MEDFORD, Ore. (KTVZ) – Protests in Northwest forests might not get the attention they did a few decades ago, but some dangerous ones have emerged recently in southern Oregon – larges spikes and wires across roads and trails on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. “We are saddened to report that someone has been ‘spiking’ Forest
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An 85-year-old Bend man was cited for careless driving Wednesday morning after he hit the gas instead of the brake and slammed his SUV through the glass front doors of a northeast Bend printer repair business, police said.
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One day after a 12-year-old student was arrested for bringing a loaded handgun from home to Pilot Butte Middle School, police said one parent had been cited for improper storage of a firearm. Meanwhile, a community tip led to confirmation Wednesday that a student at Bend Tech Academy had brought a compressed-air airsoft gun to school, officials said.
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Four more people have joined a lawsuit against Black Butte Ranch and former employee Glenn Michael Woosley, who it’s now alleged sexually harassed at least 13 employees, including minors.
Continue ReadingFALL CITY, WASH. (AP) — Law enforcement officials found five people killed in a shooting inside a home southeast of Seattle on Monday morning and took a teenager into custody, police said. Several people called 911 around 5 a.m. to report a shooting in Fall City, Washington, King County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Mike Mellis said
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LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon State Police are investigating a deadly use of force on Saturday at a Lincoln City motel in which police officers contacted a wanted man who they said was non-compliant and reached for two guns in his waistband. Around 12:20 p.m., Lincoln City police responded to report of a domestic
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MEDFORD, Ore. (KTVZ) — A federal jury on Friday found a Klamath Falls man guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women, holding one in a cell he constructed in his garage. Negasi Zuberi, 30, also known as Justin Joshua Hyche, was found guilty of kidnapping, transporting a victim for criminal sexual activity, and illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. According to court documents, on July 15, 2023, while in Seattle, Zuberi posed as a police officer and used a Taser and handcuffs to detain his victim in the backseat of his vehicle. Zuberi then transported the victim about 450 miles to his home in Klamath Falls, stopping along the
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A large amount of mail – including 23 unopened mail ballots – was stolen from pried-open cluster mailboxes in Tumalo and was recovered Friday, having been dumped along Hunnell and Loco roads on Bend’s north end, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. The sheriff’s office was contacted around 8:30 a.m. Friday by
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – There’s a new furry recruit at Oregon State Police. She’s excited to join her handler on Oregon’s highways, and they need your help to give her an official name that is paw-some! Here’s OSP’s announcement: Oregon youth, kindergarten through 5th grade, send in your ulti-mutt name for our fur-ever friend. The
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Redmond man was arrested this week after he tried to run from officers, and a later search of his backpack turned up nearly 400 grams of methamphetamine and a small amount of cocaine, police said Thursday. Redmond Police Street Crimes detectives arrested Christopher Lee Hughes, 39, on drug delivery and
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A police investigation of a 2020 tip that a Bend man might possess child sex abuse material did not lead to enough information to make an arrest, but an alleged sexual assault on an 8-year-old girl earlier this year has led to his arrest on several charges, officers said Thursday.
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Parents’ report of a social media post with threatening language apparently directed at Sky View Middle School in northeast Bend prompted a police investigation that determined it was not a credible threat. But a heightened police presence at the northeast Bend school Wednesday morning prompted concern among some parents.
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The recently renovated Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the Deschutes Memorial Garden in Bend has been vandalized, and not for the first time — distressing many veterans, especially those who help oversee the monument.
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A driver’s illegal pass led to a head-on crash on NW Mt. Washington Drive Monday afternoon that closed the road for two hours and led to reckless driving charges, police said. It also dealt a severe blow to the small business whose pickup truck he hit.
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Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho will begin using central veins deep in the groin, neck, chest or arm for executions by lethal injection if attempts to insert standard IV lines fail, the Idaho Department of Correction announced Tuesday. Using a central venous line — which involves threading a catheter through deep veins until
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A daylight burglar who entered a home in southern Deschutes County was caught on camera Monday morning, and sheriff’s deputies released a still and video Tuesday while asking for the public’s help in identifying him.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Deschutes County judge on Monday rejected a defense request to throw out the indictment of a Bend man accused of attempted murder in an August baseball-bat attack on his roommate due to a leg restraint he was wearing under his clothes and two armed deputies in the room when he
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife is investigating and seeking the public’s help in finding those responsible for the unlawful take and waste of a yearling buck deer late last week in the Grizzly Wildlife Management Unit north of Prineville. OSP Fish and Wildlife troopers from Prineville responded last Friday
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JaDe Smith says she was at work in Lincoln City last Thursday evening, waiting for her younger brother Ysidro Greene, 17, and grandfather to arrive from Warm Springs, when her phone started vibrating.
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ALBANY, Ore. (KTVZ) – An Oregon State Police K-9 team seized 40 pounds of crystal methamphetamine during an I-5 traffic stop this week and arrested the driver, a California woman. An OSP trooper stopped the vehicle around 5 p.m. Tuesday for a traffic violation on the freeway in Linn County. During the stop, the trooper
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