Bend man drives on wheel without tire, crashes into La Pine storage units
A Bend man hired to drive a new pickup truck from Grants Pass to Bend for sale tried to reach a La Pine repair shop after a tire separated from its…
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La Pine man crashes SUV into post office; no injuries
An SUV crashed into the La Pine post office early Thursday afternoon, and despite the pre-holiday rush, there were no injuries, though numerous post…
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Sheriff IDs 3rd Christmas tree worker killed in Salem crash
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office has identified the third man killed in a crash near Salem Friday night when a van full of Christmas tree workers…
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DA: Bus driver who crashed wasn’t drunk, won’t be charged
FOREST GROVE, Ore. (AP) — The Washington County District Attorney’s office has announced that it will not prosecute a man who drove and crashed a…
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Excavators cut SW Bend natural gas line
An excavation crew working in a southwest Bend parking lot struck a two-inch natural gas line Tuesday afternoon, bringing fire and utility crews to…
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Lane of Franklin Avenue to close for overpass repairs
In partnership with the Oregon Department of Transportation, the city of Bend will be closing one lane of travel on Franklin Avenue for a few hours,…
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Slick roads lead to 100s of slide-offs, crashes across C.O.
Slick road conditions led to several vehicle slide-offs on Cline Falls Highway and Beaver Lane Monday morning, prompting Deschutes County Sheriff’s…
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Hwy. 58 to close Tuesday AM for semi recovery
Oregon Highway 58 (the Willamette Highway) will be closed for about four hours on Tuesday morning for crews to recover a semi-truck that went over…
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Pedestrian struck, killed on I-84 near Cascade Locks
A 32-year-old Boise man was struck by two cars and killed when he walked onto Interstate 84 near Cascade Locks Saturday evening, Oregon State Police…
Continue Reading 3 killed, 2 critically hurt in NE Salem intersection crash
Three people were killed and several others were injured, two critically, Friday evening in the collision of a pickup and minivan at a northeast…
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Fuel tanker truck burns at Juniper Butte weigh station
A fuel tanker truck burned at the weigh station on Highway 97 south of Culver Friday morning, but Jefferson County firefighters said they were able…
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Terrebonne crash of 2 SUVs sends 4 to hospital
Three people freed by rescuers from the wreckage of an SUV were among four taken to St. Charles Redmond for evaluation after two SUVs collided on…
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DCSO sergeant earns salute for post-crash rescue
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office offered a public salute to a sergeant who quickly came to the aid of a fallen passenger after a crash Wednesday…
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Snow lets up, but still-slick roads trigger crashes
The snow finally tapered off over the High Desert on Thanksgiving Day, giving snow plow crews, sanders and all the other shovelers some holiday…
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Thanksgiving eve snow keeps roads slick, triggers crashes
Snow kept falling at a steady clip across much of the High Desert on Thanksgiving eve, causing numerous crashes and slide-offs on area roadways as…
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ODOT: Travel tricky enough, so don’t drive ‘buzzed’
There were no alcohol-involved fatal crashes last year in Oregon over the 102-hour Thanksgiving holiday, a first in recent years, but it was still a…
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Family grieves for man who died on amphitheater stage
Bend police on Tuesday released the name of a 49-year-old man whose body was found Saturday morning on the stage of the Les Schwab Amphitheater and…
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‘Bomb cyclone’ hits S. Oregon, I-5 shut into N. Calif.
Travel remains treacherous and not advised tonight along the I-5 corridor and other southwest interior Oregon highways. Several highways are closed…
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Truck hits bridges, closing Franklin Ave. underpass
The boom of an excavator being hauled on a truck struck a pair of bridges over Bend’s Franklin Avenue Thursday morning, prompting closure of the…
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Prineville man arrested in Bend DUII-drugs crash
A 32-year-old Prineville man was arrested on drugged and reckless driving charges Tuesday morning after his SUV crossed all four lanes of Highway 97…
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