PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — A jury has found three men guilty of killing a family in Washington state in 2017, crimes detectives asserted happened over drugs and money. Danie Kelly, Jr., Robert Watson III, and Watson’s younger brother, Johnny Watson, were each found guilty Friday of four counts of premeditated first-degree murder, four counts
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A man was arrested on a misdemeanor reckless burning charge after a tent fire in northeast Bend Friday morning. It prompted a brief closure of the BNSF Railway tracks so Bend Fire crews could cross the tracks with their hose. The fire was reported around 9:15 a.m. near the northbound Bend
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A 14-year-old Redmond girl reported missing and endangered by police in a public plea for information was found Thursday night in Madras and has been safely returned home, police said Friday morning.
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Central Oregon law enforcement and drug outreach programs say they’re preparing for a big change in drug criminalization as a new state law takes effect this fall, aimed at curbing a surge in deadly overdoses.
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A Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob’s attack on police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to more than seven years in prison.
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Acting on information from law enforcement in another state, Redmond Police have raided a 40-year-old Redmond man’s home and arrested him on child pornography charges. They also are expressing concern about possible contacts with children and asking the public for any information. Police executed a search warrant last Thursday and took
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced Monday that it has forfeited on behalf of the United States 14 real properties located in Oregon — together worth more than $5.7 million — that were used by an interstate drug trafficking organization to illegally grow marijuana for redistribution and
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Redmond Police are seeking the public’s help to find whoever apparently used a BB gun or air rifle to shoot the windows of at least 10 vehicles parked on northwest Redmond streets Saturday night or early Sunday.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A judge on Monday scheduled a two-week murder trial to begin Jan. 28, 2025 for Theodore John Wayne Bowser, 37, accused of fatally stabbing his mother last December during a domestic dispute at the southeast Bend home they shared with his brother, whom he also allegedly attacked for trying to stop
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La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) – Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies interrupted a burglary in progress at a La Pine home Friday evening and arrested one suspect as he tried to drive away, a second after deputies breached the front door and a third – the first suspect’s mother – found hiding under a pile of clothes,
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Redmond man and woman were arrested Saturday afternoon in the theft of an SUV earlier in the day after a brief pursuit, wide-ranging manhunt involving several law enforcement agencies and their capture with the help of a Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office K-9 team. Deputies were called in around 10:20 a.m.
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A Metolius resident says he was stabbed at his home earlier this month by his ex-wife’s boyfriend, requiring emergency surgery and 100 stitches, and is upset there have been no arrests. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office tells NewsChannel 21 the case was sent to the district attorney’s office.
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A Crook County methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficker was arrested Thursday in a guns-drawn traffic stop and arraigned Friday on seven felony drug and firearms charges after a raid on his car and Juniper Canyon home turned up drugs, two pistols, cash and a butane honey oil lab, authorities said.
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BROOKINGS, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a southern Oregon city can’t limit a local church’s homeless meal services. U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke found that an ordinance passed by the small city of Brookings, on the southern Oregon coast, violated the religious freedom rights of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, KGW reported.
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One week after voting to find a new location for a sex offender transitional housing program within a year, Deschutes County commissioners voted, again 2-1, on Wednesday to terminate the current provider’s contract and close the controversial SE Bend triplex location opened a few months ago.
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(Updating with video) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A 40-year-old Bend man was arraigned Thursday on a second-degree murder indictment in last week’s killing of his mother at the apartment they shared. Deschutes County Circuit Judge Randy Miller set an April 18 plea hearing for Joshua Lawrence Smith, who was arrested last week after officers responded
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Two days after Redmond Police released photos of a man and woman suspected in a string of recent thefts at and around four businesses, officers said Thursday “a large number” of community tips have led to their identification — and hopefully soon, the capture of the pair, who are from outside the area.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation has reached a settlement agreement in principle with a cryptocurrency asset platform for violating state securities regulations. The group of affiliated companies – Plutus Financial Holdings Inc., Plutus Financial Inc., Plutus Lending LLC and Abra Boost LLC – offered and sold interest-bearing cryptocurrency depository products
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A kidnapping charge has been dismissed against an Uber driver from La Pine, accused of driving a female Bend passenger around for about a half-hour last month, despite being five minutes from her home, before eventually dropping her off.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over the legality of current dispensing of the abortion medication mifepristone, the Oregon Health Authority launched an ‘Abortion Access in Oregon’ website that was criticized by Oregon Right to Life, while Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum attended a rally on the high court’s
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