Month: August 2019

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Auburn true freshman quarterback Bo Nix threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Seth Williams with 9 seconds remaining and the 16th-ranked Tigers opened the season with a 27-21 comeback win over No. 11 Oregon on Saturday night. Nix barely converted a fourth-and-3 at midfield on the final drive when he tucked

Car enthusiasts from all over Central Oregon came out to Saturday’s fourth annual Shakedown Car and Bike Show at the Box Factory in Bend, put on by the Alley Scrapers car club to benefit Central Oregon Veterans Outreach.

A Grants Pass man was fined $200 and his insurance company had to pay for $60,000 in damages after his illegal off-roading at Crater Lake National Park caused significant resource damage, officials said Friday of the increasing problem at Oregon’s only national park. In July 2018, Evan Metz of Grants Pass drove his Audi over

(Update: Adding St. Charles ER doctor’s comments, Oregon statistics; average 5 fatal opioid overdoses a week) Deschutes County Health Services and St. Charles Health System issued a public health alert Friday evening of a possible increased risk of accidental heroin overdoses, based on a cluster of four serious drug overdoses over the past 36 hours.

Happy Saturday Central Oregon! Another beautiful sunny day with warm temperatures to kick off this holiday weekend. We are looking at above average temperatures and sunny skies as we make our way through the rest of this weekend. We will see winds this evening out of the northwest at 5-10 MPH before they die down

Here is the city of Bend’s weekly road and traffic report for Sept. 2-8: Special Events · Over the Edge will be held on September 7 from 6 a.m. – 6 p.m. and will close the following streets: o NW Lava Road between NW Franklin Avenue and NW Oregon Avenue o NW Minnesota Avenue between

Six Bend liquor license holders passed a recent sting and did not sell alcohol to minor decoys, while the three others who were visited did sell to them, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission said Friday. During the sales checks, a minor volunteer attempts to purchase alcohol from a licensed business to see if staff are

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Sackler family siphoned $11 billion from Purdue Pharma L.P., the Oxycontin maker the family owns and which is facing numerous lawsuits, in an attempt to evade “catastrophic liability,” Oregon’s attorney general claimed Friday. That amount is higher than some of the numbers other states have suggested, or what has previously

(Update: Adds details, quotes) CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Redshirt freshman Spencer Sanders says his first-game jitters were calmed by teammate Chuba Hubbard. Sanders made the most of his debut for Oklahoma State, throwing for 203 yards and three scores in a 52-36 victory over Oregon State on Friday night. Hubbard rushed for 221 yards and

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a deal with apartment owners and developers Friday on legislation that would cap how rapidly rents can rise as the state grapples with a housing crisis. The deal would cap annual rent increases at 5% plus inflation, with a 10% maximum increase. That’s lower than the

Happy Labor Day weekend, Central Oregon. Other than a few scattered clouds across the region, we’ll see sunny skies. Saturday will be the hottest day with highs in the high 80s, with slightly cooler temperatures Sunday, and near normal temperatures Monday. A ridge of high pressure will be crossing the area Monday night and Tuesday.

(Update: Adding Tumalo Creek Fire update) Central Oregon fire managers located a new, small lightning-sparked fire Friday in the Mount Washington Wilderness on the Sisters Ranger District of the Deschutes National Forest that’s visible from Sisters, parts of U.S. Highway 20 and surrounding areas. Officials said Friday night that Incident 847 is about 1/ 10th

The Oregon Health Authority has stopped testing Lake Billy Chinook for algae. Instead, this year the agency sent out a season-long ” precautionary algae advisory, ” and a recent reminder. But that still leaves some area businesses and visitors wishing it was handled another way, so as not to scare people away. Since 2015, the

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Police say a woman in a sleeping bag who was run over in a Eugene parking lot has been identified as 57-year-old from San Leandro, California. Police say Annette Lorraine Montero was run over early Monday by 53-year-old Todd Baker who was driving a garbage truck. Police say Baker works for

(Updates with 5 men indicted in demonstrations) PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police announced two more arrests Friday in the aftermath of clashes between right-wing and left-wing demonstrators in Portland. In a probable-cause affidavit, prosecutors said Antonio Scott Zamora, 33, was one of many “affiliates of Antifa” — many wearing masks — who surrounded two buses

(Update: Adding details, quotes) BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than 1,100 sea lions could be killed annually along a stretch of the Columbia River on the Oregon-Washington border to boost faltering populations of salmon and steelhead, federal officials said Friday. The National Marine Fisheries Service said it’s taking public comments through Oct. 29 on the

(Update: Adding video, comment from Crowell) As Hurricane Dorian gains strength in the Atlantic and heads toward likely landfall in Florida, the American Red Cross Cascades Region, serving Oregon and Southwest Washington, is deploying 15 volunteers, including a Bend man, to assist in the massive response effort. That number could increase in the days to

Abilitree announced Friday that its board of directors, with the full support of Abilitree’s director’s team, has voted to discontinue Abilitree’s individual supported employment program, which includes job development and job coaching, as of Monday, Sept. 30. Here’s the full news release (we have reached out to speak with the organization): “As stewards of Abilitree,

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Eugene police say a Portland couple has been arrested in the shooting death of a Lane Community College student. Eugene Police Detective Jed McGuire said Friday that Regis Kindred, 30, and Kailee Von Foster, 29, who is married to Kindred and also uses that last name, are in custody and accused

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a transgender woman in Oregon was violently assaulted by another beachgoer after she used the women’s restroom at a coastal park. Court documents say Fred Costanza walked more than 100 yards across Agate Beach State Park in Newport, Oregon to reach the woman after she used the restroom and