SEATTLE (AP) — Two people were killed in a car crash with a Washington State Patrol trooper just west of Seattle, authorities said Saturday evening. The trooper was not seriously injured in the Saturday crash, but was transported to a hospital as a precaution. The Mason County Coroner identified the two killed as Washington residents
Continue ReadingAlaska Airlines says Boeing has paid the carrier $160 million in “initial compensation” for a panel that blew out of an Alaska Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner in January during a flight out of Portland. The airline said Thursday that it expects additional compensation, the terms of which it said are confidential. The payment covered Alaska’s pretax
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LA GRANDE, Ore. (KTVZ) – More than 25,000 spring Chinook smolts died in the crash of a fish tanker truck last Friday while transporting about 102,000 smolts for release in the Imnaha River, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Tuesday. The ODFW employee who was driving the truck is safe but received minor
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A 75-year-old Bend pedestrian was struck and killed by a semi-truck Wednesday night in the southbound left-hand lane of the Bend Parkway, Oregon State Police said Thursday.
Continue ReadingJOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — An Army helicopter crashed at a military base in Washington state during a routine training exercise Monday night, sending the two pilots to a hospital. A Joint Base Lewis-McChord spokesperson told The News Tribune Tuesday that what the person called an “aviation mishap” on Monday night involved a U.S.
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A Culver woman was arrested on DUII, reckless driving and assault charges Friday night after Oregon State police say she ran a stop sign on Highway 126 in Redmond and her SUV crashed into the side of a small school bus carrying 14 Baker County Future Farmers of America students in town for a state convention. Three were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
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HERMISTON, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Columbia Development Authority and the Oregon Military Department hosted a memorial service Thursday to observe the 80th anniversary of a 1944 munitions explosion at the former Umatilla Army Ordnance Depot, that claimed the lives of six workers. Oregon State Rep. Greg Smith, representing the Columbia Development Authority, spoke to those who
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Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies on Thursday released the name of an 18-year-old Bend resident who a Bend police officer shot and killed when investigators say he brandished a gun after a crash on the Bend Parkway Wednesday night.
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MORO, Ore. (KTVZ) – A 23-year-old Prineville man was killed late Monday night when his car crossed into the oncoming lane of US Highway 97 in Sherman County and struck a semi-truck, sparking a fire that engulfed both vehicles, Oregon State Police said Wednesday. Troopers responded around 11:45 p.m. to the head-on crash near milepost
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An 81-year-old Redmond man was killed Monday afternoon in the crash of his motorcycle, which left state Highway 19 in Grant County and traveled down a steep embankment, Oregon State Police said.
Continue ReadingINDEX, Wash. (AP) — The bodies of two people recovered over the weekend after they fell into the water at a dangerous swimming area in Washington state made popular by TikTok have been identified as men from Japan. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the men Tuesday as Hiroya Konosu, 21, and Takayuki Suzuki,
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Bend Police have implemented a new, live dispatch system in most of their patrol cars, allowing officers to hear nearby dispatch calls livestreamed in real time, with the potential to shave precious minutes off response times.
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Two weeks ago, two students at Phagan’s Beauty School in Bend were struck by a car while crossing a crosswalk on NE 27th Street and taken to St. Charles Bend for treatment.
Continue ReadingRENTON, Wash. (AP) — Four people were killed and four others were hurt in a multiple vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon in suburban Seattle, fire officials said. Firefighters were sent to a crash involving four vehicles in Renton at about 12:45 p.m., Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority spokesperson Pat Pawlak said. The crash involved four vehicles.
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — An Alaska Airlines flight landed safely in Portland after the plane’s inner windshield cracked during descent Sunday evening, KGW reported. Alaska Airlines Flight 9, a Boeing 737-800, was traveling from the Washington D.C. region out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. No injuries were reported. Alaska Airlines said that all of its 737
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A two-vehicle injury crash west of Santiam Pass shut U.S. Highway 20 late Sunday afternoon for over an hour while first responders treated those involved and an air ambulance landed at the scene.
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After several days spent notifying family members, Jefferson County Sheriff Jason Pollock late Thursday released the names of an Idaho couple killed Sunday when their small plane traveling from an airport south of Portland to Idaho crashed southeast of Madras.
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Two drivers were injured, one critically, in a three-vehicle head-on crash Thursday morning on the Powell Butte Highway west of Powell Butte that closed the road for about two hours, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said.
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BAKER CITY, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — A crash along Interstate 84 in Eastern Oregon closed the highway for a substantial stretch Wednesday as road crews work to clear a semi that was carrying a wind turbine tower section. The crash happened between Baker City and Ontario, near milepost 332, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation. The agency
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A Redmond woman was taken to the hospital with apparent non-life-threatening injuries Wednesday after her SUV left Negus Way east of Redmond and sheared off a power pole, the top of which landed on her roof, authorities. About 200 people lost power for nearly two hours as a result.
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