las Vegas mass shooting, the deadliest in modern U.S. history. The hour-long network newscast will air from 5:30-6:30 p.m., followed by a shortened version of NewsChannel 21 at Six. NewsChannel

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Oregon State Police say a California man was arrested following an Interstate 5 carjacking near Eugene. Sgt. Jeff Proulx says 42-year-old Jose Arnulfo Alvarenga Torres forced a woman off the freeway after colliding with her vehicle. He says the Fresno man removed the woman from the vehicle, but the victim was able

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Danielle Outlaw has been sworn in as chief of the Portland Police Bureau. Outlaw is the third woman, and first black woman, to become chief of police in Oregon’s largest city. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler hired Outlaw this summer following a national search. Wheeler said he and Outlaw are both dedicated to increasing

Oregon advocates for solar energy say the future won’t be as bright if the Trump administration imposes tariffs on imported solar panels. Last month, the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that cheap, foreign-made solar panels are hurting domestic manufacturers, and will consider solutions at a hearing scheduled this week. Its options include a price floor