Month: August 2019

(Update: Details on arraignment, new charges) A 47-year-old La Pine man arrested last week on charges he raped a girl five times in the early 2000s was arrested again Wednesday, the day after his release with a GPS tracking monitor, and was arraigned Thursday on charges he abused abusing three other females over the past

(Update: New fires stopped small; Tumalo Creek Fire 25% lined) Another round of thunderstorms rumbled through the High Desert on Thursday, and firefighters with the Central Oregon Fire Management Service picked up five new lightning starts, but rain and quick action kept them all small, officials said. The new blazes included three fires on Prineville

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A former police officer in Cottage Grove has pleaded guilty to federal charges of stealing methamphetamine from a police evidence room. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports 49-year-old Phillip Beach entered a guilty plea to knowingly and intentionally obtaining possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation and fraud while he was an officer in

Good Friday Morning, Everyone… As storm activity moves out of the area we will see continued clearing and another warm day. Skies will become mostly sunny and daytime highs will reach the mid to upper 80’s . Light southerly breezes this morning will turn westerly and NW this afternoon. Those light breezes will calm this

High school football is about one week away from making its return across the High Desert. NewsChannel 21 went to practice at Bend Senior High, Mountain View High School and Summit High School to see how the varsity teams have been preparing for the 2019 season. Bend Head Coach Matt Craven said the Lava Bears

Looking out for each other is just about to become more even more important: across Oregon, school is getting back in session. Teachers are preparing classrooms and soon, students of all ages will be riding bicycles, zipping around on skateboards, walking and talking to old friends and new, all as they head to and from

The Oregon State Marine Board held a public forum Thursday in Bend on new boating laws set to take effect in 2020. The open forum at the Deschutes County Services Building was held to explain new boating permits and regulations to boaters and non-motorized boat users. The new boating laws under Senate Bill 47 will

A fire broke out in a trailer full of trash early Thursday at the Madras Sanitary Service’s Box Canyon Transfer Station, also destroying a small excavator and damaging a truck and building while causing about $300,000 in losses, officials said. Jefferson County Fire District No. 1 crews were called to the facility on Southeast McTaggart

Happy Thursday evening, everyone! A FIRE WEATHER WARNING remains in effect through the end of the evening tonight for thunderstorms producing lightning in the region. We saw a few starts from the lightning yesterday, and fire crews are prepared again today. Some gusty winds will be possible in the storms. Overnight we’ll see a few

The U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory on Thursday regarding marijuana use and the developing brain, to emphasize the importance of protecting our most precious resource: our nation’s youth. The Public Health Division of the Oregon Health Authority said it “is pleased to support the surgeon general and continue its initiatives to protect the public’s

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Personal information of more than 6,000 people became exposed in a phishing attack on the Oregon Judicial Department. The department said Thursday the attack occurred at 4:30 a.m. on July 15, resulting in email accounts of five users being compromised. The accounts were disabled within four hours. The department is sending

On Tuesday afternoon, barrels, tubs, boxes and bags of school supplies poured into the Family Access Network headquarters at Crooked River Elementary School. Just in time for the new school year, Fortis Construction and Rosendin Electric, along with many of their trade partners, donated two pickups full of school supplies to FAN. These donations aren’t

The Bureau of Land Management in Oregon and Washington is proud to announce the release of the latest BLM Facts, our annual illustrated almanac answering the diverse and detailed questions one may have about public lands in the Pacific Northwest. BLM Facts has lots of numbers, and those figures do tell a story. In most

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington Legislature plans to sue Gov. Jay Inslee, saying he overstepped his authority for a series of one-sentence vetoes in this year’s transportation budget. Lawmakers said Thursday the governor violated the constitutional ban against vetoing less than a full section of legislation. The Legislature plans to file the lawsuit on

A major railroad crossing rehabilitation project will close the BNSF Railway crossing on the O’Neil Highway north of Redmond at Yucca Avenue for three days next week, officials said. Signs have gone up advising motorists on the highway (also known as state Highway 370) of the closure from Wednesday, Sept. 4 to Friday, Sept. 6,

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — The family of an Oregon man who died after he rode his motorcycle into a steel cable strung across a road has filed a $2.3 million lawsuit against the owners of an Albany-area farm. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the lawsuit, filed by the family of Russel Davidson II, faults the farm owners

As Labor Day approaches, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Thursday that he will be introducing new legislation to make sure workers get a fair share of the profits they create by taking on massive pay disparities between CEOs and workers. The Fair Share for Workers Act would raise the corporate tax rate on companies that

Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., this week joined Senator Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and 22 of their Democratic Senate colleagues in calling on the Trump administration to stop restricting access to the U.S. asylum system and end its Remain in Mexico policy. The deceptively named Migrant Protection Protocols policy blocks legal asylum seekers from being in the

(Update: Adding confirmation all were wearing seat belts) An 18-year-old Redmond resident was killed Tuesday night when the car he was riding in was struck by a pickup truck while turning at a southeast Bend intersection, both drivers apparently on a yellow light, police said Wednesday. Lt. Juli McConkey said an 18-year-old Bend man was

Stone tools and other artifacts unearthed from an archeological dig at the Cooper’s Ferry site in western Idaho suggest that people lived in the area 16,000 years ago, more than a thousand years earlier than scientists previously thought. The artifacts would be considered among the earliest evidence of people in North America. The findings, published