An eight-month investigation of a 48-year-old La Pine man’s alleged abuse of a 15-year-old girl at several Bend-area motels last fall led to his arrest Wednesday on six rape, sodomy and sex abuse charges.
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After a long, difficult and emotional journey for the family of Kaylee Sawyer, the $2 million settlement reached in a civil lawsuit against Central Oregon Community College grants them some significant closure.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — When armed protesters took over a remote wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon four years ago to oppose federal control of public lands, U.S. agents negotiated with the conservative occupiers for weeks while some state leaders begged for stronger action. This month, federal officers sent to Portland to quell chaotic protests against
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Attorneys for the state of Oregon argued Wednesday for a restraining order against federal agents deployed to quell protests in Portland, in a standoff that some legal experts have warned could lead to a constitutional crisis in an election year.
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A 22-year-old Redmond man faces several drug-charges after the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit and postal officials intercepted several mailed packages and raided his home, seizing heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and suspected fentanyl.
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A La Pine woman was arrested at her home Monday on charges she embezzled about $4.4 million from her former employer, a rural McMinnville nursery, over a six-year period, authorities said Tuesday.
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Far from tamping down on the unrest, the presence of federal agents on the streets of Portland has given new momentum to protests that had begun to devolve into smaller, chaotic crowds.
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LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Idaho State Police have identified a man injured during a shootout in northern Idaho as a participant in a 41-day armed occupation in 2016 at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Oregon. The Lewiston Tribune reported that 52-year-old Sean L. Anderson of Riggins, Idaho was identified Monday. The shootout occurred Saturday
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — This week, the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday feature focuses on unemployment benefit scams. During this time of COVID-19, the FBI is seeing a spike in complaints from victims who are having their personally identifiable information (PII) stolen and used by criminal actors to file false unemployment claims. The criminals obtain the stolen
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Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, other Democrats introduce bill they said “would block the Trump administration from deploying federal forces as a shadowy paramilitary against Americans.”
Continue ReadingOver the next few weeks, more than 1 million Oregonians who used a debit card to buy gas at Oregon ARCO and am/pm gas stations between Jan. 1, 2011, and August 30, 2013, will receive a check in the mail for $94.42.
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Protesters outside Portland’s U.S. courthouse set a fire in the building’s entryway in yet another night of conflict with federal agents.
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Protesters broke into a building, set it on fire and started dumpster fires late Saturday night in Portland, police said, as demonstrations that have been taking place since the death of George Floyd intensified for another night.
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The mayor of Portland demanded Friday that President Donald Trump remove militarized federal agents he deployed to the city after some detained people on streets far from federal property they were sent to protect.
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A wooden train set built by a convicted sex abuser that sparked controversy over city of Metolius plans to put it on display at City Hall has been dismantled and removed from the city, an official said Friday.
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The head of the Department of Homeland Security visited Portland on Thursday, just hours after issuing a scathing statement that called the protesters who have taken to the streets every night for nearly two months “violent anarchists” and a “violent mob” that have kept the liberal Northwest city under siege.
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The city of Bend, police and nearby downtown restaurants are coming together to implement some new rules to curb vandalism and other issues at the Centennial Parking Garage.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum joined a coalition of 23 state attorneys general in a lawsuit Wednesday against U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education, challenging the repeal of 2016 “borrower defense” regulations for students, replaced with ones they claim mainly benefit predatory for-profit schools. The state officials said 2016 borrower
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SALEM Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Justice on Wednesday asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for an emergency stay of Monday’s ruling by a federal judge that gives Initiative Petition 57 backers more time to gather and submit petition signatures. IP 57 seeks to place an initiative on the November ballot that would amend the
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An argument between two Bend men brought police to a northeast Bend convenience store late Tuesday night after one man allegedly pointed a stolen handgun at the other outside the store and was arrested on several charges.
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