Month: January 2019

Happy Wednesday evening, everyone! Expect mixed showers and freezing rain tonight. Locations closer to the Cascades or higher elevations could see some snow showers as well. These showers will leave the roads slippery and icy, so take your time getting around. Surfaces like parking lots, sidewalks, and driveways will also be greasy. A WINTER WEATHER

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A Salem man has been charged with a hate crime, assault and other charges after he allegedly attacked a Sikh who was working at a convenience store. Andrew Ramsey, 24, targeted Harwinder Dodd because of Ramsey’s perception of the employee’s religion, according to a court document. It wasn’t immediately clear if

The Environmental Center was awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $5,000 to fund a FoodCorps Service Member and to support the Central Oregon Garden Educators Network. The Environmental Center is committed to increasing garden-based learning opportunities for schools across Central Oregon. Garden activities and education provide a wide range of positive benefits for

An online mapping tool is now available to help communities in Oregon assess factors among adolescents that can lead to risky sexual practices and increase the risk of sexual violence. The Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Department of Education teamed up to introduce the Oregon Sexual Violence Prevention Resource Map that displays information to promote

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A fired Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy is being held without bail after being accused of raping a woman and sexually abusing a minor in 2015 while working for a Salem security company that previously contracted with Salem-Keizer Public Schools. The Statesman Journal reports that 28-year-old Jorge Ulises Serrano of Woodburn was

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The first black woman to be elected to Portland’s City Council says “white male privilege” is to blame for disruptions and raucous protests during weekly council meetings. KGW reports Jo Ann Hardesty , who joined the council this year, said in a statement Tuesday the men act “disruptive, disrespectful and self-centered,”

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – The body of a 66-year-old Brownsville woman was found more than a week after her pickup truck went into the Willamette River near Corvallis. The Benton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Suzanne Durheim’s body was recovered Tuesday afternoon about a mile downstream from where the truck was located. Durheim disappeared on her

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked the U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday to investigate reports that Canada is unfairly subsidizing its aerial firefighting industry, endangering wildfire readiness in Oregon and the West as well as putting U.S. competitors at an unjust disadvantage for wildfire work. Wyden noted in his letter for U.S. Forest Service Chief Vicki

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Wednesday that many Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices will reopen temporarily in the coming days to perform certain limited services for farmers and ranchers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has recalled about 2,500 FSA employees to open offices on Thursday, January 17 and Friday, January 18, in addition

Saying he was being “consistent with his voting record on border security measures,” Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., voted Tuesday against a Democratic short-term funding bill that he said lacked adequate resources to secure America’s borders and address illegal immigration. “Strengthening border security is critical to America’s national security,” Walden said in a statement afterward. “We

(Update: Jail correction: Woman was released on her own recognizance; adding video) A Culver woman angry with a Redmond car dealership rammed into several parked vehicles, damaging six of them and her own, while leaving the business on South Highway 97 Tuesday morning, leading to a traffic stop and her arrest, police said. Officers were

A 79-year-old La Pine woman who mistook the gas for the brake pedal on her new car crashed all the way into Ray’s Food Place during the lunch hour on Tuesday, but no one was injured, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies responded around 12:30 p.m. to the reported crash at the store on Highway

(Update: Correcting marking on back of bill to ‘specimen’) More than a dozen counterfeit $20 bills with some very unusual, telltale markings on each side have been passed at Bend area fast-food businesses over the past month or so, police advised Tuesday. Since last month, police have received more than 15 reports of the fake

(Update: Bystander, police stopped fire’s spread) Two chickens were lost in a fire that burned a chicken coop and nearby brush in northeast Bend Tuesday afternoon, caused by a clamp-style heat lamp that fell into the combustible bedding, a fire official said. Firefighters responded around 12:30 p.m. to a reported fire behind a home in

Good Wednesday Morning, Everyone…The remnants of a storm coming out of California will be bolstered by the next system arriving from the Pacific and that will give us an increasing chance of showers as we go through the day. Highs will be in the mid 30’s to low 40’s and SE breezes will be gentle

Alaskan wildlife management that prioritizes reducing bear and wolf populations so hunters can kill more moose, caribou and deer is both backward and lacks scientific monitoring, ecologists say in a paper published Tuesday in PLOS Biology. Paring populations of large carnivores not only fails to meet the goal of creating a “hunting paradise” but may

The Bend Park and Recreation District Board is deciding how to move forward with an expansion project on the Deschutes River Trail, but it appears that for the foreseeable future, it won’t include a controversial bridge at the south end of Bend’s urban growth boundary. The park district said it is trying to find a

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – The family of a man shot and killed Friday by police officers at a Eugene middle school says they will conduct an independent investigation of the incident. The Register-Guard reports family members of 30-year-old Charles Landeros made their first public comments Tuesday through attorney Lauren Regan. Regan, executive director of the

Oregon has a goal to register 50,000 electric vehicles by 2020. Pacific Power is helping to make that electric transportation goal a reality through an electric vehicle charging station grant program. The program will help fund up to 100 percent of the eligible costs of installing electric vehicle charging stations for selected non-residential applicants. The

Here are Tuesday’s Oregon high school basketball scores, compiled by The Associated Press: BOYS PREP BASKETBALL Arlington 59, Echo 41 Bandon 68, Gold Beach 56 Banks 59, Tillamook 41 Barlow 74, Clackamas 59 Beaverton 78, Aloha 52 Blanchet Catholic 71, Yamhill-Carlton 37 Brookings-Harbor 56, St. Mary’s 49 Cascade Christian 64, Douglas 42 Centennial 53, Reynolds