In what it calls “a move to protect the civil rights of vulnerable Oregonians,” St. Charles Health System said Tuesday it has joined Legacy Health, Providence Health & Services and PeaceHealth in a lawsuit against the Oregon Health Authority, accusing the agency of failing to provide adequate facilities for civilly committed individuals.
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, CNN The suspected gunman accused of killing five people in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last month has been formally charged with 305 counts, including charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, assault and bias-motivated crimes causing bodily injury. Anderson Lee Aldrich, wearing a bright yellow
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Three weeks after four Idaho college students were found stabbed to death in an off-campus house, Moscow police said they are still looking into the possibility that one of the victims had a stalker. Police outlined a situation in October when a man appeared to be following Kaylee
Continue ReadingEVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A man was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison Friday after he was found with an illegal arsenal of guns and explosives in a bunker in the Arlington area northeast of Everett. Court documents said last November that James Bowden, now 42, confronted a man in a car
Continue Reading
The Bend Police Department now has over a dozen sets of “eyes in the skies” available for investigations and tracking down criminals or missing people. More than a dozen drones are their latest crime-fighting tools, a far more nimble (and less costly) option for aerial views than a plane or helicopter.
Continue Reading
A Jan. 30 plea-entry date was set Monday for a 22-year-old Redmond man accused of second-degree murder in the killing of a Cloverdale woman late last May, after a disagreement over his ability to aid in his own defense was resolved, at least for the time being.
Continue Reading
The Oregon Department of Justice informed U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut on Sunday that the state will seek a two-month delay in some of the provisions in Oregon Ballot Measure 114 that require a permit to purchase a firearm.
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN Authorities investigating the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death last month say they have received thousands of tips from the public. In a Saturday update, the Moscow Police Department said it has received more than 2,640 emails to a tip web address, more than
Continue Reading
After three days of testimony, a Jefferson County judge on Thursday convicted a Madras woman and her adult son on several counts of physically abusing two foster children, a 4-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy placed in their care, District Attorney Steven Leriche said.
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Criminal charges against a man suspected in the 1994 murder of a Vancouver, Washington, woman have been dismissed. Richard Knapp, 60, was released from the Clark County Jail this week after several years in custody. Detectives had used a genealogy database to charge him for the rape and murder of Audrey
Continue Reading
A 31-year-old Bend woman was arrested on drugged driving, hit-and-run and numerous other charges Thursday night after police said she sped away from officers, heading the wrong way on Highway 97, crashed into a car, ran and hid in bushes, found with the help of a drone and a K-9 team.
Continue Reading
A 32-year-old Bend-area man was arrested on assault, menacing and other charges Thursday night, accused of attacking another man on property east of Bend, then crashing his car into parked vehicles, through a fence line and into a shed, causing more than $50,000 damage, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.
Continue Reading
A 26-year-old Portland woman has been arrested on manslaughter, drugged and drunk driving and other charges in a head-on crash last month on Oregon Highway 58 near Willamette Pass that killed a 5-year-old girl and injured five others, Oregon State Police said.
Continue ReadingPASCO, Wash. (AP) — Pasco Police in southeast Washington state said one of their officers was shot and wounded Thursday afternoon while making an arrest. The officer, whose name hasn’t been released, was in stable condition at a local hospital, the agency said on Facebook. A person was taken into custody after officers surrounded a
Continue Reading
Shortly after Bend Police released a dramatic five-minute video compilation of the Eastside Safeway shooting on Thursday, including a worker’s heroic confrontation with the gunman, Police Chief Mike Krantz explained that it was done in order to comply with state law regarding public records requests.
Continue Reading
A Prineville man was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison Thursday after he requested sexually explicit photos from an undercover law enforcement officer posing as a child online and traveled from his home to Bend in hopes of having sex with the child, prosecutors said.
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson and Veronica Miracle, CNN Idaho State Police has added four campus patrols and 14 patrols for the general community as the University of Idaho hosted a vigil Wednesday night for the four students fatally stabbed earlier this month. Several hundred people attended the vigil on the campus of 9,300 students to commemorate
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As hundreds of students mourned together inside the University of Idaho’s stadium Wednesday night, family members of four slain classmates urged them to raise their eyes from grief and focus on love and the future. “The only cure to pain is love — it’s the only
Continue Reading
A suspect in two assaults in the Hunnell Road homeless encampment area on Sunday was found Monday evening at a trailer in that area and a standoff ensued, ending in the bite of a police K-9 and arrest by SWAT team members, police said.
Continue Reading
By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The city of Portland, Oregon, has reached a $250,000 settlement to a federal lawsuit over its police bureau’s use of tear gas and other crowd control devices during the racial justice protests that rocked its streets in 2020, court documents show. Under the settlement
Continue Reading