Witness recounts Ohio man’s 40-foot cliff fall near the Deschutes River in Bend
Sometime after midnight on Wednesday morning, Marcus Wolf found his friend, who had just fallen 40 feet from of a cliff he was scaling near the…
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One driver cited, another flown to hospital after Hwy. 126 crash near Powell Butte
An Albany man was cited for reckless driving Wednesday morning after his car slammed into the back of another car stopped to turn left on Highway 126…
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Redmond woman killed in multi-vehicle Hwy. 97 crash south of Madras
A Redmond woman was killed and several other people were injured in a multi-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of U.S. Highway 97…
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Prineville man facing DUII, hit-and-run charges; ODOT construction trailer hit
A 25-year-old Prineville driver was arrested Monday night on DUII, hit-and-run and other charges, accused of hitting an ODOT construction trailer in…
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Dive team unable to find Lake Billy Chinook drowning victim
A dive team with Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue attempted to locate and recover the body of a drowning victim in Lake Billy…
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Hay truck fire burns 25 tons, shuts Hwy. 97 north of Terrebonne
A hay truck caught fire and closed U.S. Highway 97 north of Terrebonne Saturday afternoon, backing up traffic for miles. Removing and dousing the…
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Terrebonne man killed, several others injured in four-car Hwy. 97 crash
A 21-year-old Terrebonne man was killed and three other people were taken to area hospitals after a four-car crash Saturday afternoon on Highway 97…
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Bend man injured in head-on crash west of Prineville
A Bend man was flown to the hospital after a head-on crash west of Prineville Tuesday afternoon, Crook County sheriff’s deputies…
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Portland man killed in U.S. Highway 197 rollover crash
A Portland man was killed Sunday afternoon in a rollover crash on U.S. Highway 197 in Wasco County, Oregon State Police…
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Driver cited in downtown Bend injury motorcycle crash
A Portland man was cited for driving into the path of a motorcyclist at a downtown Bend intersection Saturday night, prompting the rider to lay the…
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Climber survives 240-foot fall at Smith Rock State Park
A 22-year-old climber rappelling down Monkey Face, a familiar feature of Smith Rock State Park, survived a roughly 240-foot fall Saturday afternoon,…
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Prineville motorcyclist jailed after DUII crash on Juniper Canyon Road
A Prineville motorcyclist crashed into a fence after illegally passing a motorist on Juniper Canyon Road Friday night, lost consciousness for a time…
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Remains of 7 Marines, including Bend man, and sailor recovered off S. Calif. coast
Authorities on Friday recovered the bodies of seven Marines — including a Bend resident — and a Navy sailor killed when a Marine landing craft sank…
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DCSO Search and Rescue comes to aid of injured mountain biker west of Bend
Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue came to the aid of a mountain biker who was injured Thursday morning on the Tiddlywinks Trail…
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Bend woman killed in crash near Suttle Lake
A 24-year-old Bend woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash near Suttle Lake on Wednesday night, Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins…
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2 stranded Bend rafters rescued from rock in middle of Deschutes River
A rope-and-raft rescue effort helped two young, stranded rafters off a rock on the Deschutes River below the Sunrise Village neighborhood Wednesday…
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Car hits, damages pole on Crooked River Ranch; driver hurt, power restored to 1,100
woman was injured Wednesday when her car crashed into a power pole on Crooked River Ranch, toppling several large transformers and cutting power to…
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OSHA investigating roofing worker’s fatal fall at Caldera HS construction site
A Bend man working for a Redmond-based roofing company was killed Tuesday morning in a fall at the construction site of Caldera High School, the new…
Continue ReadingBend Marine among 8 missing, presumed dead in training accident off Calif. coast
A 21-year-old Marine from Bend is one of seven Marines and a sailor missing and presumed dead after an amphibious assault vehicle sank off the…
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NE Bend natural gas leak stopped after construction crews hit line, causing leak
A construction crew struck a two-inch natural gas line in northeast Bend on Monday morning, prompting street and lane closures in the Empire Avenue…
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