WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) voted in favor of bipartisan bills over the past several days to support law enforcement in recognition of National Police Week. The proposals that passed the House, which include efforts to support the recruitment and retention of police officers, come as the Portland Police Bureau and many other
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A former resident who lived at DAWNS House is recounting her challenging time in the sober living community. Amanda Dziak lived in the home with her then-2-month-old baby and tells us she and many other residents knew about the alleged embezzlement by founder Dawn Holland for months.
Continue ReadingEVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state trooper fatally shot a man with a hammer who had attacked state Department of Transportation workers along Interstate 5 north of Seattle, law enforcement officials said. Around 4 p.m. Thursday, state patrol troopers responded to a report of a road rage incident on the shoulder of I-5 northbound
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — Jesse Lee Calhoun has been indicted on murder charges for the deaths of three women in the Portland area, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday morning, KGW reported. A grand jury returned an indictment on Thursday, charging Calhoun, 39, with three counts of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree abuse
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A Prineville man wanted on a Deschutes County warrant eluded police who tried to pull him over, ran into a home and refused to come out Thursday evening, prompting a regional SWAT team call-out and a six-hour standoff until they raided the home and arrested him.
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The target was likely a wolf, the latest poisoning in a disturbing trend that has killed 19 wolves in Oregon since 2015. Whatever the target, the collateral damage in northeast Oregon’s ongoing poisoning cases now includes golden eagles, dogs and other carnivores, authorities said Thursday.
Continue ReadingKENT, Wash. (AP) — A suburban Seattle police officer ignored his training and unnecessarily resorted to deadly force when he shot and killed a man outside a convenience store in 2019, prosecutors said as the officer’s murder trial opened Thursday. Auburn Police Officer Jeff Nelson shot Jesse Sarey twice while attempting to arrest him for
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Police released more details Thursday about a Bend man who abducted his mother-in-law, then stabbed her and his estranged wife before fleeing Wednesday evening. That prompted a “shelter in place” alert to thousands of Eastside residents and an intensive manhunt that found the man, dead of an apparently self-inflicted wound.
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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A typo in the triple-murder indictment of an Idaho man accused of killing his wife and his girlfriend’s two children doesn’t mean that he should be acquitted of one of the deaths, a judge said Thursday. Prosecutors had been carefully detailing the case against Chad Daybell
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Following several delays, Dahnte Cegers appeared in court Wednesday afternoon for a hearing on a possible change in release conditions and possibly to enter his plea to a felony charge of hindering the prosecution of his younger brother, Caleb. The brothers fled to the East Coast in the wake of last summer’s fatal downtown shooting of Taylor Wyss.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Monday, May 20, Deschutes County Circuit Court will begin mailing out jury summons in a new format, according to Angie Curtis, trial court administrator. According to Curtis, the court will now send prospective jurors postcards with instructions for accessing online information and resources, making jury service response and communication easier,
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A caller reporting several shots fired inside a southwest Redmond home bought numerous police to the neighborhood, and while the caller got the gun away, the possibility of other weapons in the house led to a three-hour standoff and neighborhood alert before his arrest.
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Hours after Redmond police asked the public for help Wednesday in identifying the owner of four Great Dane dogs, one of which fatally attacked a Pomeranian dog on Monday at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds, they issued an update, saying they’d heard from the owner.
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Big, long-discussed and awaited changes are coming to the Deschutes County Courthouse. County officials gathered Monday afternoon to break ground on an estimated $44.1 million expansion and upgrade of the courthouse in downtown Bend.
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In a letter to Governor Tina Kotek Monday, Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced that, after thoroughly investigating allegations that employees of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission improperly used their positions to obtain in-demand bottles of bourbon, the Oregon Department of Justice has concluded that criminal charges are not warranted. The summary report (linked here)
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wo family members of a young Bend couple brutally murdered at a southwest Bend home in August 2022 have sued their convicted killer and his romantic partner for $14 million, accusing them of plying the pair with alcohol and marijuana as part of a plan to have sex with them.
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sen, Ron Wyden, D-Ore., joined a bipartisan group of colleagues Friday in calling on the Senate Appropriations Committee to fully fund the Federal Defender Services program in the upcoming Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill. “In FY24, Defender Services was appropriated $1.45 billion, and in FY25, the Judiciary
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A motor home parked on Bend-La Pine Schools property near Buckingham Elementary School prompted a four-hour precautionary “secure” status Friday and belongs to a man who pleaded guilty last year to custodial interference and whose probation conditions include no contact with minors, authorities said.
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Madras Police took four individuals, including minors, into custody after a reported stabbing and assault at Sahalee Park Friday afternoon that led to a “secure mode” call to lock the exterior doors at three schools for about a half-hour, authorities said. Police “responded swiftly” to the incident around 3 p.m. at
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The founder of DAWNS House, a Bend nonprofit that helps women recover from addiction and sobriety issues, was arrested Thursday morning at Bend Police headquarters on an outstanding warrant for 10 counts of first-degree theft, accused of stealing over $300,000 from the organization.
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