Redmond Police Captain Devin Lewis has been chosen as the finalist to succeed retiring Police Chief Dave Tarbet, and a virtual community reception is planned for next Tuesday afternoon.
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A Lafayette, Oregon man who allegedly threatened an Uber driver with a handgun Thursday night fled to a nearby northeast Bend motel room, prompting a standoff that brought numerous police to the scene until he surrendered more than two hours later, officers said.
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By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press LA PINE, Ore. (AP) — From dusty towns to forests in the West, illegal marijuana growers are taking water in uncontrolled amounts when there often isn’t enough to go around for even licensed users. Conflicts about water have long existed but amid a severe drought, illegal marijuana farms add additional
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The US Department of Justice said Thursday it has chosen another 12 federally recognized tribes, including the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs, to take part in expansion of the Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information, which gives tribal governments the ability to access, enter and exchange data with national crime information systems, including those maintained by the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division and the states.
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A month before it was set to go to trial, a $527,000 settlement was announced late Wednesday of a federal lawsuit filed four years ago by a Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy against the county and Sheriff Shane Nelson, alleging sex discrimination and other illegal job practices.
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FBI agents, assisted by Albany police, arrested a 64-year-old Albany man Wednesday on charges of interstate transmission of a threat and stalking. The arrest, based on a criminal complaint, involved threats allegedly made to an Oregon public official.
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A property owner burning weeds with a propane torch in southeast Bend was cited Wednesday after sparking a fire that grew to nearly a half-acre in size. Bend Fire & Rescue officials stressed that the area’s vegetation is still very dry, with extreme fire danger continuing throughout the region.
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A Redmond police officer driving to a reported crash, lights and siren going, collided with a pickup truck in an intersection Wednesday morning, causing major damage to both vehicles but no injuries to either driver, officials said. The other driver was cited for failing to yield to an emergency vehicle.
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Oregon Attorney General Rosenblum and 23 other attorneys general have filed an amicus brief in support of the U.S. Department of Justice’s challenge to the Texas ban on abortions after six weeks, calling the new law unconstitutional.
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A Portland man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to perpetrating a bank fraud scheme in which he used a Bend residential property he did not own as collateral for obtaining a bank loan worth more than $316,000, prosecutors said.
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The Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office had a warning for residents on Tuesday, not to fall for scam emails claiming to be from their office, alleging residents committed a crime and seeking a fee to resolve the matter.
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This week, the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment focuses on building a digital defense against sextortion crimes.
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Crook County Sheriff John Gautney is preparing for a “worst-case scenario,” in the event it loses over a dozen deputies who have said they will resign rather than follow the state’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate by the Oct. 18 deadline.
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U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officers have a person in custody in connection with four human-caused fires discovered by a resident and tackled at small sizes Sunday near Horse Butte, about nine miles southeast of Bend, officials said Monday.
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A Redmond man was arrested on DUII, assault and other charges Sunday night after his pickup truck crashed head-on into a minivan on Business 97 (Third Street), seriously injuring the driver and injuring three others, Bend police said.
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The estate of a man fatally shot in downtown Portland after a pro-Trump car rally last year is suing the city, the mayor and the county district attorney. The lawsuit says negligence contributed to his violent death. The suit, filed Friday in federal court in Portland, contends a “hands-off approach” to
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EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Six Oregonians, represented by the Freedom Foundation, have sued Gov. Brown and the Oregon Health Authority in federal court over the governor’s recent mandate for several groups of workers to be vaccinated by Oct. 18 or face possible dismissal.
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Friday they are opening an application process for candidates interested in filling the job of U.S. Attorney for Oregon.
Continue Reading A Colorado man was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison Thursday for stabbing a Black man from Ontario, Oregon, who was sitting in a fast-food restaurant in late 2019, prosecutors said.
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Two frustrated businesses In La Pine say they have been getting broken into every Labor Day holiday weekend for the past four years, and another neighboring business also was victimized recently.
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