Month: June 2019

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Texas man who helped run an illegal pill mill in Portland, recruiting customers from Narcotics Anonymous meetings and others from a homeless shelter, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports 56-year-old Osasuyi Idumwonyi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute or dispense Oxycodone and was sentenced

(Update: Police release initial details; name still withheld; clarifying it’s a pedal board) An 18-year-old who nearly drowned while stand-up pedal boarding on Phalarope Lake at Black Butte Ranch Sunday afternoon remained under treatment Monday at St. Charles Bend, where he was flown by air ambulance after being revived. Black Butte Ranch police and fire

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon is responding to a number of widely shared videos around the nation showing white people call the police on African Americans going about everyday activities. The Senate voted 27-1 Monday to pass House Bill 3216, a measure allowing victims of such 911 calls to take the caller to court for

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has joined a group of 13 senators in calling for federal investigations after new evidence came to light last week, revealing deeply partisan and undemocratic motives behind the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. In a letter sent Friday to the inspectors general of the departments of Justice

Revenge porn” isn’t a strictly online, website phenomenon, and the Oregon Senate updated the law to reflect that fact Monday, officials said. House Bill 2393 – which passed with a 28-0 vote on the Senate floor – removes the requirement that unlawful dissemination of an intimate image be defined as being imagery distributed via an

Two Prineville residents were seriously injured early Monday when their pickup truck left a road north of Prineville and struck a juniper tree, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies and Crook County Fire & Rescue medics were dispatched shortly before 4 a.m. to the reported crash on Northeast McKay Creek Road near milepost 9 and

BOISE, Idaho (AP) – A special boot camp in Eastern Oregon aims to bring more women into wildland firefighting careers. Boise State Public Radio reports Cassandra Fleckenstein with the Vale District for the Bureau of Land Management sought out the grant funding to start the wildland fire boot camp, which is now in its second

The Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation announced Monday it will name its new training facility after Bill Healy, the legendary community leader and ski enthusiast who founded Mt. Bachelor ski resort in 1958. This announcement follows a pledge of $750,000 from the Healy Foundation in support of MBSEF’s A Place to Soar capital campaign to

(Update: Adding plans to fill House seat until 2020 election) Gov. Kate Brown announced Friday that she will appoint Rep. Michael R. McLane (R-Powell Butte) to the 22nd Judicial District Circuit Court, which covers Crook and Jefferson counties. McLane, who lives in Powell Butte, has represented House District 55 since 2011 and was the Republican

As summer approaches, the Oregon Health Authority reminds people heading outdoors to be on the lookout for toxin-producing cyanobacterial blooms when recreating in Oregon lakes, rivers and reservoirs. Because cyanobacterial blooms are naturally occurring worldwide, they can form in any water body. Many blooms are harmless, but under the right conditions — when weather, sunlight,

(Update: Adding mugshot) A Boardman woman was arrested on manslaughter, drunk driving and other charges early Sunday after a crash on Interstate 84 in Morrow County killed a 7-month-old child in her car and critically injured a 3-year-old, Oregon State Police reported. Troopers from the Pendleton Area Command and other emergency personnel responded around 3:15

Two lost Bend hikers called for help Saturday evening after losing the trail in the snow near Tumalo Falls, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. Dispatchers got a 911 call just after 5 p.m. from Kenneth Deen , 24, who said he and friend Sonja McLean, 41, were lost, according to Deputy Josh Westfall, assistant coordinator

Parts of Oregon are already heading into wildfire season, and given the serious season that Oregon, and other parts of the West Coast, experienced last year, Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management offers an important reminder about evacuation levels. The statewide “Ready, Set, Go” system is used to notify communities that they are facing a threat

Thanks in large part to those frequent thunderstorms, Bend and Prineville both had warmer and wetter than normal conditions in May, according to preliminary data released Monday by NOAA’s National Weather Service in Pendleton. Bend’s average temperature last month was 53.4 degrees, which was 3 degrees above normal. High temperatures averaged 66.5 degrees, which was

Good Monday Morning, Everyone… We will see just enough high pressure over the region to give us another sunny, warm day today. A few morning clouds will clear out and our highs will reach the upper 70’s to low 80’s . Northerly breezes will be gentle at 5 -10 mph . Skies will stay clear

A Bend woman hiking with a friend Sunday afternoon on the Deschutes River trail from Tumalo State Park became exhausted and was unsure she could return without help, prompting a call for help and a rescue operation, officials said. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office received a call from the two hikers around 4:25 p.m., said

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has released a draft plan for managing southeastern Oregon, and high desert enthusiasts are concerned about its lack of action. The draft for managing 4.6 million acres of the Owyhee Canyonlands includes five alternatives. The BLM favors a plan in which the agency won’t preserve more than 1 million

Happy Sunday, Central Oregon. We finished up our weekend with unseasonably warm daytime highs. These warm, dry days will continue at least until Wednesday, when we have the next chance for showers on the east slopes of the Cascades. Until then, daytime highs will remain in the high 70s to low 80s across the region.

A Bend man who refused to pull over for a traffic stop Saturday afternoon in northeast Bend sped away and later swerved toward a patrol car before being found at a business and arrested, police said. Shortly after 1 p.m., a Bend police officer tried to stop a white Dodge Neon near the intersection of

In honor of the victims of the tragedy in Virginia Beach, Va., Governor Kate Brown ordered all flags at public institutions throughout Oregon be flown at half-staff beginning immediately until sunset on Tuesday. ” Words cannot express the sense of loss yet another tragic shooting brings to Dan and me, ” Brown said in a