Officers arrested 12 people, including four Portland State University students, Thursday morning during an operation to clear the PSU library of pro-Palestinian protesters, the Portland Police Bureau reported. Protesters had occupied the library since Monday, KGW reported.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — At least 15 Portland Police training vehicles were damaged or destroyed by an arsonist early Thursday, the agency said. Shortly before 2 a.m., Portland Police North Precinct was dispatched to assist Portland Fire & Rescue at the Portland Police Training Division, located in the 14900 block of Northeast Airport Way. When
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The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday sent Deschutes County’s approval of a revised master plan for the long-debated Thornburgh Resort west of Redmond back to the state Land Use Board of Appeals, finding it was wrong to dismiss the Warm Springs Tribes’ issues regarding a requirement for no net loss of fish habitat.
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WASHNGTON (KTVZ) — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Wednesday reintroduced the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, comprehensive legislation that would end the federal cannabis prohibition by removing cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act; empower states to create their own cannabis
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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rights. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously ordered the case dismissed in 2020, saying that
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Israel Sarabia of Culver is headed to federal prison for nearly six years for trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine to Madras and Redmond.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend man who allegedly engaged in “overtly sexual communications” online with someone he believed to be a minor female, but who actually was a Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy, was arrested Sunday night when he showed up at a store to meet her, deputies said. The sheriff’s office initiated an investigation
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COBURG, Ore. (KTVZ) – A shooting in Coburg Sunday afternoon that critically injured one person led to a manhunt and a pursuit on Interstate 5 three hours later that ended in the use of spike strips, a crash and an officer-involved shooting that killed the car’s driver and injured a passenger, Oregon State Police reported.
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An “armed and dangerous” fugitive from the Salem area, wanted on a nationwide warrant for robbery, was tracked Friday to the Bend area and found at the Cascade Village Shopping Center, where law enforcement vehicles were damaged as they pinned him in and prevented his escape.
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Deschutes County and the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council Skills Lab are sharing the wonder and life lessons that gardening brings with youth residing at the county’s Juvenile Community Justice Facility.
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Redmond Police are asking the public for any information on the whereabouts of a cargo trailer stolen with $13,000 worth of tools. The trailer was stolen Sunday in the 3700 block of Cascade Vista Drive in Redmond. The business owner told NewsChannel 21 that insurance will not cover the theft, leaving
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Oregon’s Department of Justice just launched a “You Belong.” Campaign after becoming the first state in the nation to provide a hotline for those affected by a bias-related crime. That greater awareness and reporting tool likely plays a major factor in a significant rise in reports of such incidents in recent years, including in Bend-La Pine Schools.
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REEDSPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) — Nearly 18,000 young salmon died after a vandal poured bleach into a Douglas County fish hatchery tank on Monday, according to law enforcement authorities. What may have started as vandalism evolved into poaching with the illegal killing of fish in one of four tanks at the Gardiner, Reedsport, and Winchester Bay
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(Update: La Pine man formally charged, appears in court) La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) – An investigation sparked by a tip early this year from the Southern Oregon Child Exploitation Team led to a raid Wednesday on a La Pine man’s home and his arrest on 20 charges related to online distribution of child sexual abuse
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WEST RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Authorities on Wednesday confirmed that a body found at the home of a former Washington state police officer who killed his ex-wife before fleeing to Oregon, where he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was that of a 17-year-old girl with whom he had a baby. Elias Huizar, 39, a
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US Supreme Court justices heard over two hours of arguments Monday on “City of Grants Pass V. Johnson,” a class-action suit that challenges the southern Oregon city’s ability to enforce camping codes related to sleeping in public spaces.
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Two adults were killed and a child was injured over the weekend in a shooting in remote Harney County that sheriff’s deputies determined to be a murder-suicide involving an Idaho family camping along a road in the area.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A Culver resident and drug trafficker who conspired with others to traffic fentanyl and methamphetamine to Madras, Redmond and surrounding areas, was sentenced Wednesday to nearly six years in federal prison, prosecutors said. Israel Sarabia, 30,was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release. According to court
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EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) — A Prineville man was sentenced to four years in federal prison Wednesday for his role in a conspiracy to torture, mutilate, and murder monkeys, then produce and distribute videos of those acts in exchange for money raised by an online animal abuse group. David Christopher Noble, 48, was sentenced to 48
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A 32-year-old resident of the homeless encampments off China Hat Road south of Bend who was shot by another man during a dispute on Sunday has been arrested on attempted assault and other charges, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Tuesday.
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