Month: October 2017

A pile of nearly 1,000 shoes was created Saturday in Portland’s Shemanski Park as a crowd of over 1,000 turned out to protest Oregon’s lack of support for addiction treatment and to launch a new advocacy campaign called Oregon Recovers. Each shoe had the name of an Oregonian lost to addiction on its sole scribbled

Back to school begins with an application to the Soroptimist International of Bend (SI Bend) educational award “Live Your Dream.” Awards are in the amount of $2,000. One of the awards is earmarked for a Central Electric Cooperative member in good standing. Applications are available online at www.sibend.org . The deadline is November 15, 2017

The paving continues near downtown Bend this week, as Cascade Natural Gas crews continue the Bend Westside Replacement Project. A paving crew will be starting on NW Jefferson Place, at the intersection with NW Delaware and work northeast most of the week. Both Delaware and Jefferson Place will remain closed to through traffic during paving

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Donald Malarkey, a World War II paratrooper who was awarded the Bronze Star after parachuting behind enemy lines at Normandy to destroy German artillery on D-Day, has died. He was 96. Malarkey was one of several members of “Easy Company” to be widely portrayed in the “Band of Brothers” HBO miniseries. He died

ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) – A man shot and killed a cook at an Ashland lodge in an apparent random attack that ended with the suspect firing shots at Interstate 5 traffic before a pickup hit and killed him, authorities said. The early Saturday morning homicide and apparent robbery at Callahan’s lodge in Ashland sparked simultaneous crime

BOISE, Idaho (AP) – Officials are considering a utility company’s request to pass on to ratepayers $220 million in relicensing expenses for a three-dam hydroelectric project on the Idaho-Oregon border. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has set an Oct. 11 settlement conference for Boise-based Idaho Power’s request concerning its stalled relicensing application for the Hells Canyon

A Bend couple returning from their first trip to Paris on Saturday had their journey turn from fun to frightening, then hours of frustration after an engine blew on their jetliner high over the Atlantic, forcing a mayday call and an emergency landing in Newfoundland. They then spent more than 12 hours trapped with nearly

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Officials in Portland have designated a free motor home disposal day at the end of October, hoping to reduce the number of homeless campers living in the derelict RVs and parking on city streets. Portland officials tell KGW-TV (http://bit.ly/2wqp88a) in a story on Friday that people who no longer want their older

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Justin Herbert threw for a touchdown and ran for another before he was hurt, and the injury-plagued Oregon Ducks went on to beat California 45-24 on Saturday night. Kani Benoit ran for 138 yards and two touchdowns, including a career-long 68-yard scoring dash for Oregon (4-1, 1-1 Pac-12) in the fourth quarter. But

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – Jake Browning threw for three touchdowns, Myles Gaskin ran for 113 yards and a score and No. 6 Washington broke open a close game with a 21-point third quarter to beat Oregon State 42-7 on Saturday night. Browning completed 26 of 34 passes for 293 yards and had touchdown passes of 5,

A Portland-area truck driver hauling 15,000 pounds of frozen food to Prineville for McDonald’s told authorities he choked on some coffee and blacked out early Saturday morning. His rig then sideswiped a metal-sided barn along Highway 26 south of Madras, in a crash so violent the rig lost its rear axles. The driver, identified as