Month: August 2019

This week, the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment focuses on building a digital defense against porn scams. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center – or IC3.gov – has been receiving a number of reports lately from Oregonians targeted by porn fraudsters. Here’s how it works: Scammers will purchase personal information, such as email addresses and

( Update: Adding mugshot, details of arrest, current charges; 2 ‘ long guns’ found in van ) A major manhunt for a Colorado fugitive accused locally of assault and other charges ended with his arrest Monday night after he showed up at a nearby home and asked the homeowner if he could use the phone,

St. Charles Foundation recently granted the Family Access Network $10,000 to connect children and families to essential resources in Deschutes and Crook counties. It only costs $100 to provide one child with vital FAN services for the entire school year. These funds will ensure that 100 disadvantaged children and their family members living in poverty

A motorcyclist suffered life-threatening injuries Monday morning when he collided with a dump truck and was run over by its trailer on Highway 97 north of Madras, Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins said. Deputies were dispatched shortly after 8 a.m. to the crash at Highway 97 and Quaale Road, near milepost 81 about 11 miles

Good Tuesday Morning, Everyone… Today has the chance to be the hottest day we have seen so far this season! With highs nearing 100 degrees we will also see a chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Winds will be fairly light and quite variable throughout the day. A chance of thunderstorms will turn to a

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A swimmer died off the Oregon coast near Nehalem Bay State Park after being swept out to sea by a rip current. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports 38-year-old Volodymyr Kravchenko of Vancouver, Washington, drowned Friday evening. Tillamook Sheriff’s Office Lt. Gordon McCraw says he was camping with family at the park and had

The chip seal project ODOT started last month will continue through August along U.S. Highway 20 between Hampton and Burns, milepost 62.5 to 127.9. Construction started mid-July in Burns and was at Riley last week as it moves west towards Hampton, the end of the work area. The chip seal work is expected to be

A Bend man showed this weekend that compassion transcends physical boundaries by setting a goal that requires muscular endurance, determination, and the desire to help others. Most people spend a typical summer weekend floating down the river, relaxing at the park, or staying indoors to watch a movie. But Justin True, 27, isn’t like most

Lightning bolts filled the sky in several areas of Central Oregon on Sunday, after and a severe thunderstorm warning was issued. Officials said those strikes have sparked at least 20 fires, the majority of which are in the Deschutes National Forest near Pacific Crest and Sugar Pine Ridge. ” The even more important thing is

Happy Monday Central Oregon! Another hot day on the High Desert and we are once again looking at some clouds starting to build in along the Cascades and to our south. With the cloud coverage we are once again looking at chances for thunderstorms for parts of the High Desert through the evening hours. We

With summer steadily passing, one local non-profit’s fresh food donation program is in full swing. This year, the High Desert Food & Farm Alliance’s Grow & Give program has already collected over 6,000 pounds of fresh, local produce for NeighborImpact, the regional food bank. A program that started in 2015, HDFFA Grow & Give program’s

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A new nuclear test reactor is needed as part of an effort to revamp the nation’s fading nuclear power industry by developing safer fuel and power plants, the U.S. Department of Energy said Monday. The federal agency said it will prepare an environmental impact statement as part of the process to

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — More than a dozen people arrested during a peaceful protest at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Portland have been released from custody. Federal Protective Service spokesman Robert Sperling says most of the 14 protesters were released Friday in front of the Portland Gus J. Solomon courthouse with a citation

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A program serving children with mothers in prison is in jeopardy after the Oregon Legislature ended its funding. The Statesman Journal reports the Family Preservation Project connects more than 400 women at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility with their children, providing supervised visits, parent coaching, resource centers and post-prison support. One of

Deschutes County is accepting applications for its new Wildfire Mitigation Advisory Committee. The committee will provide recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners on whether the County should implement new building code standards and land use regulations focused on mitigating wildfire hazards and improving wildfire safety. In January, the State Building Codes Division approved an

The city of Bend is now accepting project applications for the Neighborhood Street Safety Program. The new program is for small-scale residential street projects to address pedestrian and bicycle safety, safe routes to school, speeding, intersection control and crossings, and other residential street traffic safety-related issues. The Bend City Council supported the program with $800,000

The Redmond School District has opened online student registration and verification for all students for the 2019-20 school year. Using ParentVue, the district’s parent portal, parents or guardians can securely register new or verify returning student information for all grade levels. This significantly reduces the traditional paper documentation that was previously completed in person then

The state reported Monday it “has been experiencing intermittent network connectivity issues (latency) since Friday morning due to an issue with some network infrastructure hardware.” “This issue is impacting the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches,” the brief announcement said. “Members of the public may experience delays with accessing state websites and call centers.” “The Office

Oregon State University and other researchers have opened up a possible avenue for new cancer therapies that don’t have the side effects that oftentimes accompany many current cancer treatments by identifying a protein modification that specifically supports proliferation and survival of tumor cells. Depending on the kind of cancer and the type of treatment, a

(Update: Adding slide show, video; 10 fires staffed, all under an acre) Intense thunderstorms rumbled north through the Cascades and Central Oregon Sunday afternoon and evening, peppering the region with lightning, thunder, rain and hail, sparking numerous small fires and knocking out power in the Bend and Prineville areas. More than 12,400 Pacific Power customers