SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of his 9-month-old son. Officers responded to reports of a shooting in the Magnolia neighborhood Wednesday evening, the Seattle Police Department said in a post on its website. A woman told officers her baby had been shot, and firefighters pronounced
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) – A recently reported burglary and theft in a remote area of Crook County led to the discovery of stolen vehicles and other items, two raids in the off-the-grid Juniper Acres subdivision and a resident’s arrest on a charge of felon in possession of a firearm, sheriff’s deputies said Thursday. The sheriff’s
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Deschutes County Jail staff took quick, crucial steps Sunday night to save the life of an inmate who suffered a suspected drug overdose while being booked into the facility, deputies said Tuesday.
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EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) — A Bend man with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison Wednesday for possessing methamphetamine and a firearm. Dana Lee Johnson, 41, was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release, federal prosecutors said. According to court documents, on March
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Last week, NewsChannel 21 reported on Deschutes County District Attorney Steve Gunnels’ alarm over the growing public defender shortage and how that is impacting courts and posing a ‘severe public safety’ risk.
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A transient wanted on an Idaho warrant for kidnapping her three young children in Caldwell, Idaho, was found at a camp near Sisters on Sunday morning, and the two girls and a boy, ages 4-7, also were found there unharmed, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Monday.
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A Deschutes County jury has ruled in a $34 million wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Bend teen killed in June 2021 crash at Wickiup Reservoir that she and the teen himself represented nearly half of the negligence leading to his death, resulting in expected damages of less than $20,000 being awarded to his estate.
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Over 70,000 in US died from fentanyl overdoses in 2023: ‘No time to spare in addressing crisis’ SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is marking National Fentanyl Awareness Day Tuesday by urging parents, educators and community leaders to amplify a campaign that seeks to address the fentanyl addiction and overdose crises, here in
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The numbers are concerning: Suicide rates by firearms in Central Oregon are higher than state and national averages. The Central Oregon Suicide Prevention Alliance recently launched a campaign to address that, focused on safely storing firearms.
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BEND, Ore.. (KTVZ) — Workers arriving to start the day Monday morning at Lucy’s Taco Shop on NE Third Street found an unauthorized man inside. Police arrested the 41-year-old Bend man on second-degree burglary and first-degree criminal mischief charges, saying he broke a window to gain entry. Officers responded around 6 a.m. to the reported
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BEND, ORE. (KTVZ) – A Bend transient who used a ride-share service from the Deschutes County Stabilization Center and is accused of attacking the 77-year old driver, then stealing his car, was arraigned in Deschutes County Court today. 21 year old Joshua Davis Buck faces 6 felony charges.
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Bend Police were still searching Monday for a 46-year-old Bend man and suspected DUII driver who fled officers investigating a reported domestic dispute Sunday night, then crashed into a light pole at the Mount Washington Drive-Simson Avenue roundabout and ran, prompting an alert to 2,100 area residents.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon joins its partners across the federal government, as well as people throughout American Indian and Alaska Native communities, in recognizing Sunday, May 5, as National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. The office also announced Friday the appointment of an MMIP
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — A former Bend resident and Portland State University football player who was arrested in southern Deschutes County on a murder charge two years ago has begun serving a 23-year prison term for shooting and killing his girlfriend, another PSU student, in 2022, KGW reported. Keenan Reece Harpole, now 22, pleaded guilty on
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said Friday they are co-sponsoring the Next Step Home Act, a crucial piece of legislation aimed at restoring voting rights for people with felony convictions who have been released under the First Step Act and successfully re-entered society. “Making voting easy and accessible shouldn’t be a Democratic or Republican issue.
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A Bend transient who used a ride-share service to travel from the Deschutes County Stabilization Center to Sisters early Friday morning then assaulted the 77-year-old driver and stole his car, driving it over Santiam Pass to Lane County, where he crashed, tried to steal another car but was struck and arrested, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.
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We talked last fall with Deschutes County District Attorney Steve Gunnels about the local impacts of a statewide shortage of enough public defenders.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — A group of pro-Palestinian protesters reentered Portland State University’s library Thursday evening, eventually prompting police to return and re-clear the building, making more arrests, KGW reported. Police also were looking for the public’s help to find 18 others who fled earlier. Officers had arrested at least seven more people as of
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police said Thursday they detained the driver of a white Toyota Camry who briefly accelerated toward a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Portland State University in Oregon and then ran off spraying what appeared to be pepper spray toward protesters who confronted him. The man was taken to a hospital on
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Bend Police asked the public for help Thursday in finding a missing and endangered 17-year-old who left her southeast Bend home Wednesday night and by late afternoon reported she had been found. Ashlynn Marie Martin “was located at approximately 3:43 p.m. and is no longer considered missing and endangered,” Police Communications
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