Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday: A digital defense for safe video chats
This week, the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment focuses on building a digital defense with video communication systems.
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What it was like inside the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue during the 11-hour hostage standoff
By Eric Levenson, CNN It started like most any Saturday for members of Congregation Beth Israel. Families of the Reform Jewish synagogue just outside Dallas-Fort Worth had gathered — in person and online — to participate in the Sabbath service, even amid the twin perils of a fresh pandemic wave and a swelling tide of
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Missing Bend teen found unharmed, reunited with family
A 16-year-old Bend girl reported missing by her family on Thursday, sparking a wide-ranging search and public plea for assistance, has been found and reunited with her family, police said early Sunday, adding, “She was unharmed and foul play is not suspected.”
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6 people shot outside Eugene concert, 1 critical; no arrests, police seek tips, witnesses
Police in Eugene set up a tip line Saturday and asked for witnesses to come forward with any information about a shooting that injured six people outside a concert.
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2021 was a record year for homicides in Portland
In 2021, Portland recorded 90 homicides amid a surge in gun violence, shattering the city’s previous high of 66 set more than three decades ago.
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Redmond man arrested, faces two counts of attempted murder in SW Redmond shooting
A 45-year-old Redmond man was arrested early Friday at a Bend motel and faces two counts of attempted murder and other charges in a shooting Thursday night in southwest Redmond that sent one man to the hospital, prompted a warning for residents to stay inside and closed Canal Boulevard overnight.
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Bend trafficking suspect throws large packages of drugs on Hwy. 97 as he flees, later caught
A drug-trafficking suspect pulled over on Highway 97 south of Bend Thursday afternoon sped away after a K-9 detected drugs in his pickup, throwing large amounts of suspected drugs onto the highway as he fled, drug agents said. They soon found his abandoned truck in the woods, and a search involving a drone and another K-9 led to his arrest.
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Conservation groups offer $16,500 reward to solve illegal shooting death of Wallowa County wolf
Conservation groups announced Thursday a $16,500 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction for the illegal shooting death of a 2-year-old collared female wolf in Wallowa County in early January.
Continue ReadingSupreme Court blocks nationwide vaccine and testing mandate for large businesses, allows health care worker vaccine mandate to take effect
CNN By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s vaccine and testing requirement aimed at large businesses, but it allowed a vaccine mandate for certain health care workers to go into effect nationwide. The decision is a huge hit to Biden’s attempts to use the power
Continue ReadingOath Keepers leader and 10 others charged with ‘seditious conspiracy’ related to US Capitol attack
By Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The Justice Department escalated its January 6 investigation by bringing seditious conspiracy charges against 11 defendants, including the leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes. The latest accusations — with a charge that had not previously been brought in the department’s US Capitol attack
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AG: Oregonians to share in $1.85 billion settlement with student loan servicer Navient
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Thursday a $1.85 billion settlement by 39 state attorneys general with Navient, one of the nation’s largest student loan servicers, that resolves allegations of widespread unfair and deceptive student loan servicing practices and abuses.
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$4K worth of instruments stolen from downtown Redmond Art and Music store
Art and Music on Southwest Fifth Street in downtown Redmond is a family-owned business with a mission to inspire and teach creativity. You can buy art supplies, instruments, sign up for a painting class or take guitar lessons. Owner Terry Hurt says the store has been open for about 2 1/2 years, and he was shocked when burglars hit this week.
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Transient, confronted by dog, flees NW Bend home, arrested on burglary, mail theft charges
A transient who entered a northwest Bend home Monday evening fled when confronted by the family dog and was arrested a few hours later, police said. About a dozen stolen pieces of mail from across the city and other possibly stolen items allegedly were found in his car.
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Willamette National Forest withdraws disputed plan to log along 400 miles of fire-hit roads
The Willamette National Forest said Wednesday it has dropped plans to remove fire-killed or injured trees along more than 400 miles of forest roads affected by three destructive 2020 wildfires due to continued opposition and legal challenges by environmental groups that led to a federal injunction against the project.
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U.S. Attorney’s Office for Oregon marks National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon commemorated National Human Trafficking Awareness Day on Tuesday and joined its federal, state, local, and Tribal law enforcement partners in declaring a continued commitment to combating all forms of human trafficking.
Continue ReadingChild’s body recovered from truck in Snoqualmie River
FALL CITY, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say the body of a 6 year-old boy has been recovered from the Snoqualmie River. The Seattle Times reports that according to King County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Sgt. Tim Meyer, searchers on Monday found the vehicle that became submerged in the river after a driver lost control the day
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OSP seeks tips from public to find whoever shot, killed wolf in Wallowa County
The Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Division said Tuesday it is seeking the public’s assistance in locating the person(s) responsible for fatally shooting a wolf in the Sled Springs Wildlife Management Unit of Wallowa County in northeast Oregon.
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OSP: Drugged driving suspected in O’Neil Highway head-on crash
A Prineville man is under investigation for drugged driving in a head-on crash Monday evening on state Highway 370, the O’Neil Highway, that sent him and the other driver to the hospital, with serious injuries Oregon State Police said.
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Environmental group sues feds for failing to protect humpback whales from deadly fishing gear
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the National Marine Fisheries Service Monday, accusing the agency of failing to protect endangered Pacific humpback whales from deadly entanglements in sablefish pot gear off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington.
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Reported pistol-whipping leads to Bend man’s arrest on assault, other charges
A reported pistol-whipping incident in northeast Bend Saturday morning led to a man’s arrest and a K-9 team’s discovery of a replica pistol hiding in a bush nearby, police said.
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