Month: December 2018

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A county in southwest Washington state accidentally sent an emergency text message to residents of nearby Portland after their 911 system was compromised by the CenturyLink outage. The 911 system in Oregon was not impacted by the outage but the alert sent by Washington’s Clark County around 11:30 p.m. Thursday said

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland officials say that about 1,000 gallons of sewage flowed into the Willamette River near southwest Macadam Avenue and the public should avoid contact with the river for several days. The Portland Bureau of Environmental Services in a news release Friday says the sewage entered the river Thursday afternoon because of

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A new class-action suit filed in federal court claims Legacy Health hasn’t paid its nursing staff for all hours worked, including overtime, improperly deducted money from their wages and denied them meal and rest breaks as required by law. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Julianne Hunter, who worked as a nurse for Legacy

(Update: Fugitive captured in Madras) A 27-year-old Bend man who fled an early-morning traffic stop on Christmas Day, prompting an alert to the public, was caught Thursday in Madras by Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies. Freddy Ayala was booked into the Jefferson County Jail, where he was held without bail on a parole violation, records showed.

Happy Friday Central Oregon, We start another day on the cooler side for Central Oregon and with similar daytime highs as Thursday. As we make our way through the day we will see an increase for a slight chance of showers after 4 p.m. and we will make our way into the weekend with variable

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Damian Lillard hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 6.3 seconds left in overtime and scored 21 points in his final regular-season game at home in Oakland, sending the Portland Trail Blazers past the Golden State Warriors 110-109 in a wild one Thursday night. Kevin Durant missed a 13-footer off the front rim

Here are Thursday’s Oregon high school basketball scores, compiled by The Associated Press: BOYS PREP BASKETBALL Astoria 37, Elma, Wash. 25 Colton 53, Coquille 51, OT Country Christian 65, South Wasco County 57 Forest Grove 61, North Medford 53 Hood River 64, Hudson’s Bay, Wash. 61 Hood River 64, Hudson’s Bay, Wash. 61 Imbler 67,

SEATTLE (AP) – Alan Naiman was known for an unabashed thriftiness, but even those closest to him had no inkling of the fortune that he quietly amassed and the last act that he had long planned. The Washington state social worker died of cancer this year at age 63 and left most of a surprising

(Update: Century Link traces problem to ‘network element,’ working on fix) A CenturyLink telephone outage reported in areas around the country has made all landline phones at St. Charles hospitals and clinics intermittently inoperable, the organization said Thursday morning and in an afternoon update. The company said Thursday night it had identified and was fixing

A rash of mail thefts prompted a resident of the Klamath County town of Keno to place a GPS tracking device in a decoy package in a mailbox – and it worked, leading to the arrest of a man and woman who also face charges in numerous other recent mail and ID thefts and other

Happy Thursday evening, everyone! Tonight we’ll remain dry and see cold temperatures. Spots of ice will be likely tonight from the snow that has melted and spilled onto the roads and surfaces. Partly cloudy skies are expected as we head into tomorrow. Overnight lows will be in the teens and lower 20s. Winds will generally

The man suspected to have shot and killed a police officer during a traffic stop in Newman, California, was in the country illegally, the Stanislaus County sheriff said Thursday. The 33-year-old police officer, Ronil Singh, pulled over the suspect just before 1 a.m. Wednesday and a few moments later called out “shot fired” over the

Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies have used Narcan nearly 30 times this year to save the life of someone with a drug overdose, most recently on Wednesday afternoon, when it actually took a second dose to revive a woman who was not breathing, officials said Thursday. A deputy was at a home in the La Pine

Ray’s Food Place and Shop Smart customers in Central Oregon gave big this year to help their neighbors in the annual “Stuff the Truck” campaign. Between Halloween and Dec. 23, customers throughout Oregon and Northern California donated 7,480 bags of food worth a total value of $149,600. Customers in the Central Oregon region were an

SEATTLE (AP) – The Washington state Supreme Court has struck down a challenge by activists against a $232 million youth jail and courthouse that are under construction in Seattle. The Seattle Times reports the court said Thursday the group End the Prison Industrial Complex failed to meet a 10-day deadline to file objections to ballot

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A 35-year-old man who is accused of intentionally crashing his SUV into a Vietnamese church early Monday didn’t show up to a Portland courtroom as ordered. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Hieu John Phung was in Astoria when he was “picked up” and taken to a hospital, a member of the Clatsop County

With recent snow turning to ice or thawing and making for slick roads, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies responded to several crashes around the region Thursday, from an overturned cattle truck on Highway 97 south of La Pine to an injury crash into a tree on the Old Bend-Redmond Highway north of Tumalo Road. “Please use

If quitting smoking is one of your New Year’s resolutions, you might want to consider cutting back on your drinking, too, a study from Oregon State University suggests. New research has found that heavy drinkers who are trying to stop smoking may find that reducing their alcohol use can also help them quit their daily

A 40-year-old Redmond man was arrested Wednesday evening after police said he got in an argument with another man sitting in a car, threatened him with a knife, slashed two of his tires, punched him in the face several times and demanded he turn over his cellphone, wallet and other personal items. Officers were dispatched

Unemployment rates continue to slowly rise in Central Oregon as hiring slows, particularly in Deschutes County, where November’s over-the-year job growth was tied for its slowest pace in the past six years, the Oregon Employment Department reported Thursday. Here’s the details from Regional Economist Damon Runberg: Crook County: The unemployment rate rose to 5.8 percent