A pursuit of a Bend fugitive driving a stolen vehicle who damaged a Bend police car, nearly striking a Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy, led to his arrest Thursday evening after he crashed into two fences in Crook County and the vehicle became stuck on a large rock, officers said.
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A Bend teen arrested after a fatal DUII crash at Wickiup Reservoir last summer is serving a year’s probation and agreed among other conditions to create a memorial near the crash scene to his friend, 17-year-old ‘A.J.’ Clough.
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The Bend Police Department is launching a new texting tool next week that’s designed to better communicate with community members who call 911 or the Deschutes County non-emergency number to request police assistance — and who officials acknowledge have often felt “left in the dark” in the past.
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Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Martha Walters has sent a letter to Gov. Kate Brown and legislative leaders asking for a summit to address a crippling shortage of public defenders that’s led to the dismissal of dozens of criminal cases and a huge court backlog.
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A 39-year-old Bend resident has been arrested on criminal mischief and reckless burning charges in connection with a fire caused by a space heater that damaged a city pump station and could have caused an outage or Deschutes River discharge if crews had not put it out in time.
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Portland police on Tuesday identified the 19-year-old Portland State University student shot and killed near the PSU campus early Monday morning, allegedly by a 20-year-old fellow PSU student from Bend who was arrested hours later south of Sunriver and appeared in court Tuesday.
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A federal judge has certified a class-action lawsuit in Oregon over state leaders’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic inside its prisons.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — This week, the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment focuses on building a digital defense against a new cryptocurrency scam: Pig Butchering. The Pig Butchering scam pulls on heartstrings and purse strings. The fraud is named for the way scammers feed their victims with promises of romance and riches before cutting them
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The Crook County Sheriff’s Office issued a scam alert Tuesday, warning residents about calls being received from someone who falsely claims to work for the department — and who threatens that a judge will be signing a warrant for their arrest.
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A Bend man was charged with drunken and reckless driving and assault after a head-on crash on the Cascade Lakes Highway late Friday afternoon that seriously injured the other driver, Oregon State Police said Monday as they asked to hear from any witnesses to the collision.
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Oregon voters approved a ballot measure in 2020 to decriminalize hard drugs after being told it was a way to establish and fund addiction recovery centers that would offer people aid instead of incarceration.
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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum on Friday launched a new statewide Sanctuary Promise Hotline, saying that anyone can and should report suspected violations of Oregon sanctuary laws to the hotline in any language.
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Two Olympia police officers were recovering in the hospital late Thursday night after they were stabbed by a suspect accused of lighting his neighbor’s door on fire.
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A federal judge this week denied a temporary restraining order sought by environmental groups that would block grazing in six Eastern Oregon pastures.
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When people conjure up the image of a poacher, it’s usually a shady character shooting a trophy buck or bull out of season or without a tag for the thrill of the kill, the antlers or the meat. But other wildlife that aren’t hunted are also poached.
Continue Reading A group of property owners in Portland are suing over the location of a new women’s shelter.
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A three-month investigation of a “significant” cocaine trafficker to Bend-area bars and nightclubs led to a traffic stop and arrest late last week of a 36-year-old Bend man and a Central Oregon-record seizure of 6.2 pounds of the drug, along with $266,000 in cash, drug agents said Wednesday. A judge later set his bail at $1 million.
Continue Reading Police have made two arrests in a pair of unrelated break-ins in northeast Bend, one at a home and another at a car wash, thanks in part to a photo in one case and security video in the other.
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Over the past decade, Oregon witnessed the sixth-highest number of domestic violent extremism incidents in the nation. The troubling increase of domestic violent extremism in recent years, both in Oregon and nationwide, indicates a clear risk to Oregonians that requires a strategic, informed response.
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Nearly a quarter-century after the disappearance of a 28-year-old Portland woman who is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon State Police are highlighting the case this week “in hopes that it might trigger someone’s memory.”
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