Hundreds lined up to attend a Sunday fundraiser to benefit a Bend family who lost five members in a tragic crash on Highway 97 last week that has left the sole survivor, a 11-year-old girl, in critical condition.
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A 23-year-old Bend-area man who was reported missing, prompting a public plea for information, was found Sunday by his family, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.
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Oregon State Police on Saturday identified a 77-year-old La Pine woman who was killed Friday on U.S. Highway 97 when the driver of an SUV turned left onto state Highway 31 and it was struck by an oncoming car, whose passenger was killed.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. (KGW/KTVZ) — A couple is safe after their car fell into a sinkhole in a Vancouver intersection early Saturday morning. Katlynn Bicknell, of La Center, Washington, said her boyfriend, Kevin, was driving at 30th and Washington streets around 1:15 a.m. when the front of their car hit the sinkhole. “We had seen there was water
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — The good Samaritan who risked electrocution to save a baby in northeast Portland after a power line fell on top of a car and killed three people said she didn’t think twice about jumping in to help. “I wasn’t thinking, like, ‘Oh, I could be
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By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland, where a dangerous storm had coated the city with ice. Opening her blinds, she saw a red SUV with a downed power line on it and a couple who had been
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue, geared up for winter rescue efforts, has begun making use of its new PistenBully tracked rescue vehicle, helping a pair of snowmobilers whose vehicle wouldn’t restart after a non-injury crash, deputies said. SAR was dispatched Monday to the non-injury snowmobile crash in the area
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A two-vehicle crash Monday night on Oregon Highway 58 near Odell Lake claimed a life and closed the highway for hours, authorities said.
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — A group of skydivers jumped from a hot air balloon floating over the Arizona desert just moments before it crash-landed Sunday, leaving four of its remaining passengers dead and another person critically injured, police announced. The “devastating incident” happened around 7:50 a.m. in Eloy, a city about 65 miles
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Bella Grinsell is a native Oregonian and graduate of Summit High School. For the past five years, she’s been attending the University of Hawaii in Manoa.
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Steve Allely was taking a video of the windy snowstorm outside his Sisters home Thursday evening when he heard a huge crack, turned and caught a towering Ponderosa pine smashing to the ground and through a power line, with a bang and big shower of sparks.
Continue ReadingMULLAN, Idaho (AP) — Two men were rescued after being caught in an avalanche in the Idaho backcountry, while a third man was believed to be dead, authorities said. A rescue effort began shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday when law enforcement received a GPS alert of a possible fatality in an avalanche near Stevens Peak
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With the slick driving conditions resulting in more accidents, more cars are in need of repairs. Bend Police say they have responded to nearly 50 crash calls since Jan. 1, including eight hit-and-runs.
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Sisters resident Matt Houston, his wife and their two dogs are all OK – that’s the first thing everyone wants to know before they say “wow,” laugh and shake their heads at what you might call Mother Nature’s hole in one: a large, heavy tree branch that crashed through their roof — and right into an upstairs toilet bowl.
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An 85-year-old man last seen near his home in the Eagle Crest area west of Redmond nearly two months ago, prompting a public request for any information, has been found dead in a secluded area about 60 miles east of Bend, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Monday.
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Investigators said Sunday they had found the piece of fuselage that blew off a Boeing airliner over Oregon on Friday, and hoped it would provide physical evidence of what went wrong. The gaping hole in the side of the Alaska Airlines jet opened up where aircraft maker Boeing fits
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Alaska Airlines says it had to cancel at least 160 flights Saturday because its Boeing 737 MAX-9 planes are undergoing inspections after a mid-cabin “door plug” fell out Friday on a flight from Portland to Ontario, Calif., prompting an emergency return to PDX. The Federal Aviation Administration ordered all of those
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Two teens were critically injured early Saturday afternoon when their SUV slid sideways on Century Drive into the oncoming lane near the Bend city limits and struck a Mt. Bachelor shuttle bus carrying 16 people back from the resort, Oregon State Police said.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to return and make an emergency landing at Portland International Airport (PDX) Friday night after a large panel on the side of the plane blew out mid-flight, KGW reported. According to the flight tracking site FlightAware, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was heading from PDX to Ontario,
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(Update: Highway 97 reopens after closure) CHEMULT, Ore. (KTVZ) – A natural gas leak prompted closure of U.S. Highway 97 near Chemult Friday afternoon and evening, and ODOT advised motorists to expect extended delays. The closure was reported around 3:30 p.m. and ODOT said “the gas company is en route for repairs.” Region 4 spokeswoman
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