A Chiloquin man was killed in a head-on collision with a tanker truck early Saturday morning on Highway 97 north of Klamath Falls, Oregon State Police said Sunday.
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Five people, including a teen and 8-month-old girl, were killed in a fiery two-vehicle crash Thursday morning on U.S. Highway 20 west of Vale, Oregon State Police said.
Continue ReadingMULTNOMAH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a father died over the weekend when he fell roughly 200 feet (61 meters) while hiking with his wife and five children in Oregon. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office on Monday identified the man as 41-year-old Gerardo Hernandez-Rodriguez of Beaverton, Oregon. Hernandez-Rodriguez was hiking with his family on
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A Montana man was killed Thursday afternoon when he drove his pickup across the median into the oncoming lanes of Highway 97 in Wasco County and crashed head-on into a semi-truck, Oregon State Police reported Friday.
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A Bend woman hit the gas pedal instead of the brake Saturday, sending her SUV smashing into the Ace Hardware store in La Pine. Several customers and workers were injured, but none were life-threatening, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Monday.
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A Deschutes County jury ruled Friday in favor of Mt. Bachelor after hearing several days of testimony in a $15 million wrongful death lawsuit brought against the resort by the father of a Bend man who died in a tree well in March 2018, one of two people who died in tree wells on the mountain the same day.
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Bend Mayor Pro Tem Megan Perkins is pitching an e-bike educational event/panel to local representatives after a 15-year-old was struck and killed on an e-bike last weekend in NE Bend.
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A 33-year-old La Pine man was critically injured and was arrested on DUII and assault charges after a head-on crash on Huntington Road Monday night, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. The other driver was not seriously injured.
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A 15-year-old Bend teen was fatally injured Saturday afternoon when his e-bike was struck by a minivan that was turning onto Highway 20 at the intersection with Dean Swift Road in northeast Bend, police said.
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A mini-bike rider was seriously injured in a collision with an SUV at a southwest Bend intersection Friday evening, a crash in which police cited both the driver and rider.
Continue Reading A jury heard a third day of testimony Friday in a $15 million wrongful death lawsuit filed against Mt. Bachelor and its parent Powdr Corp., by the father of a 24-year-old Bend man who died in a tree well in March 2018 – one of two people who died in tree wells on the mountain the same day.
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ODOT crews reopened U.S. Highway 20 to two-lane traffic Thursday afternoon with reduced speeds through the area hit by mud and debris slides late Sunday 10 miles east of Juntura. The agency still advises motorists to slow down and plan for extra travel time along the route.
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Flynn David Lovejoy was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to drunken driving, hit-and-run and other charges in the August 2021 crash that killed popular 61-year-old cyclist Richard Wolf on the Cascade Lakes Highway west of Bend.
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A male yearling wolf from the Indigo Pack who had lost its wariness of humans was struck by a vehicle and killed Tuesday on state Highway 138 near Lemolo Lake in southern Oregon, authorities said.
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“It was like an, ‘Oh, my God.’ How could someone leave my brother on the side of the road? He never regained consciousness. He was had (a) brain injury, brain bleed, and he never came back.”
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A cyclist rescued after crashing down a 15-foot cliff on Highway 242 west of Sisters on Sunday morning told officials he was cut off by another cyclist while he was going 40 mph.
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A 52-year-old La Pine man was not injured but was cited after he apparently fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his car well into the temporary home of the La Pine Library Wednesday morning, authorities said.
Continue ReadingMOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — Search crews on Mount Rainier have found and recovered the body of a man matching the description of an 80-year-old solo climber reported missing last week, Mount Rainier National Park officials said. Dawes Eddy of Spokane, Washington, embarked on a solo climb on May 30 and was last
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Grief-stricken Ridgeview High School students and staff and the Redmond community on Monday were mourning the loss and supporting the family of a 17-year-old junior at the school who drowned while swimming at Steelhead Falls on Saturday.
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A 50-year-old man was thrown from a jet boat and seriously injured Saturday afternoon when it struck a submerged tree on the Deschutes River near La Pine State Park, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.
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