Month: June 2018

A 54-year-old Bend personal care worker was charged Monday with private indecency and criminal mistreatment, accused of failing to properly care for a 14-year-old developmentally disabled boy by sleeping an hour one day and masturbating to pornography the next. Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel filed an initial, two-count charging document called an information Monday

Good Monday Morning, Everyone… The passage of a weak cold front will be most noted by cooler temps and higher winds today, but no real threat of rain. Under mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies highs will only reach the mid 60’s to low 70’s…a significant decrease from yesterday’s highs in the mid to upper

Cascade Natural Gas crews hope to wrap the NW 14 th Street phase of the Bend Pipeline Replacement Project this week. The southbound lane between Newport and Galveston avenues will remain closed the rest of this week, and will reopen on Saturday, June 9 For weekly updates, visit cngc.com.

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – Kyle Nobach had three hits and four RBIs, and the No. 3 national seed Oregon State beat LSU 12-0 Sunday in the NCAA Corvallis Regional. The Beavers (47-10-1) will host Minnesota in the best-of-three super regional round. The Golden Gophers defeated UCLA 13-8 Sunday night to advance out of the Minneapolis

(Update: Four arrests reported) PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland police say four people were arrested during demonstrations near City Hall. The dueling protests involved antifacists known as antifa and right-wing groups. Some reports showed demonstrators punching and assaulting members of the opposing side on Sunday afternoon. A Portland police spokesman says some people were treated

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., visited the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas, on Sunday, demanding answers from immigration officials about the Trump administration’s “cruel” new policy of separating children from their parents at the border. “This cruel treatment of children and families arriving to the U.S. is completely un-American and unacceptable,” Merkley said. “Americans should be

CLATSKANIE, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say three women and a boy were killed and several others injured when the minivan they were riding in collided with a pickup truck on a highway in northwest Oregon. Oregon State Police on Sunday said 44-year-old Yun Hee Lee and an unidentified juvenile male, both from Gig Harbor, Washington,

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland police have identified the man who was shot and killed inside the Oregon Culinary Institute as a 63-year-old Beaverton resident. Police on Sunday said Daniel Brophy died of a gunshot wound Saturday. The institute’s website lists Brophy as a lead chef instructor who had been at the school since 2006.

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon appeals court has agreed with a state board that Jackson County improperly approved a large solar farm planned for prime agricultural land outside Medford. The Capital Press reports that Jackson County commissioners last year approved the project proposing nearly 40,000 solar panels on 80 acres of prime farmland. The

A 22-year-old Bend man was jailed on attempted murder, assault, kidnap, robbery and drug charges in an apparently drug-related armed robbery early Saturday morning and a stabbing of another man several hours later, police said. The stabbing victim and another man are expected to face charges in the holdup, as well, officers added. Police and

If conditions remain favorable, firefighters on the Deschutes National Forest plan to ignite a 250-acre prescribed burn off of China Hat Road south of Bend on Monday. Ignitions are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on South Bend 137, a unit south of Ben, adjacent to Lost Tracks Golf Course and China Hat Road. The

Happy Sunday Central Oregon! We are going to see sun to star the day but then the clouds are set to roll in and the wind will pick up. Today highs will be in the 80s for Central Oregon, but it will be windy with wind out of the northwest at 15-20 MPH. Tonight though

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Kylee Hanson gave up just one run, and Florida State knocked off top-seeded Oregon 4-1 in a Women’s College World Series elimination game on Saturday night. Meghan King entered the game for Florida State with one out and two on in the seventh and retired both batters she faced for the

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Diego Valeri scored on a penalty kick early in the second half to lift the Portland Timbers into a 1-1 draw with the LA Galaxy on Saturday. The tie snaps Portland’s six-game winning streak. The Timbers (6-3-3) have not lost since April 8 at Orlando. The six consecutive wins was a

Good evening Central Oregon and happy Saturday! A beautiful first weekend of June for us here on the high desert. Lots of sunshine and highs were in the upper 70s to 80s across the region. We are above average for this time of the year, usually we are right around that 70 degree mark, so

SAGINAW, Ore. (AP) – The owner of a wood products plant in western Oregon destroyed by a fire says he will rebuild the business. Walter Whitsell of Whitsell Manufacturing tells The Register-Guard that he intends to get the business up and going again. The fire on May 27 destroyed the 190,000-square-foot plant in Saginaw, near

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Officials in Salem have lifted a drinking water advisory after tests determined the water is safe. City officials lifted the advisory on Saturday after tests on samples collected on Wednesday and Thursday found toxin levels below advisory levels. Officials announced the advisory on Tuesday due to an algae bloom in Detroit

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – Amtrak officials say a landslide between Portland and Seattle has suspended train service between the two cities. Officials say the landslide on Saturday north of Olympia in western Washington will keep the route closed until Sunday. BNSF Railway owns the track and has placed a 48-hour moratorium on service in the

A man was shot and killed at the Oregon Culinary Institute in downtown Portland Saturday morning, in what police said was being investigated as a homicide. KGW reported officers were called to the scene on Southwest Jefferson Street around 8:30 a.m. Officers learned students and others arriving for morning courses found an injured man in

(Update: More details from police; woman had no ID) A woman who was running across Southeast Third Street in Bend Friday afternoon ran into the rear passenger side of a moving Bend-La Pine school bus and was seriously injured, police said. Sgt. Eric Hagan said the crash occurred shortly before 3 p.m., as the unidentified